Contents tagged with Russia
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Media: Russian military headquarters blown up in Syria
At least seven Russian military personnel died as a result of the explosion at the headquarters of the Russian troops near Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria, reported EBAA news outlet.
"Seven Russian military, as well as representatives of the Syrian regime, were killed on Friday after an explosive device was detonated at the headquarters of the Russian troops in the Criminal Court building north of the Panorama junction on the Deir ez-Zor-Damascus road," EBAA writes.
It is noted that the Russians …
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Belgian airline drops Russian Sukhoi Superjets from its fleet
The Belgian air company Brussels Airlines expressed its disappointment with their Russian planes. The company leases SSJ-100 Sukhoi Superjets in a contract that expires on March 2019, but they are already replacing them with Canadian CRJ-900 Bombardier, reported the newspaper L’Echo.
According to L’Echo, the airline cancelled several flights because of operational issues with the Russian planes. The airline also complained about the lack of maintenance manuals properly translated from Russian. …
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Russia plans to create ‘cyber squads’
Russia considers creating “cyber squads” that should help law enforcement officials to search for extremist materials on the Internet, reported the website Roskomsvoboda.
The authors of the relevant draft law are deputies of the Russian State Duma from the party United Russia. According to their idea, "cyber squads" should be volunteer social organizations which would be created by Russians and would be staffed with only Russian citizens who have reached the age of 18.
The project’s goal is “ …
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Journalist who wrote about Russian private military companies arrested in Moscow
A court in Moscow arrested Russian military expert Vladimir Neyelov on suspicion of high treason, reports TASS. The expert wrote several articles on the activities of Russian private military companies.
Neyelov, who is held in the Lefortovo detention facility, worked with the "Center of Strategic Conjunctures” and specialized in the activities of private military companies.
Russian media have repeatedly reported about the "the private military company the Wagner group", which, according to …
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Kremlin: Russia to conduct exercises in the Mediterranean on permanent basis
Large-scale navy and air forces exercises "Ocean Shield" will be held on a permanent basis, said the Russian Defense Minister and General of the Army Sergey Shoygu during the conference call on Friday.
In 2018, the joint exercises “Ocean Shield” were held in the Mediterranean for the first time in the modern history of Russia.
"Such exercises will be conducted on a permanent basis," said Shoygu. He stressed that "a large inter-fleet naval group that was created in the Mediterranean is capable …
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Ukraine detains a large Russian cargo ship in the port of Mariupol
Ukraine has detained more than 3 thousand tons of products of the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant, located on the territory of the Donbas, which is not controlled by Ukraine, stated the Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko on Facebook.
“This is our response to sanctions. In the port of Mariupol, more than 3 tons of products of the Alchevsk Metallurgical Plant, which is under the occupants’ control, were captured. The products were being transported by a ship under the flag of Liberia …
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Medvedev issues a decree to protect Russian companies from sanctions
In a governmental decree published on the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered measures to alleviate the negative influence of retaliatory sanctions against Russian companies.
“The Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Economic Development should ensure a balance of commodity markets and eliminate the negative influence of the special economic sanctions on the activities of Russian organizations,” the document stated.
The new …
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Russia: Ukraine ‘went too far’ with unfriendly steps
The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova stated at a press briefing that Ukrainian authorities went too far with their unfriendly steps and provoked retaliatory steps from Russia, TASS reports.
“Russia restrained itself for a long time in order not to take such measures, but the current Kyiv regime went too far, and we cannot ignore such unfriendly steps,” she explained. When asked about a possible negative reaction from the west, Zakharova said, “People …
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New russian MC-21 airliner 50% more expensive than Elon Musk rockets
The project to develop the mid-range MC-21 aircraft, included in the Russian government’s innovative rebuilding of the economy plan in 2008, has become 130% more expensive over the course of its existence, reports finanz.ru.
The completion deadline was missed, and instead of two models, a 300 and a 400, the project was downsized to one, according to a report published by Russia’s Accounts Chamber on Thursday.
During the course of the project, the time needed to develop the plane grew to three …
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Germany and France accuse Russia of the OSCE drone disappearance
According to Ukrinform, Germany and France, as Normandy format participants strongly condemned the downing of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission drone in Eastern Ukraine on October 27 and accused Russia of being responsible for it.
A joint statement by the two countries in the OSCE Permanent Council of November 1 stated, “Evidence collected by the SMM suggests that Russia and the separatists it backs bear responsibility for the targeting and downing of the LR UAV.” They emphasized that those …