Rome (GDC) — Italy ordered two Russian Embassy officials expelled on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) and arrested an Italian Navy captain on spying charges after police caught the officer allegedly giving classified documents to one of the […]
Rotenberg, Putin’s former judo sparring partner who sold his stake in gas pipeline construction firm Stroygazmontazh in 2019 for a sum which the RBC business daily put at 75 billion roubles ($1.3 billion), said on Saturday he […]
Post-Soviet Russia laid out a new collective defense organization. Officially known as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), that post-Soviet pact has proved to be no match for the Warsaw Pact. Weak and Meaningless CSTO […]
Russia is upgrading some of its Sukhoi Su-33 carrier fighter, specifically, those airframes that have sufficient lifetime remaining, so as to keep them operational until 2025, as per Major General Igor Kozhin, chief for aviation […]
Vladimir Putin has said it would be “suicidal” for the Armenian government to back out of a Russian-brokered ceasefire in the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, as opposition forces in Yerevan protest against the week-old truce and call for […]
Vladimir Putin is planning to step down next year as speculation swirls in Russia that the longtime president may have Parkinson’s disease, a report published by the Sun. Moscow political scientist Valery Solovei told the Sun […]
Russian authorities have opened a criminal case against opposition leader Alexei Navalny, an outspoken critic of President Vladimir Putin, for allegedly slandering a veteran of World War II. The Investigative Committee, which handles probes into […]
The United States, Australia and United Kingdom allies on Thursday accused Russia’s main military intelligence agency of a broad cyberattack against the republic of Georgia in October that took out websites and interrupted television broadcasts, in a […]
The Turkish side accused Russia of not complying with the Sochi agreement on Idlib and stated that in the event Russia refuses new negotiations, it will face large-scale armed clashes between Syria and Turkey, the […]
The Su-34 is a medium-range fighter-bomber, adopted by the Russian Air Force in the 1980s. The plane is expected to replace the aging Su-24 bomber, which has remained in service since the 1970s. So far […]
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