BEVERLY HILLS – October 23, 2018 "Paid protesters are a real thing," writes the Los Angeles Times, after a lawsuit filed by a Czech investor against a business rival spotlighted the seedy, and very real business of people being hired to express fake outrage and support and everything in-between.  According to the lawsuit filed by Czech investor Zdenek Bakala, Prague investment manager Pavol Krupa hired the Beverly Hills company Crowds on Demand (COD) to bring protesters to march near his home in Hilton Head, SC, and to call and send emails to the Aspen Institute and Dart...

MOSCOW – October 23, 2018 National security adviser John Bolton answering a question over Syria, as well as cooperation on Idlib noted the importance of both issues. "The Treaty on Idlib holds, despite a large number of problems. As well as the situation in Syria, it's difficult: a lot of players, each with its own goals in confined spaces," Bolton said. "We believe that it should be paid more attention to these issues. In particular, we need to pay attention to the Iran behavior, which is behaving negatively both in Syria and throughout the Middle East." Bolton said al...

MOSCOW — October 23, 2018 The US National security adviser John Bolton announced that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet in Paris next month. It is expected that it will be on November 11 in connection with the 100th anniversary of the Armistice. Bolton, speaking to press conference after meeting with Putin in Moscow, said the details have yet to be worked out. "So we will make the precise arrangements on that but it will happen in connection with the 100th anniversary, the celebration of the Armistice that the French are hosting o...

Welcome one and all, young and old, to our USA Really daily podcast for October 23. This is where we give you a quick rundown of the news and analyses you can find on our site today, to whet your appetite a bit. Today we’ve got plenty of election news for you, but also a smattering of some other hot topics. And don’t forget about YOUR chance to win HEAPS OF CASH in our Global Democracy Award with your original works on the theme of the US government’s interference in other countries. If we like your submitted material, we just might publish it and toss a few thousand buck...

MOSCOW — October 23, 2018 President Donald Trump's national security adviser John Bolton said he thinks Russia's meddling in the 2016 US election didn't have any effect on the outcome and warned Russian officials that, from a "very cold-blooded cost-benefit ratio," interfering in the American electoral process is not worth the trouble. He also assured that the country currently doesn't feel threatened with interference in the upcoming midterm elections to the US Congress. "As you know, we are closely monitoring the situation, FBI Director Chris Ray said that now they do...

BABCOCK RANCH, FLORIDA – October 23, 2018 French-based transport firm Transdev has been ordered to stop an “unlawful” test of a driverless school bus in Florida by US regulators. According to the officials, the test was “irresponsible” and “inappropriate” and said Transdev had not been authorized to transport school children in Florida. In August, the firm said the fully electric shuttle for 12 people, which would operate with a safety attendant, had a top speed of 8 mph, with a potential of reaching 30 mph. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) sa...

Marcelo Sánchez with the new report on police brutality in the US.  

NEW YORK – October 23, 2018 A Russian draft law proposing limiting foreign ownership of news aggregators in Russia is justified, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, Reuters reported. Russian officials’ statement will weaken Yandex NV’s (NASDAQ: YNDX) position, potentially leading to new massive sellouts by U.S. and European hedge funds, repeating last week’s scenario of a few days of stock price declines, analysts warn. Shares in Russian search engine Yandex were down on Monday after a report that the government was proposing to limit foreign ownership in o...

USA – October 23, 2018 The Federal News Agency (FAN), based in Russia, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook Inc. in the Northern Californian Federal district court (San Francisco). The basis for the claim is the blocking of FAN’s Facebook account that took place on April 3, 2018, without any explanation. USA Really has also been targeted by Facebook and other American social media platforms numerous times. As a result of this sudden ban, the huge number of FAN subscribers and readers of news on this social network have been deprived of access to information provided by...