I have also been asking questions publicly for years about the role that outside contractors played in the interrogation program and I hope the American people will soon get some answers to those questions. I urge the administration to move quickly to declassify this report.

The ISS crew includes Russian cosmonauts, Mikhail Tyurin, Aleksander Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev, and NASA astronauts, Rick Mastracchio and Steve Swanson, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata. With a now-defunct shuttle programs, NASA‘s only way of getting humans into space is via Russian-powered rockets.

Announcing the suspension of cooperation with Roscosmos, the US space agency said it intended to complete the development of an own spaceship as soon as possible to eliminate „the dependence on Russia“ to carry American astronauts to the ISS. If the Congress does not provide funds, the United States will continue to transfer millions of dollars to Russia, NASA warns. The statement was so depressing that it was hard to believe, Oberg said.

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On the 65th anniversary of NATO, the debate over the organization’s expansion remains highly contentious, with some viewing it as a broken promise to Russia after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

NATO, an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty, was signed on April 4, 1949 when the US, Canada, Portugal, Italy, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland joined the members of the Treaty of Brussels to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Washington has prepared a 1 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine. But former US presidential candidate Ron Paul tells RT the cash would be better spent elsewhere.

Russlands Außenminister Sergej Lawrow und seine moldawische Amtskollegin Natalia Gherman haben am Freitag in Moskau über die Beilegung des Transnistrien-Problems im Hinblick auf die jüngste Entwicklung in der Ukraine gesprochen. Das teilte das russische Außenamt nach der Unterredung mit.

“The topics run the gamut from political and intelligence topics, but also propaganda, military, and so forth. But in the process of reviewing thousands of documents from State, the Defense Department, the Intelligence Community, and even NATO archives, the underlying stories that demonstrated the human spirit in the shadow of major world events were eventually revealed to us,” he added.

The declassified documents showcase the struggle for freedom from specifically 1961 to 1989, and include vignettes highlighting the visits to Berlin of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, as well as the personal tragedies and triumphs of key individuals who, for example, either escaped or helped others to escape the oppressive Soviet-dominated East Berlin. According to Dr. Harrison, the documents also demonstrate the use of propaganda and the media by both sides as part of a continuing psychological war.