The Guardian accidentally confirmed the suspicions of a whole lot of conspiracy theorists with an article suggesting a “global lockdown every two years” was needed to meet Paris climate goals. The title was quickly changed. If carbon dioxide emissions don’t drop by…

The BfV, Germany’s domestic intelligence service, cannot spy on the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party under the authority they have to fight extremism, a court has said in an emergency injunction. The decision by the Cologne Administrative Court was taken on Friday…

Russia’s largest internet companies are teaming up with the country’s government to introduce a new tax to hit the pockets of their international competitors and funnel cash directly into the domestic market. Representatives from Russian tech giants last week met with Deputy…

The company behind RT’s video agency Ruptly and RT DE Productions GmbH, which runs the German-language website and plans to launch a German-language TV channel, received a notice about their accounts being closed by Commerzbank. Ruptly GmbH and RT DE Productions GmbH…

House Democrats Pass Bill To Change American Voting Forever The House of Representatives in the late hours of March 3 passed a sweeping election reform bill that, if signed into law, would affect multiple aspects of the electoral process and campaign financing….

Mauldin: Everything Is Broken Authored by John Mauldin via MualdinEconomics.com, Broken lines, broken strings, Broken threads, broken springs, Broken idols, broken heads, People sleeping in broken beds —Bob Dylan, “Everything is Broken” from the album Oh Mercy, 1989 I was on a client…

So Much For A ‘National Healing’ Authored by Peter R. Quinones via The Libertarian Institute, We were told the nation was in desperate need of “healing” because a large portion of the population wanted Donald Trump to “lead” the country. And if…

“The Great Reset” wants to make the world unipolar again in order to move towards a globalist non-polarity, where the elites will become fully international and their residence will be dispersed throughout the entire space of the planet. This is why globalism…

German intelligence will tap the phones and spy on the members of Alternative für Deutschland opposition, but a senior party figure says if they can just have their message heard they will pick up even more votes. News that the German intelligence…

EU countries have the right to acquire vaccines independently if jabs aren’t part of the bloc’s centralized procurement strategy, a European Commission spokesman said when asked about the Russian and Chinese shots. Amid shortages of EU-approved Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca vaccines against…

Via The Babylon Bee NEW YORK, NY—Things have changed quite a bit in the world of Dr. Seuss, as six of his works have been pulled from publication, banned from sale on eBay, and eliminated from people’s minds using lobotomies to help…

“Unmistakable Message”: Top US Admiral Reveals Test Of China’s ‘Carrier Killer’ Ballistic Missile The top US commander over the Indo-Pacific region of operation has revealed new intelligence before a Senate panel on Tuesday that China’s military test launched an advanced anti-ship ballistic missile…

Japan Supercomputer Finds Double-Masking Doesn’t Work Many Americans are asking themselves: Is double making offering more protection against COVID-19 than a single mask?  To answer that question, we ask readers: Does anyone wear two condoms? The answer is probably no. But members of…

A sharp drop in Tesla’s share price this week has wiped some $27 billion from its CEO Elon Musk’s enormous fortune. The carmaker’s stock has been tumbling for four days in a row amid a wider tech sell-off. Tesla shares tumbled almost…

Better late than never? The European Union has begun an appraisal of the pioneering Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, developed by Moscow’s Gamaleya Institute, to determine whether the bloc will approve its use for immunizations. On Thursday, a statement on the European Medicines…

An organisation formed in 2020 to oppose school shutdowns amid the coronavirus pandemic has launched a new campaign calling on the government to reverse recommendations that masks should be worn in classrooms. In an open letter to Education Secretary Gavin Williamson on…

The dossiers open on Joe Biden’s desk are not only those of his newborn administration but also and above all those he inherited from those who preceded him, who is not the only Donald Trump. In fact, there are specific political lines…

Trump & Biden’s Secret Bombing Wars By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies, March 04 2021 Unbeknownst to many Americans, the U.S. military and its allies are engaged in bombing and killing people in other countries on a … The post Selected Articles: The…

The European Parliament has scrubbed plans for its vote on the post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and EU in protest against Boris Johnson’s unilateral decision to change parts of the Northern Ireland agreement, RTE reports. Leaders of Europe’s political groups met…

“Freedom Bracelet” Tracking Device Launched As Alternative To Quarantine Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Israel has rolled out what it is calling a ‘Freedom bracelet’, a tracking device that will serve as an alternative to a two-week quarantine for anyone…

Four orangutans and five bonobos at the San Diego Zoo have become the first non-human primates to be vaccinated against coronavirus, using an experimental drug originally intended for house pets. All nine apes received two doses of a shot developed by Zoetis,…

Xi Jinping Calls Out US As “Biggest Threat” To China’s Development & Security China is currently signaling the world that it has mapped out its post-COVID ascent, but crucially it is now openly naming the United States as its biggest global obstacle.  Though Beijing…

US Services Sector Jobs Slide As Input Prices Explode Higher After a mixed picture from US Manufacturing (PMI down, ISM up), expectations for February Services data were positive and Markit delivered with a better than expected 59.8 final print, but, we we…

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Thursday that it was investigating after two people inoculated from the same batch of AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine died from blood clotting and several countries stopped using the jabs. The inquiry comes after Iceland, Norway, Denmark,…

Bipartisan Senators Seek To Strip Biden Of War Powers Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk, At long last we see action to kill war power authorizations used by three presidents. Senators Go After Endless Wars In a long overdue effort Bipartisan Senators Introduce…

Total income in America jumped in January by 13 percent from a year ago to a record $21.5 trillion due to government stimulus checks, data showed. RT’s Keiser Report explores the economic aftermath. “For years we’ve been talking about QE and why…

Health Experts: Obesity Fuelling Vastly Higher COVID Death Toll Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Health experts have warned that there is a direct correlation between obesity and higher COVID-19 death tolls across the globe, findings that will not jive well…

Having a video of former US President Donald Trump’s speech at CPAC may get you warnings and a deletion from YouTube, but apparently only if you’re RT, as the platform seems to selectively apply its arbitrary and capricious rules. On Tuesday, RT…

US Sends Bombers From Norway In “Low Flyover” Of Baltics Near Russian Base Previously we detailed the Pentagon’s unprecedented move to park on an indefinite basis multiple B-1 Lancer bombers in Norway, and Russia’s corresponding (and expected) anger and denunciation of the move. The expeditionary…

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Tankers full of Iranian oil are reportedly causing a traffic jam at ports in China’s Shandong, as other countries are reluctant to snatch it up, wary of US sanctions. Congestion at one of China’s major refinery hubs was reportedly caused by soaring…

The UK government has been criticised by both the EU’s finance chief, Mairead McGuinness, and Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Coveney for a breach of trust over unilateral changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol. McGuinness and Coveney expressed their outrage over the breach…

Is Biden Reenlisting In The Forever Wars? Authored by Pat Buchanan via Buchanan.org, Thursday, in its first military action, the Biden Pentagon sent two U.S. F-15Es to strike targets of Kataib Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Iraqi militia just inside the eastern border of…

Moscow sees the closure of RT-affiliated companies’ accounts by a German bank as “political pressure” on Russia and will react in kind if the work of the Russian media in Germany is impeded, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. “We consider such an…

It’s common for Western observers to dismiss the emerging strategic partnership between Russia and China as merely a “marriage of convenience” and a union excessively reliant on shared opposition to US foreign policy ambitions. Russia and China: Strategic partnership or a marriage…

“No Interest In Sticking Around” – Manhattan Luxury Homeowners Sell Properties At loss   Manhattan’s luxury condo frenzy petered out a few years ago. Owners are taking realized losses as they offload properties at steep losses.  A prime example of this is the pending…

Muhammad Taimur Fahad Khan, research Associate & Media Officer at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), deals with matters of foreign policy, Russia and its neighborhoods. – You research at Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad (ISSI), so in your opinion, what is…

