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Earlier Tuesday, Moscow expressed serious concerns over the "extremely dangerous" statements by officials in the United States and Britain about upping weapons deliveries to the UK to include shoulder-launched anti-aircraft missile systems. Doing so would only increase and not reduce tensions, according to the Kremlin.

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has responded to recent reports that Moscow has partly evacuated its embassy in Ukraine, by claiming that foreign media is unfairly spinning realty in order to paint the country as insidious. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian authorities are shortening the required isolation period for people infected with COVID-19 from 14 to seven days amid a surge of COVID-19 cases.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kyiv and Berlin this week as tensions escalate over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The Facebook page of the Russian delegation to Vienna talks on military security and arms control was mistakenly disabled by automated tools, and now has been restored, a Meta spokesperson said.

Russia finds itself in a fiendish situation, one that’s almost laughable if it were not so dangerous. One where the right to defence is distorted as an offense, and vice versa.

Ex-flyweight and bantamweight UFC king Henry Cejudo has stated a wish to go to Russia and beat Petr Yan in front of his countrymen, branding the Siberian an 'ugly potato'. Read Full Article at RT.com

The chancellor's comments come just a day after Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock warned that the West would take "appropriate measures" against the Russian-European gas infrastructure megaproject in the event of an escalation in Ukraine. Moscow has expressed hope that the $10.5 billion project is not artificially delayed or politicized.

Western officials and media have spent months alleging that Russia may be preparing to invade its Ukrainian neighbour and building up troops on the border. Moscow has dismissed the claims, and accused NATO of playing up the Russian bogeyman as a pretext to continue the alliance’s eastward crawl.

An ex-officer from Russia’s top domestic security agency, who was serving a four-year sentence for torturing a businessman – sexually assaulting him with a carbine rifle – has reportedly been released on parole ahead of schedule. Read Full Article at RT.com

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ukraine and Germany this week as the Russian threat toward Ukraine continues to loom.

Russia's security talks with the US, NATO and OSCE have opened doors to further set of negotiations, says German academic Tim Buthe, suggesting that further consultations could possibly break the ice.

Health authorities warn Moscow will be the first to face the Omicron "storm" forecasted between late January amd early February.

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Canadian special forces have been deployed to Ukraine amid rising tensions with Moscow, according to Canada’s Global News, which reported that a small team was sent to Kiev in order to deter alleged “Russian aggression.” Read Full Article at RT.com

With tensions rising on the Russian border with Ukraine, Moscow has started to remove its diplomats and their families from its embassy in Kiev and consulate in Lvov, the New York Times has claimed, citing anonymous officials. Read Full Article at RT.com

Daniil Medvedev made light work of Swiss rival Henri Laaksonen as the Russian cruised into the second round with a straight-sets victory in Melbourne, before saying he welcomes the spotlight as a tournament favorite. Read Full Article at RT.com

Khabib Nurmagomedov, a Russian mixed martial artist and former UFC champion, has founded a new chain of fast food restaurants called M-eat by Khabib, the athlete announced this weekend through a representative. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia will never consider discussing the withdrawal of missiles from its Kaliningrad region, a western exclave that borders Poland, Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov has said. Read Full Article at RT.com

The press spokesmen for German capitalism seem determined to wage its third war against Russia or the Soviet Union in little more than a century.

The United Kingdom has begun sending light arms to Ukraine, Britain’s top military official said, though he claimed the weapons “pose no threat to Russia” after repeated allegations that Moscow is planning to invade its neighbour. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Tory agenda is driven by a raging crisis of British and world imperialism that has been deepened immeasurably by the pandemic.

The slow evacuation may be part propaganda, part preparation for a conflict or part feint, Ukrainian and U.S. officials say. It could be all three.

North Korea has been launching missiles without the support of America’s global positioning system, instead turning to Russia’s satellite navigation network, according to observers.In its fourth test this month, Pyongyang on Monday fired what appeared to be two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off the east coast of the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.Pyongyang also conducted tests of hypersonic missiles on January 5 and 11 and fired ballistic missiles on…

The defence secretary says he is sending short-range anti-tank missiles amid Russian invasion fears.

