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Russia stops processing Chinese work visas & scraps visa-free travel amid coronavirus epidemic Moscow has temporarily halted issuing work visas to Chinese citizens and suspended visa-free travel for Chinese tourist groups in response to the coronavirus epidemic in the country. The travel restriction come into force from Sunday. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, who ordered them, stressed that the measures are temporary and are only meant to protect people in Russia from health risks posed by the infection — a point he asked the Foreign Ministry to make known to Beijing. Moscow also suspended preferential travel of Chinese nationals to Russia through Mongolia. Visa-free travel under the Russia-China intergovernmental agreement has be...

‘He’s in our anthem, why not in constitution?’ Russian Patriarch wants GOD mentioned in state charter Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, says believers should pray for a constitutional amendment that would add a reference to God. He thinks the mention would be appreciated by all faiths alike. “Most Russian citizens believe in God. Not just the Orthodox Christians — I speak about Muslims and many-many others,” the patriarch said as cited by the Church spokesman. “If the anthem can have the words ‘Our homeland protected by God’, why can’t the constitution say the same thing?” Russia is currently preparing for a number of amendments to the basic law, which would somewhat redistribute powers among its branches and enshrine in it ...

Breaking the ice: Hockey-loving new US ambassador visits Moscow game… and reveals his favorite player is RUSSIAN America’s new ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, said ice hockey could help bring the two nations closer together as he visited a game in Moscow, also singing the praises of his favorite player, Russia's Alexander Ovechkin. Sullivan took up his post earlier this year, and as an avid hockey fan wasted little time in arranging a visit to a game in the Russian capital. The American diplomat was at the local derby between Moscow clubs Spartak and Dynamo on Saturday, where, suitably dressed in a Washington Capitals NHL jersey, he dropped the ceremonial first puck alongside Russian hockey legends Vyacheslav Fetisov and Alexander Yakushev. ...

‘What should I do? Hide in the cellar?’ Nigel Farage tells RT’s Going Underground he’ll be a Brexit ‘watchdog’ With Britain’s departure from the EU representing the culmination of his political career thus far, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage told RT’s Going Underground that he’ll be keeping an eye on proceedings for the next year. “Everyone said to me it was impossible, I’m wasting my time, should go back to business, but it just shows you that actually… there was a massive disconnect between how Westminster saw the European issue and how the country saw the European issue,” he told Going Underground’s Farhaan Ahmed on Saturday. “And what I did was to go in there and expose it.” //www.youtube.com/embed/os...

Where’s Greta when you need her? NASA witnesses dramatic polar ice COLLAPSE on Mars Climactic footage of Arctic ice plummeting into the sea has routinely shocked viewers in recent years. However, the phenomenon appears not to be confined to Earth, as NASA has captured evidence of Mars’ polar ice cap collapsing. The US space agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been spinning around the Red Planet since 2006. Its vantage point hundreds of kilometers above the surface allows it to witness dramatic natural processes unfolding below. Remarkable, freshly released images show a radical landscape change at the planet’s north pole, following a polar ice cap collapse. An animation of the collapse. pic.twitter.com/n3RWAw50KC— HiRISE: Beautifu...

US tells stories about ‘brain injuries’ to cover up dead troops at Iraqi base – IRGC spokesman A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has accused the US of covering up deaths at a base in Iraq after a ballistic missile attack. The US insists nobody was killed, and that its troops suffered brain injuries. Dozens of American troops have been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries following Iranian strikes on two US bases in Iraq earlier this month, according to the Pentagon. Iran struck the bases in retaliation for the Trump administration’s assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by airstrike at Baghdad Airport several days earlier. Also on rt.com 34 US troops suffered brain injury in I...

Arab League rejects Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ at Cairo summit with Abbas The Arab League has shot down US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan, saying it would not lead to a just peace between Israel and Palestine. The deal has already been rejected by the Palestinian side. League members met in Cairo on Saturday to discuss the deal, touted by Trump as the “deal of the century,” and a realistic roadmap to peace between Israel and Palestine. Speaking at the meeting, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas announced he would cut all ties with the US and Israel over the plan, and would not go down in history as the person who “sold out Jerusalem.” Also on rt.com Palestine ‘cutting all ties’ with US and Isr...