In apparent support for President Bashar Assad, Russia has signed a contract to sell 36 Yak-130 aircraft combat jets to Syria in a deal worth more then $550-million, the business daily Kommersant newspepr reported Monday. The Yak-130 is a twin-engined combat trainer jet that can also be used to attack ground targets. The Russian air [...]
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Russia objects to U.S.-Spain anti-missile plan
Russia says a U.S. plan to base naval missile interceptors on Spain’s coast is “unacceptable.” Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Thursday that a deal between Washington and Madrid to base Aegis Cruisers northwest of Gibraltar “can’t but cause concern”, reiterating its worries over the expansion of NATO’s anti-ballistic defense system. It says the warships’ deployment brings [...]
New Russian ballistic missile fails in test
Russian news agencies quoted the military’s Space Forces spokesman Col. Alexei Zolotukhin as saying Russia’s new experimental intercontinental ballistic missile has failed during a test launch. The launch was the first of a prototype modification of the missile, according to a defense industry source. “The firing from Plesetsk on September 27 was part of testing by [...]
Gorbachev: Russia needs ‘honest’ elections
Russia needs to make urgent changes to its political system if it is to avoid instability, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned on Wednesday. “For Russia, honest and free elections, as well as political competition, are as necessary as fresh air,” Gorbachev, 80, said in an article published by the popular Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. He [...]
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Russia to US: Don’t veto Palestinian membership
Russian authorities have called on Washington not to veto a Security Council vote on Palestinian membership at the United Nations. “We think it’s better for the two parties to sit to the negotiations table, but they are not willing to do so because they do not agree between themselves,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. The [...]
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Washington ‘un-resets’ relations with Moscow
Russia has repeatedly voiced its concern about the US missile defense program in Europe. Journalist Pepe Escobar, while doubting the system’s capabilities, says Moscow has every right to be worried. Escobar, a correspondent with Asia Times Online, declared that the recent anti-missile defense agreement the US signed with Romania was “un-resetting the relationship” with Moscow. [...]
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Britain, US and France send warships through Strait of Hormuz
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Washington ‘un-resets’ relations with Moscow
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Britain, US and France send warships through Strait of Hormuz
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