Arrests in Moscow After Anti-Putin Protests
Russian activists detained after protests over results of criticized election which kept Putin’s United Russia in power. Hundreds of Russian opposition supporters are being held by police following overnight protests in Moscow against the results of Sunday’s parliamentary elections. About 250 people were detained on Tuesday morning and More...
Russia Sends Black Sea Fleet Ship to Mediterranean
The Ladny patrol ship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has left its home port of Sevastopol and headed to the Mediterranean Sea to join a group of ships of the Russian Northern and Baltic Fleets, the Russian Black More...
Russian Navy drills in Mediterranean ‘unrelated to Syria’
The dispatch of a Russian Navy task force to the Mediterranean Sea is part of a scheduled exercise and is not connected to the situation in Syria, General Staff chief Nikolai Makarov said on Tuesday. “We are More...
Putin Officially Nominated Candidate 2012 Presidential Polls
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was officially nominated as a candidate for the March 2012 presidential elections at a congress of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party at Moscow’s Luzhniki Arena on Sunday. All More...
Russia’s Baltic Radar Ready for Operation
Russia’s radar station in the Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad will monitor missile launches from the North Atlantic, as well as the future European missile defense system, the Aerospace Defense Forces chief said More...
Russia’s Missile Defense ‘Call for Dialogue’
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev’s remarks about possible countermeasures against a European missile defense system were not a signal for confrontation but a message that Russia and its international partners More...
Moscow Mayor Pledges no Gay Pride Parades
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reiterated on Thursday his opposition to the holding of gay pride events in the Russian capital. “My opinion has not changed,” Sobyanin told the Moscow-based Ekho-Moskvy radio station. More...
Russian Air Defense Can Intercept Hypersonic Missles Of Any Type
Russia’s air defense system will have the capability to intercept any type of missiles, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Tuesday. “The integration of Aerospace Defense Systems will make it possible More...
Russian Warships to Syrian Waters
Russian warships are on route to Syrian territorial waters in a move that sends a clear message from Moscow that they would not allow any foreign intervention into Syria’s civil unrest. Syria’s President Bashar More...
New Missle Shield S-500 build in Russia
Russia’s Almaz-Antey concern will build two plants to manufacture formidable S-500 air defense systems, Chief of the General Staff Gen. Nikolai Makarov said. “We gave Almaz-Antey two years to build two plants, More...