Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the government to work out a bill easing immigration restrictions in the country and consider the cancelation of immigration quotas for high-qualified foreign specialists, the Kremlin said on Thursday. The bill is intended to “optimize” the immigration regime for foreigners invited to work in Russia by “organizations implementing investment,... 

Nikolai Makarov Russia’s top general said on Tuesday that plans for a U.S. missile shield are directed against his country. “The development and establishment of the (U.S.) missile shield is directed against the Russian Federation,” Interfax news agency quoted Russian armed forces chief of staff, Nikolai Makarov, as saying. Source  Read More »

Dealing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a diplomatic slap, France announced Monday it will sell at least one amphibious assault warship to Russia. The sale, the first by a NATO member to Russia, comes despite objections from U.S. and other NATO members and was disclosed while Mr. Gates was visiting Paris. The French sale will help Moscow to begin modernizing its aging armed forces at a time when... 

The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party will be allowed to distribute CDs outside schools with interviews and music by party members because authorities have no legal grounds to stop them, a report said Saturday. The Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons said the disc merely contained political opinions, daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported. The department therefore found no basis on... 

China's Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi is welcomed by Wolfgang Ischinger, chairman of the Conference on Security Friday before the start of the 46th Conference on Security Policy in Munich. Speaking with uncharacteristic bluntness, Mr. Yang accused the US of violating international law with its proposed arms sale to Taiwan. Today Chinese foreign minister Yang Jiechi, speaking with unusual bluntness... 

Supporters of the opposition leader Viktor F. Yanukovich in front of the Central Election Commission in Kiev on Monday. The opposition leader Viktor F. Yanukovich appeared on Monday to have won a narrow victory in Ukraine’s presidential election, according to nearly complete results, giving him an unlikely comeback from his humiliating defeat in the 2004 Orange Revolution, when he was shunned as... 

* NATO body, Council of Europe press Tymoshenko to concede International monitors on Monday urged Ukraine’s Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat to her rival Viktor Yanukovich in Sunday’s presidential run-off vote and shake hands with him for the sake of stability. The election in the ex-Soviet state gave opposition leader Yanukovich a slender win over Prime Minister Tymoshenko, but the... 

Nearly half of western Europeans believe jews exploit their ‘past persecution’ in order to extort money, a new Israeli report says. The report, which the Jewish Agency conducted jointly with Israel’s Information and Diaspora Ministry, found that 42 percent of those polled by the University of Bielefeld in Germany agreed that “jews exploit the past to extort money,” Haaretz... 

The Munich-based Institute of Contemporary History announced February 3 that it plans to republish Adolf Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf in 2015. This would be the book’s first publication in Germany since 1945. Mein Kampf, whose title means “My Struggle,” is Hitler’s autobiography and manifesto containing his views on racial purity and against Judaism and Communism. The... 

Konstantin Dushenov St. Petersburg, February 4, Interfax – The Kirovsky District Court in St. Petersburg has found Konstantin Dushenov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya (Orthodox Russia), guilty of fomenting hatred through using the media and sentenced him to three years in prison. Dushenov is to serve his sentence at a settlement colony, the court told Interfax on Thursday.... 

Ernst Zundel with Ingrid Rimland at an IHR conference, May 2000 A message from From Ingrid Rimland Zundel (Ernst Zundel’s wife) Seven Years Behind Bars: Anniversary of Ernst Zundel’s Arrest To all – Allegedly, in just a few weeks, on March 1, 2010, Europe’s best-known political prisoner and my husband, Ernst Zundel, is scheduled to be released from prison. In an emotional telephone... 

The Liberal Democrat-controlled borough of Brent in London has reached a new low (even for that party) with an announcement that it seeks full British citizenship for the estimated 20,000 illegal immigrant invaders living within its boundaries. According to the 2001 census, Brent has a population of 263,464, which means that another 20,000 illegals will add 8 percent to the total population. A motion... 

The UK Jewish Chronicle is apparently stupid enough to unveil the ferocity of Zionist lobbying within the British Government and its corridors of power. The Jewish weekly is happy to outline the relentless measures that are being taken by Jewish lobbyists in order to Zionise the British legal system and its value system. As one may assume the supporters of Israel in Britain are far from happy... 

The European Court of Justice has told Sweden that it must implement a 2006 measure requiring telecom operators to store information about their customers’ phone calls and emails. The European Union directive, known as the Data Retention Directive, was approved by Brussels in March 2006, but Sweden has yet to implement the measure more than three years after its passage. The Swedish government conceded... 

U.S. plans to place elements of its global missile shield in Romania pose a real threat to Russia’s national security, a Russian military analyst said on Friday. Romanian President Traian Basescu said on Thursday his country was ready to host U.S. medium-range interceptor missiles to counter a potential ballistic missile attack, but stressed that they would not be directed at Russia. “We...