The Global Inflation Nightmare That You Have Been Warned About Is Here Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, If you thought that authorities all over the planet could print, borrow and spend money like there was no tomorrow without any consequences, you…

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate the “domestic terrorism” at the heart of the US Capitol riot has been “metastasizing” for years, but there is no evidence of involvement from Antifa or fake Donald Trump supporters. In a Tuesday hearing in…

Russia and the EU may be at a low point in their relationship, but the natural interests of both sides require improving them regardless of existing differences, Russia’s top envoy to the union told RT. “I believe we have no other option,…

Majority Of Germans Favor Easing COVID-19 Restrictions Earlier this week, Germans were finally able to enjoy an ever so slight loosening of COVID-19 restrictions which allowed many people to dash out for badly-needed haircuts. However, as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, further relaxations are set…

Sweden Moves To Protect Academic Freedom After Prof Quits COVID Research Due To Harassment Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have been discussing erosion of free speech and academic freedom protections at colleges and universities around the United States. Most faculty have been…

More Power Defaults As Texas Energy Crisis Widens; ERCOT Releases Short List  We’re starting to get a better understanding of the Texas credit crisis involving power companies operating on the state’s power grid following the Arctic blast and severe winter storms that pounded the area last…

Political campaign groups in Russia that receive funding from abroad don’t have the country’s best interests at heart, Moscow’s Foreign Ministry has complained, arguing that they really exist to serve foreign states instead. Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told listeners to the Moscow Says…

Supreme Court Tosses Trump’s Last Election Appeals The US Supreme Court on Monday tossed the last of three cases brought by former President Donald Trump challenging his 2020 election loss, ending his quest for vindication through the courts – hardly any of…

Big tech’s influence over government has only grown between the last two election cycles. Facebook and Amazon now outspend the largest tobacco and oil giants when it comes to buying political favor, a new report states. Facebook and Amazon are now the…

Japan Asks China To Stop Performing Anal Swabs On Its Citizens Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Tokyo has asked Beijing to stop performing COVID-19 anal swabs on its citizens after complaints that the procedure causes “psychological pain.” “Some Japanese…

National Guard DC Deployment To Last Two More Months About half of the National Guardsmen deployed in Washington DC will remain at the US Capitol through May 23, the Pentagon announced Thursday evening. At the direction of Defense Secretary and Raytheon board…

UK Tax Burden To Hit Highest Level Since The ’60s The Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts published this week, to accompany Rishi Sunak’s 2021 Budget announcement, revealed a number of headline-worthy statistics. As Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, UK borrowing is at the highest rate…

Japan’s Well-Fed Zombie Corporations Authored by Gunther Schnabl and Taiki Murai via The Mises Institute, The corona crisis has intensified the discussion about the zombification of the economy; enterprises have become more dependent on government bailouts, loans, subsidies, short-time working benefits, and…

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has filed a criminal complaint in Germany accusing Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-ranking Saudi officials of committing crimes against humanity. On Monday evening, RSF published a press release confirming they had filed a 500-page complaint…

Washington’s punitive measures against Moscow have failed to change Russian policies and new sanctions won’t work either, according to Economic Update host, Professor Richard Wolff. Earlier this week, the US hit Russian officials and businesses with sanctions over the imprisonment and alleged…

The idea of becoming successful is the ultimate evil in the Ghetto. It is this mindset that results in people in the Ghetto shaming others from childhood into making sure they never even try to leave. Generally, when reading material of an…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party has quit the European People’s Party (EPP) group in the European Parliament after EU MEPs voted in favor of a motion that would pave the way for Orban’s party to be excluded. “I hereby inform…

To Defend Conservative Media, GOP Must Defend The Constitution Authored by Rick Santorum via RealClear Politics (emphasis ours), Republicans have long understood that the modern Democratic Party has little patience for free expression. Leftist speech police shut down debate on college campuses;…

A 50-year-old man died by hanging from a tree near one of the main farmer protest sites on the outskirts of the Indian capital Delhi. He reportedly left a note blaming the government for his actions. Tens of thousands of farmers from…

