US data surveillance report hits Russian technology
News Yaps Data technology developed by Russia is fighting suspicion to compete in US markets, developers said, amid mushrooming revelations about secret US government data surveillance programmes. But that drive to win contracts has no motives other than making money in a free market and is not rooted in Russia’s track record of monitoring the [...]
Read More →Russia to sell at least 10 MiG fighters to Syria
AP Russia’s MiG aircraft maker said Friday it plans to sign a new agreement to ship at least 10 fighter jets to Syria, a move that comes amid international criticism of earlier Russian weapons deals with Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. MiG’s director general, Sergei Korotkov, said a Syrian delegation was in Moscow to discuss [...]
Read More →First S-300 air defense systems already in Syria – Assad
RT The first batch of S-300 air defense complexes has arrived in Syria, President Bashar Assad said in an interview to Lebanon Al-Manar. Assad also said that Syrian army is battling up to 100,000 foreign mercenaries. Assad revealed that the rest of the S-300 complexes previewed by a Russian-Syrian arms contract will be coming soon, [...]
Read More →Russian Scientists Discover Blood-Squirting Mammoth
By Anna Arutunyan | The Moscow News Scientists from the Siberian region of Yakutia have discovered the frozen remains of a mammoth with its blood and flesh still intact. Despite thousands of years in sub-zero temperatures, the blood did not freeze, scientists said this week, according to Monday’s report by the Vesti television channel. Scientists who [...]
Read More →Russian S-300 systems to materialize in Syria?
By Yuri Sosinski-Semikhat | Pravda.ru The events around Syria have clearly defined the balance of power on the international arena. The United States is very close to achieving its goals, the main one of which is to replace the current regime of President Assad. Israel, according to the press, was able to convince Russia to freeze [...]
Read More →Russia’s NATO to have its own Air Force
By Jacek Siminski | The Aviationist Taking into account the latest crisis events that include the Steadfast Jazz Exercise in Poland and the Zapad 2013 event, as well as simulated attack on Sweden, it is interesting that the Russian NATO counterpart, CSTO, is going to have own air force, as it was revealed by Russian documents last month. Collective Security [...]
Read More →Lithuania arrests Russian national on US warrant
Lithuanian security forces have detained a 46-year-old Russian national on the request of the US Department of Justice. Alexander Mamayev, consul general at the Russian embassy in Lithuania, has shared details in an interview to the Voice of Russia.
Read More →FSB foils terror plot: 2 militants ‘trained in Afghan-Pakistan region’ killed in Moscow manhunt
RT Two suspected terrorists were killed and one was arrested after Russia’s FSB foiled a terror attack in Moscow. The captured militant has been hospitalized with fractures and a gunshot wound, but is reportedly able to talk to investigators. “Our forceful actions prevented an attempted act of terror in the capital,” the National Anti-Terror Committee said [...]
Read More →Russian Med fleet returns – an unintended consequence
There was a lot of distraction in the news last week, particularly the flank attack moves on Obama that obscured a huge development in the Mid East… the first return of the Russian Pacific Navy for Mediterranean deployment since 1992.
Read More →Russian military to make inspection flights over US
IANS | Zee News A group of Russian military observers will carry out two inspection missions over the US under the Open Skies Treaty between May 19 and June 3, the Russian defence ministry said. The Russian inspectors, accompanied by US officials, will fly on board a Tupolev Tu-154 LK-1 plane from the Wright-Patterson Air [...]
Read More →Russia Sends More Advanced Missiles to Aid Assad in Syria
Russia has sent advanced antiship cruise missiles to Syria, a move that illustrates the depth of its support for the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad, American officials said Thursday.
Read More →Russian warships enter Mediterranean to form permanent task force
By RT The “Admiral Panteleyev” anti-submarine warfare ship of the Pacific Fleet (RIA Novosti/Vitaliy Ankov) Warships from Russia’s Pacific Fleet have entered the Mediterranean for the first time in decades. Russia’s Navy Chief says the task force may be reinforced with nuclear submarines, as the country starts building up a permanent fleet in the region. [...]
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