Why are Russian paratroopers heading for Nicaragua?
On April 3 a delegation from the Russian Airborne Troops command flew to the Nicaraguan capital of Managua to discuss future joint drills. However, it’s still unclear when exactly these will take...
View ArticleChemical strike in Syria: Who is behind it and what might happen next?
The April 4 chemical attack in the city of Khan Shaykhun in Syria's northern province of Idlib, which killed at least 72 people, was first reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. “One of...
View ArticleMoscow ready to cooperate with U.S. in combating terrorism in any framework
Russia is ready to cooperate with the United States in the fight against terrorism in any format, if Washington shows interest in doing so, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told reporters...
View ArticleHow Malaysia can keep its MiGs and save billions
Malaysia is looking for a replacement for its twenty-two year old MiG-29 fleet. France wants to sell its Rafale medium fighter to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF). Having tasted success in the...
View ArticleFreedom house: Democracy takes a hit in the former Soviet Union
Russia is one of the least free countries in Eastern Europe, according to experts from Freedom House, an independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom and democracy around the...
View ArticleTax-free pilot system will be implemented in 40 stores across Russia
Tax-free pilot system planned to be launched in the autumn of this year, will be implemented in 40 stores across Russia, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in an interview aired by the Rossiya-1 TV...
View ArticleWhy can't Russia supply itself with apples?
According to the Polish newspaper Dziennik Gazeta Prawna, Poland is exporting an increasing number of apples to Russia. Before sanctions were imposed on Russia in 2014, the country was receiving about...
View ArticleTop 5 journalist / commentator Twitter accounts to follow in Russia
There are many theories on why Russian-American relations are not particularly great. They range from variances in worldview, political systems, weather, and religion. Not to mention, the capacity for...
View ArticleRussia suspends memorandum on flight safety over Syria with U.S.
Moscow suspends the memorandum on the prevention of incidents and on ensuring safety of flights over Syria, concluded with the United States, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on April...
View ArticleExperts forecast difficult years ahead as terror attacks rise in Russia
In the early hours of April 4, just 10 hours after the blast on the St. Petersburg metro, a heinous crime was committed in Astrakhan, a city 800 miles southeast of Moscow. Two traffic police officers...
View ArticlePutin calls U.S. attack on Syria 'aggression against a sovereign country'
The U.S. strike against Syria’s facilities is an aggression and impairs both the Russian-U.S. relations and the common fight against terrorism, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told...
View ArticleState Duma deputy: U.S. warned Russia about strike 2 hours before attack
Chairman of the State Duma’s Defense Committee Vladimir Shamanov told TASS that no Russian personnel were present at the airbase in the Syrian city of Homs during the attack on an airbase by U.S....
View ArticleYevtushenko to be buried next to Pasternak, as he wished
The funeral of the late Soviet and Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko will take place in the writers’ village of Peredelkino, near Moscow. The final wish of Yevtushenko – who passed away aged 84 on April...
View ArticleRadical Uzbek link suspected in St. Petersburg metro blast
Following the April 3 terrorist attack on the St. Petersburg metro, the number of anonymous bomb threats in Russia has skyrocketed, the Kommersant newspaper reports, citing a law enforcement source....
View ArticleZbigniew Brzezinski: Russia should form a closer union with U.S. and China
President Jimmy Carter’s former national security advisor, and now a senior trustee at the Center for International and Strategic Studies in Washington D.C, Zbigniew Brzezinski recently spoke to...
View ArticleSwiss professor beats Elon Musk to scoop Global Energy Prize
Seventy-two-year-old chemist Michael Gratzel has become the 2017 Global Energy Prize laureate. The news was announced by the award’s organizing committee during a press conference in Moscow on April 6....
View ArticleRussians believe their life would not change without Internet
Almost half of Russians believe their life would not change without the Internet, a survey conducted by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center showed on April 7. "The hypothetical disappearance of...
View Article5 must-read books to understand the Russian Revolution
Alexander Blok, the poem 'The Twelve' Illustration for "The Twelve." Source: Yury Annenkov To begin with, influential lyrical poet Alexander Blok enthusiastically welcomed the revolution, seeing it as...
View ArticleLyubovnitsa salad is a kitchen mistress that Soviet wives were proud of
Pirozhki: A labor of loveDiehard foodies are first surprised by the provocative name of this salad — Lyubovnitsa — which can be translated as “mistress.” This nourishing salad, made of vegetables and...
View ArticleThe Massive Walls of Solovki: From Prokukdin-Gorsky to the present
At the beginning of the 20th century the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky invented a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography (see box text below). Inspired to use...
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