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Russia has every reason to say Britain is party to the conflict, Ambassador Andrey Kelin has said · Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrey Kelin ©  X / The Russian Embassy in the UK · [RT] The UK has given Russia every reason to view it as a party to the Ukraine conflict, including by deploying troops on the ground, Moscow’s ambassador to London, Andrey Kelin, has said. · British involvement is deep and reflects a strategy…

Keir Starmer’s communications director has stepped down a day after the prime minister’s chief of staff resigned · FILE PHOTO. Larry the cat sits outside the front door of Number 10 in Downing Street in London, the UK. ©  Getty Images / Leon Neal · [RT] UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s director of communications, Tim Allan, has quit amid the continuing fallout linking a senior Labour Party figure to disgraced financier and…

For all the lives they ruined, the actual criminals have faced remarkably little in the way of retribution · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/robert-bridge/ · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/robert-bridge/ Robert Bridge is an American writer and journalist. He is the author of 'Midnight in the American Empire,' How Corporations and Their Political Servants are Destroying the American Dream. https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/robert-bridge/ ·…

The chance for peace between Moscow and Kiev was lost in 2022 due to the meddling of the then-British prime minister, Andrej Babis has said · FILE PHOTO. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Lviv, Ukraine. ©  Getty Images / Anadolu / Pavlo Palamarchuk · [RT] Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has accused former British leader Boris Johnson of derailing a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine early on in the…

The NATO members have opened diplomatic missions after US President Donald Trump renewed his push to acquire the autonomous Danish territory · Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand speaks to reporters after opening a consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, February 6, 2026. ©  Christinne Muschi / The Canadian Press via AP · [RT] Canada and France have established consulates in Greenland amid a rift between the US and other NATO member…

The Hungarian prime minister has slammed Kiev for pushing a ban on Russian energy · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest, January 5, 2026. ©  Janos Kummer / Getty Images · [RT] Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has branded Ukraine an “enemy” over its demands that Hungary stop buying Russian oil and gas. · Budapest has resisted the EU’s attempts to phase out Russian energy supplies as part of sanctions…

RT contributor and ex-US senatorial aide said the deletion of the Epstein files would be an obstruction of justice · The US Department of Justice (DOJ) attempted to shield former President Joe Biden by deleting an email referencing him from the Epstein files, former US Senate staffer and RT contributor Tara Reade has said. · Reade worked as a Senate aide for Biden in the early 1990s and has accused him of sexual assault. In 2023, she…

The attempted assassination of a high-ranking Russian general is an attempt to sabotage talks and extend the Kiev regime’s stay in power · By Nadezhda Romanenko, political analyst - Vladimir Zelensky ©  Pier Marco Tacca / Getty Image · [RT] The assassination attempt on Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, first deputy chief of Russia’s Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) is clearly the Zelensky regime’s latest desperate…

Will Lewis’ departure comes after the paper cut 30% of its staff while struggling to maintain readership · RT composite. ©  Matt McClain / The Washington Post via AP;  Andrew Harnik / Getty Images · Will Lewis has stepped down as CEO and publisher of the Washington Post, days after a sweeping round of layoffs that affected virtually every desk. In recent years, the paper has…

Sanae Takaichi will be able to push through a right-wing agenda now that the Liberal Democratic Party has a supermajority in the lower house · ©  Kim Kyung-Hoon / Getty Images · [RT] Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi scored a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections on Sunday. · With a two-thirds majority in the lower house, secured together with coalition partners,…