Moscow put enormous effort to end the Cold War, but the reward was frustrating - the West declared itself the only victor and neglected the Russians' perception of it, Mikhail Gorbachev admitted.

"The end of the Cold War was our common victory, but western politicians, and especially the US, declared themselves victors" Gorbachev told in a sit-down with Germany's Die Welt newspaper as he recalled the 1989 collapse of the Berlin wall - a milestone symbolic event that spelled end of the decades-long East-West divide and set hopes high about the future of their ties.

Laying groundwork for future cracks between Moscow and Western capitals, American and European leaders have never thought of "how it will be perceived in Russia," Gorbachev asserted, adding that Russians "have done so much to end the Cold War and the arms race."

Likewise, they also failed to anticipate how it will "affect politics and relations between Russia and the West," he lamented.

New Delhi will press Moscow to expedite the delivery of advanced S-400 anti-aircraft systems, according to Indian media. The request coincides with Defense Minister Rajnath Singh's 3-day visit to Russia.

India's acquisition of the high-tech military hardware is expected to be a top agenda item for Singh, who arrived in Moscow on Tuesday. India is set to procure five S-400s batteries as part of a $5.4bn deal.

A source familiar with the matter told the Times of India that New Delhi had been late to make its first payment for the systems, delaying delivery by several months. Russia has signaled that it will still try to stick to the original delivery schedule, but New Delhi hopes to expedite the process even further, the source said.

Singh will likely visit S-400 production facilities in St. Petersburg on Thursday - perhaps a reflection of New Delhi's impatience to receive the weapons. Upon arriving in Moscow, Singh addressed CEOs from the Russian defense industry and inaugurated the India-Russia Defense Industry Cooperation Conference.The new conference aims to promote technology transfer and investment between India and Russia's defense industries.

Washington has been vehemently opposed to the S-400 deal, and attempted to pressure New Delhi to drop the contract. However, India did not give in, and even worked with Moscow to develop a payment mechanism that could bypass US sanctions against Russian weapon sales.

Washington is up in arms over Tehran's decision to further scale back its commitments under the same nuclear deal that the US singlehandedly demolished last year, accusing Iran of "extorting" the international community.

The US State Department came out swinging after Iran's atomic energy authority confirmed it would begin enriching uranium at a five-percent level at its Fordow plant starting on Wednesday, continuing past the 3.67-percent cap set out by the nuclear deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

"Resuming uranium enrichment at this previously clandestine site is only the latest Iranian attempt to extort the international community."

The stepped-up enrichment activity - which would see uranium gas injected into Fordow's centrifuges - is part of an Iranian countermeasure to Washington's abrogation of the nuclear accord last year. As with other steps it has taken away from the deal, Tehran insists Wednesday's move is reversible, saying the ball is now in Europe's court to resist a raft of crippling secondary sanctions imposed by Washington.

Israeli forces raided a school in the village of Dahr al-Maleh in the West Bank, demolished its wall and confiscated a mobile container that was used as a cafeteria on Monday, the head of the village council told Middle East Eye.

Israeli forces stormed into the village at 6.30am, smashing through the gates of the primary school and breaking down its doors, Omar al-Khatib said.

The Dahr Al Maleh Elementary Mixed School, located south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, has been under constant threat of being demolished and has not been granted permission for any construction on its premises.

Due to the lack of space, parents donated a mobile container for the school to utilise as a cafeteria and kitchen, according to Khatib. Israeli troops confiscated tools, a refrigerator, gas stove, cleaning equipment and stationery, he said.

Three Republican lawmakers in three states, including Kentucky where elections will be held on Tuesday, are crafting legislation to protect children from controversial gender transition treatment such as puberty-blocking drugs or surgery.

Kentucky State Rep. Savannah Maddox (R) wrote in a recent Facebook post that she "began drafting a bill designed to protect children under the age of 18 from gender reassignment surgery or from receiving drug treatments designed to alter their natal gender."

"I am a strong advocate for parents' rights — but it is not the right of a parent to permanently alter a child's gender or identity, even when based upon certain behaviors or the perceptions of a child's mind which has not yet had time to fully develop," Maddox wrote.

Russia won't stop boosting its defensive capabilities with state-of-the-art weaponry, but it doesn't mean that it's going to threaten other countries with it, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said.

"Hypersonic, laser and other state-of-the-art weapon systems, which no other country possesses, will be put in service," Putin promised as he met with newly assigned military commanders and prosecutors at the Kremlin.

However, those futuristic arms "are no excuse for Russia to threaten anybody," he pointed out.

On the contrary, we are ready to do everything in our power to promote the disarmament process in view of our latest weapon systems, which are developed with the sole purpose of guaranteeing security in the face of growing threats we face.

