The United States will send a company of paratroopers to Estonia during the time when Russian-Belarussian exercises Zapad 2017 are held. According to the main headquarters of the Estonian Defense Forces, 150 servicemen will arrive at the end of August, BNS agency informs.

In September this year, Russian-Belarusian exercises Zapad 2017 will be held in the territory of Belarus where Russia will mobilize more than 4,000 wagons for the transportation of weapons and soldiers.

Ukraine expressed  …

Moscow continues pouring money into the treasury of Venezuela, whose economy plunged into a chaos caused by currency shortages, lack of essential goods and protests, during which more than 120 people were killed.

In the second quarter, Venezuela received another $1 billion from Russia’s Rosneft, as  reported by Finanz news web site with reference to Raiffeisenbank's semi-annual IFRS report.

The money was transferred to the accounts of PDVSA, a Venezuelan oil company that consolidates the last …

Russian Federation is intensifying development of the payment systems that would be independent from U.S. financial system as well as from using U.S. dollar as a base currency.

Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that an independent financial system “is becoming a vital need,” because otherwise Russia “will always be on the hook” of the United States of America.

Russia has developed its own payment card called Mir (‘Peace’ or ‘World’ in translation from Russian), which is supposed to …