RT News - October 14th 2022

Russia's Belgorod region is attacked four times on Thursday with a massive blaze igniting in a local town, while air strike alerts sound in Ukraine as Moscow retaliates.

Saudi Arabia turns down Washington's pressure to delay its oil production cut, as Biden asks OPEC+ to keep pumping, ahead of upcoming midterm elections.

Update: Burkina Faso is set to announce a new leader, and people on the streets demonstrate in protest against Paris and its colonial legacy, wrecking a French Institute. We hear from the protesters.

Africa is vocal about who their beneficial partners are and refuse to accept dictates from the west.

Russia is planning a new gas transit route with/though Turkey (Turkiya).

Pres. Zelensky suggests that there is no world outside of the west, which accounts for less than 15% of the world's population but has 85 times more debt than the rest of the world combined.

: ? Josep Borrell says the EU is a garden and everywhere else is a jungle and that the jungle may invade the garden. (QueenStreet comment: Yesterday I couldn't find words for this and still can't today. Josep Borrell refers to the world outside of EU as a jungle and the EU as a garden. It's a very small private garden too as most British and Europeans can't find their way to it - wild....)

Aluminum prices spike by 7%, after reports that Washington considers banning metal imports from Russia, the third largest producer in the world.

Vovan and Lexus have been at it again, this time with Ukraine's Dmitry Kuleba. Recall when UK's Defence Minister said he would ask about nukes for Ukraine when he was also pranked.

Africa (Angola) is now in space! The latest communications satellite was launched yesterday from the Baikonur, (Kazakhstan) cosmodrome

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This report via RT was news to me and I found it troubling, so have posted for information as we are not likely to see this in the regular "approved" press in Europe or USA

------- "Stanford University hosts Azov neo-Nazis"

Russia reacts to platforming of Azov neo-Nazis by prestigious US university.

Members of the notorious far-right Ukrainian movement held an event addressing students at Stanford.

Russia’s ambassador to the US has rebuked the prestigious Stanford University for hosting an event, which featured fighters from the controversial Ukrainian Azov Battalion, a unit in which some members openly espouse neo-Nazi ideology.

“It would appear that in its maniacal drive to tarnish and cancel Russia, the US is prepared to glorify Nazism,” Anatoly Antonov told the media on Thursday.

On October 1, the university hosted several Azov representatives, including two former POWs recently released by Russia in a prisoner swap, according to images posted on social media and reports in the press. Michael McFaul, the former US ambassador to Russia and a vocal critic of Moscow, was also in attendance.

The Stanford Daily, the university’s student-run newspaper, claimed that Azov’s far-right connections were “historic” and based on online allegations. It also repeated claims by one of the guests, co-founder Giorgi Kuparashvili, that the group’s insignia is not derived from the Nazi Wolfsangel symbol but rather spells ‘N’ and ‘I’ for “national idea.”

The regiment has been rebranding its imagery over the years. In 2015, it phased out another Nazi symbol, the Black Sun, from its official logo, and is now reportedly in the process of replacing the Wolfsangel with three sword on patches.

Members of the group, including military service members, have a well-documented record of far-right ideology and links to similar-minded organizations around the world. Stanford University’s own Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISC) describes the Ukrainian organization as “a far-right nationalist network of military, paramilitary, and political organizations.” It says it is known for the “recruitment of far-right foreign fighters from the US, Russia, and Europe, as well as extensive transnational ties with other far-right organizations.”

The appearance at one of the most prestigious schools was just one of many stops of the group’s members in the US lately. A description of one of the previous events held in New Jersey said the organizers wanted to “dispel the Russian agitprop that the Azov regiment is Nazi” and raise funds for them. The term “neo-Nazi” was previously applied to the Ukrainian group by major Western news outlets, such as the New York Times.

via RT website https://www.rt.com/russia/564642-azov-delegation-stanford-university/