In a statement to the Washington Post Saturday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said that 'Michael Cohen is a disgraced felon and disbarred lawyer, who lied to Congress. He has lost all credibility, and it's unsurprising to see his latest attempt to profit off of lies.' … [Read more...] about Trump made ‘overt attempts to get Russia to meddle in the 2016 election’ and admires Putin because he ‘had the b***s to take over his country and run it like a personal company’, Cohen claims in new book
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Russia to exhume remains of Tsar Nicholas II for testing in bid to prove if they are genuine
The extraordinary move comes in an attempt to persuade the Russian Orthodox Church that bones buried in St Petersburg in 1998 are those of the tragic tsar and his wife, who brought ridicule on the Romanov dynasty due to her friendship with 'crazed monk' Grigory Rasputin. … [Read more...] about Russia to exhume remains of Tsar Nicholas II for testing in bid to prove if they are genuine
Robert Massie, best-selling historian of Tsarist Russia whose ‘Nicholas and Alexandra’ became an Oscar-winning film – obituary
Massie left his job as a book reviewer with Newsweek to write Nicholas and Alexandra (1967), which became perhaps the bestselling book on Russia ever by a Western author. In 1971, Columbia Pictures released an eponymous film, based on the book, directed by Franklin Schaffner and starring Michael Jayston and Janet Suzman in the title roles, which went on to win two Oscars. … [Read more...] about Robert Massie, best-selling historian of Tsarist Russia whose ‘Nicholas and Alexandra’ became an Oscar-winning film – obituary
UN urges Russia to probe suspected Navalny poisoning
"The number of cases of poisoning, or other forms of targeted assassination, of current or former Russian citizens, either within Russia itself or on foreign soil, over the past two decades is profoundly disturbing," Bachelet said in a statement. … [Read more...] about UN urges Russia to probe suspected Navalny poisoning
Bombshell MPs’ report accuses Russia of trying to interfere in Scottish referendum, demands probe into whether it tried to rig Brexit vote and says Britain is failing to combat Putin’s army of oligarchs, hackers, hitmen and paid British agents
'The actual impact of such attempts on the result itself would be difficult – if not impossible – to prove. However what is clear is that the Government was slow to recognise the existence of the threat – only understanding it after the 'hack and leak' operation against the Democratic National Committee, when it should have been seen as early as 2014. … [Read more...] about Bombshell MPs’ report accuses Russia of trying to interfere in Scottish referendum, demands probe into whether it tried to rig Brexit vote and says Britain is failing to combat Putin’s army of oligarchs, hackers, hitmen and paid British agents
