Tag: Putin

The United States is offering Russia a new military pact against the Islamic State group and al-Qaida in Syria, according to a leaked U.S. proposal. If finalized, the arrangement could dramatically alter America’s role in the Arab country’s five-year civil war. The document, published by The Washington Post, calls for joint bombing operations, a command-and-control […]

With the resurgence of Russian airpower in the Baltic region, recent clashes have led even the Russians to take a look at air safety measures. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he accepted his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinisto’s proposal to develop aviation security measures in the Baltic region.  Primarily, the issue involves Russian aircraft not flying around […]

The Kremlin has accused the global film streaming company Netflix of being part of an American plot to subvert Russian society and culture.

Vladimir Medinsky, the minister of culture who is a loyal supporter of President Putin, said that the film streaming service was on the US government payroll along with Silicon Valley giants.

American leadership forces the focus on Daesh (ISIS,) as the global threat while Russia expands in a threatening and alarming rate across the globe.

Russian media claim the Nicaragua tracking station will improve the GLONASS navigation system (an alternative to the U.S. GPS system). Nicaraguan government supporters of the base claim that the project will make Nicaragua a Central American leader in space.

Deploying nuclear warheads in Kaliningrad would be a separate and serious phase of escalation, he said. Konovalov said arming the missiles with nuclear warheads would be a return to a full-scale Cold War, something he said nobody wanted.

A special operations air assault exercise that demonstrated forced entry. It rounded off an exercise that included training on the land, at sea and in the air. An opportunity for Poland to prove that it not only can defend itself, but that it can also work with its NATO allies and partners, testing their ability, readiness and interoperability.

Russia’s new stealth fighter made an eyebrow-raising surprise appearance on June 5—soaring over the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow ripped from Ukraine in early 2014. The T-50—Russia’s answer to the U.S. Air Force’s F-22—is far from war-ready. Indeed, the twin-engine, radar-evading warplane is suffering such serious design, quality-control, and financing problems that it might never enter […]

NATO officials have also expressed concern about Russia’s own military exercises in which thousands of Russian troops conduct war games without giving the alliance any prior warning.

In Kiev, he was seen as a bloody and ruthless war criminal – a Kremlin agent sent by Moscow to wreak havoc in Ukraine. In Russia, he was portrayed as a valiant military hero, leading the local rebel forces in their fight against Kiev.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia will retaliate against the placement of U.S. missiles in nearby countries such as Romania, according to Russia’s state-run news agency TASS. The United States launched a ground-based missile defense system earlier this month in Romania. The system is meant to defend Europe against rogue states like Iran and not intended […]

A Ukrainian pilot detained in Russia since 2014 has made a triumphant return home following a prisoner swap that saw her traded for two Russians. Nadiya Savchenko was met by Ukraine’s president at Kiev’s Borispol airport, where she made a passionate speech sarcastically thanking those “who had wished me evil”. “Through you I survived,” she […]