In the early morning hours of 3 March, an Il-62 aircraft (registration number RA-86496) belonging to the Russian Defense Ministry was detected in the region of the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, according to information from Flightradar24.

According to the flight tracking service, the Il-62 took off close to the Chkalovsky military airport near Moscow on the morning of 2 March. The plane adopted a course towards South Africa, flew over the Moroccan capital, Rabat, and approached Caracas in the …

On Sunday, March 3, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the launched the production of Kalashnikov rifles together with Russia. Manufacturing will start at the Korwa City Ordnance Factory in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

In December 2019, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Colonel-General Alexander Fomin reported that the production of Kalashnikov rifles in India could be established.

The joint venture will produce AK-203 model rifles that will replace Indian-made INSAS rifles …

A new round of US sanctions, enshrined in the Defending American Security from Kremlin Aggression (DASKA) Act, threatens to cause the outright collapse of the Russian oil sector, which for more than half a century has been the country’s primary source of foreign currency earnings, enabling it to import western technologies, goods and the consumer lifestyle, finanz.ru writes.

As the old, Soviet-era oil fields run dry, if the country is unable to identify large deposits that can be easily and …