What were the prerequisites for Russia to reunite with the Crimea and Sevastopol? What consequences did the move have for Russia, Ukraine and the world at large? Pravda.Ru asked these and other questions to President of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems, Colonel-General Leonid Ivashov. Tell us about the history of the Crimea. How did Russians, Tatars and people of other nations end up living there? The... 

Russian troops are receiving beta versions of a future armored tracked platform that could usher in the 5th generation conventional land tank, heavy APC, artillery and missile launcher and possibly fully robotic assault armored vehicle. After five years of development, the Uralvagonzavod Research and Production Corporation has finalized manufacture of the first batch of Armata tanks and heavy personnel... 

The US oil and gas giant is demanding millions of euros in back taxes from Russia. US oil and gas giant ExxonMobil is demanding millions of euros in back taxes from Russia. Russian officials say Exxon chief executive Rex Tillerson was in Moscow for closed-door meetings with Energy Minister Alexander Novak. The Kommersant daily says Tillerson is contesting taxes paid on the Sakhalin-1 project in the... 

Russia faces the renewal of conflict in Ukraine simultaneously with three more Ukraine-type situations along its Asian border. While Washington works assiduously to undermine the Minsk agreement that German chancellor Merkel and French president Hollande achieved in order to halt the military conflict in Ukraine, Washington has sent Victoria Nuland to Armenia to organize a “color revolution” or... 

Despite being quick to condemn Russian military manoeuvers, NATO is conducting wide-scale war games in the Baltic states and creating a “line of troops” across Eastern Europe. The US denies a double standard, but records and transcripts suggest otherwise. Thousands of US troops and hundreds of tanks have poured into Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the past two months as part of an operation dubbed... 

A new Ministry of Defense (MoD) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that the Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief (MChS) has issued an order for all companies employers to prepare for nuclear war, while at the same time the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has slammed the US for flooding Europe with tanks and armored vehicles. According to this report, the MChS issued... 

In the future, a fleet of heavy transport aircraft will reportedly be capable of moving a strategic unit of 400 Armata tanks, with ammunition, to anywhere in the world. And probably at hypersonic speed, enabling Russia to mount a global military response. According to a new design specification from the Military-Industrial Commission in Moscow, a transport aircraft, dubbed PAK TA, will fly at supersonic... 

Russia is getting ready to counteract and repel land-sea-air military aggression on its western, northern, southern and eastern borders simultaneously, as massive drills of all military branches are underway across Russia. Motorized infantry, combat aviation and Spetznaz troops have been put on alert in all nine time zones of the Russian Federation, including the Volga region, Urals, Western Siberia,... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that President Putin has “effectively warned” both the United States and European Union that British Prime Minister David Cameron “must be removed” in order to avert the catastrophic consequences of total war. According to this report, President Putin and other top officials were put under the “protection” of the MoD during the past fortnight... 

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet and paratrooper units on full alert, state media report, in response to aggressive anti-Russian NATO drills held in Poland. Putin issued the order as part of snap military drills, RIA news agency cited Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying on Monday. The report added that around 40,000 servicemen, 41 warships,... 

Vladimir Putin has said Russia was so fearful of attack at the height of the Ukraine crisis that it was preparing to arm its nuclear weapons, in extraordinary claims aired on state TV on Sunday night. Amid ongoing Russian media speculation that the President was watching the Crimea documentary from his sickbed, Mr Putin’s full interview with Rossiya One provided new insight into his country’s... 

A new report from the Federation Security Council (SCRF) on Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov’s [photo 1st right] recent private visit with President Barack Obama at the White House, in Washington D.C., grimly states that America’s leader has “privately advised” President Putin that a global war is nearing…and he “may be powerless to stop it”. Director Bortnikov,... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that the Federation is now in a “state of war” thus bringing to full activation President Putin’s “Dead Hand” nuclear order issued 29 July 2014 to The Strategic Missile Forces (SMF). According to this report, the full activation of the much feared “Dead Hand” nuclear option was authorized under President Putin’s previous order due to... 

North Korea’s dictator Kim Jong-un (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin North Korea and Russia have agreed to boost their bilateral ties in 2015 under the banner of the “year of friendship.” The official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said that Russia and North Korea would “develop the bilateral relations on to a new higher stage in various fields, including politics, economy and culture... 

US Major General John R. O’Connor talks to the media on Monday while the US Army unloads equipment at Port of Riga, the capital of Latvia. The United States has delivered over 100 pieces of heavy military equipment to the Baltic states in northern Europe to provide them with the ability to “deter” the perceived threat from Russia. The US army provided the heavy armor on Monday for the three...