Fast food came to Russia during perestroika, with the first McDonald’s and Pizza Hut opening up in Moscow in 1990. Since then, thousands of fast food joints, both foreign and domestic, have set up shop across the country. Irina Volynets, founder of the National Parents Committee social movement, has proposed new regulations which would force fast food companies to apply health warning labels to... 

RT takes a look at the possible origins of the so-called ‘black holes’ – massive craters that are being formed across the Yamal Peninsula in northern Russia. Giant round craters seemingly appear out of nowhere in the remote areas of Western Siberia, mesmerizing and, sometimes, scaring nomadic reindeer herders and scientists alike. One such crater opened up just last year, while more than a dozen... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says there is surging “aggression against white people” in the United States and that it is harming efforts to fight racism. Lavrov made the comments during an interview with political scientists that was broadcast on national television. “We were pioneers of the movement promoting equal rights of people of any skin color,” said Lavrov, adding that “everyone... 

The Kremlin’s latest statements out Friday amid the potential new Ukraine crisis which has seen a serious flare-up in fighting in the Donbass region, along with what appears to be far bigger-than-usual troop movements on Russia’s side of the border, has raised the stakes further. Russia has vowed it will take “extra measures to ensure its own security” should it observe any deployment of NATO... 

Russians have come to realise that the ‘Europe’ they earnestly sought to integrate with after the Soviet collapse no longer exists. The final ‘divorce’ between Moscow and the rest of the continent needs to be managed carefully. It has been common to predict that Russia’s post-Soviet generation would feel a closer affinity to the West and embrace a shared identity with Europe. All the West... 

The Biden administration is gearing up to carry out cyberattacks aimed at Russian networks, the New York Times has reported, describing the provocation as a retaliatory measure designed to send Moscow a message. Citing officials familiar with the operation, the Times said that a “series of clandestine actions” aimed at Russia is expected to begin over the next three weeks and that the cyberattacks... 

Back in the 1990s, when modern Russia emerged from the ashes of the Soviet Union, the West was the best. It offered the only realistic role model. Times have changed, but the penny hasn’t dropped yet in Brussels or Washington. Today, the situation has changed dramatically. A good illustration is how Russia has responded to criticism in the light of the Alexey Navalny case. Previously, when confronted... 

Popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, as well as messaging services like Telegram and video site TikTok could become unavailable in Russia if they fail to ban illegal calls to participate in protests. Alexey Pushkov, the Chairman of the Federation Council’s Commission on Information Policy, set out the tough new proposals to reporters on Thursday. According to him, the panel... 

The entire mainstream media, including the Russian one is running a story about Vladimir Putin being one of the richest people in the world, owning at least $200 Billion and a huge palace in the Krasnodar region. They took the pictures from palace.navalny.com and went with the story condemning Putin as a wealthy president even calling the “THE richest man in the world”, while all conveniently... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that a massive war is coming that will cause the “end of our civilization.” Speaking at the World Economic Forum this week, Putin said that the elite’s crackdown on people’s civil liberties has exacerbated global tensions and warned that there is “every reason to believe that the tensions might be aggravated even further.” Citing experts who... 

Big Tech companies have become rivals to governments, but there are doubts over the benefits of their monopoly for society, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said, during a virtual meeting of the annual World Economic Forum. “Where is the line between a successful global business, in-demand services and consolidation of big data – and attempts to harshly and unilaterally govern society, replace... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has weighed in on the debate around freedom of speech and the rights of religious believers, saying the clash of cultures is an existential problem in the West. In response to a question from RT correspondent Igor Zhdanov as part of his annual end-of-year press conference on Thursday, Putin said there was a fine balance between expressing yourself and insulting the... 

The Russian president is the world’s sickest leader, if you believe reports in Western media, that is. Popular US and UK outlets are now claiming Vladimir Putin has Parkinson’s, underwent secret surgery and is battling cancer. While many have found 2020 to be a challenging year, for notorious Moscow conspiracy theorist Valery Solovey, it has been his best yet. He has managed to send Western news... 

So the Muslim Azeri Turks shot down a Russian helicopter in Armenia and they admitted and apologized. Problem is so many are shooting down Russian planes and helicopters and there’s never any repercussions. Russia should have a doctrine similar to this: 1 Russian life = 100 non-Russian lives. This is what I would do if I were Putin, I would bomb the hell out of Azerbaijan for this. In the end,... 

This TV segment is from mid-November, but we’re running it now because of all the news about Solzhenitsyn. It starts with a discussion of the US mid-term elections, and how uncivil the tone is in the US, and then has a very good discussion of Solzhenitsyn. His famous and prescient 1978 Harvard speech “A World Split Apart” very accurately predicted the current culture clash in the West. He specifically...