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Egypt ordered helicopters from Russia for the French-built Mistral carriers
Egyptian authorities have requested that Russia supply Ka-52 helicopters for the Mistral ships that were made in France.
“We have already received a request from the Egyptian side for the supply of Ka-52 ship-based helicopters. The customer is considering the possibility of forming several helicopter squadrons. The exact quantity will be agreed on in the course of further negotiations,” the deputy director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Anatoly Punchuk, said. …
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Russian Armed Forces launch new internet communication system
The Russian Armed Forces have completed a deployment of the military internet communication system officially called “a closed segment of data transmission” (or CSDD). The military network is not connected to the global internet, and all computers connected to it are protected from connections with uncertified USB drives or external hard drives. Within the network, military personnel have deployed their email service by which classified information, including top secret documents, is …
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Russia has opposed upcoming UN human rights meeting on Aleppo
A special session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on the situation in Syria is scheduled to be held in Geneva on the 21st October.
The session was initiated by the UK and a number of other countries. London's proposal was supported by 33 countries including the US, Germany, France, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The HRC Secretariat noted that the special session is being convened due to the recent deterioration of the situation in Aleppo, as well as the …
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Bundestag Deputy: Germany should abandon Nord Stream II
The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag and member of the Christian Democratic Union, Norbert Röttgen, stated in his commentary to RND that Germany should refuse to participate in implementing the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, which Russia wants to lay on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
“The Federal Government should give up its stated position that the Nord Stream 2 is not a political project but purely business,” Röttgen said. “Poland, the Baltic …
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Lavrov: Russia will take military measures to ensure terrorists don't flee from Mosul into Syria
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, stated that Moscow will take military measures in case militants of the so-called Islamic Statetry to flee from Mosul into Syria.
“Mosul isn’t fully besieged. I don’t know the reason. Maybe, they were simply unable to do that. I hope that they simply were unable and not that they didn’t want to do that. At least, this corridor poses risks that Islamic State will leave Iraq and Mosul for Syria. If this happens, if …