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Russia's Gazprom Third-Quarter Profits Plummeted
Moscow (AFP) - Russia's gas giant Gazprom on Thursday said its profits were down 61 percent in third quarter 2014 as supplies were suspended to Ukraine, one of its main customers.The group's profits...
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Drug Addicts Are Dying In Russian-Occupied Crimea Because They Can't Get Therapy
In a video appeal filmed in April by patients from opioid substitution therapy (OST) programs in Crimea, which had just been annexed by Russia, a personable man named Andrei warns: "Without this...
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A Russian Journalist Says This Acrobatic Dancer-Scientist Is Putin's Secret...
Russian journalist Oleg Kashin thinks he has discovered a secret daughter of President Vladimir Putin's.In a new article titled "She" (or «Она» in Russian), Kashin writes how he believes that two women...
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Russia's Food Import Ban Is Forcing Strange Branding
In August 2014, Russia announced it was banning foreign food imports to punish the West for imposing economic sanctions over Ukraine. Since then, the country has scrambled to fill emptying market...
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Putin's Biggest Ally Is Threatening To Leave Russia's Rival To The EU
MINSK — Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka says his country "does not rule out" quitting the Eurasian Economic Union (EES), an instrument for Russian influence in the former Soviet Union, if...
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Russia: If The West Keeps Supporting Ukraine, It Could Lead To A "Big...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's envoy to the European security watchdog OSCE urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to stop supporting the "party of war" in Ukraine and warned "catastrophe" could...
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Russia Warns West Of 'Catastrophe' Over Ukraine
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's envoy to the European security watchdog OSCE urged the United States and Europe on Thursday to stop supporting the "party of war" in Ukraine and warned "catastrophe" could...
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The Pentagon Is Already Planning A Successor To The F-35
The Pentagon is poised to unveil a new collaborative research program in the upcoming 2016 defense budget submission which will seek to identify and develop dominant, next-generation aircraft...
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British Fighter Jets Intercepted Russian Bombers Over The English Channel
Two Russian Bear long-range bombers that were seen flying near Britain's southern coast on Wednesday were intercepted by Royal Air Force (RAF) Typhoon fighter jets, Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD)...
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Greece Is Quickly Turning Into Europe's Worst Nightmare
Greece is quickly turning into a nightmare for Europe.Syriza, the radical left-wing political party that won the Greek parliamentary elections over the weekend, surprised the EU by challenging economic...
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This Is A Triple-Barreled Soviet Space Gun With An Attached Machete
For 2o years Russians were equipped with a triple-barreled gun with a swing-out machete for space missions. The TP-82 pistol was included in the Soyuz Portable Emergency-Survival Kit after two...
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Greece's New Finance Minister Is A Loose-Lipped Blogger And A Snarky Media...
Yanis Varoufakis is the new finance minister of Greece, after the far-left party Syriza won a resounding victory in Greece last week. Before being elected to parliament and named finance minister,...
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Russia Says It Will Not Allow Other Countries To Gain 'Military Superiority'...
Defense minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday he would not let anyone gain military superiority over Russia and that he would fulfill a plan to modernize the armed forces by 2020.Russia, hit by Western...
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Russian Central Bank Slashes Interest Rates; Ruble Tumbles
The Russian central bank has dropped its key interest rate to 15% from 17% as the outlook for the country's economy weakens.The Bank of Russia hiked interest rates by 6.5% last month in a shock...
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Putin's Former Judo Partner Is Building The Russian Bridge To Crimea
Russia has handed a multi-billion dollar contract to build a bridge to the Crimea peninsula to an ally and former judo partner of Vladimir Putin who is under Western sanctions.A government order...
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CONFIRMED: Russia's Energy Ambitions Are Taking Major Hit
Russian state-controlled oil company Rosneft will not be able to resume drilling in the Kara Sea this year after Western sanctions halted its cooperation with ExxonMobil in a major setback for Moscow's...
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Russian bank boss: sanctions are economic war against Russia
The head of one of Russia's largest banks likened the EU's decision to extend the sanctions imposed on Russia to an act of economic war."We have quite a strong opinion on sanctions. Sanctions, in other...
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New Greek government has deep, long-standing ties with Russian 'fascist' Dugin
Europe-watchers understood immediately that the new leftist Syriza-led government in Greece could shatter the European Union's fragile solidarity condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine.But recently...
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This chart shows all of the versions of Russia's fifth-generation fighter jet
The US and Russia have been competing arms exporters since the dawn of the Cold War.Although the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the deep-seated rivalry between the US and Russia never fully died out...
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This map shows the arms sales race between the US and Russia
They say the Cold War is over, but Russia and the U.S. remain the leading supplier of weapons to countries around the world and are the two biggest military powers. Lately, tensions have been pretty...
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