On September 9, two patrol aircraft from the US Navy P-8A Poseidon approached the coast of the Crimea three hours apart from each other. This was reported by Interfax, referring to websites that track the movement of military aircraft.

They took off on Friday from the Italian airbase Sigonella, and the last of the planes is currently performing the task over the Black Sea near the Russian borders and the Crimea.

Poseidon’s route runs through Greek and Bulgarian airspace to the area west of …

A Topol mobile intercontinental ballistic missile equipped with new technology was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk Oblast of Russia, according to a statement released by representatives of the Russian Defense Ministry’s Department of Information.

As noted in the statement, the experimental missile accurately hit the target at the Kura Missile Test Range in Kamchatka. The launch aimed to confirm the tactical and technical specifications of the missile and also to show …

The Russian food embargo imposed in 2014 in response to Western sanctions did not cause significant damage to countries in the European Union. Experts from the Gaidar Institute, RANEPA (Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) and the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry for Economic Development of the Russian Federation all arrived at the same conclusion after having analyzed the Eurostat data and the United Nations Comtrade database.

The biggest …