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Media: Russian soldiers rob evacuees near Aleppo
Evacuation from Eastern Aleppo is accompanied by violence and brutality from Iranian and Russian soldiers controlling the checkpoints at the exit from this part of the city.
One incident was described to Hromadske.ua by Syrian journalist Monzer Etaki, who left the eastern area of Aleppo a few days ago during the evacuation.
"On Monday, December 19, we got permission to evacuate. I fell ill after living in my car all those days. People around me burned their belongings to warm themselves. I …
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Russian envoy was summoned to the Belarusian Foreign Ministry due to 'unacceptable' history statements
The Belarusian Foreign Ministry expressed its protest to the adviser of the Russian Embassy in Minsk, Vadim Gusev, in connection with the statements of the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies (RISS), Leonid Reshetnikov, who called Belarus a part of Russia, BelaPAN reported.
Minsk believes that Reshetnikov’s statements "are not founded on facts and are totally unacceptable in form."
"They absolutely do not correspond to the strategic nature of the Belarusian-Russian …
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In addition to MiG-29s, Serbia will receive 30 tanks and 30 armored vehicles from Russia for free
Serbia will receive six MiG jet fighters, 30 tanks and 40 armored vehicles from Russia free, as reported by the Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić after meeting with Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu, the Serbian Tanjug agency reports.
According to Vučić, aircraft modernization will cost Serbia 180 to 230 million euro. "If we purchased such aircraft with the missiles we want, it would cost us around 600 million euro,” Vučić said.
The Serbian Prime Minister said equipment from the …
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Kremlin spokesman claims that Putin still sees the collapse of the USSR as a catastrophe
The Russian President’s Press Secretary, Dmitry Peskov, said in an interview with Mir TV that Russian President Vladimir Putin still believes that the collapse of the USSR is a catastrophe for people living in its territory but that it is impossible to talk about reversing the process.
“Nothing has been changed. Putin still believes that it was a catastrophe for those people that lived under the roof of one Union state. It was a catastrophe that significantly took us backwards in our …
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Shoygu proposed to make Russian-Serbian BARS-2016 tactical drills an annual event
The Russian Minister of Defense, Army General Sergey Shoygu, stated at an informal meeting with the Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, that the BARS flight and tactical drills (Brotherhood of Aviators of Russia and Serbia) which took place in October in Serbia should be made an annual event.
“The BARS-2016 flight and tactical drills were successfully held in October in Serbia. It is very pleasing that BARS stands for the Brotherhood of Aviators of Russia and Serbia. That is a good …