A Russian art group sponsored by the government has made a tasteless 2017 calendar featuring Syrian women posing with statements of gratitude to their “Russian liberators.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Dmitry Utkin, founder of the Wagner private military company was present at the Kremlin for the Fatherland Heroes’ Day military awards ceremony on December 9, 2016.
In the Donbass, the Ukrainian military reports 18 attacks by Russia-backed forces.
The International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association, organizer of the World Championship event in Sochi in February 2017, has decided to move the event from Russia due to a potential boycott by countries and athletes concerned over Russian doping.
There were no Ukrainian military casualties in the last 24 hours.
Former Trump advisor Carter Page, a managing partner of Global Energy Capital, met with senior officials from Rosneft, Russia’s oil giant yesterday but didn’t meet with CEO Igor Sechin, under sanction by the US for the war in Ukraine.
A Russian judge in Moscow’s Arbitration Court ruled today in favor of Rosneft in its lawsuit against RBC for “business reputation damage,” but set the damages at only $6,675, not the $52.2 million
that Rosneft had sought.
As evidence mounts that Vladimir Putin used a variety of covert means to promote the election of Donald Trump, it is important to remember the Kremlin leader’s agenda includes weakening Western countries that they can’t stand up to him.
One Ukrainian soldier was injured in battle in the last day. Russia-backed forces attacked Ukrainian positions 41 times.
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