1 week agoTraffic on the Transsib was stopped after 25 coal cars derailed in the Amur Region. 4 passenger trains have already been delayed (# 1, # 7, # 12 and # 326)
Bipartisan group of US @HouseForeign Affairs members call on @POTUS @JoeBiden to inform Congress of plan to implement mandatory sanctions laws aimed at stopping Kremlin's NordStream2
1 week agoRussian announced closed zone north to Norway for missile launches from 18th to 24th February
US threat team focused on propaganda/disinformation from Russia, China Iran & counterterrorism, @StateDept Global Engagement Center (GEC) Principal Deputy Coordinator Daniel Kimmage tells @WashInstitute
The European Court of Human Rights has called on Russia to release Alexey @Navalny immediately
1 week agoFire in warehouses in Krasnodar at 1 thousand square meters
Israeli national security adviser Meir Ben Shabbat and hostages coordinator Yaron Bloom travelled to Moscow today for talks with senior Russian officials regarding the citizen who crossed the border into Syria, Israeli officials tell
Russia brokered a prisoner exchange between the Syria n government and Israel. 2 Syrians were released in exchange for an Israeli girl, says SANA news agency
The Turkish Ministry of Defense: The Russian belonging to ISIS who was arrested today while trying to infiltrate from Syria
1 week agoRussia intends to request Belarus to extend the use of 2 Russian military installations on Belarusian territory for another 25 years, until 2046. The current lease for the facilities near Baranavichy and Vileyka expires mid-2021
Snowfalls for several days at Sakhalin. Widespread blackouts
2 week ago45 countries including U.S., Russia, China, and Turkey just wrapped up large naval exercise in Arabian Sea hosted by Pakistan. USS John Paul Jones pictured below (:41)
2 week agoSweden's FM and OSCE CiO Ann Linde accompanied by the European Union Monitoring Mission, visited Administrative Boundary Line with Georgia's Russian-occupied Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia today
Due to snowfall and the threat of avalanches, the Georgian Military Road is closed. At the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint on the Russian side - about 500 trucks
2 week agoFire on the market in Volgograd, the area is already 2 thousand squares
Kremlin denies link between Russia and hackers who have carried out cyberattacks on France
2 week agoIran: Video showing the combined Iran-Russia maritime seat belt exercise that began with the presence of Iranian and Russian navy surface and flight units in the northern Indian Ocean
The Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria has recorded 35 bombings carried out by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham within the de-escalation zone in Idlib
Earthquake of magnitude 5.3 - 71 km NNE of Ozernovskiy, Russia
2 week agoFire at technical building of Valaam Monastery
A fuel tank exploded in New Moscow, a source said.
French cybersecurity agency ANSSI discovered a large-scale "intrusion campaign" carried out between late 2017 to 2020. It linked the attack to Sandworm, a hacker group with ties to the Russian military intelligence agency GRU
Anadolu Agency: The Russian forces form a new faction of local elements under the name of "defense missions" in the city of Qamishli in the countryside of Hasakah Anatolia: Russia has sent, during the past weeks, large reinforcements to Qamishli International Airport, whose strength reached about a thousand soldiers
Putin in a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince discussed the implementation of the OPEC agreements, emphasized the intention to continue close coordination "in the interests of maintaining stability in the global energy market." They also discussed the coronavirus, Syria and the Persian Gulf region
EU human rights sanctions related to the imprisonment of Navalny in the works since last week. Will not be ready at the EU foreign affairs council on 22 Feb but there will some sort of political agreement then with legal adoption likely before EUCO in March
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev announced the start of construction of a railway from Russia to Iran
2 week agoMinistry of Emergency Situations Ilyushin Il-76TD SUM9125 airborne from Yerevan Armenia
The Superjet is returning to the airport of departure on the Moscow-Chelyabinsk route due to technical problems, an informed source told Interfax.
Lavrov also says in the press conference with Finnish FM Haavisto that Russia likes the fact Finland isn't in Nato.
Russia is not leaving Europe, will separately develop relations with EU countries - Lavrov
