Missiles fired at Russian plane with 200 passengers onboard flying over Syria
RT Two missiles were fired at a Russian passenger plane flying over Syrian territory with 200 people onboard, an informed source in Moscow told Interfax news agency. The source of the attack remains unknown. “Syrian [officials] informed us that on Monday morning, unidentified forces launched two ground-to-air missiles which exploded in the air very close [...]
Read More →Russia hails Hezbollah credibility
Deputy Russian Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov has hailed the credibility of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, saying Moscow will cooperate with the popular movement.
Read More →After Boston Bombings, Putin Calls for US-Russia Intelligence Sharing
By James Brooke | VOA Russian President Vladimir Putin has often complained that he battles alone against terrorism by Islamic extremists.Putin called on Washington and Moscow Thursday to share security information to fight terrorism. Putin said the need for unity was illustrated by the Boston bombings, which U.S. law enforcement authorities say were carried about by ethnic [...]
Read More →Corrupt Angola debt deal exposes EU tax havens
By Georgi Gotev | EurAktiv A newly published report on a corrupt deal for the repayment of the Angola debt to Russia in the early 1990s was presented in the European Parliament yesterday (23 April) as a vivid example of the plundering that can take place in developing nations with the complicity of European banks and tax havens. [...]
Read More →6 people, including 14yo girl, killed in Belgorod shooting; gunman at large
RT A gunman has opened fire near an arms shop in the Russian town of Belgorod, leaving six people dead and one injured. A 14-year-old girl is among those killed. About 2pm local time (10:00 GMT) the gunman drove up to a shop in a dark BMW X5. Getting out of the car, he opened [...]
Read More →Massive geyser erupts in Russian parking lot
By Michael Harley | AutoBlog Cameras in Russia seem to capture everything from fiery meteors to crazy crashes. The latest video comes from a camera mounted high above the main square in Smolensk, overlooking a busy parking lot on what appears to be a nice sunny day. It takes but seconds for a small cloud of steam, appearing harmless at [...]
Read More →Russians to simulate Mars colonization in US desert
By RT The Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in the San Rafael Swell, southern Utah (Image: mars-russia.ru) Team Russia is arriving in the US on Tuesday to join an international simulated Mars colonization project. Starting on April 20, a Russian crew of six will spend two weeks in conditions similar to those they can expect [...]
Read More →Putin Offers Help With Boston Bombings Investigation
RiaN Russian President Vladimir Putin offered Russia’s assistance on Tuesday in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three on Monday and left more than 140 injured. Putin sent a telegram to his US counterpart Barack Obama expressing his condolences, and said “Russia is ready to help the US authorities with their investigation [...]
Read More →Russia Bans 18 Americans in Human Rights Controversy
By Jack Kenny | New American The Russian government announced Saturday that 18 Americans, including former high-level officials of the George W. Bush administration, are banned from entering Russia, after the Obama administration imposed visa bans and asset freezes on the same number of Russians. Each country has claimed human rights violations as the reason for [...]
Read More →Georgia acknowledged launching war in 2008
By Anton Krivenyuk | Pravda.ru Prime Minister of Georgia Bidzina Ivanishvili admitted responsibility of Georgia for the outbreak of the war in August of 2008. He stated that the actions of the authorities of the country before crossing the border of Georgia by Russian forces were inadequate. This statement will have tangible consequences, first of all, [...]
Read More →Russia Ready to Step Up Fight Against China Bird Flu
RiaN Russia is preparing to enhance sanitary control measures in case the situation over the bird flu in China deteriorates, Russia’s chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko said on Sunday. “The World Health Organization (WHO) has not yet given recommendations for quarantine, and now we are not introducing prohibitive measures but we are just paying increased [...]
Read More →Soviet Spacecraft Possibly Spotted On Mars
By Melissa Stusinski | Inquisitr A Soviet spacecraft may have been spotted on Mars by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Space fans from Russia scanned NASA images to discover the spacecraft’s remains. The craft landed on Mars in 1971, but mysteriously stopped working. The craft, Mars 3, worked for just 15 seconds before it stopped communications. It [...]
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