Iran: Russia will begin importing our oil this week
Russia will begin importing Iranian oil under a long-heralded oil-for-goods barter arrangement in the coming week, Iran's oil minister was quoted as saying, more than a year after negotiations...
View ArticleThe Russia and Qatar World Cups could be in trouble
Russia and Qatar could lose the right to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups if evidence is found of corruption in the bidding process, a FIFA official was quoted as saying on Sunday.The comments by the...
View ArticleRussian bombers increasingly intruding US airspace 'clearly intended' as a...
The number of Russia’s long-range strategic bombers intruding the U.S. airspace doubled in 2014, forcing the U.S. Air Force to scramble American fighter jets more frequently. The increased activity of...
View ArticleThe massively popular Instagrammer who follows his girlfriend around the...
In 2012, the world fell in love with the Instagram account of a woman leading her photographer boyfriend around the world.#followmeto Udaipur, India with @yourleo. After visiting New Delhi, Varanasi,...
View ArticlePutin just made more revealing comments about his opinions of NATO
In an interview with the Italian website Corriere della Sera, Russian president Vladimir Putin made revealing statements regarding his stance on NATO.In the West, Putin's Russia is largely seen as...
View ArticlePHOTO: Fidel Castro, wearing 2 Rolexes, lighting a cigar while visiting the...
Two months after the Kennedy administration barred Americans from any transactions with Cuba, Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev hosted Fidel Castro on April 27, 1963, in Castro's first visit to the...
View ArticleObama to Putin: You're wrecking Russia to recreate Soviet empire
Barack Obama has used the close of the G7 summit in Germany to deliver his strongest criticism yet of Vladimir Putin, lambasting the Russian president’s isolationist approach as the seven leaders...
View ArticleUkraine prime minister: We are fighting a war on two fronts, and one isn't on TV
Arseniy Yatsenyuk is Urkaine's primie minister.Ukraine is fighting a war on two fronts. The one you see on television is taking place in the east of our country, where thousands of Russian troops are...
View ArticleThe ex-wife of Russia's richest man wants half of his $15 billion fortune
Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin, who runs the world's largest nickel producer, and Natalia Potanina divorced last year.At the time, Potanin offered his wife of 30 years a settlement including a...
View ArticleRussia is stepping up missile defense 'by 200%'
The Russian military has successfully test-fired a short-range anti-missile system, the Russian defense ministry announced Tuesday.The latest move comes four days after Pentagon officials said that the...
View ArticleRussia's futuristic combat android will run like a human within months
Russian media are reporting their country’s advanced military projects arm has built a combat android controlled by a remote human user.Andrey Grigoryev, director-general of the Advanced Research...
View ArticleThe pro-Russia separatist regions just named Crimea as a part of Ukraine
The pro-Russia separatist regions of Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) just named Crimea as a part of Ukraine in the draft amendments to the Constitution of...
View ArticleChina's largest arms maker is trolling Russia's slick new battle tank
To much pomp and circumstance, Russia revealed its newest generation of battle-tank to the world during the annual Victory Day Parade in Moscow in the beginning of May.Embarrassingly for Moscow, it's...
View ArticleRussia grounds all its Tu-95 strategic bombers after fatal accident
Moscow has grounded its nuclear-capable bombers after a deadly incident in eastern Russia.The Russian Ministry of Defense has suspended all the Tu-95 Bear bomber flights after a strategic bomber...
View ArticleFinnish defense official: Russia has 'twofold objectives' in the Arctic
Moscow has made no secret of its interest in positioning itself as the paramount military power in the Arctic in recent months. As the Kremlin looks to take advantage of the potential bounties of the...
View ArticleJeb: Putin is a 'bully' and the US should say 'here are the consequences of...
BERLIN (Reuters) - Likely Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "bully" and the United States and its allies in Europe should be...
View ArticleRAF Typhoons intercept two Russian military aircraft
They initially shadowed a surveillance aircraft, before checking out a transport plane flying over the Baltic SeaRAF Typhoons have intercepted and shadowed two Russian military aircraft over the Baltic...
View ArticlePutin's trip to Rome underscores Russia's special relationship with Italy
Vladimir Putin might not have been welcome at the G7 meeting of world leaders in Germany this week, but when he touches down in Milan on Wednesday, the Russian president is likely to receive a far...
View ArticleCyber expert: People are missing the real question we should ask about Israel...
The global cybersecurity firm that uncovered sophisticated spyware in the computers of European hotels hosting the Iran nuclear talks has reported on the powerful Israeli-linked virus before....
View ArticlePutin: 'Clearly God has built my life in a way that I won't have anything to...
Vladimir Putin, leader of Russia, doesn't feel the need to repent.When asked about any regrets he had, Putin told the Italian newspaper Corriere de Sera: "I will be quite frank with you. I cannot...
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