Russia & CIS

The Akatsiya self-propelled howitzer, in service since 1971, has gone smart with the help of an all-new system of automated homing and fire control.

Russia's natural resources minister said that the Crimea water supply issue for 2015 was resolved without Ukraine's participation.

This year’s MAKS aviation expo once again demonstrated the military might of Russia and also provided Russian President Vladimir Putin with an opportunity to transform the traditional event into what French media named a “showcase for economic diplomacy.”

The Russian city of Vladivostok has begun to receive the first attendees of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), the local customs office said in a press release on Wednesday.

Moscow will not put "sand in the wheels" of foreign companies despite sanctions, Russia's minister of natural resources and environment said.

The international airport of Vladivostok, which is set to host the Russian Eastern Economic Forum (EEF), is ready to receive over 70 business aircraft within the next few days, the press service of the airport said in a statement on Tuesday.

The West keeps trying to bring anti-Russian regimes to power in the former Warsaw Pact countries and is busily modernizing its military potential, Russia’s Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Tuesday.

Russia’s tracked vehicle manufacturer UralVagonzavod is preparing to unveil a heavy armored wheeled vehicle, which is being as eagerly awaited as Russia’s all-new Armata tank.

Companies with Ukrainian licenses issued prior to Crimea’s reunification with Russia will no longer have access to energy resources under the Black and Azov Seas if such activity is seen as a security threat by Russia, the government said in a statement on Tuesday.

NATO is launching the “Sea Breeze” military maneuver in the Black Sea on Monday. Around 2,500 participants from ten NATO countries and Ukraine will take part in the training this year, making it the largest exercise in its history, DWN reported.

EuroChem, one of the biggest producers of mineral fertilizer in Russia, has invested $1 billion in an ammonia plant project in Kingisepp, the Leningrad Region.

On September 1, Russia has chaired the UN Security Council. Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a speech at the jubilee session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The press has already dubbed the possible meeting between the Russian and the American presidents "the clash of the titans." Putin has spoken at the UN General Assembly before

Thousands of business people and major investors from Russia and the Asia-Pacific region will be taking part in the Eastern Economic Forum to be held in Russia’s Far Eastern city of Vladivostok from September 3-5.

Tuesday marks 11 years since the Beslan school siege, in which Islamic extremists took more than 1,100 hostages, most of them children, in the southern Russian republic of North Ossetia, leading to more than 330 deaths.

From now on, Internet companies are obliged to store the data of Russian nationals on servers located within the country only.

The war on terror and settlement of the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa are the issues Russia will focus on as it takes over the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council.

World famous Russian-American Jazzman - Igor Butman - could fall victim to US sanctions on economic activity in Crimea after he visited the peninsula to play jazz during a festival.

First-ever joint military exercises of paratroopers from Russia, Belarus and Serbia are to start in two days near Novorossiisk, Russia. Under the scenario of the drills that will be held on September 2-5, "anti-government elements" and regular armed forces will be trying to destabilize the state of affairs in a conditional state

The Arctic development is one of the major directions of the Russian strategy. Some experts say that the Arctic development is very expensive. However, indifference will cost more.