Pravda.Ru conducted an interview with Colonel Sergei Khatylev, former chief of Russian anti-aircraft missile forces, to learn an expert opinion about state-of-the-art anti-aircraft missile systems of the Russian Army. “Anti-aircraft missile system S-400 “Triumf” is second to none in the world and is recognized as the most advanced system of the kind. The idea to create a long-range... 

International lawyer Barry Grossman says there are people in the United States who are seeking a military conflict with Russia for their own economic profits. “There are many people in the US establishment who would be ecstatic about a shooting war with Russia since that would send the US economy and their own profits in to overdrive,” he told Press TV on Thursday. He added that the latest comments... 

The Greek debt crisis, the expected lifting of sanctions on Iran and oil and stock market volatility will dominate the agenda of the BRICS summit which is opening today in Russia. During their two-day meeting in Ufa, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will discuss closer industrial, technological and financial integration of their countries within the five-nation bloc. The... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting today that this mornings “emergency activation” to immediate combat readiness status of the 102nd Military Base near Gyumri, Armenia (Caucasus region), is directly related to the 4 July “war order” issued by President Putin authorizing the sinking of the US Navy’s guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) that just entered into the Black Sea... 

The Tupolev Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber remains an important part of Russia’s air power. The US Air Force reportedly scrambled fighter jets to intercept two pairs of Russian bombers that flew off the coast of California and Alaska on July 4. The first incident occurred off the coast of Alaska, forcing the Air Force to send two F-22 jets from their base in Alaska to intercept two Tupolev Tu-95... 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has assured Greeks that he will support them in the financial hardships they face after the Greek people overwhelmingly voted “No” to further restricting terms of an international bailout program. In a phone conversation on Monday, Putin discussed the results of a Sunday referendum with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, voicing his support for the Greek... 

The United States and Germany are prepared to engineer a coup in Greece to keep the country operating as a strategic asset on NATO’s vulnerable southeast European flank. “A putsch in Athens to save allied Greece from enemy Russia is in preparation by the US and Germany, with backing from the non-taxpayers of Greece – the Greek oligarchs, Anglo-Greek shipowners, and the Greek Church,” writes... 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is reporting today the Federation has been informed by the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) that a de facto “State of War” now officially exists between that Asian nation and the United States of America. According to this report, following the “provisions and protocols” of the 8 May 2015 Russian-Chinese Cyber-Security Agreement that... 

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recently called on Ukraine and its creditors to continue negotiations on the country’s debt, but the editor-in-chief of the business and finance media company thinks that Kiev should instead concentrate on “fixing what is absolutely, chronically broken economy” and launch immediate reforms. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on Ukraine... 

An American military report has warned of a growing probability of the United States fighting a war with a major power, Russia or China, with “immense” consequences. The report released on Wednesday by General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, singles out Russia and China as aggressive countries and a threat to US security interests. “Russia’s military... 

Russia’s gas giant, Gazprom, has announced that it is halting natural gas supply to the war-stricken Ukraine after pricing talks between two neighbors failed. “Ukraine did not pay for July gas supplies,” Gazprom chief, Alexei Miller, said in a statement on Wednesday, adding, “Gazprom has halted gas supplies to Ukraine from 10 a.m. (0700 GMT) July 1.” The Russian official... 

An “emergency” national security report prepared by the Ministry of Defense (MoD) circulating in the Kremlin today is warning that the “sea-creature” discovered on Sakhalin Island in the Far East this past week by local residents has now been identified as a “chimera” deliberately created in/by the United States for purposes as yet unknown and, therefore, now poses a “heightened” security... 

09/01/1992 A Coca Cola shop. The head of Russia’s Party of Pensioners is urging sanctions against the Coca-Cola and PepsiCo claiming the soda giants are major sponsors of anti-Russian politicians in US and that the move would boost domestic producers of soft drinks. “In support of the president’s and government’s actions regarding the countersanctions we suggest restricting imports of products... 

Left-wing German politician and former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine had some harsh words for the US on its politics concerning Russia and Ukraine. He has also called on the EU to oppose Washington. In a Facebook post which cannot be quoted fully quote due to strong language, Lafontaine, whose latest political post was co-chairman of the democratic socialist party The Left, called US Defense Secretary... 

A Topol intercontinental ballistic missile launcher with a transport. We all remember how, in early June, President Putin announced that Russia would deploy more than 40 new ICBMs “able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems.” Oh dear; the Pentagon and their European minions have been freaking out on overdrive ever since. First was NATO Secretary-General, Norwegian...