Last year, Putin caused frenzy in the Western media by announcing a whole of new range of Russian weapons, including hypersonic and cruise missiles, lasers and underwater drones with nuclear-powered engines.

With the U.S. presidential cycle gearing up, Elizabeth Vos takes stock of lessons from 2016.

Establishment Democrats and those who amplify them continue to project blame for the public's doubt in the U.S. election process onto outside influence, despite the clear history of the party's subversion of election integrity. The total inability of the Democratic Party establishment's willingness to address even one of these critical failures does not give reason to hope that the nomination process in 2020 will be any less pre-ordained.

The Democratic Party's bias against Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 presidential nomination, followed by the DNC defense counsel doubling down on its right to rig the race during the fraud lawsuit brought against the DNC, as well as the irregularities in the races between former DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Tim Canova, indicate a fatal breakdown of the U.S. democratic process spearheaded by the Democratic Party establishment. Influences transcending the DNC add to concerns regarding the integrity of the democratic process that have nothing to do with Russia, but which will also likely impact outcomes in 2020.

The content of the DNC and Podesta emails published by WikiLeaks demonstrated that the DNC acted in favor of Hillary Clinton in the lead up to the 2016 Democratic primary. The emails also revealed corporate media reporters acting as surrogates of the DNC and its pro-Clinton agenda, going so far as to promote Donald Trump during the GOP primary process as a preferred "pied-piper candidate." One cannot assume that similar evidence will be presented to the public in 2020, making it more important than ever to take stock of the unique lessons handed down to us by the 2016 race.

Israel may not be Nazi, nor even a fascist state. Yet it is a member of the same terrible family, the family of evil states. Just consider these acts of evil perpetrated by the state...

After we've cited nationalism and racism, hatred and contempt for Arab life, the security cult and resistance to the occupation, victimhood and messianism, one more element must be added without which the behavior of the Israeli occupation regime cannot be explained: Evil. Pure evil. Sadistic evil. Evil for its own sake. Sometimes, it's the only explanation.

Eva Illouz described its signs ("Evil now," Haaretz, July 30). Her essay, which challenges the idea of the banality of evil, considers the national group as the source of the evil. Using philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's concept, she finds a "family resemblance" between the Israeli occupation and history's evil regimes. This similarity does not mean that Israel is Nazi, nor even fascist. And yet it is a member of the same terrible family, the family of evil states. It's a depressing and brilliant analysis.

The evil that Illouz attributes to Israel is not banal, it cannot happen anywhere, and it has political and social roots that are deeply embedded in Israeli society. Thus, Illouz joins Zeev Sternhell, who warned in his impressive and resounding essay about the cultural soil out of which fascism is now growing in Israel ("The birth of fascism," Haaretz Hebrew edition, July 7).

Andrew Yang is a peculiar candidate for the presidency; not only has he no previous political experience, but he has also placed great emphasis on issues that have been on the fringes of mainstream media political discourse usually examined by academics or YouTube personalities. It is a credit to him that topics like automation, the meaning and value of work, the concentration of elite talent in to narrow career paths, and of course, UBI, have had a chance to be touched upon during this campaign cycle.

Nonetheless, the most provocative aspect of the Yang campaign, and of the man himself, is the unusual tension between a technocratic emphasis on expertise and efficiency, and the populist rhetoric he uses to denounce remote elite enclaves, and to call for a revolution that, in the words of Bismarck, we undertake rather than undergo.¹ Yang views himself — or at least projects himself as — the people's technocrat. An expert that the average Joe can trust.

Yang as Technocrat

• Investigative reporter Ronan Farrow said Friday that the rape claim against former President Bill Clinton is credible and needs to be revisited.
• The Daily Caller News Foundation reached out to three of Clinton's accusers to ask for their thoughts on Farrow's commentary.
• Juanita Broaddrick, Leslie Millwee and Kathleen Willey, three of Clinton's accusers, are still hoping for justice and told the DCNF that having their story validated would be meaningful.

Former President Bill Clinton's accusers still want justice, they told the Daily Caller News Foundation after reporter Ronan Farrow said on Nov. 1 that the former president was "credibly accused of rape."

Farrow wrote the book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which is about NBC News's alleged attempts to silence his reporting surrounding sexual assault allegations against disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. He spoke on CBS's "Real Time with Bill Maher" on Nov. 1 and said Clinton's alleged victim Juanita Broaddrick "credibly" accused the former president of rape and that the accusation was "overdue for revisiting."

After the segment aired, three women who have accused Clinton of sexual assault — Broaddrick, Leslie Millwee and Kathleen Willey — talked to the DCNF, expressing their view on Farrow's comments and discussing how they are still hoping for justice.