The former Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (LPR), Igor Girkin (Strelkov), strongly criticized the head of the unrecognized LPR (Luhansk People's Republic), Igor Plotnitsky, as written on Strelkov's  Vkontakte (Russian social media network) page. According to Strelkov, it is unknown whether there really was a coup in the LPR or whether Igor Plotnisky got all possible opponents in the so-called elections out of the race.

“Only one thing is clear; the …

On the 28th of September, TASS reported that a large-scale check of military police and military traffic police began in the Western Military District. It involves more than a thousand people, according to the chief of the press-service of the region, Igor Muginov.

"More than one thousand soldiers and more than 300 units of military and special equipment of the military police and military traffic police of the Western Military District are undergoing control inspection for 2016. Each unit of …

Malaysia Airline’s Flight MH17 may have crashed due to an operator error of the Buk anti-aircraft. This was reported by the adviser to the chief designer of Russia's state-owned Almaz-Antey, Mikhail Malyshevsky.

According to him, the probability of a Buk missile system operator’s error cannot be ruled out.

“There may be a lot of different reasons for this. It could have happened due to poor crew training, or some wrong baseline data, possibly even some tragic mistakes. For example, a …