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According to [Finance Minister Anton] Siluanov, the Russian authorities are working to avoid using the dollar in foreign trade, and start to carry out transactions in euros, rubles and other currencies.… “The list of countries that want to reduce their dependence on the US currency is large and includes all states that have already suffered or those who fear suffering from the dollar’s extremism,” the author said.... Fort Russ NewsMajor: Russia Responds to Sanctions – Will Phase Out Usd...

The official justifications for this latest set of sanctions proves that they are not the real reasons because they are too ridiculous to be taken seriously by any thinking person. The ever-changing Skripalmania story, preposterous at the outset, has descended into incoherence as the crack Russian assassination team is now said to be using public toilets to remix “novichok” to put into perfume atomisers. The OPCW certified last October that Russia had eliminated its CW stocks; who is...

More on Browder, among other things.Sic Semper TyrannisRUSSIAN FEDERATION SITREP 2 AUGUST 2018 Patrick Armstrong

The foregoing article is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of my book “Grand Deception: the Truth about Bill Browder, Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions.” Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Shock therapy gave Russia one of the worst and longest economic depressions of the 20th century, an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe for a peace time crisis, and a criminally inequitable privatization of public assets. The reasons why things happened this way in Russia generally aren’t well understood...

Economic warfare is heating up. Can kinetic warfare be far behind?TASSSanctions Against Russia Do Not Work, New Measures Should Be Introduced - US SenatorSee alsoThe imperialist powers feeling their oats.As Peters sees it, the economic war is aimed at China.Hey, make up your mind, is it China, or Russia, or Iran, or Venezuela, or Cuba, or ? — anyone refusing to become either a US puppet state, a vassal paying tribute (like European countries), or a colony being exploited.Looking more and...

Replace "Russia" in this article with "Iran" or "China" and the analysis still applies against the conventional wishful thinking and corresponding policy based on magical thinking rather than objective analysis based on fact.This kind of thinking go the US bogged down in quagmires from Vietnam to Iraq that were costly in blood and treasure.IrrussianalityResilient RussiaPaul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa

Yesterday the State Duma in the third and final reading passed a bill increasing the rate of Value Added Tax from 18% to 20%. The increase will be effective starting from January 1, 2019. At the same time, Russian government is planning to keep the current reduced VAT rates (10% and 0%) for socially important goods and services. Thus, by the end of 2019 the budget will receive an additional RUB 620 bln, which will be used to implement President Putin’s spending plan.... AwaraRussia Passes...

Lighthearted but serious Patrick Armstrong updates us with links and humor.Russian ObserverRussian Federation Sitrep 19 July 2018 Patrick ArmstrongSee alsoStrategic Culture FoundationThe Establishment Strikes Back Philip Giraldi, former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer, now Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest and founding member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for SanitySee also Fort Russ The Butina Case: A Tale Of...

Top security and intelligence officials from Pakistan, Iran, Russia, and China held a meeting in Islamabad, where they stressed the need for more active involvement of regional forces in efforts to resolve the conflict in Afghanistan.This is reported by TASS. On Tuesday, a meeting of leaders of the intelligence services of Russia, Iran, China and Pakistan was held in Islamabad, at which measures were discussed to combat the threat of the reunification of ISIS fighters in Afghanistan.......

The US has already tested this strategy in Iraq and Libya, according to Sergei Shoigu MOSCOW, July 11. /TASS/. Russia will always counter the US neocolonialist strategy aimed at weakening legitimate governments in other countries, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in an interview with the Italian daily Il Giornale published on Wednesday. "The issue at hand is the neocolonialist strategy, which the US has already tested in Iraq and Libya and which boils down to supporting any,...