If Russia invades Ukraine, the US will move strongly to damage Moscow’s strategic position and employ measures that take aim at the country's economy, a top White House official threatened on Sunday. Read Full Article at RT.com

German newspaper Handelsblatt has reported that Western leaders have ruled out the possibility of disconnecting Russia from the global banking interchange SWIFT. However, the US government has contradicted the assertion. Read Full Article at RT.com

Britain said on Monday it was supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons to help it defend itself from a potential invasion, during a stand-off with Russia which has massed troops near the Ukrainian border.Western countries say they fear Russia is preparing a pretext for a new assault on Ukraine, which it invaded in 2014.Moscow denies any plans for an attack, but has said it could take unspecified military action unless the West agrees to a list of demands, including banning Ukraine from ever…

As a series of high-level talks between the United States, European allies and Russia wind down this week, an uptick in Moscow's military muscle on its borders will remain a preoccupation of western diplomats long after they return to their duty stations.

Fears are rising over Russia's plans to shake up the region, writes BBC Europe editor Katya Adler.

Reports that the CIA is running training programs to prepare Ukrainian forces for unconventional warfare bear an uncanny similarity to a long-exposed Cold War-era project. If history is any judge, it is likely to end the same way. Read Full Article at RT.com

The Facebook page belonging to Russia’s delegation to the security and arms control talks in Vienna was blocked for days without explanation. The diplomats have blasted it as an act of censorship specifically targeting Moscow. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukraine's ex-president Petro Poroshenko returns to Kyiv despite the risk of arrest. He passes through passport control amid chaotic scenes, saying that border guards have tried to prevent him from entering the country.

Russia's top diplomat rejected US allegations that it was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine.

Germany is still intent on normalizing relations with Russia, the country’s top diplomat has said before a planned visit to Moscow, insisting that recent bilateral talks can’t be expected to solve every problem at once. Read Full Article at RT.com

As the US refuses to halt the march of its NATO military bloc, in Eastern Europe, Moscow could leverage its ties with friendly Latin American states to ruffle Washington’s feathers. But would such a course of action be worth it? Read Full Article at RT.com

Petro O. Poroshenko, a former president, returned to Kyiv on Monday facing possible arrest, adding internal political turmoil to a threat of Russian invasion.

Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko returned to Kyiv on Monday to fight charges of treason, accusing his successor of crossing a “red line” with allegations that he denies.The legal stand-off pressed by President Volodymyr Zelensky’s administration injects a level of political instability in the region as Russia amasses troops on Ukraine’s eastern frontier, a move that’s prompted Western allies to raise the spectre of a full-scale invasion. Russia has repeatedly said it doesn’t plan to…

Members of the Russian Orthodox Church have come out with 39 new initiatives, including a new prayer service for those who are “possessed with computer passion.” Read Full Article at RT.com

Police in the Russian city of Dzerzhinsk have opened an investigation into a video of a local woman pole-dancing in a city square, in view of a chapel, after the clip went viral online and was noticed by local authorities. Read Full Article at RT.com

Estonia is ready and able to host a contingent of up to 5,000 troops from NATO’s rapid response force if the order to deploy them is given, Tallinn has said, despite Russian concerns over the US-led bloc’s forces near its border. Read Full Article at RT.com

Veteran US diplomat Wendy Sherman is the woman conveying Washington’s messages about NATO expansion in Europe to Moscow – but the ‘hard-nosed’ negotiator was previously involved in sealing security deals with Pyongyang and Tehran. Read Full Article at RT.com

Navalny said that he had "no regrets" about his return to Moscow from Berlin, despite his incarceration.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has never taken part and will not participate in the arming of the warring parties in Afghanistan, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday.

Nord Stream 2, the joint Russian-European gas- and hydrogen-carrying pipeline running from Russia to northeastern Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, was completed and made ready for operation late last year. The pipeline's certification is now being held up by German regulators, with Gazprom saying this process may drag out until spring.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Monday that he thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for his understanding of the Muslims' sensitivity to offensive depictions of Prophet Muhammad in a phone conversation.

KHABAROVSK Russia (Sputnik) - An Amur tiger was killed by a train in the Khabarovsk Krai in Russia's Far East, the regional ministry of natural resources said on Monday.

Earlier, the Facebook account of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control was blocked following posts about security guarantees.

Manzhouli, China’s border city with Russia and a major land port for foreign trade, has banned imported fruit from entering the city, due to coronavirus fears.“Recently, in many places in China, the surfaces of imported fruits have tested positive for the coronavirus … From January 16, 2022, imported fruits will be suspended from entering Manzhouli City,” said an official announcement on Sunday by the city, located in Inner Mongolia.For imported fruits that arrived in the city and were in…

Russian-language media in Ukraine will now be forced to publish a secondary version in the country's official tongue under a new law that selectively bans "foreign" language publications that don't come with a translation. Read Full Article at RT.com

Petro O. Poroshenko, a former president, returned to Kyiv on Monday facing possible arrest, adding internal political turmoil to a threat of Russian invasion.

