Contents tagged with Russia
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Russia prepares for escalation in Syria after Biden comes to power
Russia is preparing for worsening of the situation in Syria after the Democrats come to power in the United States. Russian officials believe that the Democrats plan to change the policy of Donald Trump on non-interference in the Syrian conflict.
On Monday, January 11, a large landing ship Saratov passed through the Bosphorus Strait in the direction of the Russian base in Tartus.
According to Interfax, the ship entered the Mediterranean Sea, where the Russian flotilla of more than ten …
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Another European company withdraws from Nord Stream 2 project
European companies continue to flee the Nord Stream 2 project under the threat of US sanctions.
After the U.S. State Department began sending out warnings demanding leaving the construction, "until it was too late", the Danish engineering corporation Ramboll decided to abandon cooperation with Russian gas giant Gazprom.
According to Politiken, the company with a 70-year history, the largest in Denmark in the engineering and architecture sector, decided to stop participating in the …
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Number of Russia’s space launches falls to lowest level in 12 years
Russian Space Agency’s ambitious plans to "raise the Russian space industry from its knees” are back on paper.
For the second year in a row, the Roscosmos State Corporation has failed the government's plan on the number of space launches.
By the end of 2020, Russia conducted 16 launches. 7 of them were from the Baikonur and Plesetsk cosmodromes, one from Vostochny and one from Kura, RIA Novosti reported.
The final result was three times lower than the plan announced by Roscosmos in December 2 …
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Navalny returning to Russia
On January 17, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will return to Russia from Germany, where he was treated after being poisoned.
"The question of "coming or not coming back " was never there before me. This is because I never left. I ended up in Germany, after being brought there in the intensive care box, because of one reason - they tried to kill me. I survived. And now Putin, who gave the order for my murder, is screaming in his bunker and tells his servants to do everything so that I …
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China scooping up bankrupt Russian defense companies
Russian media, citing informed sources, reports a sharp increase in the activity of the Chinese authorities in the Russian Federation. The sources said that Russian special services are investigating purchases through front persons of Russian defense companies and holdings, which are going through bankruptcy.
This allowed China to gain access to some of the technologies that have been previously de facto closed to it. The seizure of the Saratov Aviation Plant and the Volgograd Shipbuilding …
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Media: Biden will be tougher opponent of Nord Stream 2 than Trump
After his inauguration, President-elect Joe Biden will take a tougher position toward the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, reports the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagensbladet.
As evidence, journalists cite the fact that during the time when Biden was vice president of the United States, he already opposed the construction of the pipeline. In addition, the United States plans to introduce new expanded sanctions against Nord Stream-2 in the near future. Such sanctions can make it impossible, or at least …
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In 2014 Ukraine was preparing to drive Russian troops out of Crimea
Ukraine knew about Russia’s imminent invasion of Crimea as early as January 2014, reports Krym.Realii. The then head of the Ukrainian General Staff, Volodymyr Zamana, confirmed that on January 31, 2014, paratroopers and special forces were put into combat readiness state. Ukrainian elite units were preparing to oust the Russian military from the territory of the peninsula.
According to former Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council Serhiy Kryvonos, who then headed a regiment of …
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LPR leader preparing to resign and leave Donbas
The leader of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) Leonid Pasechnik may soon leave his post, reported the separatist Telegram channel "Secrets of the Luhansk Republic" with reference to informed sources.
The channel admitted that Pasechnik has no power in LPR. Because of this, he wants to leave Luhansk. However, according to the Telegram channel, Moscow has been refusing to give him permission.
"Pasechnik has been trying unsuccessfully for two years to leave the post of the head of …
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Putin: Russian FSB successfully counters terrorist threats originating from Syria
The Federal Security Service (FSB) is successfully countering threats originating from Syria, said Russian President Vladimir Putin on air of Rossiya 1 TV channel.
"Everything that our security agencies, including the Federal Security Service, are fighting against is of Syrian origin. Or not "Syrian." The threat, I repeat, comes from these territories," he said.
Russian military entered Syria in 2015. The head of the General Staff, Army General Valery Gerasimov, reported in December 2017 that …
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Ukrainian intelligence: Russia may invade Kherson region
The Russian army may attack the Kherson region, reported the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence Service.
It is noted that before the annexation of Crimea by Russia, mainland Ukraine provided up to 85% of the peninsula's needs for fresh water. Thus, Russia "can, under a far-fetched pretext, move deep into the Kherson region in order to capture the north-Crimean Canal dam."
According to the Ukrainian Foreign Intelligence, at the moment, the Kremlin is counting on the COVID-19 pandemic to improve …