Torpedo Moscow’s classic emblem with letter ‘T’, a race car and a gear. The classic emblem of Torpedo Moscow football club, which was designed 1930, has been suddenly outlawed by the city police. ­Scarves, flags and banners with the symbol were banned from sale or to be brought into the stadium during the club’s latest home match in the Football National League. According to the... 

A shocking Federal Security Services (FSB) report on the ouster of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov this morning by President Putin links this sudden action to information released by the US Military during their so-called hearing yesterday of one of their top officers Brigadier General Jeffery A. Sinclair. Brigadier General Sinclair [photo 3rd right], before being abruptly relieved of duty, served... 

A deputy from the Smolensk city council, Andrei Yershov, has resigned from his post amid controversy over his comments on benefits for Holocaust survivors. During a mid-October city council debate on granting privileges such as free passage on buses and trains to people who as children were incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps, Yershov wanted to know “why is it that we owe anything”... 

There has been an increasing rate of separation or divorce among couples and this list will show you the top 10 countries with highest divorce rates in 2012. Despite of the legal matrimony and orientation about the sanctity of marriage, whether it is religious based beliefs or principles in life, we could see that the values and morals for marriage relationships are being torn down. The weakening... 

A new agency is about to appear in the rating business that will be created by the Russians, Chinese and Americans. The agency Universal Credit Rating Group that claims to be a global player, came into being in Beijing and is the joint brainchild of the Chinese rating agency Dagong Global, the American Egan-Jones, and Russian RusRating. Earlier, AFP reported that the Chinese rating agency Dagong planned... 

Two years ago, Greece missed the chance to extricate from the crisis with Russia’s help. Nowadays, Russian investments in the country grow and give air to breathe to economies of several regions of Greece, such as the north-east. Russian investors are especially attracted by cheap real estate, tourism and the property that they can buy from the state. “Greece should only give Russia the... 

New space debris could threaten the International Space Station and other space missions after Russian rocket ‘Briz-M’ recently exploded into some 500 fragments, most of which are now floating in low Earth orbit. ­The rocket was previously floating inert in space after it failed on a mission to deliver two satellites to its intended orbits in a botched August launch. The rocket engine stalled... 

Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter (L) and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, met in Moscow on October 25, 2012. Switzerland’s Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter says his country does not support any unilateral sanctions imposed against Iran over its nuclear energy program. Burkhalter told reporters after a Thursday meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in... 

A grim report issued today by Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov states that all Russian nuclear forces and Airborne Troops (VDV) have been ordered by President Putin to extend their full combat alert status put into place by former President Medvedev last November (2011) [watch video HERE] to counter NATO’s missile defense system. According to this report, Putin issued this extraordinary order... 

Soldiers of the 4th Brigade Air Defense (NORAD) air and space defense forces (ASD) during the deployment of the Launcher antiaircraft missile system S-400 “Triumph” at a site in the Moscow region The Russian military will deploy state-of-the-art air defense systems along its southern border by the end of the year, the Defense Ministry announced. “In accordance with the Southern Military... 

Russia plans to spend 101.15 billion rubles on nuclear weapons in 2013-2015, the head of the Defense Committee of the State Duma Vladimir Komoyedov said. “The budget provisions under “The Nuclear Weapons Complex” section in 2013-2015 will amount to 29.28 billion rubles, 33.3 billion rubles and 38.57 billion rubles respectively,” Komoyedov said, Vechernaya Moskva reports. The... 

People’s religious feelings must be respected, but Russia is a secular state, President Vladimir Putin stated in a comment on a recent controversy over a Russian school banning Muslim girls from attending classes while wearing a hijab. “We should see how our neighbors, European states deal with this issue [wearing hijabs]. And everything will become clear,” Putin said on Thursday, at a meeting... 

A member of the Russian State Duma Yevgeny Fyodorov shared his vision of the current situation in the world with Pravda.Ru. He believes that the United States is preparing the grounds for starting World War III. Their plan is to combine all local conflicts together. The United States, when speaking about the fight against terrorism, in fact relies on extremism and terrorism. Currently, the world is... 

Moscow Muslims celebrate Eid Al-Fitr with morning prayers. A nationalist organization has criticized a proposal to construct more mosques in Russia to accommodate an influx of immigrants arriving from Muslim countries in search of employment. “This approach is not totally correct,” Aleksander Belov, chairman of the Russkiye national movement, told reporters on Tuesday. “It is necessary... 

Moscow plans to halt its participation in the Nunn-Lugar Program, in which the US funds Russia’s dismantling of its arsenal of nuclear weapons, a Russian media outlet reported. Russia no longer requires US aid and can continue with the program unassisted, Kommersant daily newspaper reported. In addition, Moscow explained the decision by the necessity to prevent secret data leak. The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative...