IN THE recent Russian elections Vladimir Putin got 87 per cent of the vote on a 77.44 per cent per cent turnout (UK general elections since 2001 have averaged 64 per cent). The main opposition in Russia to Putin are the communists, who got 4.31 per cent of the vote – about the same level […]
Beege covered all the updates on the terror attack in Moscow yesterday culminating with the big news that ISIS had claimed credit for the attack. But there are some more updates today starting with the death toll which has now climbed to 133 dead and more than 100 more injured. Despite the claim of responsibility […]
Voting in the Russian presidential election began this morning and will end Sunday. At that point, Putin’s victory will be announced and he will start his 5th term as president. The vote tally doesn’t really matter. It will be whatever the Kremlin decides it should be. Having killed off his only two real opponents in […]
As he cruises toward another election “victory” on Friday, Vladimir Putin is increasing the frequency of his public appearances. (That’s probably relatively easy when all of your viable opponents mysteriously keep winding up dead.) This week he gave an interview to Russian state television and the subject of the Ukraine war inevitably came up again. […]
UKRAINE is entering the third year of its unequal war with Russia in a worse plight than when the fighting began. It has begun inauspiciously with the surrender of the besieged eastern city of Avdiivka by its outnumbered defenders. The Russians seem impregnably dug in on a fifth of Ukrainian territory and the military, badly […]
Joe Biden In 2021, Biden made us all a brave promise. He said he had personally told Putin, in no uncertain terms, that should Navalny die in prison, there would ‘devastating consequences’ for Russia. He did, no he really did! Then the other day Navalny did indeed die in prison, all of a sudden, and […]
Welp. Alexei Navalny is dead. According to the authorities at the Arctic Circle prison camp Putin had banished him to, he keeled over after a walk. Simple as that. Sure, they called an ambulance, but, oh well – too late. This is awful, but who are we talking about here? Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny […]
I haven’t watched the entire Tucker Carlson interview with Vlad the Impaler Putin. John did that so we don’t have to. I have watched clips, of course, and glad they exist. Putin reputedly filibustered with a Russian novel’s-length explanation of his idiosyncratic view of Russian history, and nobody needs to see that. For me the […]
Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter based in Moscow, is being held in a Russian prison on the charge of espionage. Tucker Carlson traveled to Russia for an interview with Putin. At the end of the interview, Tucker brought up Evan. Tucker offered to bring Evan home. John wrote about Putin’s reaction to Tucker’s […]
I don’t think Tucker Carlson got what he bargained for in this interview. The interview ran about two hours but most of that was made up of Putin’s rambling answers that sometimes went on for 10-20 minutes. To his credit, Carlson started at the most obvious starting point for a discussion with Putin, which is […]
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