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45 percent of Norwegians consider Russia to be a serious threat to their country
Almost half of Norwegians think that Russia and its President, Vladimir Putin, are a serious threat to their country, as shown in the results of an Ipsos poll conducted for Dagbladet, Norwegian channel TV2 reported.
In particular, 1,000 people answered the question "to what extent does Russia and its President pose a real threat to the security of Norway?" 8% of respondents answered that the threat is very significant and 37% said it is significant.
44% of respondents believe that the threat …
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Russia allocated nearly $1 billion for propaganda in 2016
According to Forbes, Russia allocated nearly 61 billion rubles ($900 million) from their 2016 budget towards propagandist media. This makes the state the largest donor of the Russian media market.
This amount was received by both state-owned and private media organizations. Approximately 60% to 70% of the money is obtained in the form of subsidies. The rest of the funds are distributed between newspapers, magazines and TV channels once they win tenders for the placement of informational …
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Moscow offers to exchange 13 US prisoners for Russian pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko
Russia made an offer to the United States to exchange pilot Konstantin Yaroshenko, who is serving his sentence in an American prison, for 13 U.S. citizens convicted in Russia. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry refused to disclose the details of the proposal to exchange the prisoners.
Izvestia newspaper stated that this was reported to Yaroshenko’s mother via Russian President Putin’s administrative offices. The Russian Foreign Ministry has already confirmed to RIA Novosti news that such a …
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Ukrainian Intelligence: Russia could use Crimea to launch a nuclear attack on Europe
The representative of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine, Vadim Skibitsky, announced on Hromadske Radio on August 2nd that the Crimea could become an outpost from which Russia could conduct nuclear strikes on Europe.
According Skibitsky, the Russian Black Sea Fleet annually trains on the use of nuclear weapons. He says that they are currently carrying out intensive retrofitting the fleet with new submarines, frigates, aircraft and other types of military …
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Russia adds Wikisource to list of banned websites
Russia's Federal Service for Supervision in the Sphere of Telecom, Information Technologies and Mass Communications, Roskomnadzor, found a page with "extremist text" on Wikisource (the electronic library of the fund Wikimedia.ru), as reported in the fund’s press release. The publication in question is “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” According to Roskomnadzor,based on the decision of the Lenin District Court of Orenburg of July 26, 2010, the website was determined to have extremist …
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Claim of Naftogaz and Gazprom in Stockholm exceeds $65 billion
The next court hearing is scheduled in autumn.
The total amount of the claim between the National Joint-Stock Company, Naftogaz of Ukraine, and the Public Joint Stock Company, Gazprom in the Stockholm Arbitrage Court has exceeded 65 billion dollars, as Naftogaz reports on its Facebook page.
According to the statement, the amount of Naftogaz’s claim on the contracts for the purchase, sale and transit of natural gas amounts to more than 26.6 billion dollars.
In turn, the amount of the …
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In planning for military development, Russia will take into account US project to modernize nuclear weapons
Russia will factor into their military planning the US decision to start production on a modernized nuclear bomb in 2020, the head of the State Duma Defense Committee and former Black Sea Fleet Commander, Admiral Vladimir Komoedov, told Interfax.“I think, of course, we will take this into account in military planning,” he said.On Tuesday, there was news that the US National Nuclear Security Administration has begun preparations for the production of a new modernized nuclear bomb, the B61-12. …
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Kerch Strait Bridge project is falling behind schedule
The construction of the railway approaches to the Kerch Strait Bridge from Crimean side is six months behind schedule because officials forgot to identify the project’s customer in official reports.
According to Forbes, the construction did not start because the state customer for this type of work wasn't identified in the federal targeted program on the development of Crimea and Sevastopol. The approaches must connect the railway part of the bridge with the railway network of Crimea. It will …
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Experts: Russia's economic recession affects all sectors
Russia is experiencing a recession this year, so it is too early to speak about the recovery of the economic activity of the country, according to the experts at Russia's National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), RBC reports.
The report states that the compression process of the economy was a "broad front" and has affected all sectors (except for wholesale trade) and, as a result, "the economy has not only reached the previous low, but has gone below it."
Experts note …
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Russia announces that new laser weapons have been developed and tested
Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Yuriy Borisov claimed that the Russian army has already adopted a number of different types of laser weapons, equipping themselves with weapons based on new principles of physics.
According to the Russian media, Borisov spoke at the event marking the 70th anniversary of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics. The Deputy Minister said these are not exotic devices or prototypes, but models that have already passed the testing …