Russian Opposition Leader Boris Nemtsov Shot Dead In Moscow : Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin and Russia's involvement in the war in Ukraine, was shot dead steps from the Kremlin in central Moscow late on Friday.

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TASS: Economy - Moscow considers rating cuts part of West’s economic war on Russia — Russian Foreign Ministry’s official spokesman is convinced that the BRICS countries need to speed up the consultations on this important issue for their economies : Foreign Ministry

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The Real American Exceptionalism : Washington is now well into the second decade of an endless War on Terror that seems the sum of its exceptions to international law: endless incarceration, extrajudicial killing, pervasive surveillance, drone strikes in defiance of national boundaries, torture on demand, and immunity for all of the above on the grounds of state secrecy.

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The Entire Case for Sanctions Against Russia Is Pure Lies : U.S. President Barack Obama has stated many times his case against Russia — the reason for the economic sanctions. In his National Security Strategy 2015, he uses the term “aggression” 18 times, and 17 of them are referring specifically to only one country as “aggressive”: Russia.

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Russia Is Going to Build Its Own Space Station — Ending Years of Cooperation with the US - Russia Insider

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