Russia

Update: Nunes has refused to step down from the Russia probe, The Hill reports. The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee told reporters Monday evening he will not step down from the committee's investigation into Russia's interference in the United States presidential election, despite a chorus of Democratic lawmakers demanding he recuse himself. 

"Everything is politics here," Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) said, as reported by a journalist from Voice of America.

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In what is emerging as the latest headache for Donald Trump, a state-run Russian bank which has been under U.S. economic sanctions since 2014 disclosed on Monday that its executives had met Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and key policy adviser, during the 2016 election campaign. As reported previously, Kushner has been asked to discuss the contact, and a meeting during the same period with the Russian ambassador, with a Senate committee probing Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 election.

Russia Continues to Allow Washington to Finance Protests in Moscow and Other Russian Cities

https://www.rt.com/news/382408-kremlin-comment-moscow-protest/

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The US Is Striving to Achieve a Nuclear First Strike Breakout Against Russia

The clear implication is that Washington intends a pre-emptive nuclear attack on Russia or
the threat of one with which to force Russia (and China) into vassalage.

As I have observed previously, we shouldn’t expect to live much longer, global warming or not.

http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/03/27/us-navy-prepares-decapitating-attack-against-russia.html

The mystery surrounding President Donald Trump's claim that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama during the 2016 election campaign deepened on Monday, when it was revealed that House Intel Committee Chair Devin Nunes was on the White House grounds where he reviewed classified information the day before he announced he had seen intelligence that showed members of President Trump's transition team had been caught up in surveillance operations.