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Tue, 18 May 2021 15:52:00 +0300
Putin and Xi Jinping to launch construction of new nuclear power facility
On May 19, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in an online ceremony to mark the launch of the construction of the Russian-Chinese nuclear power facility, official representative of the PRC Foreign Ministr...

Mon, 17 May 2021 18:08:00 +0300
USA to sell Israel high-precision weapons worth $735 million
The United States will sell Israel high-precision weapon totalling $735 million amid escalating conflict with Palestine, The Washington Post reports citing knowledgeable sources. According to the newspaper, the Joe Biden administration informed US Co...

Mon, 17 May 2021 17:13:00 +0300
Pentagon creates 60,000-strong army of spies
Over the past decade, the United States has created a secret, multi-thousand-strong army, whose members carry out various tasks both inside and outside the USA, Newsweek reports as a result of an extensive two-year journalistic investigation. Accordi...

Mon, 17 May 2021 15:49:00 +0300
NED officials tell Russian pranksters Russia would see hard times ahead
Russian pranksters Vovan (Vladimir Kuznetsov) and Lexus (Alexei Stolyarov) made a prank call to the NED administration (the National Endowment for Democracy - an organization, the activities of which are recognised undesirable in Russia) on behalf of...

Fri, 14 May 2021 20:36:00 +0300
Armenia's Pashinyan asks Putin for military assistance
Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan stated that during a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin he requested military assistance from Russia, Interfax reports. According to him, on May 13, the politicians agreed to ...

Fri, 14 May 2021 16:17:00 +0300
China installs its own aircraft engines on J-10C fighter jets
The Air Force of the People's Liberation Army of China start receiving fourth-generation J-10C multi-purpose fighter jets equipped with locally made WS-10B Taihang engines instead of the Russian AL-31F series aircraft engines, Defense News reports, c...

Wed, 12 May 2021 16:45:00 +0300
JP Morgan Chase CEO teaches Ohio University graduates lesson of life
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon believes that dealing with failure is life's most important trial.   “I’m always hesitant to give advice, because it sounds like I did everything right,” Dimon said, “but I assure you, I did not. All of you hav...

Thu, 06 May 2021 13:55:00 +0300
Sputnik V loses to Moderna for obvious reason
Moderna's recognition as best coronavirus vaccine comes as an economic and political move of the World Congress, Alexander Gintsburg, director of the Gamaleya Research Center for Electrochemistry said, RIA Novosti reports. "The number of deaths cause...

Wed, 05 May 2021 17:15:00 +0300
Russian spy ships intercept UK's largest flotilla
Russian warships intercepted the largest flotilla of the Royal Navy, British media report. UK's largest naval flotilla in the past forty years, led by HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier, went to sea and was immediately intercepted by Russian spy sh...

Tue, 04 May 2021 19:34:00 +0300
India to buy hundreds of light tanks from Russia
The Indian Ministry of Defense published a request (Request for information, RFI) for the possible purchase of 350 combat vehicles weighing up to 25 tons each. The decision of the Indian military is based on last year's clashes in the Galvan Valley, ...

Thu, 29 Apr 2021 16:47:00 +0300
Turkey prepares to launch hundreds of missiles on Syria
Turkish armed forces are preparing to launch missile attacks on the northern border of Syria, where parts of the government forces of Damascus are deployed, Avia.pro reports. According to the website, the Turkish authorities are planning a volley fir...

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:36:00 +0300
Turkish nationalists urge to active S-400 systems immediately
The head of Turkey's nationalist party, Devlet Bahceli, proposed to urgently use Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems after US President Joe Biden recognised the Armenian genocide, the Turkish Agenda Telegram channel wrote. “We believe that ...

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:17:00 +0300
European Parliament to consider Russia's disconnection from SWIFT
The European Parliament included a proposal to disconnect Russia from SWIFT international payment system in its resolution, RIA Novosti reports. Reportedly, in the draft document, MEPs also propose to refuse from the Russian oil and gas and to stop t...

Wed, 28 Apr 2021 15:24:00 +0300
US reconnaissance aircraft fly to Russian Black Sea borders
US reconnaissance aircraft flew to Russian borders in the Black Sea region, the Military Observer Telegram channel said on April 28, citing Flightradar. "It is again "crowded" at the Russian borders on the Black Sea today," the post on the channel sa...

Tue, 27 Apr 2021 17:53:00 +0300
Iranian Foreign Ministry furious over NYT leak
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh commented on the remarks from the head of the ministry, Mohammad Javad Zarif, about negotiations with Russia on the nuclear deal, as well as on the role of the former commander of the Islamic Revol...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 15:08:00 +0300
Turkey shows destruction of Russia's Pantsir missile system
Turkish company Roketsan posted a video on Twitter, in which a high-precision small-sized ammunition with a laser homing head MAM-T destroys an anti-aircraft missile system reminiscent of a Russian-made Pantsir missile complex.  The video shows the ...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:16:00 +0300
Russia shows Turkey how it can down Bayraktar TB2 drones
Russia showed the destruction of the Turkish UAV Bayraktar TB2, which was destroyed by the Russian kamikaze drone Lancet. The animated video was cut from a report of the Russian TV channel "Rossiya-1" and posted on a Turkish YouTube channel. The atte...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 19:04:00 +0300
US Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk makes reconnaissance flight above Crimea
The RQ-4B Global Hawk strategic unmanned aerial vehicle of the US Air Force conducted a reconnaissance flight in Crimean airspace, which was declared temporarily dangerous and closed for flights, Interfax reports.  It was said that the US UAV took o...

Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:10:00 +0300
Biden preferred Germany to Nord Stream 2 sanctions
US President Joe Biden did not impose sanctions against the construction of the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline not to spoil relations with Germany, Alan Kafruni, a professor of international relations at Hamilton College, USA, an expert at the Va...

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:34:00 +0300
In India, crematoriums work non-stop and melt as COVID deaths rise
In India, furnaces of local crematoria started melting being unable to handle the overwhelming quantity of bodies of those who died from the coronavirus infection, Al Jazeera reports, noting that the Indian government is underreporting the COVID-19 d...



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