A bizarre report prepared by the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation that is circulating in the Kremlin today on the joint US-Russia military drills taking place next month in the State of Colorado says that the plans received from the Americans call for Russian Airborne Troops (VDV) during this strange exercise to “take and hold” the Central Intelligence Agencies (CIA) main facility,... 

China will send 16 naval ships and two submarines to its first joint naval exercise with Russia, slated to start this weekend in the Yellow Sea, the Ministry of National Defense said on Tuesday. The drill, which Russian authorities said will involve warships cruising near Japanese waters, has rattled the nerves of media from Japan and South Korea. Japanese media speculated that the move is aimed at... 

Moscow has the largest Muslim population in Europe, with four mosques in the city serving more than two million people. The country has become a multi-confessional state in which Muslims and Christians have had to learn to live together. But according to experts, every day the problems connected with international and religious issues come up. On April 10, murder of the representative of the Azerbaijani... 

The Voronezh DM radar station, a part of the Aerospace Defense System, in the Kaliningrad region. A Russian missile defense radar could be placed in Transdniester in reply to US plans for a European AMD system, a newspaper reported as Russia’s special envoy Dmitry Rogozin began his first trip to the region. Nezavisimaya Gazeta quoted an unnamed source as saying that “Russia intends to maintain... 

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared by the Foreign Ministry on the planned re-opening of talks with Japan over the disputed Kuril Islands during the next fortnight states that Russian diplomats were “stunned” after being told by their Japanese counterparts that upwards of 40 million of their peoples were in “extreme danger” of life threatening radiation poisoning and could... 

Russia has disassociated itself from the language used in a statement on fundamental human rights and freedoms by the G8 Foreign Ministers Meeting Chair, as the document listed both gays and bisexuals as separate groups. Foreign Ministry spokesman Sergey Ryabkov told reporters that Russia considers inadmissible any aggressive propaganda and imposing of ways of life and values that could insult the... 

Russia is building up forces in the Caucasus region, preparing to protect its interests in case Israel attacks Iran with the help of the United States, the western media said. GenerationalDynamics.com and the Business Insider said the Russian military believes that when the US goes to war with Iran, it may deploy forces in friendly Georgia and warships in the Caspian Sea with the possible help of... 

A speech by the Russian Defense Minister promising to modernize his army caused a firestorm in the Western media – which accused Russia of developing mind control weapons that turn people into zombies. The truth is more complex, but no less scary. ­“The development of weaponry based on new physics principles – direct-energy weapons, geophysical weapons, wave-energy weapons, genetic weapons,... 

A massive fire that engulfed Moscow’s Federation Tower for hours has been put out. Firefighters struggled to tackle the flames in a 300-square meter area of the under-construction skyscraper set to become Europe’s tallest upon completion. The fire broke on the building’s 67th floor (250 meters above the ground) and spread to several sections on the 66th and 65th floors. Fourteen people... 

A Russian ship A Russian navy destroyer has set out on a planned mission to the Syrian port of Tartus, where it will arrive in a few days, reports say. According to Russian military officials the warship left its Black Sea base of Sevastopol for the Mediterranean during the weekend and will soon arrive at Syria’s second largest port of Tartus. Navy officials said that the ship would receive fresh... 

President Medvedev today took the unprecedented step today of putting the Federal Security Service (FSB) on its “highest maximum alert” over fears the Communist Party leadership in China is fast losing control over its internal police and military forces leading many Russian intelligence analysts to believe the world’s largest populated nation may be undergoing a coup. The FSB is the main domestic... 

In an article entitled “Bowing to the Kremlin,” published in Foreign Policy journal on Tuesday, Romney paints a wonderfully abstract picture of Russia-US relations over the past four years. As if to prove that the 2012 US presidential elections are not for the Republicans to win, but rather for Barack Obama to lose, America’s silver-tongued leader unwittingly handed GOP front running Russophobe... 

It seems that the longest spic story in the history of Russian missile technologies is drawing to an end. Defense Ministry officials stated that the Bulava ballistic missile would be passed into service for the Russian Navy in October 2012. Nuclear submarines of Project 955 Borei – Yury Dolgoruky and Alexander Nevsky – will be passed simultaneously with the missile. If all goes well, the... 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned against any Israeli measure or even an attack on Iran’s nuclear energy development sites, insisting that it would be a “huge mistake.” “We believe this would be a huge mistake and we hope that this would never happen,” said Lavrov in an interview with the Afghan channel Tolonews on Monday. He added... 

Last week, Intel introduced to the public in Russia and other CIS countries a family of processors Intel Xeon E5-2600. They are more powerful and reliable and, importantly, are very economical in terms of energy consumption. Their presence opens a new era in the field of IT technologies and means that the cloud technology is getting closer. These processors are primarily designed for servers, data...