Nearly three decades ago, Kyrgyzstan signed a deal designed to enrich the mountainous nation and its people. Now though, with warnings of human rights abuses and ecological catastrophe, it appears ready to tear up the agreement.
Neturei Karta is a Jewish group whose controversial solution to the bloodshed in Gaza is to bring about the end of the Israeli state. RT.com spoke to Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss, who explained why they think this is necessary.
Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu is unlikely to capitalize on the ongoing hostilities with the Hamas militants, former PM Ehud Olmert told RT, adding that the enduring occupation of the West Bank was a strategic mistake by Israel.
One of Russia’s most senior diplomats has warned that relations with the West have reached a new low in recent months, and that those tensions are now undermining everything from the coronavirus pandemic response to human rights.
Two sitting German MPs flew to Moscow to attend the Victory Day parade, and one of them took the opportunity to get the Sputnik V vaccine. Speaking to RT, he lamented that political games have delayed the EU’s approval of the jab.
Facing harsh economic measures imposed by Washington and its allies in Europe, Russia is working to cut Western influence out of its economy, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an exclusive interview with RT.
Western countries are living in a grim “fantasy land” they’ve created through years of anti-Russian propaganda, the outspoken Maria Zakharova told RT DE, with any initiative by Moscow – even on Covid-19 – becoming politicised.
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has exposed “massive problems” in the West as a whole, and particularly in the EU, which has been plagued by lack of leadership and political will, Maria Zakharova told RT Deutsch.
“Dogmatic” Democrats controlling the White House means the US will unlikely get along with Russia under President Biden, German ex-diplomat Frank Elbe told RT, adding that it’s also not the time for Europe to let its guard down.