Russia may destroy US missile defence facilities in Europe
Tweet Moscow: Russia is ready to destroy US missile defence facilities in Europe if Moscow considers them as real threats, Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has said. “(The deployment) raises our certain concerns, therefore we will destroy the missile defence,” Xinhua quoted Serdyukov as telling reporters Friday. He said that the Russian forces would not need [...]
Tweet St. Petersburg: A 261,000-acre national park in Russia’s Far East created to protect Amur leopards began operating this week. “This is the first Russian national park created expressly to protect wildlife,” said presidential chief of staff Sergei Ivanov, who is chairman of the supervisory council of the Eurasian Center for Leopard Population Research, Preservation [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A convict who fled a prison in Russia on a helicopter bought himself the opportunity with a bribe of 10,000 rubles (around $340), prosecutors said. Prison officials had illegally removed 35-year-old Alexei Shestakov from a list of convicts likely to try to escape from prison in 2011. This allowed him to enjoy a [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A Russian battalion commander who died after diving on a grenade to protect others has been posthumously awarded the country’s highest honour, the “Hero of the Russian Federation”. According to the Kremlin website, Major Sergei Solnechnikov pushed a soldier away from a grenade and threw himself over it after it bounced back into [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A Russian has been sentenced to 15 months behind bars after his dog accidentally triggered a shot from his rifle that killed a friend on a hunting trip. Igor Solomin, 44, was jailed after his dog fired the shot from a hunting rifle when he and his friends were driving in a woodland [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russia has said it is not going to replace NATO in Afghanistan after the alliance forces’ withdrawal from the country. The US and NATO forces are scheduled to hand over security responsibility to the Afghan forces and end combat mission by 2014, Xinhua reported. Speaking to Russia Today TV channel Wednesday, Russian envoy [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russia’s envoy to the UN has accused Libya of running a training centre for Syrian rebels combating the “legal government” of President Bashar al-Assad. “We are concerned by reports that in Libya, with the support of the authorities, there is a special training centre for the so-called Syrian revolutionaries,” Vitaly Churkin told the [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A Russian woman has been arrested after she attempted to sell her five-year-old son for 300,000 rubles (around $10,000), officials said. The woman from the far eastern Khabarovsk region was arrested Tuesday, the regional investigation committee said. Investigators said the woman asked for 800,000 rubles (around $27,500) for her son but the amount [...]
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Tweet Moscow:L Russia will continue with the overhaul of its missile defence unless the US drops its plans for a European missile shield or proposes a scheme for a joint effort, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. “This does not mean the beginning of confrontation, but it means that we cannot treat their (US) plans indifferently [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Seven militants were killed in an operation in Russia’s Chechnya region, an official said Friday. The five-day operation was carried out in the eastern Chechen border with Dagestan, Xinhua reported. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the militants belonged to a group suspected of conducting terrorist acts. Thirteen government troopers were killed in the [...]
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