1 month agoRusLine Antonov An-24 (RA-47315, built 1976) was seriously damaged when its left wingtip struck a pole after veering off the unpaved runway on landing Bodaybo Airport, Siberia, Russia. None of the 24 passengers aboard a flight from Ust-Kut were hurt.
Rescue teams find 8 bodies inside burning potash mine in Russia's Ural Mountains; 1 worker still missing after fire cut off access, trapping 9 of the 17 miners
1 month agoIn Dmitrievka, Tambov region, central Russia, up to 3,000 people joined a protest against the proposed solid waste landfill. Environmental protests are on the rise in Russia this year:
This is a space launch from the far east launch site in Vostochniy; the third stage of the launch vehicle is marginally suborbital and will splash in the mid Atlantic. There are some US secondary payloads on the launch. (@planetlabs)
1 month agoDue to a Russian missile launch, New York Oceanic FIR isn't accepting flights within the proposed splashdown area in the Atlantic, DEC 27 through DEC 30
Bodies of 8 miners found after fire at mine in Solikamsk
Airborne from Latakia AB, Syria Returning to Moscow with Assad's thank-you note for the early Christmas present Putin sent Russia Russian Air Force An124 RA82035 RFF8395
26 000 people are without heat in Saratov in freezing temperatures cause of multiple pipebreaks
Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow expresses its disappointment with the results of the vote in the General Assembly on the missile treaty
Two members of Russian protest group Pussy Riot have been denied asylum in Sweden, meaning the couple and their two young children could be deported back to their homeland.
Inbound Latakia AB, Syria Russia RuAF IL76 RF86906
Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, has said that "the departure of James Mattis is a positive signal for Russia
1 month ago"Now that the Russian playbook is out in the open, we're going to see more and more adversaries trying to take advantage" per @MarkWarner "Congress has to step up and enact some much-needed guardrails on social media"
[email protected]: There has never been a president who has been tougher (but fair) on China or Russia - Never, just look at the facts. The Fake News tries so hard to paint the opposite picture.
1 month agoRuAF Il-76 RF76740 from Mozdok to Latakia
An An-26 with a three-man Russian crew crashed in the Democratic Republic of Congo after a delivery of election materials.
1 month ago3 detained in Moscow for demos in support of Sentsov and Ukrainian sailors
1 month agoRussian Ministry of Defense gives newly launched Blagovest No. 13L satellite an official (public) designation – Kosmos-2533
1 month agoRussia launched Proton-M with Ministry of Defense satellite from Baikonur
1 month agoRussia to retaliate against UK for investigations into RT broadcaster, says Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. (@BBC certain to be targeted.)
Russia opens investigation into BBC broadcasts in the country, a day after the UK found Kremlin-backed channel RT guilty of breaking British regulations
1 month agoA Hawker 800XP business jet (reg M-VITO), reportedly owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, landed at Wilson Airport (WIL, HKNW), Nairobi, Kenya three days ago. Rumor is that it landed after closing, IE no ATC, no runway lights, no immigration.
1 month agoThe Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issues a tsunami warning of waves possible for coasts located within 300km of the epicenter
Very strong quake off Bering Island, Russia. Initial estimated magnitude between 7.3 and 7.8 per various seismographs.
1 month agoMilitary convoy in Krasnodar Krai on the way to Kerch
The OSCE delivers its Moscow Mechanism Expert Report on Serious Human Rights abuses in Chechnya against the LGBT, confirming "torture, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial executions."
Russia pushing big amount of military equipment to the North Crimea
[email protected]: ..Russia, Iran, Syria and many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us. I am building by far the most powerful military in the world. ISIS hits us they are doomed.
1 month agoPutin: Even as a NATO member, Turkey follows independent foreign policy, which we value very much. We hope Erdogan will stay the course.
Putin: Russian journalists in the CAR could have been killed by local groups, but there is no reliable data yet. The situation is monitored via diplomatic channels
