Russian Orthodox Church has slammed plans to erect a real-life ‘Eye of Sauron’ in Moscow, saying that the art project dedicated to the premiere of the final part of the “Hobbit” movie trilogy may have bad consequences for the Russian capital. ‘Eye of Sauron’ is “in any case, a demonic symbol,” Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a senior church official in charge of relations... 

Tolkien fans rejoice! The ‘Eye of Sauron’ now is not just fiction, it will light up the skyline of Moscow-City to ominously watch down on the Russian capital as the latest “Hobbit” movie premiers in Russia on Thursday night. Fans of the British fiction novelist J. R. R. Tolkien will re-create the Eye of the Dark Lord Sauron from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy on Wednesday night, according... 

An ominous report prepared by the General Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces (GRU) circulating in the Kremlin today states that the emergency meeting held Saturday morning in Moscow between President Putin and French President François Hollande was due to the discovery of France’s General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) of a “la terreur spectaculaire” [English: terror... 

US Vice President Joseph Biden listens as US President Barack Obama announces Ashton Carter as his new secretary of defense on Friday. The United States is “fabricating all sorts of facts” about Russia as a pretext to wage a devastating war with the nuclear-armed country, an American activist and journalist says. A resolution passed recently in the US House of Representatives condemning Russia,... 

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. By imposing sanctions on Moscow, the US aims to change the political leadership, says the Russian Foreign Ministry, adding that Washington is “twisting the arms” of its allies so that they can continue an “anti-Russian front.” “Behind the formally-declared aim to make us alter our position towards Ukraine, [we] see the [US] plan to form social... 

Russia has warned France its failure to act on a bilateral contract to deliver a warship ordered by Moscow poses risk to Paris’ reputation. France has delayed taking the vessel to Russia, citing the situation in Ukraine. Ukraine’s eastern regions have witnessed deadly clashes between pro-Russia protesters and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations there in mid-April. Kiev and... 

Today the US House passed what I consider to be one of the worst pieces of legislation ever. H. Res. 758 was billed as a resolution “strongly condemning the actions of the Russian Federation, under President Vladimir Putin, which has carried out a policy of aggression against neighboring countries aimed at political and economic domination.” In fact, the bill was 16 pages of war propaganda that... 

American poultry producers exported 267,000 metric tons of chicken valued at USD 303 million to Russia in 2013. Russia has decided to impose restrictions on poultry imports from the United States because of “harmful residues.” Russia’s Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) said on Thursday that the new decision would come into effect as of December 5. VPSS said it made the... 

The US Army plans to bolster US armored presence and keep rotations of American troops in Eastern Europe to provide “deterrence against Russian aggression.” Lt. Gen. Frederick “Ben” Hodges, the new Army commander in Europe, said that 100 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles would be deployed into Eastern Europe. “We are looking at courses of action for how we could pre-position... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting in the Presidential Palace in Ankara December 1, 2014. Russia is forced to withdraw from the South Stream project due to the EU’s unwillingness to support the pipeline, and gas flows will be redirected to other customers, Vladimir Putin said after talks with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We... 

A truly grim Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that President Putin has ordered over 2,000 top military officers to immediately begun duties at the National Defense Control Center (NDCC) which is, in fact, Russia’s “wartime government” headquarters in Moscow as “global war nears”. According to this report, Putin’s order came immediately after his... 

A Russian convoy of trucks transporting humanitarian goods enters Ukraine’s restive eastern city of Donetsk, November 30, 2014. Russia has sent another aid convoy to Ukraine’s restive east amid the on-and-off exchanges of fire between Ukrainian forces and pro-Russians and the worsening humanitarian situation there. On Sunday, more than 1,200 metric tons of supplies, including construction materials,... 

An interesting Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today on Moscow’s agreement to follow the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) decision not to cut oil output says this action was met by an Obama regime “temper tantrum” resulting in the launching of three US Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM) towards the Federations far eastern... 

The air defense missile system “Patriot” Are the US, NATO and Russia on a mad spiral leading to war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it. The US-propelled vassal Petro Poroshenko, currently starring in the oligarch dance in Ukraine this week advanced the proposition that Ukrainians in the near future, after his “reforms”, will be asked to vote on whether to join NATO. Let’s be... 

Large antisubmarine ship “North Sea” at the pier in the port of Severomorsk. Russia’s Northern Fleet has been conducting naval training near Dover. Two battleships and two supply vessels worked on operations and communications in conditions of adverse weather and heavy marine traffic. “Today a squadron of warships and support vessels of the Northern Fleet headed by a large anti-submarine...