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No one owes anyone anything?

10:00 25.06.2019 Mikhail Leonov

No one owes anyone anything?

Amazing things keep happening in Ukraine: what we (and many others) had been writing and talking about for almost a year was suddenly confirmed by the most unusual and unexpected source.According to the Orthodox Journalists Union website, [1] citing Ukrainian radio program “ Persona Grata,” Filaret Denisenko not only rejects …

Shocking statistics of Yellow Vests in France

12:07 24.06.2019 Sergey Filatov

Shocking statistics of Yellow Vests in France

Protests of Yellow Vests in the center of Paris.AFP PhotoOnly the British could write about the French in such a manner. They reveal little-known details of the “Yellow Vest Movement” in a recent article “Yellow Vest: Shock stats reveal depth of Macron chaos - 50,000 on the streets and 11dead”.The …

Pentagon plan and dream to maintain supremacy in Indo-Pacific

12:02 19.06.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

Pentagon plan and dream to maintain supremacy in Indo-Pacific

On June 1, the US Defense Department published a report [i] on military objectives in the Indo-Pacific Region (IPR). The report, delivered by acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, contained a number of key points which he also outlined at the 18th International Conference on Regional Security “Shangri-La Dialogue” in …

Slavic Brotherhood 2019

10:58 18.06.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Slavic Brotherhood 2019

Paratroopers from Serbia will be hosts to elite counterparts from Russia and Belarus for this year`s Slavic Military Brotherhood exercise, which will last over 13 days between June 14 and 27.On June 14 the multinational tactical exercise with live firing "Slavic Brotherhood 2019" started lining up members of the armed …

Nuclear weapons are vulnerable to cyber threats

10:11 11.06.2019 Yevgeny Pedanov

Nuclear weapons are vulnerable to cyber threats

According to a new report from the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Cyber Nuclear Weapons Study Group, US nuclear weapons can’t be effectively protected against cyberattacks with technical means alone. "Any system containing a digital component, including nuclear weapons, is vulnerable to cyber threats," Page Stoutland, NTI’s vice president for scientific …

A new world without “old” rules? (Potential results of US exit from INF treaty)

11:41 10.06.2019 Andrey Kadomtsev

A new world without “old” rules? (Potential results of US exit from INF treaty)

On May 30, President Vladimir Putin submitted to parliament a bill on suspending the Treaty on the Elimination of Intermediate and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF). With Washington having failed to respond to Moscow’s proposals to resolve existing differences concerning the treaty, Russia has been forced to respond to President Donald Trump’s …

Armenia-Iran: good neighbourly relations absolute necessity

11:49 04.06.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Armenia-Iran: good neighbourly relations absolute necessity

Some experts believe that Iran’s cooperation with Armenia could become costly for the latter owing to the ever increasing hostility demonstrated by US President Donald Trump towards the Islamic Republic of Iran. They predict that American sanctions and extensive pressure on Iran could throw Armenia into a kind of blockade.What …

Fort Ross dialog opened in Vologda

19:12 03.06.2019

Fort Ross dialog opened in Vologda

Fort Ross Dialogue – meetings in Russia is an extension of the series of US – Russia Fort Ross Dialogue conferences established in California in 2012.The event is named after the first Russian settlement established in the territory of modern-day California. The 2017 Dialogue was hosted by ancient Pskov, home …

Tensions in Kosovo - Russia closely monitors the situation

12:44 29.05.2019 Slavisha Batko Milacic

Tensions in Kosovo - Russia closely monitors the situation

Police of self proclaimed state of Kosovo launched raids in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Serbs-majority north of Kosovo, sparking an angry reaction from Serbs.More than twenty people have been arrested so far. Among those arrested is the chief of police of the village of Zubin Potok. …

Saudi Arabia calls emergency Arab League summit

7:20 29.05.2019 Vladimir Sazhin

Saudi Arabia calls emergency Arab League summit

Saudi King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has invited leaders of the League of Arab States (LAS) to an emergency summit in Mecca, scheduled for May 30, to discuss the security situation in the region.Although Arab League summits are normally held once a year in March, in the case of …

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