Takfiri militants in four regions of Russia’s Caucasus have taken oath of allegiance to the ISIL terrorist group operating in Iraq and Syria, according to a recording recently posted online. Based on the voice recording which emerged on video sharing website YouTube on Sunday, Muslim militants in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria regions have all pledged allegiance to ISIL leader... 

US tanks in Narva, Estonia, near the Russian border. Washington plans to station hardware, including tanks and armored vehicles, in a number of European countries, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced on Tuesday. Nukes withdrawn in the 1980s will not return to Europe. Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania will be hosting the new hardware, and it will be possible to move it around... 

US and British spy agencies worked to reverse-engineer antivirus software in order to “exploit such software and to prevent detection of our activities.” Russian security firm Kaspersky Lab was particularly targeted. Citing documents leaked by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden more than two years ago, The Intercept reported Monday that the US National Security Agency (NSA)... 

Russia has summoned the Belgian ambassador to Moscow and threatened to “respond in kind” after bailiffs instructed nearly 50 Belgian companies to disclose Russian state assets, a move which reportedly sets the stage for the seizure of Russian property in connection with the disputed $50 billion Yukos verdict. Essentially, Russia was required to submit a plan for a €1.6 billion payment pursuant... 

Russia says it will keep its embargo on European and US foods in place as long as Western sanctions against Moscow are not lifted. Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich said on Thursday that “the embargo will stay” if the West renews its bans on Russia which have been imposed over the country’s alleged role in the crisis in eastern Ukraine. He added that the ban is not “a goal in... 

US journalist Mark Dice has asked the people of San Diego to sign President Barack Obama’s “plan” to nuke Russia to “maintain America’s superiority.” The majority of beach goers didn’t appear to get the joke, and signed the fake petition. The “experiment” was recorded on video, which Mark Dice then shared on his Twitter, YouTube and Facebook accounts. “We just need a couple more... 

Ambassadors from the European Union member states have agreed to prolong until 2016 the bloc’s punitive measures against Russia over its alleged involvement in Ukraine’s crisis. On Wednesday, the EU Committee of Permanent Representatives reached an agreement on extending bloc’s economic sanctions against Moscow by six more months, Russia’s Interfax news agency said, citing EU diplomatic source. Envoys... 

On Saturday, June 13th, The New York Times bannered, “U.S. Is Poised to Put Heavy Weaponry in Eastern Europe,” and Russia’s response to the announcement wasn’t long in coming. The Russian equivalent of America’s Wall Street Journal and Britain’s Financial Times, which is Kommersant (or Businessperson), headlined on June 15th, “US may redeploy heavy weapons to the borders of the Russian... 

Potential US military buildup near Russia’s borders may force the Russian military to respond in kind by reinforcing its frontier presence, says a Russian military official. Army General Yury Yakubov, a coordinator from the Russian Defense Ministry’s general inspectors directorate, was responding to reports that the United States Department of Defense is planning to concentrate US heavy military... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that President Putin has authorized an immediate “wartime” deployment of the Federations most feared and secretive weapons that include axial vircator driven pulsed electron beam accelerators able to instantly defeat all aerial threats, and high-power microwave (HPM) E-bombs, cruise missiles and artillery shells that use an enormous electromagnetic... 

The British MI6 secret service had to suspend operations of its field agents due to imminent exposure in “hostile” countries such as Russia and China, caused by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s leaks, the Sunday Times reports. The Sunday Times alleges that both Moscow and Beijing have succeeded in cracking top-secret encrypted documents leaked by Snowden and thus learnt MI6’s methods. The... 

The US is obstructing international efforts to eradicate biological weapons, seeking to involve other nations covertly in research on weaponized diseases, Moscow charged. America’s record of handling bioweapons is poor. The accusations of mishandling biological weapons voiced by the Russian Foreign Ministry refer to a recent report that the US military shipped live anthrax by mistake. Last week,... 

Ukrainian soldiers take part in exercises near the eastern Ukrainian city of Lysychansk, in the Lugansk region on March 27, 2015. A majority of people in the United States are supporting a military strike against Russia in response to an attack by Moscow on a NATO country, according to a new survey. The poll conducted by the Pew Research Center showed Wednesday that 56 percent of Americans back a military... 

Time exposure shot of testing of the LGM-118A Peacekeeper re-entry vehicles at the Kwajalein Atoll, all eight fired from one missile. The Peacekeeper is a US ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit one of a group of targets. Moscow says it is closely watching a possible deployment of the United States nuclear missiles in Europe. Kremlin press secretary... 

US Army instructors train Ukrainian forces in Yavoriv, Ukraine, on May 27. Hundreds of US forces are reportedly located near Russia’s borders with Ukraine to train the country’s troops amid growing tensions between Washington and Moscow. NBC News reported on Sunday that 300 American paratroopers are involved in the direct training that could be seen as a “major provocation” by Russian President...