The idea that there needs to be a ministry to make certain ethnic groups feel a greater sense of equality is of course a red flag. Hearing the idea of a “Ministry of Social Cohesion” was quite exciting for someone who writes…

Canada’s Quarantine Hotels Backfire As People Starved A couple of weeks ago, the Canadian government introduced a new set of rules forcing international air travelers to quarantine in hotels for three days upon arrival; the plan has since backfired, “after a series of…

The mutually reinforcing crises aren’t in the future, they’re here now, and Jay Powell’s shuck-and-jive has lost its magical powers to cloak the rot with speculative bubbles. How many more times do we have to watch Jay Powell claim his speculative bubble…

Homosexuality Can Be Deemed ‘Mental Disorder’ In China, Says New Court Ruling After the Chinese Communist government previously decriminalized homosexuality in 1997 and removed it from the country’s official list of things deemed mental disorders in 2001, a major court decision in…

With the creation of man and the beginning of life, a great test awaited the children of Adam. At present, humanity is under such a test. The essence of testing is that a person should not commit sins in this world and…

China says they made a mistake when they performed an invasive method of CCP virus testing on American diplomats. President Joe Biden says it’s important to work with communist China on climate change. But carbon emissions data suggests the regime may not…

Cooperation between Russia and Iraq in the oil sector is “very active” in spite of all the restrictions and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. Novak, who previously served as Russia’s energy minister, met…

John Brennan, the former CIA director and perjurer who’s now an MSNBC contributor, apparently found a point on which he and his conservative critics can agree: Both sides are ashamed that he’s a white male. Responding to an MSNBC discussion Monday about…

The Quality Of Life In The United States Is Going Down The Toilet Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com, Is the quality of life in America getting better, or is it getting worse?  Americans certainly have a lot more “money” than they…

Rickards: The Great Reset Is Here Authored by James Rickards via The Daily Reckoning, The Bretton Woods conference of 1944 set the global financial system that still prevails today. The period 1969-1971 can be regarded as the First Reset, which involved the…

Check back for our regular updates on U.S. unemployment and billionaire wealth during the pandemic emergency. By Chuck COLLINS February 24, 2021 Update: US Billionaire Wealth Grows $1.3 trillion Since Mid-March 2020. As the US crosses the threshold of half a million deaths…

The governor of Zamfara state has said that all 279 girls who were abducted from the Government Girls’ Science Secondary School (GGSS) in Jangebe last Friday have been released by their captors, largely unharmed. “Alhamdulillah! It gladdens my heart to announce the…

“A New World Altogether” – Global Airlines Set To “Go Live In March” With COVID ‘Passports’  Imagine a world where the ability to travel on a commercial airliner depends on passing a COVID-19 test or taking a vaccine. If a traveler tests…

Deloitte will pay Malaysia’s government $80 million to resolve all claims related to its auditing of accounts of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB and its unit SRC International from 2011 to 2014. The Finance Ministry said on Wednesday that “The successful out-of-court settlement…

The Syrian government denounced the US airstrike on the border with Iraq as an act of aggression contrary to international law, as President Joe Biden told reporters he ordered the strike as a warning to Iran. “The Syrian Arab Republic condemns in…

At least five people were arrested, two cars incinerated, one police car damaged, as street furniture and public bins were also destroyed, in the third consecutive night of violence in the French city of Lyon. After incidents in the Alagniers district on…

Nice words, you might think. Who doesn‘t want to have a better world? Nearly everybody, I guess, but the same elites who made the plans at the WEF and other institutions are to blame for the world they created: a world with…

Alphabet subsidiary Google has pledged it will ditch the third-party cookie-based model of online advertising – and promised not to invent something similar that would allow it to keep slurping up the same kind of data. Google is serious about moving away…

Those betting on GameStop stock’s price decline, or short-sellers, lost around $1.9 billion in just two days as the Reddit crowd’s favorite “meme stock” renewed its enormous rally. Shares of the video game retailer skyrocketed over 100 percent on Wednesday, with the…

