2 year agoMilitary personnel in Plesetsk just began fueling of a Soyuz-2 rocket for a liftoff with a classified payload in a few hours, for the first time since SoyuzMS10 accident.
Russian President Putin warned Wednesday that if the United States deploys intermediate-range missiles in Europe, Russia will have to target the nations that would host them.
1 killed in flooding in Tuapse district of Krasnodar Krai, 7 settlements flooded
Collapse of arms control treaties would lead to new "arms race", Putin says
Iran, Turkey and Russia have agreed on two-thirds of a new constitution for Syria; hope to complete final draft soon- Officials.
2 year agoRoad accident with APC in Voronezh
Russia proposes Argentina to conduct joint anti-drug operations - ambassador
The Cabinet of Ministers of the Russian Federation is considering the introduction of refinery licenses for the export of petroleum products
2 year agoInfographic on Russian arms deals
DPRK official meets with Russian senator amid summit speculation
2 year agoPresident Ilham Aliyev received Russian Minister of Internal Affairs
2 year agoItalian Prime Minister Conte to Putin: I would like you to visit Italy in the very near future. You have not been in Italy for too long, and I really would not want the Italian people to get the impression that you are not paying proper attention to them.
NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg: "I don't foresee that Allies will station more nuclear weapons in Europe as a response to the new Russian missile" and Russia's violation of the 1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear forces Treaty that the Trump administration has pledged to quit
An EP resolution supported by the main political groups and set to be adopted tomorrow urges EU Member States to make it clear that the "targeted sanctions against Russia will be reinforced in case of further escalation of the conflict in the Azov Sea."
Russia fails to sell 10B rubles in bond auction: only 4.19B sold
Peskov says Putin is ready to visit U.S.
2 year agoNATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg stresses the importance of the INFTreaty, but says: "We cannot have a Treaty between two parties that is only respected by one of them Russia needs to come into compliance in a transparent and verifiable way."
2 year agoAn unknown aircraft appears to have caught fire and burned at Krasnodar Airport (KRR, URKK), Russia. But it turned out to be a planned exercise to train local firefighters and rescuers.
Russian Defense Minister Shoigu in Minsk says that NATO shows huge activity at "our western borders", claims that Russian huge military activity is a myth
Residents of Ingushetia began to massively file complaints to Roskomnadzor about the disconnection of the mobile Internet
2 year agoIn the Vladimir region there was a breakthrough of the main gas pipeline
Russian Defense minister arrived in Minsk for joint meeting of Belarus and Russian Ministries of Defense
Patrushev noted the increase in the level of terrorist activity in Siberia
2 year agoDuring a 39-minute session in the Oval Office with reporters present, @POTUS said "we may" meet with Russia President Putin in Paris, saying his advisers overseas were working that out. "I think something good could come out of that," he added.
2 year agoPresident Trump calls Middle East a "nasty part of the world," says Saudi Arabia is a "very good ally of ours." "I will tell you: Russia and China would love to have that military order."
MFA Pavlo Klimkin: actions of the aggressor-state that it attempts to call "sanctions" are no more, but continuing aggression
2 year agoRussian Navy "Admiral Gorshkov" frigate test fired "Poliment - Redut" surface-to-air missile system, naval version of S-350E Vityaz.
2 year agoAn escalator failed at Repubblica station of metro in Rome
At least 20 Russian football fans were injured when a metro escalator in a busy Rome metro station collapsed on Tuesday night, local media reported.
2 year agoEscalator at Rome metro station malfunctions, several injuries reported
2 year agoSerious incident in Rome metro station after that allegedly CSKA Moscow fans jumping on escalator provoked collapse. 20 fans injured, 10 in serious condition, 1 had foot amputated.
A Russian fan has been stabbed and two bruised in clashes between Cska and Rome hooligans near Ponte Duca D'Aosta in Rome. Police used water cannon
2 year agoKremlin: Meeting with Assistant to the US President for National Security Affairs John Bolton
It's estimated one third to one half of China ballistic missiles would violate INF if they were a party to the treaty, adds @AmbJohnBolton.
"This is not a subject that arose yesterday," says @AmbJohnBolton about Russia violations of INF treaty.
