Russia has deployed Iskander-M missile systems for the first time to Tajikistan in preparation for joint exercises.

According to the Russian news agency TASS, the commander of the troops of the Central Military District, Colonel General Vladimir Zarudnitsky, stated that the Iskander-M missile systems will carry out a combat launch at a hypothetical “terrorist” base camp in the mountains in the course of the combat exercises.

This will be the first time the Iskander missile systems will take …

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has declared five Moldovan diplomats in Moscow persona non grata and ordered them to leave the country within three days, as reported on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website.

On Wednesday, May 31st, the ministry summoned the minister-counselor of the Moldovan Embassy in Russia, Nikolae Miinea, and informed him that Moscow requires that five diplomats leave the country.

“Russia expresses hope that those in Chisinau realize the counterproductive nature of …

Russian frigate Admiral Essen and the submarine Krasnodar which are currently in the Mediterranean fired four Kalibr cruise missiles at Islamic State targets in the Syrian Palmyra region, as reported by the Russian Ministry of Defense.

All the missiles reportedly hit their targets. The strikes were directed at heavy equipment and troops brought over from Raqqa.

The Russian Ministry of Defense emphasized that the “commands of the US, Turkey and Israel were informed in good time about the …

Russia's Defense Ministry has prepared a bill obliging Russian military and foreign contractors to report their publications on the web, the document is available on the official draft regulations website.

"The extension of this requirement to servicemen or citizens (foreign nationals) entering into contracts for military service is similar to those defined for state civil servants, specifically, to submit to the federal executive body or federal state body where the federal law provides for …

The Japanese electrical equipment manufacturer Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv plans to open two more plants in Ukraine. The First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine and Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Stepan Kubiv posted the news on Facebook.

"We completed the meeting with Keidanren where we worked on Ukraine-Japan investment projects. Fujikura Automotive Ukraine Lviv plans to expand the work of the enterprise and increase the staff of employed workers from two thousand to three …

The Ukrainian audience on Facebook has grown by almost a 25% in the past two weeks adding 1.5 million users, as reported by Watcher online newspaper.

As of today, Facebook has 8.3 million Ukrainian users. According to the methodology established by the American social network, users are considered to be people who have been logged in and used the social network at least once within the last 30 days.

Over the past 8 years - since April 2009 – the Facebook audience in Ukraine has grown by 131 …

In an interview for Le Figaro, Russian President Vladimir Putin called NATO’s plans contradictory, since it is increasing military expenditure but simultaneously talking about a desire to establish relations with Russia.

“At the NATO summit there was talk that NATO wants to establish good relations with Russia. But why then are they increasing their military expenditure? Who are they intending to fight against? There are a couple of internal contradictions here,” Putin observed.

The Russian …

The President of Moldova, Igor Dodon, said at a press conference on Tuesday that he hopes that the country's Prime Minister, Pavel Filip, will resign after the decision to expel Russian diplomats from the republic.

"I hope that in the near future I will see other resignations (on Tuesday, Dodon signed four decrees on the resignation of other ministers - members of the Liberal Party of Moldova). Maybe the Prime Minister himself will leave because of what happened yesterday," Dodon stressed.

He …