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For the last couple of years, the Western press has been feeding upon numerous reports and articles about the proposed collapse of the Russian economy and Russia as a nation. Many would often compare today's Russia with the USSR during the late 1980s, or with events in 1998 and 2008, when oil prices were in their decline too, just like they are now

A Russian military adviser was killed in a mortar attack in Syria on February 1. According to sources in the Syrian army, the shelling could be conducted from the side of Turkey. The shelling of command posts of Syrian armed forces in the north of the country has become more frequent during the recent several weeks

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

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

the mass perception of Putin as the new leader is associated with the fact that 1999 became the year, when elderly Russians started receiving their pensions without delays for the first time in years. Afterwards, from 2004 to 2008, a completely new consumer environment was created. The Russians renewed their home appliances, many bought cars

The Soviet Union did not break up because of the oil prices, although it did create a number of problems for the country. The myth was created to conceal the consciously made choice of the then Soviet administration. The choice was to deliberately destroy the Soviet Union. They lied when they said that the Soviet Union was starving in 1990-1991 because of very poor harvest

Russia has been paying the PACE, the Council of Europe and the European Court for Human Rights for years. It just so happens that all these payments were made to receive criticism and listen to anti-Russian remarks, Russian officials said. In April 2014, Russia was stripped of its powers in the organization because of the crisis in Ukraine

If the air space in the zone of combat operations on the territory of Ukraine had been closed from the ground level without any restrictions in altitudes, the accident would not have happened. Russian officials are convinced that Ukrainian authorities deliberately concealed or misrepresented real threats to the safety of civil aviation flights

Russia started developing a new anti-aircraft artillery system that is said to replace well-known "Shilka" and "Tunguska" systems. The new anti-aircraft artillery system is to have the caliber of 57 millimeters. Serial production of anti-aircraft guns on mobile chassis started during the First World War

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia had no claims for the title of a superpower. At the same time, it is wrong to call Russia a regional power. According to Putin, one may say such things to prove their own exceptionalism. In the event of any threats to national security, Russia will use all means available to eliminate such threats

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an extensive interview to German publication Build. In the interview, the head of state spoke about the relations between Moscow and Berlin, corporation with Angela Merkel, sanctions against Russia and Crimea, about the regulation of the conflict in Ukraine and other actual issues

Despite the crisis, the Russian economy did not collapse in 2015. The decline in GDP in 2015 made up only four percent, although in 2009, the index was larger - eight percent. Such an insignificant decline in GDP against the backdrop of the closed financial market is obviously an achievement for the Russian economy

Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has accepted the request from Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to assist in re-conciliation with Russia. The Serbian president has thus become the fourth mediator after the presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Belarus, who said that their relations with Turkey were perfect

The clockwork of war never stops. We need to know how the world works - if we know that, then we know how to deal with problems. Our ancestors knew that - that's why they did their best never to lose one single war. One should look through this prism at the events that are currently happening in Ukraine. Where is the truth?

Next year, Russia is holding elections to the State Duma. Today, there are many things in the political life of the country that seem so common that nobody tries to remember that four years ago these common things did not even exist. the Kremlin has formed a new institutional structure and design of the political system