During talks in Moscow @AmbJohnBolton says he had discussions about continuing concerns of Russia meddling in US elections, as well as arms control.
2 year agoIn Moscow @AmbJohnBolton says @POTUS looks forward to talking with Russia President Putin in Paris.
Bolton confirms that Putin and Trump will meet in Paris on November 11 - "We will make the precise arrangements on that, but it will happen on the 100th year celebration of the armistice."
"If you also believe that your political system will not succeed without a high degree of ubiquitous surveillance than you have a high degree of interest in AI" per former IARPA director Jason Matheny re Russia China
"If you have very little face in your own human capital to exercise your own political willthen you're very interested in autonomy" of AI systems, per Matheny tells @CFR_org
Putin: "As far as I can remember, the US seal depicts an eagle on one side holding 13 arrows, and on the other side an olive branch with 13 olives. Here's the question: Did your eagle already eat all the olives and only the arrows are left"
2 year agoBolton-Putin meeting has begun at the Kremlin. US side looks to be same as for Bolton visit in June: Amb. Huntsman and NSC's Fiona Hill + Joe Wang.
Yesterday, for the first time, US Air Force aircraft RC-135V carried out reconnaissance flight along the coast of Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia. It flew for about 15 minutes from Russian border to Sukhumi.
2 year agoRussian PM Medvedev: sanctions against Ukraine will hit hundreds of persons and entities, including famous people
Stavropol Krai cossacks demand from authorities to request Naurskiy and Shelkovskiy district of Chechnya to be included in Stavropol Krai, like in Ingushetiya land deal
US and Uzbekistan signed investment deals worth $2.5B in Tashkent. Chair of the US-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce told Uzbek officials that Americans will invest more in the Central Asian country than Russia pledged ($27B) after Putin's visit last week
[email protected] got a State Dept cable that reported @RandPaul is lobbying to lift Russia sanctions and to negotiate (not withdraw) from the INF Treaty.
Moldova’s pro-Russian President Igor Dodon said on Tuesday that Russian Patriarch Kirill will visit Moldova from October 27 to 28 – a shorter visit than the four-day trip that was initially announced.
2 year ago"Russia 1" state TV show phone conversation with witness of Kerch school shooting, student of college, Alina Kerova, but girl with same name listed as died in shooting
2 year agoThe BBC's @sarahrainsford asks John Bolton in Moscow if the US' decision to pull out of the INF treaty is a dangerous step and a return to the Cold War
Video: Bolton laying the wreath at Nemtsov memorial
Russian authorities called information about bread price hike a provocation
US Cyber Command has begun operations against Russians trying to influence midterm elections. The so called direct messaging campaign to deter Russian propoganda efforts is first cyber operations to defend US vote.
Body of 5th killed in explosion at Avangard plant near St.Petersburg was found
The Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev has refused from the services of advocates Kheda Ibrieva and Andrei Sabinin. Ingushetia advocates oppositioner
Kremlin supports proposal of foreigners share in news aggregation companies
2 year agoRussian Minister of Defense met with Bolton
2 year agoActivists in Komi block a planned new garbage dump for waste from Moscow, 1,000 miles to the south.
2 year agoBolton's Moscow wreath diplomacy: one to the Tomb of Unknown Soldier, one to the unofficial Boris Nemtsov memorial.
In interview with Russian paper, @kommersant , John Bolton suggests he believes there's "zero probability" the INF treaty can be saved. Says it would need not just Russia , but also China (which isn't part of the treaty) to give up about half its missiles
Russian Ministry of Defense allocates additional money to watch military cadets activity online
High-ranking officials of the Russian region of Dagestan issued health insurance to ISIS militants before they being sent to Syria - region chairman Vasiliev
2 year agoRuAF Tu-154M "Careless" RA-85041 Moscow - Kaliningrad.
2 year agoRussian Navy Baltic fleet Project 20380 corvettes SOOBRAZITELNY 531 and STOIKY 545 left Kaliningrad for a "long distance voyage" in the North Atlantic, accompanied by the oiler KOLA and KONETSKY, the inevitable tug.