The Canadian espionage agency used a quote from ‘A Perfect Spy’, a novel about a double-agent who betrayed his country, in a Twitter recruitment ad, raising questions about its own ‘intelligence’. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) drew many bemused and sarcastic…

Hong Kong Authorities Probe Death Of Man Who Received Covid-19 Vaccine Hong Kong’s health authority is investigating whether the death of a 63-old man is related to inoculation with the Covid-19 vaccine, it said in a statement late Tuesday. The Department of…

This enchanted world is just peeping from under the Soviet shells, and grabbed her creative intuition Yuri Mamleev, brought clean water, fixing realistic in his stories and novels, not what people thought, but what is. This enchanted world is just peeping from…

Russia & West Trade Blame For Vaccine ‘Price Gouging’ & Exploitation Of Africa Westerners bringing ‘benefits’ to the African continent has long been met with deep suspicion and even hostility from local Africans, given the colonial legacy stemming especially from the 19th century…

Australian lawmakers finally passed a hotly-debated law that forces tech giants to pay publishers for their content, potentially setting the stage for similar legal action in other countries. The final version of the law won approval only after some last-minute amendments that…

Stefan Halper’s Role In Crossfire Hurricane More Significant Than Previously Known Authored by Jeff Carlson via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Newly released FBI documents shed light on two meetings between FBI Agent Stephen Somma and FBI source Stefan Halper, providing further…

President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed that he will “immediately” demand that US troops leave the Philippines if Washington ever attempts to place its nuclear weapons in the Southeast Asian country. While there appear to have been no recent statements from American officials…

Deutsche Bank: Central Banks Simply Can’t Afford Higher Rates With Global Debt So High By Jim Reid, chief credit strategist at Deutsche Bank My theme this year has been that it’s going to be very complicated for financial markets with volatility high….

Arizona is recommending teachers to promote ‘equity’ and social justice through an “antiracist” agenda that sees racism in toddlers and recommends progressive and Black Lives Matter materials as the cure. An “equity and diversity” toolkit for teachers, parents and administrators posted by the…

Commentary Do 36 Democrat House members calling for Joe Biden to relinquish sole authority over the nuclear code know something we don’t know? Not in the slightest! The idea of a man who couldn’t remember what state he is in (figuratively and…

Escape Hatches: Migration, Bitcoin, & The Ability To Get Out Authored by Joakim Book via The American Institute for Economic Research, For decades, those of us skeptical of our central banks’ monetary experiments have tried to punish them for their excesses –…

The Biden administration has taken a popular meme and mutilated it, leaving what appears to be praise for Canada’s Justin Trudeau but which was hard to understand either way. Biden’s White House Twitter account posted two images in a row captioned “How…

Ditch The Afghanistan Experts Authored by Daniel L. Davis via RealClear World (emphasis ours), U.S. President Joe Biden is coming under heavy pressure to abandon the May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Afghanistan. The push to move the deadline might come from…

US President Joe Biden said he would be “happy” to field live questions at the tail-end of a virtual event, but was swiftly cut off when the White House inexplicably dropped the video feed, leaving some viewers bewildered. “I’d be happy to…

Goldman Sachs Says Urban Flight To Last For Years  Goldman Sachs expects the exodus from cities to weigh on shelter inflation. Goldman’s Jan Hatzius told clients that it could take years for urban vacancies to normalize.  Hatzius’ note, titled “Inflation Signal, Healthcare Noise…

Iran’s Revenge? At Least 10 Rockets Slam Into US Base In Iraq There’s yet more significant escalation in Iraq as it appears pro-Iranian militia forces may have ‘hit back’ in a potential retaliation strike against US forces, as the Pentagon has confirmed at…

The biggest tyrant and fraud in the medical field, Dr. Anthony Fauci is now saying once people get fully vaccinated, they still need to avoid restaurant dining indoors and going to the movies. He said it will be safer to gather indoors…

“Tyranny is trying to tread into somebody’s mind to distort it and to form it to reflect what you think is good,” says Arthur Milikh. Milikh, the Executive Director of the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, argues that…

