Russia has supplied Chavez with at least 100 Igla MANPADS (El Pais, Spain)
Russia has confirmed to American representatives that Venezuela has sold at least 100 man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS), which Washington views as weapons that violate ...
Kazakhstan will receive C-300 complexes for free
Russia is going to provide Kazakhstan with the C-300 air defense system free of charge. This was reported to RIA Novosti news agency by the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Defense Forces of Kazakhstan, Lieutenant General Alexander ...
Why NATO secret "Eagle"?
Recently, the controversial WikiLeaks website published US dispatches about a NATO plan aimed at protecting the Baltic States. The plan was highly classified and is called the Eagle Defender. Its essence lies in a number ...
A series of terrorist attacks in Iraq: there are dead
Two people died and more than 25 were injured as a result of a series of terrorist attacks in Iraq. According to police, on Wednesday morning a mined car was blown up in the way of an army ...
Tornado scared Tbilisi (Georgia Times, Georgia)
The Georgian leadership has swept a new wave of hysteria. Tbilisi was excited about the news that there is a systems division in the Russian military base stationed in South Ossetia ...
What kind of war is going on in the Caucasus?
Before speaking of the current state of affairs in the North Caucasus, in particular, in Dagestan, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of the rating system. Because the understatement of the scale and the silence of the problems ...
Telegrams from WikiLeaks reveal NATO’s secret plans to protect the Baltic states from Russia ("The Guardian", UK)
According to information contained in confidential US diplomatic telegrams, Washington and its Western allies for the first time after the Cold War drew up secret military plans to ...
Caucasian "self-defense": until the last patron
We have an undeclared war going on. Another victim - 28-year-old fan of Spartak Yegor Sviridov, who was shot in Moscow today with a traumatic pistol near Kronstadt Boulevard ....
Saakashvili taken by Russia "on the fly"
It seems that in its attitude to any peacekeeping statements by Mikhail Saakashvili, the Russian leadership will henceforth consistently adhere to the old proven principle: “once ...
Do the Poles want reconciliation with Russia?
Today, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will pay an official visit to Poland. This is the third voyage of the Russian president to Warsaw in history, which has an official status: in 1993 in the republic ...
WikiLeaks creator insured against arrest
Top-secret materials may be published on the Internet that affect the interests of the United States and a number of other countries. As WikiLeaks creator Julian Assange warned, this will happen if he is arrested ...
About Chechnya. An open letter to the Terek ataman to Putin
An open letter to V.V. Putin Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! You have the main problem of leaving Chechnya and Ingushetia as part of Russia. We consider the Cossacks of Stavropol and Krasnodar a problem for our ...
South Korea launched military exercises
On Monday, December 6, South Korea began artillery and naval exercises. According to news agencies, immediately 29 regions of the country are involved in the exercises. Shooting practice is on and on ...
The Chinese fear the cohabitation of Russia and NATO
The People's Daily newspaper published an article titled "The rapprochement of NATO and Russia is aimed at worsening Chinese-Russian relations." In it, the leading Beijing edition analyzes the results ...
The sale of Mistral became possible, as it would not affect the combat potential of the Russian Navy
French Defense Minister Hervé Morin, during a conversation with his US counterpart Robert Gates, held during the latter's unofficial visit to Paris on February 8, 2010, expressed the opinion that ...
Military exercises of Japan and the United States will be the most ambitious in the last 20 years
Joint US and Japanese exercises in the Sea of Japan and the Pacific will be the largest since the year since 1986. This was reported by the news agency Kyodo. Joint exercises ...
North Korea has increased the number of jet systems along the border with Kazakhstan
Pyongyang-Seoul, December 03 (New Region, Olga Radko) - North Korea has increased the number of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) along the border with South Korea after the recent escalation of the situation in Korean ...
Forces from outside seek to unleash a conflict in Russia on the Yugoslav principle
The Public Chamber of Russia believes that the incident in Zelenokumsk of the Stavropol Territory is one of the attempts to sow discord on religious and national grounds. "Recent events in the city of Zelenokumsk ...
Medvedev will lay the first in Israel monument to the soldiers of the Red Army
In Israel, in the coastal city of Netanya, the country's first national monument in honor of the victory of the Red Army over Nazi Germany will be laid. It is expected that this will happen during the official ...
One day in the underworld. Special report from Iraq
... 7.30. Erbil City. A car pulls up to my hotel. Behind the wheel Goran - an employee of local intelligence services. His father was a fan of the Yugoslav cinema, so Goran has such an unusual name for Iraq. The road to ...
Right, Britain, the budget!
London finally decided to live within its means. The military programs of the British Ministry of Defense were subjected to captious revision and a number of promising programs were given the final verdict ....
How to ease an unbearable burden
The concluding summit in Lisbon, its results, the adoption of a new NATO strategy in the Portuguese capital, the prospects for the creation by Russia and the North Atlantic alliance of a joint anti-missile ...
Nuclear fanfare of Dmitry Medvedev ("The National Interest", USA)
Someone should advise Dmitry Medvedev to be more restrained. In his annual presidential address, he stated that if the US Senate did not approve the START treaty, a new race would begin ...
Why the USA can achieve greater success in Afghanistan than the USSR ("World Politics Review", USA)
If we take the 7 October 2001 of the year as the starting point of the American war in Afghanistan, when American troops first invaded the country, today it lasts longer than the failed ...