The US and its European allies are on the precipice of plunging the world into a war with Russia of catastrophic proportions.

A local man in the Russian city of Arkhangelsk has gone to the highest level to complain about a new public installation, arguing that statues of witches and of their cauldron fly in the face of his religious beliefs. Read Full Article at RT.com

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has recognized the two-dose course of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 as an acceptable form of coronavirus vaccination for travellers.

The specter of a possible "Russian invasion" in Ukraine has been in the international focus since October. The West accused Russia of a military build-up near the Ukrainian border, threatening another batch of sanctions, despite Kremlin repeatedly stating it has no plans to attack any state, while it is free to move troops within its own territory.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian peacekeepers deployed to Kazakhstan as part of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) mission have arrived at the Chkalovsky airfield near Moscow from Kazakhstan, the Russian Defense Ministry informs.

President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi for talks in Moscow next week as Russia tries to help salvage a nuclear deal between world powers and Tehran, state television channel Rossiya-1 reported on Sunday.

The Canadian government has warned its citizens against non-essential travel to Ukraine in a new travel advisory citing “Russian aggression” in the area. Read Full Article at RT.com

NATO’s “gradual invasion” into Ukraine has brought the US-led bloc right to Moscow’s “red line,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told CNN. He said the situation poses an imminent threat to the European security as a whole. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia previously slammed the alliance's creeping expansion, saying that NATO should return to the positions that existed at the moment of signing the 1997 Russia-NATO Founding Act. The Russian Foreign Ministry has underscored that strengthening NATO’s military potential near Russia’s borders poses a national security threat.

A new bill before the US Senate that would introduce unprecedented new sanctions against Russia, as well as against top officials including President Vladimir Putin, has soured security negotiations between Moscow and Washington. Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukraine said Sunday that Russia was behind a cyberattack that defaced its government websites and alleged that Russia is engaged in an increasing “hybrid war” against its neighbour.The statement from the Ministry of Digital Development came a day after Microsoft said dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian government agencies had been infected with destructive malware disguised as ransomware. That disclosure suggested the attention-grabbing defacement attack on official…

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor told Facebook’s parent company Meta to restore access to the page of the state delegation to the nuclear arms control talks in Vienna after it was taken down on Sunday.

Dave Gahan is frontman of the iconic rock band Depeche Mode, famous all over the world for hits such as 'Personal Jesus', 'Enjoy the Silence', 'Never Let Me Down Again' and many others.

Winter Olympics hopeful Kamila Valieva survived a fall to take the European title in a clean sweep for Russian stars – and her coach sent a message to followers of the national team after watching the 15-year-old storm to glory. Read Full Article at RT.com

A Ukrainian ministry now says “evidence” indicates Moscow was behind Friday's attack on Kiev's governmental websites. The move comes after another official earlier pointed the finger at hackers backed by Belarusian intelligence. Read Full Article at RT.com

The statement from the ministry of digital development came a day after Microsoft said dozens of computer systems at an unspecified number of Ukrainian agencies had been infected with destructive malware disguised as ransomware.

Talks aren’t simply “talks” when you have a gun to your head.

MOSCOW—Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin is “a tyrant.” He is “war” and he is “death.” He is “a bold realist.” “A weak strongman.” “A maniac.” “Trustworthy.” “A killer.” “Putin is Russia, and Russia is Putin.” Entering his 22nd year in power as leader of 145 million souls, assessments of Russian President Vladimir Putin have run the gamut. He takes the gushing plaudits, like the condemnations, with a sharp, steely calm. The need for public reserve is deeply ingrained in the Russian psyche. Putin, the country’s public face, is no exception. Though everyone has bad days, he once told American filmmaker Oliver Stone, “You should never lose control.” He has done everything in his power not to. He replaced Boris Yeltsin as Russia’s acting president on the eve of the new millennium — Dec. 31, 1999 — and

Cutting Russia off from the international banking payment system SWIFT would have a serious impact on Western economies, according to the incoming leader of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz. Read Full Article at RT.com

During the Russia-NATO negotiations on Moscow's security guarantee draft agreements earlier this week, the alliance reiterated its reluctance to stop its eastward expansion, something that runs counter to the bottom line of the proposals.

