Tag: Russia

Russia’s Race for Hypersonic Weapons (Pavel Luzin, The Jamestown Foundation)

The global race for hypersonic weapons, or at least for technologies to reach hypersonic velocity, undoubtedly goes on. Russia is paying close attention to...

Chechen Strongman Drives New Wedge Between Russia and Turkey (Aslan Doukaev, The Jamestown Foundation)

Like any other relationship, the partnership between Turkey and Russia has had its ups and downs, twists and turns. The downing by Turkey, in...

Share of nondefense production in Russian defense industry reached 25.6% — Putin (TASS)

The share of nondefense products output in the Russian defense industry sector moved up to 25.6% as of 2020 year-end, President Vladimir Putin said...

Putin urges to use cognitive, hypersonic technologies in new Russian weapons (TASS)

Russia’s new state armament program should be based on the latest hypersonic, cognitive and other breakthrough technologies, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a...

Russian Foreign Ministry sees closer ties with US on cyberspace issues (TASS)

Moscow believes that Russia and the US are coming closer together in cyberspace cooperation after a UN committee passed their joint draft resolution on...

Two Russian Tu-22M3 bombers fly over Belarus to check Union State air defenses (TASS)

Two Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers practiced interoperability with command posts of the Russian and Belarusian armed forces and checked the Union State’s air defenses,...

Moscow hopes Sudan is to ink agreement on Russian military base — Russian diplomat (TASS)

Moscow hopes that the new government of Sudan will approve an agreement on a Russian military base in the African country, Russia’s Special Presidential...

Russia tracked US surveillance plane during flight near border — Defense Ministry (TASS)

The radars of Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces tracked a US E-8C surveillance and target attack radar system plane, which approached the Russian border over...

US spy plane E-8C spotted 35 km away from Russia’s border, says Defense Ministry (TASS)

A US E-8C reconnaissance aircraft that took off from Germany’s USAF Ramstein Air Base was spotted 35 kilometers away from Russia's border, the Russian...

Development of cooperation with Africa is profitable strategy, expert says (TASS)

Cooperation with Africa, which several years ago was a costly affair, is now a profitable strategy, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and...

Russia could act as security provider, sell railroad equipment in Africa — report (TASS)

Russia needs to compile its various ideas for cooperation with Africa into a single comprehensive and publicly available strategy to achieve more success, according...

Kremlin slams Polish PM’s statements blaming Russia for migration crisis as unacceptable (TASS)

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the statements by Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki that Russia is allegedly responsible for the situation at the Belarusian-Polish...

Putin discusses migrant situation on Belarusian border with EU in phone call with Merkel (TASS)

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Acting German Chancellor Angela Merkel have held a telephone conversation, discussing the migrant situation on the border between Belarus...

Policy towards containing Russia, Belarus may reflect NATO’s long-term strategy — Lavrov (TASS)

Moscow and Minsk have serious grounds to believe that NATO’s policy towards deterring Russia and Belarus reflect the bloc’s long-term strategy, Russian Foreign Minister...

China’s alliance with Russia is solidifying (Loro Horta, Think China)

Even though several analyses have it that the China-Russia relationship is filled with underlying tensions and can break without warning, Loro Horta believes that...

Disarming Putin’s energy weapon: Ukraine must connect to EU grid (Anders Åslund, Atlantic Council)

Ukraine is at war with Russia. Unlike the more conventional conflicts of previous centuries, this hybrid war cannot be understood via flags on maps...