Russia & CIS

Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UWCA) in 2017 is going to start production of four H135 Airbus Helicopters, according to the department of information policy of the governor of Sverdlovsk Region.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova is holding a weekly press briefing in Moscow.

US European Command (USEUCOM) has recently unveiled its updated security strategy document 'Theater Strategy', where it labelled “revanchist Russia” as its top priority threat; however a UK-based journalist and blogger thinks that the document would actually make more sense, if you swap the words Russia with US.

Russia's military on Thursday revealed plans for a United Nations-backed plan for a global non-aggression pact, banning cyberwarfare attacks in peacetime between all leading powers.

Republican voters in Iowa may have thwarted Russian President Vladimir Putin's wish to see the "doubtlessly talented" Donald Trump as the next U.S. president.

The champagne corks were already popping for New Year's Eve celebrations when several thousand Crimeans received an unexpected phone call.

Another airspace violation raises the spectre of conflict between Russia and Turkey.

Turkey has introduced visa requirements for Russian journalists starting from Feb. 15, the Interfax news agency reported, citing a representative of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow.

You know that Russia is in real trouble when liberal economic policies start getting batted around.

Mikhail Kasyanov, leader of the PARNAS opposition party, has asked law enforcement agencies to open a criminal investigation into a video posted on Instagram by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Interfax reported.

Russia has reached a completely new level of warfare technology during its operation in Syria. Yet, the US and its allies have all they need to do the same, but they do not try to succeed at this point. Poor quality of intelligence information and financial inefficiency in the operation against ISIL brings up obvious questions

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called White House spokesman Josh Earnest's remarks about the Russian president "outrageous and offensive." In a recent press conference, Earnest stated that the US administration was sharing the view about Putin's corruptness. "We hope that our American colleagues will give us some explanations on that," Peskov said

There is a fairly universal consensus in Washington that Russia presents a potential geopolitical threat to the United States. The threat derives from Vladimir Putin’s desire to reshape the international order by restoring his country’s position as a great power and his willingness to modernize and wield Russia’s military forces in service of this aim. However, there is no such consensus on how to deal with this threat. Some experts argue for more robust U.S. and NATO policies aimed at deterring future Russian adventurism, including positioning significant military forces in Eastern Europe, providing lethal military equipment to Ukraine and Georgia, and starting preparations to deploy intermediate-range nuclear forces to Europe. They say that these measures, in combination with Russia’s economic travails, will strengthen the position of those in Moscow officialdom who are opposed to Russia’s military adventurism.

This argument is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how humans react to threats.

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China's Xinhua news agency, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has released a detailed and harsh statement about recent information attacks against Russia and China. Such attacks are enthusiastically conducted by bloggers, Western press and liberal media of Russia and Ukraine

The BBC that has repeatedly found itself in the midst of corruption scandals has released a propaganda documentary about Russian President Putin. This is how we can see the professional purity of the BBC journalism. What can we expect from the corporation that referred to the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin as "The Tomb of the Unknown Rapist?"

Historically, Russia has always fought intuitively for the survival of all mankind. Of course, the events do not always look this way. But whatever they look like, this huge country has repeatedly rebuffed the most powerful forces of evil which were becoming a threat to the very existence of our planet.

Why did Russia start the operation? The analysis shows that the fall of Damascus would have become a powerful factor for the Islamic State to strengthen and expand further. Syria has been our historical ally, and Russia could not leave Syria to the mercy of fate. It took Russian military men months to develop the Syrian operation

The Russian economy may recover in the next two years regardless of what will be happening to oil prices, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said. the creation of federal reserves, the reduction of the Russian public debt and the free floating of the national currency may resume the growth of the Russian economy