Russia has no plans attack Ukraine, but could not say it would never deploy any weapons in its large southern neighbor, the Kremlin has told CNN, adding that Moscow is willing to talk, but only if its concerns are addressed. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs is looking into the possibility of expelling foreigners from the country if they commit gross administrative breaches, the head of the national migration department has revealed. Read Full Article at RT.com

The malware was revealed as Russian troops remain massed at the Ukrainian border, and after Ukrainian government agencies had their websites defaced.

Russian belligerence has drawn the world’s attention back to the eight-year-old secessionist rebellion in the Donbas region: a deadlocked, time-warped conflict with no end in sight.

If the West fails to meet its security demands, Moscow could take measures like placing nuclear missiles close to the U.S. coastline, Russian officials have hinted.

Moscow has repeatedly rejected media reports in the West alleging that Russia was planning to "invade" Ukraine. The Kremlin underscores that it can relocate its troops within its own territory, while NATO's military activity near Russia's borders poses a threat to its security.

The 45th continues to criticize the Biden administration of US President Joe Biden, in particular over the inability to deal with the influx of illegal immigrants and foreign policy failures in the Russian and Chinese directions.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Thousands of people have participated in a demonstration in support of Russia in Mali’s capital, Bamako, a youth organization leader told Sputnik.

The US has some 18 “different scenarios” up its sleeve to react to Moscow invading its neighbor, Victoria Nuland has said, promising to inflict “sharp pain” on Russia should it make such a move. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sweden has moved to ramp up security on the largest Baltic Sea island of Gotland as part of “adapting” its security strategy to the “tense situation” on the Russian-Ukrainian border, located some 1,700 kilometers south-east. Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s involvement in Kazakhstan is a reminder for Beijing that it is still reliant on Moscow to secure its interests in Central Asia.But experts said China would benefit from the Russian action to quell the unrest and had no intention of taking a bigger share of responsibility for the security of the region which forms its southwestern backyard.Some 2,500 troops under the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) alliance arrived in Kazakhstan last week to help quell the…

Within the context of escalating tensions over Ukraine, the reports by CNN and the New York Times have a highly provocative character.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) - EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed on Saturday to coordinate closely with regard to what the EU’s external action service called Russian attempts to redefine security arrangements in Europe.

Earlier in the day, the Russian court authorised the arrest of the two suspected hackers from REvil, a group accused of launching a ransomware attack on the software firm Kaseya in July, which affected up to 1,500 businesses worldwide.

Vladimir Gromilin has been axed by Russian ice hockey team Sarmaty Orenburg after a clip on social media showed him kicking 19-year-old Jegor Razumnjak during a game this week, signaling the end of his three-year reign. Read Full Article at RT.com

Sweden reinforces its military presence on the island of Gotland, which is the closest part of the country to Russia.

An American citizen has been detained in Moscow on suspicion of sexually assaulting his two sons after a complaint filed by the mother of the child, multiple Russian news outlets have reported. Read Full Article at RT.com

With Russia challenging Western unilateralism in a way not seen since the end of the Soviet Union, two major issues keep coming to the fore. Both, it seems, are centered on America's flagship military bloc, NATO. Read Full Article at RT.com

Washington repeatedly claimed that Russia might use its gas supplies to exercise political pressure on the EU, despite Moscow's assurances that it is not true. Now, Russian gas supplies are endangered by tensions around Ukraine and the West's threats of sanctions as fuel prices remain high compared with last year.

Australian Open contender Daniil Medvedev has admitted that any country can deny entry to a foreign national but says he has questions about the legal basis for Australia's impending deportation of Novak Djokovic. Read Full Article at RT.com

Following rumors that Kanye West is looking to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and stage performances in the country, Moscow’s deputy foreign minister has voiced his admiration of the US hip-hop star’s work. Read Full Article at RT.com

Police in Sweden deployed patrols and helicopters to the Forsmark nuclear plant to hunt for a large drone seen flying over the site late on Friday, but were unable to catch the unmanned vehicle, they said on Saturday.The incident came a day after Sweden’s military started patrolling the main town on the Baltic Sea island of Gotland amid increased tensions between Nato and Russia and a recent deployment of Russian landing craft in the Baltic.Tokyo embarks on nuclear projects with US that could…