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Russia creating coordination center to facilitate work of military industry under Western sanctions
The Russian Federation has established an ad-hoc agency to “ensure sustainable development” of the industrial-defense complex and stable production of a state defense order “under the expected strengthening of unlawful sanctions by the United States,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said.
According to Rogozin, the headquarters was formed based on the Military-Industrial Commission (VPK) established in 2014 “to implement state policy in the industrial defense and to oversee the …
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Kremlin accuses US of involvement in drone attack on Russian military base in Syria
The attack of drones on Russian military facilities in Syria, is believed to be the work of US special services, as stated by the first Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Franz Klintsevich to RIA Novosti.
On Monday, January 8th, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the militants operating in Syria had access to advanced technologies that allow drones to drop professionally assembled explosives precisely on assigned coordinates at a distance of up …
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Putin gives rank of general to Kremlin’s promoter of separatism in Ukraine
On December 2, 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin assigned the grade rank of Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, Third Class (corresponding to the rank of Major-General) to 27-year-old Inal Ardzinba, who is wanted in Ukraine on charges of terrorism, reported the Russian news agency Sputnik.
Ardzinba is the head of the Department of the Presidential Administration for Social and Economic Cooperation with the CIS member states, Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Ardzinba has been …
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Ukraine detains ex-health minister of the annexed Crimea
An ex-"Minister" of annexed Crimea, Petro Mikhalchevsky, who is suspected of treason, was taken into custody for a month, the Press Secretary of the Prosecutor's Office of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Tatyana Tikhonchik announced on January 8.
According to Krym.Realii, during the court hearing, the representatives of the Prosecutor's Office insisted on the detention of Mikhalchevsky for a period of 60 days.
"The work of Mikhalchevsky in the Russian government of the Crimea is an …
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Russia on US reconnaissance flights over Ukraine: Crimea has been turned into a fortress
The flights of the US heavy unmanned RQ-4A Global Hawk and the R-8A Poseidon maritime reconnaissance aircraft along the demarcation line in the Donbas and over Black Sea waters close to annexed Crimea are related to the US’s interest in Russian weaponry, believes Ivan Konovalov, director of the Russian Center for Strategic Conjuncture, RT reports.
“The goal is obvious – reconnaissance of Crimea’s modern military infrastructure. And that it is powerful is also obvious, the Russian leadership is …
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Leonid Kravchuk: Crimea will return when Russia is not able to control it
In the broadcast of a joint project by Radio Liberty and TV channel 112 Ukraine on January 7, former Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk said that he believes that “Crimea will return when Russia is not able to control it”.
“I think that Crimea will be returned [to Ukraine] when Russia is not able to control Crimea,” the former president observed.
He noted that Ukraine has spent billions of dollars developing the peninsula.
“Since 1954, Ukraine has invested more than a hundred billion …
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Russia threatens to withdraw from WTO due to multibillion dollar EU lawsuit
Russia can withdraw from the World Trade Organization (WTO) in case the EU's claim to recover 1.39 billion euros per year from Russia due to the restriction on pork imports is satisfied. The very fact that the EU sanctions were introduced against Russia completely contradicts the principles of the WTO, the first deputy head of the economic committee of the Council of Federation Sergey Kalashnikov said to RIA Novosti on Sunday.
Earlier, Politico reported that the European Union intends to …
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Crimean activists to start legal campaign to protect Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai
Crimean legal experts and attorneys intend to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai, attorney Emil Kurbedinov wrote on his Facebook page.
“Our team of attorneys and legal experts intends to start a legal campaign to protect the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchysarai from baseless assaults on the historical population of Crimean Tatars, a cultural heritage site! In general, I can say that primarily we intend to acquire official responses from the Russian Federation on the …
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US planes conduct reconnaissance flights off Crimean coast
Two U.S. military aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight along virtually the entire coast of the Crimea on the Black Sea, Interfax reported.
Data of the websites monitoring the air traffic showed that the U.S. Air Force RQ-4A Global Hawk strategic unmanned aircraft, tail number 12-2050, flew for several hours on January 7, cruising along the entire coast of the annexed Crimea.
At the same time, the U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft, tail number 168432 and call sign PS076, …
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NATO fighters escorted a total of 130 Russian warplanes over Baltics in 2017
In 2017, fighter aircraft from the Baltic Air Patrol mission deployed in Lithuania and Estonia escorted more Russian military aircraft flying near the borders of the Baltic countries than in any other year except for 2015, reports Delfi news agency, referring to the data of the Ministry of Defense of Lithuania.
Last year, NATO fighters escorted about 130 aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea. In the year before that, fighters were scrambled about 110 times. There were 160 such escorts in 2015 …