Is Coca Cola sponsoring racism? That’s the claim. You be the judge. Is Coca Cola sponsoring racism? That’s the claim. You be the judge. Read More

BofA “Sell” Signal Triggered Any Moment… The Last This Happened Time Was June 2007 Back in mid-December, when stocks were melting up furiously daily amid unprecedented retail euphoria, which would only get crazier and crazier until eventually it forced Citi to use…

Nearly 400 Twitter accounts have been shut down in the latest Silicon Valley banning spree over allegations many are linked to Moscow and work to discredit a US-led military grouping that stages war-games on the country’s border. On Tuesday, Russian media reported…

Escobar: The Art Of Being A Spectacularly Misguided Oracle Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, The late Dr. Zbig “Grand Chessboard” Brzezinski for some time dispensed wisdom as an oracle of US foreign policy, side by side with the perennial…

The Idea Of Secession Isn’t Going Away Authored by José Niño via The Mises Institute, Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible…

Was Trump ‘The Mule’? Authored by Jim Quinn via The Bunring Platform blog, “Excellence, he is known as the Mule. He is spoken of little, in a factual sense, but I have gathered the scraps and fragments of knowledge and winnowed out…

The operator of a chain of holiday camps in the UK has admitted it racially discriminated against Irish guests by trying to exclude Travellers or Gypsies from using their facilities, and kept a blacklist of Irish family names. Pontins, which operates six…

“Herd Immunity By August,” Russian Deputy PM Golikova Predicts After months of a ‘dark COVID’ winter in Russia, a top official projects herd immunity could be achieved by the end of summer.  Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova told TASS News Tuesday that government numbers…

Riyadh has rejected the US intelligence report blaming Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as “abusive and incorrect,” even as the Kingdom is unlikely to face serious punishment. “The Kingdom’s government categorically rejects the abusive…

The founder of a front group for the Chinese Communist Party appeared at an event at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in May 2016, where he pushed a pro-Beijing argument regarding a decades-long stalemate over control of the South China Sea….

India’s newspapers have joined the offensive against Google, urging it to raise the ad revenue share for publishers to 85 percent. The tech giant has recently faced demands to pay local outlets for news in multiple countries. The bold demand was produced…

Russia Says Jihadists Are Planning “Simulated” Chemical Attack In Idlib To Get Biden’s Attention In what feels like a throwback scenario to 2017 which marked the first time Trump bombed Syria over al-Qaeda’s unverified claims of a government chemical attack on a “rebel”-held…

More people in Iceland than in most countries are politically conscious and motivated to take on corruption in politics and business in Iceland than in most countries, Ron Ridenour writes. We all can learn from the Icelandic people, from their sense of…

Rocket Attack Targets US Embassy In Baghdad A Week After Deadly Erbil Assault Regional Mideast news sources are reporting a fresh rocket attack on Baghdad’s Green Zone on Monday. Explosions near the US Embassy have been reported “At least 3 Rockets target…

Boris Johnson Outlines UK ‘Roadmap’ To End Lockdowns PM Boris Johnson laid out his process for reopening the British economy on Monday morning, releasing a detailed plan that had been in part leaked over the weekend. In the UK, vaccines appear to…

27% Of All Household Income In The US Now Comes From The Government Following today’s release of the latest Personal Income and Spending data, Wall Street was predictably focused on the changes in these two key series, which showed a surge in…

Students Demand Removal Of George Washington Statue… At University Of Washington Authored by Angela Morabito via Campus Reform, The University of Washington’s Black Student Union has garnered nearly 8,000 signatures on a petition that demands the school remove a statue of George Washington, the…

The World Economic Forum, globalist champion of the Great Reset, has ruffled feathers online with an “out-of-touch” tweet how Covid-19 lockdowns are “quietly improving cities” across the globe. A video accompanying the Friday tweet by the WEF shows images of deserted streets,…

The Russian government could achieve its goal of de-dollarizing the economy by taking one simple step: dropping the tax it currently charges its citizens for the purchase of physical gold, an economist has said. Russian citizens would get rid of their dollar…