Pentagon pays experts to study Putin’s body language
Friday, 07 March 2014 A Pentagon research team is studying the body movements of Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders in order to better predict their actions and guide U.S. policy,...
View ArticleUkraine Crisis Deepens as Sevastopol Votes to Join Russia
- The city, which has a separate administrative status from the rest of Crimea 10:37 07/03/2014 MOSCOW, March 7 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine’s Crimean city of Sevastopol has voted to become part of Russia,...
View ArticleMaidan activists take Russian Embassy in Kiev under control
07.03.2014 | Source: Pravda.Ru Representatives of the “self-defense of Maidan” took the building of the Russian embassy in Kiev under control, Ukrainian media say. The activists reportedly...
View ArticleWarning shots fired to turn monitors back from Crimea
KIEV/SEVASTOPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Warning shots were fired to prevent an unarmed international military observer mission from entering Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Crimea on Saturday, as new...
View ArticleThe 95th Ukrainian paratroop brigade leaves base
DEBKAfile March 9, 2014, 9:07 AM (IST) DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Ukrainian 95th Separate Airmobile Brigade, which counts as the special forces backbone of the Ukraine army, rolled...
View ArticleFormer Soviet borders are being reconsidered
16.03.2014 The Crimea precedent will make us look differently at similar issues in the Former Soviet Union. The problem was incited by Soviet authorities who loosely drew administrative boundaries...
View ArticleCrimea crisis stirs dispute over Russian-held islands off Hokkaido
A high school student prays at the grave of a Japanese resident of Etorofu, off Hokkaido, during a rare visit to the Russian-held island in 2007. |AFP-JIJI Mar 15, 2014 Scenes of apparent Russian...
View ArticleRussia TV host: Russia could turn USA into radioactive ashes
Published on Mar 17, 2014 Subscribe to ITN News: http://bit.ly/1bmWO8h A Russian TV host has threatened the United States with a nuclear strike in his news broadcast. The remarks made by Dmitry...
View ArticleEU Bans European Council President from visitng Moscow
Wednesday, 19 March 2014 Russia on Wednesday mocked a European Council decision to bar its president from visiting Moscow. President Herman Van Rompuy requested an urgent visit to Russia on Monday to...
View ArticleIf Russia Gets Crimea, Should Germany Get Kaliningrad?
By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Mar. 20 2014 21:29 Vladimir Filonov / MTA view of the Gothic-style Konigsberg Cathedral in Kaliningrad, Russia. In the tug-of-war between Russia and the West, some states...
View ArticleRussia Moves to Scrap Black Sea Fleet Agreements with Ukraine
- Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said last Friday that Moscow would seek a reimbursement of the $11 billion Russia Moves to Scrap Black Sea Fleet Agreements with Ukraine © RIA Novosti. Vasily Batanov...
View ArticleWhy CIA, NSA can’t spy on Putin?
Tuesday, 01 April 2014 Earlier this month, as Russia began its move in Crimea, U.S. spy agencies reportedly found a worrying silence in the spot where they were listening most attentively — the digital...
View ArticlePutin defies Obama in Syria as arms flow fuels Assad resurgence
A Syrian woman reacts following an air strike by Syrian government forces in the al-Sakhour district of the northern city of Aleppo on April 2. Photo: AFP Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin,...
View ArticleRussia wants permanent Moon base
Sunday, 13 April 2014 While the West is busy staging coups around the world, Moscow today set out plans to conquer and colonise space, including a permanent manned moon base. Deputy premier Dmitry...
View ArticleHere’s how the US could stumble into war in Ukraine
Jean MacKenzie April 25, 2014 15:48 Given Washington’s mishandling of the crisis so far, it is not out of the question. The skeptics were right. Just one week ago, as top diplomats in Geneva...
View ArticleAs Ukraine tumbles into all-out ‘war,’ Russia escalates rhetoric
Kremlin likens violence in contested areas to WWII-era atrocities AFP-JIJI, AP, Reuters, Bloomberg May 4, 2014 MOSCOW/KIEV/UNITED NATIONS – Russian official rhetoric has increasingly compared events in...
View ArticleUkraine slides towards war
Both sides bury dead as Ukraine slides towards war Source: Reuters – Tue, 6 May 2014 02:51 PM Author: Reuters * Several days of fighting in east * Rebels hold out in Slaviansk * Violence in Odessa...
View ArticleBRICS sets up own Bank to counter IMF
Tuesday, 15 July 2014 The group of emerging economies signed the long-anticipated document to create the $100 bn BRICS Development Bank and a reserve currency pool worth over another $100 bn. Both...
View ArticleReport: Was Putin’s plane the real Target that brought down Malaysian Airliner?
Friday, 18 July 2014 Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane was travelling almost the same route as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s jet shortly before the crash that killed 295, Interfax news agency...
View ArticleFACTBOX: Russia’s Imports from Countries that Imposed Sanctions
MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Wednesday, banning for a year imports of agricultural and food products from countries that imposed sanctions on...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....