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Russia will consider the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights null and void in the event the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe refuses to reinstate the Russian delegation in 2018. In this connection, Russia may reinstate the death penalty as a form of capital punishment for grave crimes. Will Russia make such a move?

Vladimir Putin celebrated his 65th anniversary. Putin's rating in Russia remains on a very high level, and there are many of those who admire the Russian president in other countries of the world, even though Western media continue taking every effort to demonise him. They despise the Russian president, but they will not be able to muzzle him

Judging by statements from US President Trump, he is ready to abandon the traditional policy of interference in affairs of other states under the pretext of promoting democracy. It is obvious that Donald Trump says one thing, but the team that works with him often takes steps that come contrary to what the president says

The King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, arrived in Moscow on September 4. The Saudi king will stay in Moscow till October 7. Experts believe that the state visit of the Saudi monarch to Moscow may justify Russia's hopes in the field of economic and defense cooperation with the largest monarchy of the Gulf

According to Putin, Kim Jong Il, the former leader of the DPRK, told him in the early 2000s that North Korea had an atomic bomb. However, Western countries continued to provoke Pyongyang. As a result, the DPRK now has a hydrogen bomb too. The nuclear test site is located on the Korean territory 200 kilometers from the territory of Russia

The West does not want to believe that Russia has made her final civilizational choice. NATO generals pursue the policy of intimidation, whereas diplomats work for a "color revolution" to occur in Moscow. It seems that nothing is going to convince those people to change their point of view; they will not stop trying to destroy Russia

Russia is thinking of retaliatory measures after Washington accused Moscow of violating the Open Skies Treaty and made a decision to limit the flights of Russian aircraft over the USA. Accusing Moscow of violating the Open Skies Treaty, Washington tries to "distract attention from serious cases of violations of the treaty committed by the USA

The rotation of governors in Russia is happening to renew the gubernatorial staff, Putin's presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said. It was said that the Governor of Krasnoyarsk Territory, Viktor Tolokonsky, and the head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, were resigning, even thought they can not be referred to as long-standing governors

Facebook is likely to be blocked in Russia if the company does not comply with requirements of the law on the storage of personal data of Russian users on the territory of the Russian Federation. Facebook has been mentioned a lot recently in connection with the investigation of Russia's alleged interference in the US presidential election

It is an open secret that Russia is the largest country in the world. Russia is nearly twice as large as China or Canada. Why is Russia so big? Was Russia's expansion an era of colonialism or were the Russians simply discovering and developing new lands? One could refer to Alaska as Russia's colony, but it lacked a typical feature of it

Mr. Lavrov spoke about NATO's recent efforts to recreate the atmosphere of the Cold War, while Russia has taken extensive measures recently to get rid of the Cold War legacy. Russia has not come across the support from her Western partners on the way. NATO and the West build their policy on the principle of "who is not with us is against us."

Zapad 2017 military drills caused an unprecedented surge of interest in the West. Predictably, Western publications used the joint Russia-Belarus drills to instil fear in readers. The goal of the propaganda campaign is to unite people against the Russian threat and call down several "not very obedient" NATO members

Anti-Russian sanctions are counterproductive, because they affected initiating countries as a result of globalisation. The sanctions could become a reason for the decline in Russia's GDP during 2014-2016 by 1% maximum. The Russian economy has suffered at a much greater extent lot more as a result of the global drop in oil prices.

The Russian authorities may deprive US diplomats of a possibility to park their vehicles on specially designated places in Moscow and other cities of Russia. Interestingly, there is no such possibility provided for Russian diplomats in the United States at all. Moscow is studying the conditions in which Russian agencies work in the US

Israel's interest in the Russian machine is particularly interesting. As is known, back in 1967, after the Six-Day War, Israel, a very young country back then, began to use captured Soviet armoured vehicles. Israel had seized about 300 Soviet tanks with unspent ammunition and minor damage directly on the battlefield

Small missile ships equipped with state-of-the-art weapons may destroy bulky and costly American aircraft carriers within minutes. The budget of the Pentagon exceeds $600 billion, whilst that of Russia is only $50 billion, which is even less than the add-on that US President Donald Trump has recently obtained for the US defence industry

The demand on Russian submarines and surface warships has been growing globally as a result of Russia's participation in the conflict in Syria. Many experts believe that the US Navy is one of the most useless and least efficient navies among the navies of other developed countries in terms of financial costs and combat effectiveness

Why does the Russian leadership regularly write off multi-billion debts of the countries that may not even give Russia credit for that? The most important thing is to do everything for the sake of the country and for the sake of the people. Instead, Russia forgives debts to foreign leaders who then start behaving inappropriately

On the eve of the BRICS summit, which is to be held in Xiamen, China, on September 4-5, President Vladimir Putin wrote an article "BRICS - Towards New Horizons of Strategic Partnership." In the article, the Russian president presented Russia's approaches to cooperation within the authoritative association

Russian government allocates an additional amount of 56 billion rubles to fund projects for the construction and reconstruction of highways. Ukraine had not been investing much in the economy of the Crimea after the breakup of the USSR. Kindergartens, roads the water supply system and the power supply system were wearing out