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Kremlin: Russia is working on a new generation guided missile
Russia is intensively working on creating a new generation of Monolith aviation guided missiles. According to the deputy general director of the Tekhmash Concern (part of Rostec State Corporation) Alexander Kochkin, a prototype of this “product” may be ready in two or three years.
“We will not disclose full information on the Monolith missile. This is a new generation aviation guided missile that will belong to the high-precision weapons class,” RIA Novosti quotes Kochkin.
According to him, …
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Russian Parliament suggests doubling weapons sales to the public
The State Duma of Russia introduced a bill softening restrictions on the possession of weapons.
According to the Parliamentary Gazette, the amendment proposes to double the limit of the small weapons in the hands of one person.
This includes hunting rifles, sport rifles and smoothbore long-barreled weapons. At the moment Russians are allowed to have no more than 5 units in each category, and the deputies suggest raising this allowance to 10 units.
The authors of the project, led by the …
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Kremlin: Trains will start to run ahead of time on the Crimean bridge
Railway traffic on the Crimean bridge will open ahead of schedule — in August-September 2019, reports RIA Novosti, referring to the statement of the Minister of Transport of Russia Yevgeny Dietrich.
"With regards to specific schedule, we will reach the object and consider the details related to the construction more specifically, and then we will announce how early we can finish the work," the Minister said.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the railway part of the Crimean …
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Germany concerned that Austria may leak secrets to Russia
Thomas Haldenwang, head of Germany’s counterintelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), said this week at the Parliamentary Oversight Panel that cooperation with Austria creates significant risks to German intelligence, Welt am Sonntag reported.
The newspaper did not specify how it had obtained the information, but it noted that Haldenwang’s statement was based on the assumption that Austria could misuse and possible even pass on to Russia the …
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Russia’s largest independent oil refinery suspends operations
A tax maneuver which the Russian government made in the oil sector in 2018 is achieving its first significant results.
The Antipinsky Refinery, the largest refinery in the country that does not belong to one of the vertically integrated resource corporations, has suspended its operations.
The Russian transport monopoly Transneft stopped supplying the refinery with oil and removed it from its shipment plan in May, the company’s spokesperson Igor Demin told TASS on Thursday.
That same evening, …