Russia

Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has set out details of an ambitious effort to reinvigorate Russia's shipbuilding and submarine order of battle. During a visit to the Zvezda shipyard at Bolshoy Kamen on Russia's Pacific  Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina said the U.S. "must be prepared" to shoot down Russian jets in Syria, if that's … Read more

Russian warplanes bombed anti-regime targets in Syria for a third day on Friday, and as we outlined in detail earlier, both the West and Russian media have launched an all-out propaganda blitz in an effort to spin the  Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu has set out details of an ambitious effort to reinvigorate Russia's shipbuilding … Read more

You may, or may not, have noticed the growing body of evidence over the past year or two that strongly suggests that the U.S. government and its European “allies” are not really serious about destroying “ISIS”. The first hint  Russia has moved a new weapons system equipped with thermobaric warheads into rebel-held Ukraine while the … Read more

Evloyev was accompanied by servicemen from Interpol, the Russian police, and the Federal Penitentiary Service on his flight from Germany to the Russian capital. "It was established that from September to December 2013 the person of interest was  The rebels Russia targeted recently were among various movements that are aligned against both the Syrian regime … Read more

"Russian air force begins bombing terrorist positions in Syria," screams the front of Russian tabloid Komsomolskaya Pravda. Coverage of Russian air strikes in Syria has been leading news bulletins on Russian state television. Reports spoke of jets Russian warplanes are bombing targets in Syria. But despite a flood of reports to the contrary, Moscow insists … Read more

According to the Russian MoD, that has been quite active on Social Media all day, the air strikes targeted 8 ISIS targets in Syria and involved 20 sorties flown by Russian aircraft and hit “military materiel,communication centres, ammunition and fuel As my colleague Andrew Roth reported earlier this week, the airstrikes are likely an opportunistic … Read more