The Foreign Ministry confirmed the arrest of a Russian on the island of Saipan - it seems he flew there with his family on vacation. And he is not 72 years old, but 39 years old.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dunford spoke with his Russian counterpart Gen. Valery Gerasimov by phone today. "The conversation focused on issues of mutual concern in Syria to include continual commitment to operational deconfliction," according to Dunford's spokesman
Pirates near Benin attacked MSC Mandy vessel, kidnapped 6 Russian crew members
2 week agoRussian airstrike in Darat Izza, Western Aleppo.
Paul Whelan, the U.S. ex-Marine held in Russia on espionage charges, is also a citizen of Ireland. He has sought consular assistance from the four countries where he holds passports.
[email protected]: How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%
2 week agoSpecial police forces on the Lenina street in Magnitogorsk
2 week agoFour-story building has collapsed In Novocherkassk
Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 - 77km ENE of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Russia
Paul Whelan, the American detained in Moscow under unclear circumstances, has been charged with espionage, Interfax reports, citing a source
Mayor of Magnitogorsk denied connection between gas explosion and car explosion
A three-year-old boy was taken to hospital in Derbent with a gunshot wound after he went with his parents to a New Year's fireworks
Russian Ministry of Defense: 68 000 Russian army servicemen took part in operation in Syria as of today
2 week agoRussian Air Defense S-400 units held a drill near Sartov
International investigative media @OCCRP claim that the former Russia's Deputy PM Khristenko and his wife, the current Deputy PM Golikova accumulated unexplained wealth of ~$360 million
3 week agoRosBalt is reporting that detained US citizen Paul Whelan was "detained red-handed" in the Metropol hotel with Russian state secrets. This info he supposedly had listed employees of Russian security services.
Detained American Paul Whelan has met with U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman. 'Ambassador Huntsman expressed his support for Mr. Whelan and offered the embassy's assistance,' State Department spokesman says in statement.
30 bodies extracted from a rubble of an apartment block in Magnitogorsk, 6 children among them
3 week agoTrump: "Russia used to be the Soviet Union. Afghanistan made it Russia because they went bankrupt fighting in Afghanistan. Russia." Trump then goes on to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Fox.
"Russia and Iran, everything we're doing over there helps them" per @POTUS, adding Moscow Tehran don't want US to leave Syria "We're down to final blows" vs ISIS, per Trump
3 week agoIt's old information
Old video from 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_l_24UEYOU RUSSIA: This guy was driving from Crimea to Moscow and stepped aside on the highway to film a massive Russian Military Column moving towards Rostov-On-Don. Man said 'these guys are going to soak the donbas soil in blood'.
Russia says U.S. officials have visited a detained U.S. citizen accused of spying
Global Affairs responds to CBC query about Paul Whelan, the Ottawa-born former U.S. Marine being held in Russia: 'Consular officials are aware that a Canadian citizen has been arrested in Russia. Due to the provisions of the Privacy Act, no further information can be disclosed.'
3 week agoVietnam receives first Russian-made T-90S tanks
Armenia's Acting PM Pashinyan says he sealed new gas supply agreement with Russia on 31 December, which entails increase in price from $150 to $165 per 1,000 cubic meters. Pashinyan implausibly insists that household won't experience any tariff increases.
@SecPompeo hopeful for US consular access today to Paul Whelan, arrested in Moscow. It's "our expectation that we will learn more about the charges, come to understand what he's been accused of, and if the detention is not appropriate we will demand his immediate return"
Serbia's opposition politician: Moscow supports Belgrade, Putin despises Vucic
Rescuers have extracted bodies of a child and a man from the rubble in Magnitogorsk, death toll at 18. 23 people missing
The NRA, which pumped $30 million into Trump campaign, says it took money from 23 Russia-linked donors
Putin extends restrictions on transit of Ukrainian goods to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
