Tag: Russia

Russia and Turkey have reached common understanding on the Syrian crisis, including fighting al-Nusra Front militants. During a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...

Policymakers in Moscow and Washington are searching for ways to bring cooperation between the two countries to a whole new level with regard to...

By Josh Rogin June 30 The Obama administration has proposed a new agreement on Syria to the Russian government that would deepen military cooperation between...

The Obama administration has offered to help Russia improve its targeting of terrorist groups in Syria if Moscow will stop bombing civilians and opposition fighters who have signed on to a cease-fire and use its influence to force Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to do the same.

The Turkish side agrees with Russia that the Syrian opposition should withdraw from the terrorists’ positions, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

Russia plans to conduct flight tests of the new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile Sarmat. The state-of-the-art ICBM is expected to come into service in...

The only conclusion I can come to is that Erdogan has in effect, surrendered to Russia, and the letter of apology for shooting down the Russian plane is in fact a letter of surrender

YEREVAN, June 30. /TASS/. The Armenian parliament has ratified an agreement with Russia on establishing a united air defense system in the post-Soviet security...

The Russophobic orgy needs to stop.

An indicator of new world trends?

The Russian Air Force carried out non-stop airstrikes to target terrorists in Northern districts of Aleppo City, while the Syrian Army kept advancing in several areas near the provincial capital, a military source said on Sunday.

Russia’s air defense system manufacturer Almaz-Antey has conducted successful testing of the newest Buk-M3 air defense missile system. The tests took place at the Kapustin Yar range near Astrakhan, Southern Russia, the company reported Friday.

Lebanon asked Russia to help the armed forces of the country to combat terrorism. The Lebanese army shows daily resistance to the onslaught of Islamic State and Jabhat en-Nusra terrorists (the organization are banned in Russia), Minister of Finance of the Republic of Lebanon, Ali Khalil, said during a meeting with Chairman of the Federation Council's Committee for International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev.

Russia plans to expose the catalogue of near-Earth objects, a member of the Russian delegation at the 59th session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space for Peaceful Purposes, Victor Shilin said.

Earlier this week, US media cited an anonymous official who claimed planes of the Russian Aerospace Forces had hit the positions of US-backed Syrian opposition forces. Russian and US defense officials held a rare video conference overnight to address the issue.

The governments of Syria and Turkey are engaging in dialogue and both sides are showing a willingness to negotiate their differences, the Turkish military's former intelligence chief Ismail Hakki Pekin told Sputnik Turkey.

Jim W. Dean - At the end of the day Westerners are getting extorted by their own banksters in cahoots with the international crime cable with its PR whores planning to pin the tail on the donkey Mr. Putin as the pasty.

Jim W. Dean - What has the corrupt international crime syndicate that is running so much of the West worried is that Putin and his emerging "geopolitical alternative" is a direct threat against their power over our democracies-in-name-only.

Jim W. Dean - Throughout the Western world, we see elected leaders growing more disconnected from their constituents, in terms of representing their interests. Most Europeans have rejected manufactured threats.

When restored to operation, the abandoned World War II airdrome on the Kuril island of Matua will guarantee Russia’s full-fledged military presence in the region, the chairman of the State Duma’s defense committee, Vladimir Komoyedov, told TASS on Tuesday.

Netanyahu seems to be concerned about the prospect for the new, reunited Syria to appear near Israel. The Israeli Prime Minister is also concerned about the strong influence of Iran in the post-war Syria.

Russia says Washington has asked Moscow not to attack Nusra Front militants in Syria. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Washington fears that attacking the al-Qaeda-linked group might endanger what it calls moderate rebels.

Jim W. Dean - What a breath of fresh air to see European politicians forming their own new groups to speak out on some of the childish actions of its major political organization with its self-inflicted, Russian-sanction boomerang wounds.

Obama administration pledged to play an integral role in liberating the city of Raqqa, but US-backed forces are moving in the wrong direction and...

Machine translated Colonel Cassad On the topic of what is happening with Kazakhstan. Currently, Kazakhstan is a fairly typical for the Middle East and Central Asia...

Russia's military grouping in Syria will provide active air support for the Syrian army to prevent terrorists from seizing Aleppo, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Monday.

Russian military officials said that Bastion systems and the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy will watch another missile destroyer of the Sixth Fleet of the United States in the Black Sea.

On Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow. They discussed economic cooperation including energy ties

The Leader-class destroyers, expected to be equipped with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles and S-500 air defense systems, could soon be added to Russia's impressive arsenal of cutting edge military equipment.

Jim W. Dean - NATO is obviously going to do whatever it wants, as there is no mechanism for stopping it via six-figure massive protests in the respective countries where forces are being deployed.

Jim W. Dean - We seem to be seeing a stand down in the use of Russian and US air power along the Syrian border, virtually waving a green flag to Erdogan to go ahead and set up his buffer zone, a de facto one.

Jim W. Dean - Phil Butler brings us a sleeper story from the Russian news in early May and was ignored by Western media - how Russian can move the water needed to develop western China along the New Silk Road route.

Any movement that deprives itself of practical reason—the metaphysical substratum upon which the political and moral universe is based—will eventually end up committing moral and intellectual suicide.

Or just the Same Game Plan with a different Puppet?

The NWO equation simply does not add up.

Unlike Newsweek, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other outlets, the L.A. Times has finally got it right: NATO and the United States are wrong and Russia is right.

Jim W. Dean - You can just image the uproar if Russia or China were doing exercises like this (by invitation) on the Canadian or Mexican border as part of a "defense exercise".

The strategic importance of Montenegro is inversely proportional to its size. With it, NATO will have full control of the Adriatic Sea, finish the encirclement of Serbia, and be emboldened to pursue a more aggressive stance towards Russia.

"There is no crime America will not commit in order to maintain its political, economic, cultural, and military domination of those parts of the world where it predominates."