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Exiled leader Morales named as election campaign chief by Bolivian socialists (VIDEO) With Bolivia under the stewardship of an interim government following the coup against former President Evo Morales, the country’s socialist party has chosen the exiled leader to run its upcoming election campaign from abroad. Morales’ Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) party gathered in the city of Cochabamba this weekend to choose its candidates, in a snap election that has yet to be announced, but has been promised by interim president Jeanine Áñez. //www.youtube.com/embed/9jDmlEHdr9o Morales was reelected to the presidency in October, but opponents declared the vote fraudulent. Despite vowing to hold fresh elections,...

Moscow to rearm ALL Arctic units with S-400s to create anti-missile DOME over Russian Arctic All anti-aircraft regiment of Russia’s Northern Fleet will be equipped with state-of-the-art S-400 air defense systems in the next few years to create an anti-missile dome able to thwart any enemy incursion, the Russian Navy said. Russian anti-aircraft missile forces and radio-technical troops stationed in the Artic are going through a comprehensive rearmament process, that sees Russia’s most advanced long-range air defense missile system being delivered to them, Vice Admiral Alexander Moiseev, the commander of Russia's Northern Fleet, said Sunday. Also on rt.com Cold steel: Russia’s Kinzhal hypersonic missile ‘completes i...

Russia-NATO relations DEGRADING, causing global security to decline – Defense Minister Russia is ready to work with NATO despite the alliance’s buildup near its borders and unfounded claims of a Russian threat, but all of Moscow’s proposals are falling on deaf ears, Defense Minister, Sergey Shoigu, has warned. “Everything isn’t just halted, but degrading every year,” Shoigu told Rossiya 1 broadcaster when asked about the current state of Russia-NATO relations. There was “quite active cooperation” between Russia and the bloc just five years ago, but “now our partners, along with the US, of course, are withdrawing from most of the agreements. The security space is getting narrower and narrower,” he pointed out. NATO is reluctant to work with Russia, e...

Ukraine’s Zelensky to be TOPPLED by protests if he crosses ‘red lines’ in Paris, TV host warns, as crowds cheer Pressure is mounting on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, with the opposition threatening him with civil unrest should he show weakness during the Normandy Four talks with Russian, French and German leaders on Monday. Thousands attended a rally at the iconic Maidan square in the center of the Ukrainian capital, organized in the run-up to the high-profile meeting by the parties of Petro Poroshenko, whom Zelensky defeated in the spring election, as well as former PM Yulia Tymoshenko and rock star Vyacheslav Vakarchuk. And the speakers on stage didn’t mince words. © Reuters / Valentyn Ogirenko ...

Russia’s Crimea welcomes record number of tourists in post-Soviet era More than 7 million people have spent their vacations in Crimea so far this year, Deputy Chairman of Crimea’s Council of Ministers and Permanent Presidential Envoy Georgy Muradov said, setting a post-Soviet record. Muradov told TASS that “Crimea is Russia’s second most visited region for tourism and recreation after the Krasnodar Region.” Swallow's Nest Castle © Pixabay.com Despite Western sanctions targeting the Black Sea peninsula (due to its reunification with Russia), Crimea is becoming increasingly popular with ...

FBI presumes Pensacola shooting an act of terrorism as probe continues (WATCH LIVE) The FBI is treating Friday's Navy base shooting in Pensacola as an act of terrorism, the special agent in charge Rachel Rojas said. 80 agents are on the case, she said.— Frances Robles (@FrancesRobles) December 8, 2019 FBI Special Agent Rojas says Saudi Arabia is cooperating to investigate the Pensacola Naval Air Station shooter, and that investigators are “working with the presumption” that the shooting was “an act of terrorism” pic.twitter.com/E1Sod593v0— QuickTake by Bloomberg (@QuickTake) December 8, 2019 Also on rt.com Pensacola shooter ‘held mass-shooting dinner party’ where fellow Saudi studen...

Missiles aside: Kim Jong-un smiles big as he inaugurates N. Korea’s luxury ski resort (VIDEO) Situated deep in North Korea’s highlands, an ultra-modern mountain resort opened its doors to local (and maybe foreign) visitors. If you consider spending your holidays there, be advised – Kim Jong-un massively approves of it. The North Korean leader has abandoned affairs of the state for at least a day, visiting the hot springs and spa complex in Yangdok County east of Pyongyang. State media have filmed him cutting the ribbon and then peacefully watching people swim in several modern-looking pools. Smiling big and wide, he cheerfully greeted the chilling swimmers (although it remains unclear if the water was warm enough to chill out). ...

Kim Jong-un has ‘everything to lose’ & doesn’t want to break our ‘special relationship’ – Trump President Donald Trump has insisted that the US will stick to its goal of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula, saying that Kim Jong-un is “too smart and has far too much to lose” to do otherwise. “Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way,” Trump tweeted on Sunday. “He signed a strong Denuclearization Agreement with me in Singapore. He does not want to void his special relationship with the President of the United States.” Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way. He signed a strong Denuclearization Agreement with m...

Nadler says vote ‘possible’ on Trump articles of impeachment this week, Republicans protest House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler has said that his panel may vote on articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump this week. However, Republicans say he is trying to railroad impeachment through Congress. “It’s possible” that the committee may vote on the articles this week, Nadler (D-New York) told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. He added that there is “a lot to consider” in deciding which charges to bring against Trump. Before determining what impeachable offenses to charge the president with, Nadler’s committee will hold a hearing on Monday. Republicans on the committee claim that Nadler is rushing the process. Ranking member D...

Social justice or bullying a child? American ballerina rounds up Instagram mob to lecture 14yo Russian dancer on blackface The US may be cannibalizing itself with social justice dogma, but some places remain untouched by the long arm of the woke. Not anymore, as a prominent ballerina took to hounding Russian children on the internet for ‘racism.’ Ballerina Misty Copeland made history in 2015 by becoming the American Ballet Theater’s first black principal dancer. She’s since appeared in productions of ‘Swan Lake,’ ‘Romeo and Juliet’ and ‘The Nutcracker,’ among others. Lately, however, she’s also found time to publicly shame Russian children for not measuring up to American standards of political correctness. In an Instagram post on Sunday, Copeland c...