From Left to Right: Aleksey Gromov, Sergey Ivanov, Sergey Naryshkin, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Vladimir Yakunin, Gennady Timchenko. US President Barack Obama has announced a new executive order imposing further sanctions on top Russian officials and businessmen. The order also allows for measures against Russian energy, mining, defense, and engineering sectors. “We’re imposing sanctions... 

It is very likely flight MH370 had its communications “deliberately disabled” before it went missing, but there has been no confirmation the plane was hijacked, Malaysian PM Najib Razak said at a press conference. “There is a high degree of certainty” that the communications systems of flight MH370 were disabled by someone on board the plane, Razak said. Citing evidence from satellite images... 

The United States says it does not recognize the outcome of the referendum held in the Ukrainian region of Crimea and is preparing to impose retaliatory penalties against Russia if it annexes the strategic peninsula on the Black Sea. “The United States has steadfastly supported the independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine since it declared its independence in 1991, and we... 

Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk Ukraine’s interim prime minister says the country will likely sign a long-awaited political accord with the European Union next week. Arseniy Yatsenyuk made the announcement on Wednesday, after talks with US President Barack Obama at the White House. “I’m sure that next week Ukraine is to sign the political part of the association agreement... 

The Central Intelligence Agency’s inspector general has asked the US Justice Department to investigate allegations that the spy agency spied on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The allegations are directly related to a closed-door battle between the CIA and its congressional overseers over a 6,300-page report which details torture techniques, including water-boarding, wall-slamming and shackling,... 

US President Barack Obama has threatened Russia with sanctions as tensions between the two countries heats up over Ukraine. “The strong condemnation that Russian has received around the world indicates the degree to which Russia is on the wrong side of history,” Obama told reporters on Monday. “There are two paths that Russia can take at this point. Actions on the ground in Crimea are deeply... 

The US Secretary of State spoke today of the unacceptability of invading a sovereign country on phony pretexts in order to assert one’s own interests in the 21st century. But no, he was not speaking about the United States, as one might have thought. “You just don’t invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests,” John Kerry said during an interview with NBC’s... 

American exceptionalism has gone into overdrive with stern warnings from US President Barack Obama to Russia to respect Ukrainian sovereignty and to not destabilize the region. By “American exceptionalism” we mean Washington’s seemingly unlimited capacity for exceptional arrogance and double think. Obama has not yet accused Russia outright of “military invasion” in the... 

US Republican Senator John McCain has called on the Obama administration to take action against Russian President Vladimir Putin over the crisis in Ukraine. During a speech on Friday, President Barack Obama said he is “deeply concerned” by reports Moscow had sent troops into Ukraine’s Crimea region and warned that “there will be costs” for any military intervention in Ukraine. In a statement... 

A new poll has shown that 59 percent of the American people are somehow disappointed or very disappointed in Barack Obama’s presidency. The survey by CBS News and the New York Times also shows that 51 percent of Americans disapprove of Obama’s performance, up four points from last month. Most of the disappointed are Republicans (91 percent) and independents (66 percent) as about 24 percent of... 

Chinese authorities have been angered over the US President Barack Obama’s recent meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. The Chinese Foreign Ministry summoned the US charge d’affaires to deliver a formal complaint over the move. “China expresses strong indignation and firm opposition,” media outlets quoted Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui as saying. President... 

President Obama is mulling options in a case allegedly involving a phantom American terrorist operating form an unidentified country overseas. U.S. officials say guidelines issued by the White House tie Obama’s hands despite the supposed threat posed by the terrorist living in a country that refuses to allow drone strikes against targets singled out by the Pentagon. The strikes were previously... 

In his weekly address, Obama repeated previous comments about circumventing Congressional process. “I want to work with Congress on this agenda where I can,” Mr. Obama said. “But in this year of action, whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, I will.”  Read More »

A new Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) report circulating in the Kremlin today says that the Obama regime is in “total shock and turmoil” today after the YouTube leaking by the Federal Security Service (FSB) of a highly encrypted telephone conversation between the US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland and the American Ambassador to Ukraine, Geoffrey... 

Barack Obama will call for an end to the NSA’s warrantless collection of telephone metadata of Americans during a speech today, but his words will be completely meaningless given that the president has broken virtually every promise he’s ever made. “A senior White House administration official told the agency that Obama will on Friday call for an end to the National Security Agency’s collection...