Contents tagged with Russia
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Former DPR commander explained how Russia finances separatist republics
Russia is financing separatists in eastern Ukraine and paying salaries and pensions to residents of the Donbas, the former Donetsk commander, Alexander Khodakovsky, told Reuters.
The former Ukrainian special forces soldier switched to the side of the separatists in the beginning of the conflict in eastern Ukraine in 2014. According to him, he was the commander of hundreds of armed fighters and held high positions within the leadership of the so-called DPR.
Replying to a question concerning …
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Ministry of Defense of Latvia: The Russian threat remains
There is a low probability of a direct military invasion in Latvia. However, the security situation in the Baltic region remains tense. According to Mixnews, this was stated by the Latvian Minister of Defense, Raimonds Bergmanis.
On Tuesday, at a private meeting, the government went through the ministry’s analysis of military threats to the state. The government last examined such analyses in September last year.
On Wednesday, Bergmanis stated that nothing has changed since then and that the …
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Russia is ready to establish a no-fly zone in Syria
S-300 surface-to-air missile defense systems, which were sent to Syria by Russia, are from the Russian Army air defense, a source close to Russian military-diplomatic circles told Izvestia newspaper.
“These defense systems are related to the army air defense and are designed primarily for the destruction of aero-ballistic targets and cruise missiles,” the source noted.
According to another source, Russia intended to provide Syrians with several dozens of armored vehicles, which had been …
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Ukrainian Parliament is urging the world to condemn Russia’s ban of Crimean Tatar Mejlis
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has appealed to international organizations and parliaments not to recognize the decision of the Russian courts to ban the activities of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatars. The Ukrainian parliamentarians are also requesting to consider the possibility of imposing sanctions against the judges who made the verdict. A total of 248 deputies voted in favor of this decision on the 5th of October.
The Ukrainian Parliament called for measures that “will indicate the non- …
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Russia has suspended its nuclear energy cooperation agreement with the United States
The Russian government has suspended its agreement to cooperate in scientific research and developments in nuclear energy with the United States. The agreement was signed on the 16th of September, 2013 in Vienna, as stated on the website of the Russian Government.
“The continued renewal of sanctions against Russia by the United States, including the suspension of U.S.-Russian cooperation in the area of nuclear energy requires the adoption of countermeasures,” the document explained.
The …
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Russia has prepared a response to the US' 'plan B' in Syria
An increase of firepower support for Bashar al-Assad’s Army may be Russia's response to the United States’ "Plan B" for Syria. Izvestia newspaper published the details with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the Defense and Security Committee of the Russian Federation Council, Frantz Klintsevich.
"The General Staff also has special plans to combat terrorists, as they will pay more attention to our units and bases in Syria than to the Syrian Armed Forces,” Klintsevich said.
A high-ranking …
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NATO fighters escorted Russian bombers flying near the airspace of five European countries
Two Russian TU-160 bombers were intercepted by NATO fighter planes as they flew from Norway to northern Spain and back, BBC reports.
Air Force fighter jets from Norway, Great Britain, France and Spain took into the air as Russian aircraft approached the borders of each country.
The incident reportedly took place on September 22, but details only emerged recently, after a statement by the French Ministry of Defense, who called it an air policing mission.
The statement states that Norway first …
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During the 1970s, the Soviet KGB attempted to recruit Jens Stoltenberg
Soviet intelligence once tried to recruit the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, to the Committee for the State Security of the Soviet Union, or the KGB. Stoltenberg wrote this in his autobiography, NRK reported. Stoltenberg explained that he had been in contact with employees of the Soviet Embassy since the late 1970s and repeatedly talked with Soviet Cultural Attaché Boris Kirillov.
The Secretary General of NATO recalls how he met with the erudite …
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Media: U.S experts have assessed the threat posed by Russia's Navy
U.S. experts have identified systems from the arsenal of the Russian Navy that they believe pose the greatest threat. Izvestia daily reported the findings revealed by the Director of the Russia Maritime Studies Institute, Michael Peterson. According to him, the United States believes that Yasen-class submarines, Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates (also known as Project 22350) and Zircon and Kalibr cruise missiles to be the most dangerous.
“Despite the challenges, which we have observed in …
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Russian paratroopers to participate in military exercises in Egypt
Russian paratroopers will be sent to Egypt during October to participate in the first joint exercises of its kind. This was reported on the Russian Defense Ministry’s website on the 4th of October.
The ministry went on to report that marines with their weapons and equipment will be transported by IL-76 aircraft.
The ministry had previously reported that the paratroopers of the two countries plan to conduct anti-terrorist exercises in October this year, and in particular, to train in desert …