Author: RT

What makes Rammstein frontman fight a cosmonaut in the center of St. Petersburg? The sound of Kalinka seems to work (VIDEO) The Palace Square in St. Petersburg has seen revolutions, parades and other historic events. But now it’s seen everything after providing the venue for a mock fight between Rammstein’s Till Lindemann and a bearded spaceman. The bizarre clip, uploaded by Lindemann on his Instagram page, starts as a dance-off, but quickly escalates into an exchange of slaps and attempts to suffocate each other. The interaction, set to the tune of the famous Russian “Kalinka” folk song, may seem absolutely meaningless to most, but there’s actually some background to it. The hawkish cosmonaut is easily identified as Swedish actor, Peter Stormare, w...

WATCH Russian military police descend on & secure hastily abandoned US airbase in Syria (PHOTOS, VIDEO) Russian military police and bomb disposal experts have taken control of an airfield in northern Aleppo province, which was abandoned in a hurry by withdrawing US forces. The operation to secure the base was captured on video. Up until recently, the Sirrin Air Base was one of the largest military installations illegally occupied by American forces in Syria, but was hastily abandoned after President Donald Trump abruptly announced that the US had – besides 'securing the oil', of course. “We went in, took the internal and external perimeter under guard. Set up stationary posts,” a senior inspector of the military police told Z...

‘Meant to intimidate’: Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin slams bogus police raid as crackdown on peace activism Peace activist Medea Benjamin slammed a recent police raid on her home after she was accused of “assaulting” a Democratic congresswoman, calling it an act of “intimidation” against those opposing US interventionist policies. Over a dozen officers from the US Capitol Police surrounded Benjamin’s home on Wednesday, alleging the activist assaulted Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-Florida) at a press conference earlier that day, but Benjamin says the charge is phoney. “This is selective prosecution and it’s bogus,” she told RT, adding “I’m a peace activist, I don’t assault anyone.” They make up things against us as a way to intimidate not o...

Notre Dame row: French stirred as Macron’s general tells architect to ‘shut his mouth’ over staying true to original spire design Tensions are high in the reconstruction project for France’s Notre Dame cathedral after an Army general appointed by President Emmanuel Macron has told an architect fighting for the original spire design to “shut his mouth.” It’s not a fight you expect to see very often, but the reconstruction of the fire-gutted Notre Dame cathedral has led to a showdown between the chief architect and General Jean-Louis Georgelin, appointed by French President Emmanuel Macron to pilot the restoration project. Chief architect Philippe Villeneuve has been faced with an ambitious five-year deadline to restore the famed cathedral’s interior,...

‘Crucial source of intelligence’: Indian Army urges officers to wipe Facebook accounts & avoid WhatsApp over security gaps The Indian Army has warned its officers to stay away from Facebook and WhatsApp, arguing the popular US-based social media platforms are vulnerable to hacks and a “crucial source” for hostile intelligence-gathering. An army advisory strongly encourages soldiers, especially those holding “sensitive posts,” to avoid WhatsApp for any official communications and to consider deactivating their Facebook accounts, following a military assessment finished last month which flagged a number of issues with soldiers’ internet habits. In addition to deeming Facebook a gold mine for foreign intelligence agencies, the army has asked troops...

Houdini trick, but Russia-style? VIDEO shows ‘suspect’ jumping out of police station still handcuffed to RADIATOR A stunt that Harry Houdini would’ve surely disapproved of was caught on video in Russia. Instead of escaping from his cuffs, a man jumps out of a police station’s window onto a car roof – all that with the radiator still attached. The video, which has gained some traction on social media, shows the presumed “detainee” making a daring jump from the building’s second floor, landing on top of a red vehicle and then getting away, all while having his limb handcuffed to a huge white radiator. //www.youtube.com/embed/kzyhs0spTmE Right before the video cuts, another man sticks his foot out of the w...

‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’ is a FASCIST recruiting tool, establishment cries after meme goes mainstream in Congress The ubiquitous “Epstein didn’t kill himself” meme has blue-checks and establishment backers quaking in their boots, supposedly out of fear the “far-right” might use this dangerous “conspiracy theory” as a recruiting tool. Mainstream journalists and Democratic politicians alike stepped up their opposition to the meme this week, calling it a lure for “fascists” to recruit “anti-system people” and a “far-right conspiracy theory.” “We’re going to need some thought on how to combat this,” one blue-check tweeted. This "Jeffrey Epstein Didn't Kill Himself" business is definitely being used by fascist to recruit anti-system peo...

Catapulting Hong Kong into democracy? Media glorifies ANARCHY & ‘novel, defensive’ anti-police weapons of protesters As anti-China protesters transform Hong Kong universities into “weapons factories” and arm themselves with petrol bombs, mainstream media is increasingly impressed by their ingenious and “novel” methods of taking on riot police. Universities across Hong Kong are shuttering their doors and foreign students fleeing the chaos, as protesters hurl bricks, fire javelins, construct “watchtowers” and start fires on campuses, insisting that they have “no choice” but to resort to the most violent methods. students at the Chinese University of Hongkong built a catapult to continue to defend themselves from the police pic.twitter...

Barr all things Chinese? AG calls Huawei & ZTE ‘threat to our collective security’ Huawei and ZTE “cannot be trusted,” US Attorney General William Barr has warned the Federal Communications Commission, calling for a ban on rural telecoms using the products of companies he views as an existential threat. The Chinese telecoms’ “track record, as well as the practices of the Chinese government, demonstrate that Huawei and ZTE cannot be trusted,” Barr wrote to the FCC in a letter on Thursday. He urged the regulator to support a proposal to block rural carriers from dipping into an $8.5 billion federal fund to purchase services and equipment from the companies. We should not signal that Huawei and ZTE are anything other than a threat to our collectiv...

Post-coup Bolivia anarchy ‘resembles Libya’: Putin urges ‘common sense’ amid Latin American chaos The power vacuum in Bolivia has brought the country to the edge of a Libya-style disaster, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned. As protests consume other Latin American countries, Putin urged leaders to use “common sense.” President Evo Morales fled Bolivia to Mexico on Tuesday, after opposition leaders declared his October re-election fraudulent and the Bolivian police and military turned on him. Since then, opposition senator Jeanine Añez has declared herself “interim president,” without a vote or recognition by Morales’s Movement for Socialism majority party. Pro-Morales protesters, outraged by the blatant coup, have since faced off with riot pol...