Poland's amended 'Law on De-Communization' has stepped into effect; over 200 monuments dedicated to the 600,000+ Red Army soldiers who died freeing the country from Nazism are set to be razed. Speaking to Sputnik, veteran Polish Solidarity activist Janusz Sanocki described the troubling wave of 'historical amnesia' sweeping his country.
Pope Francis will speak with the astronauts on board the International Space Station via video link, in the second ever call of its kind made by the head of the Catholic Church.
To some the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia still stands, a hundred years on, as the single most important emancipatory event in human history.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker recently said that the EU leaders consider the prospects of Turkey's accession to the bloc unlikely. A Turkish lawmaker and a political analyst have warned against putting pressure on Ankara and described its EU prospects as vague.
A scandal is brewing over WikiLeaks' alleged role in the defeat of Hillary Clinton in the 2016 US presidential election, as the organization posted over 19,000 emails apparently hacked from the Democratic National Committee as well as those belonging to the former chairman of Clinton's presidential campaign during the election run.
Scientists have found "Canada's first true monster" underneath the country's Arctic sea ice: the flat-headed species has eight hairy legs, one eye, no mouth, two furry antennae… and, perhaps fortunately, is only 2 millimeters long.
A year before the midterm elections, fault lines appear between establishment and populist wings in the two major parties as Sen. Flake announces his retirement and attacks Trump as “reckless”; and DNC Chair Tom Perez purges progressives from key committees.
Body Camera Report shows little change; Red-Baiting Black Activist in America; Efforts to end mandatory minimum sentences.
According to media reports, a train and a military truck collided in Raseborg, a city in Finland.
Harvey Weinstein is facing his latest allegation: actress Natassia Malthe claims the disgraced Hollywood producer raped her in 2008 following the BAFTA awards.
Amid the continuing frenzy in MSM (mainstream media) over Russia’s alleged attempts to meddle in US politics, a recent survey commissioned by Sputnik has revealed startling results.
The Iraqi military is poised and ready to deal a final blow to Daesh terrorists in the country.
On Wednesday, The US President Donald Trump said in a televised interview that the decent relations with Russia would likely reduce tensions around the Pyongyang's nuclear issue.
A powerful blast in the central Kiev's district, near the office of the private TV Broadcaster, has seriously wounded at least five persons and killed the bodyguard of the Parliament's Lawmaker. The Ukrainian authorities have specified the deadly incident as an act of "terrorism" and have launched an immediate investigation.
The incendiary Trump-Russia dossier, brimming with unverified claims that US President Donald Trump has acted as a puppet of the Kremlin for years, was revealed to be based on research funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Iraqi Kurdistan has announced that it will freeze the results of its recent independence referendum and sit down with Iraq’s central government to start negotiations, despite the overwhelming support that the independence initiative received during the vote. However, Baghdad still refuses to budge. What effects will the Kurdish move have?
Volcanologists on the island of La Palma, in the Canary Islands, are wondering whether the Cumbre Vieja volcano is about to erupt after 40 recent tremors took place over 15 hours this past weekend. If the volcano does erupt, it could trigger a tsunami.
Cuban officials have vociferously denied allegations that sonic attacks launched within their country resulted in mysterious ailments sustained by US diplomatic officials are anything more than “science fiction.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry has strongly criticized the attempts to distort Moscow's position on the extension of the Organization for the Protection of Chemical Weapons (UN-OPCW) probe into alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria.
On Tuesday, the US Air Force Academy announced that misconduct among its champion lacrosse team has resulted in the suspension of some of the team’s players and coaches.
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers attempting to end the US support for the widely condemned Saudi Arabian intervention in Yemen are now trying to fast-track a bill to that effect to a vote. The intervention, which has led to tens of thousands of civilian casualties, is presently directly supported by US fueling tankers and targeting intelligence.
The Russian Trade Representative in the United States Aleksander Stadnik told Sputnik on Wednesday that the business ties between Russia and the United States would not suffer from political provocations.
A new study adds more support to a hypothesis that has roots in Albert Einstein’s self-professed proclivity to daydream: that people who daydream tend to be more creative and intelligent.
“Okay, but do I at least get a treat for sitting through this?”
The main theater of the largest in the history of Russian Army's paratrooper maneuvers took place in the central regions of the country. According to the Russian military officials, special airborne forces, accompanied by the multi-purpose fighter-bombers SU-34 and SU-35, have exercised the massive offensive under highly difficult conditions.