Russian nuclear forces conducted a major exercise last month that tested the transport of both strategic and tactical nuclear weapons near Europe, according to United States officials..The exercise raised concerns inside the Pentagon and with the U.S. European Command because… Read More ›
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Russian arms supplies to Iraq to begin by summer – Iraqi Foreign Minister
Yelena Suponina Mar 4, 2013 16:18 Moscow Time © Photo: Yelena Suponina In an exclusive interview to the Voice of Russia, Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari talks about the upcoming meeting of the bilateral commission on cooperation as well as the… Read More ›
Moscow has more Billionaires than any other city
Saturday, 02 March 2013 The Russian capital has more billionaires than any other city in the world, according to a new survey from China. . The study by the Hurun Research Institute says there are over 4000 people who have… Read More ›
Anonymous group claims Bank of America monitored activists
Feb 28, 2013 13:56 Moscow Time Photo: EPA The famous hacktivist group, Anonymous, has released data that it claims shows how Bank of America employed security firms to monitor hackers and activists. They unveiled some 14 Gigabytes of data, code… Read More ›
Russia’s Putin tells army to shape up to face foreign threat
By Alexei AnishchukPosted 2013/02/27 at 10:44 am EST MOSCOW, Feb. 27, 2013 (Reuters) — Vladimir Putin ordered military leaders on Wednesday to make urgent improvements to the armed forces during his new presidential term, saying Russia must thwart attempts by… Read More ›
‘The country that attacks first will die 27 minutes later’ – Stanislav Petrov
Oksana Zenner Feb 19, 2013 15:58 Moscow Time Stanislav Petrov Photo: RIA Novosti The International Peace Prize ceremony was held in Dresden. Soviet officer Stanislav Petrov became the prize-winner this year. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov prevented the beginning… Read More ›
Alexander Litvinenko murder: Government accused of cover-up
Terri Judd Tuesday, 26 February 2013 The British government was accused of colluding with the Russians to cover up vital evidence into the murder of Alexander Litvinenko at a pre-inquest hearing into the former KGB agent’s death today. Ben… Read More ›
Ultranationalist politician suggests 10-tonne meteorite was in fact a new American weapon
Hundreds hurt in Russia after meteorite falls to Earth Howard Amos in Moscow The Guardian, Friday 15 February 2013 15.53 EST Galina Zaglumyonova was woken in her flat in central Chelyabinsk by an enormous explosion that blew in the balcony… Read More ›
Another nuke test on Pyongyang’s plans
Feb 15, 2013 18:41 Moscow Time Photo: EPA According to Reuters, North Korea has notified China of its plan to carry out another nuclear test this year, with a yield of about 10 kilotons TNT. Last Tuesday, it detonated a… Read More ›
Meteorite hits Russian Urals: Fireball explosion wreaks havoc, up to 500 injured
Published: 15 February, 2013, 08:36 Edited: 15 February, 2013, 13:07 Russia’s Urals region has been rocked by a meteorite explosion in the stratosphere. The impact wave damaged several buildings, and blew out thousands of windows amid frigid winter weather. Hundreds… Read More ›
Meteorite crash in Russia: UFO fears spark panic in the Urals (VIDEO, PHOTOS) Update ? Military Claims Intercepted the Meteor ?
EEV: Raw Footage Linked Here: https://engineeringevil.com/2013/02/14/russian-meteor-raw-footage/ Published: 15 February, 2013, 08:36 Edited: 15 February, 2013, A series of explosions in the skies of Russia’s Urals region, reportedly caused by a meteor shower, has sparked panic in three major cities. Witnesses… Read More ›
Anti-snow chemicals used in Moscow take 1.3bn years to dissolve – report ( include K-40 (kalium-40) )
Published: 7 February, 2013, 18:19 Edited: 7 February, 2013, 18:19 Toxic and even radioactive elements have been found in de-icing substances used for clearing Moscow streets from snow, according to data gathered by a group of activists. City authorities deny… Read More ›
Seoul ready for preemptive strike on N. Korea if it attacks – military commander
Feb 6, 2013 16:19 Moscow Time © Collage “The Voice of Russia” South Korea’s top military commander Gen. Jung Seung-jo has hinted at a possible “preemptive strike” against North Korea if Pyongyang shows signs of preparing to attack the South… Read More ›
North Korea threatens to go beyond nuclear testing
Feb 5, 2013 17:29 Moscow Time © Collage “The Voice of Russia” North Korea has threatened to go beyond carrying out its promised third nuclear test, KCNA state news agency reported. “The DPRK (Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, or North… Read More ›
Cold resistance runs in genes: Suggest people be genetically pre-adapted to develop Antarctica or the Arctic
Alexandra Zakharova Feb 3, 2013 16:29 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti British researchers have found a cold resistance gene in the DNA of indigenous Siberian tribes, which helps them survive in the harsh local environment. A team of geneticists from… Read More ›
Greek protesters seize ministry office
Jan 30, 2013 21:32 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Greek anti-austerity protesters from the PAME group seized Labor Minister Yannis Vroutsis’s office Wednesday after he had voiced plans to introduce tougher pension reforms. Some 40 protesters broke into the building and… Read More ›
Davos 2013: world leaders to discuss aliens, super-humans, and immortals
Yulia Zamanskaya Jan 25, 2013 15:01 Moscow Time © Colalge “The Voice of Russia” This year, apart from the traditional economic concerns, the program of the World Economic Forum in Davos is scheduled to address a number of highly controversial… Read More ›
Borey-class nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine Yuri Dolgorukiy will provide Russia with effective nuclear deterrent
Yulia Zamanskaya Jan 22, 2013 23:26 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti On January 10th Russia’s next-generation ‘Borey’-class nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN) ‘Yuri Dolgorukiy’ officially entered service with the Russian navy’s Northern Fleet. Professor Thomas Fedyszyn, the Chair of the Europe-Russia… Read More ›
Russia to Ban US Politicians, Judges… from entering country
Sunday, 20 January 2013 Russia has prepared a “Guantanamo list” of U.S. officials who will be denied entry visas, officials in Moscow said Friday, the latest apparent retaliation for a U.S. law imposing sanctions on Russians over the death of… Read More ›
Provocation against Russia being prepared in Syria
Alexei Lyakhov, Konstantin Garibov Jan 11, 2013 17:59 Moscow Time Photo: EPA In separate interviews with the Voice of Russia broadcast on Thursday, a host of experts mentioned a new round of information warfare against Bashar Assad and… Read More ›
Third testing of China’s anti-satellite weapons?
Jan 10, 2013 18:23 Moscow Time Photo: EPA A number of US experts in the area of strategic arms based on the information received from the US intelligence community have announced that China is getting ready for the third testing… Read More ›
‘US, Russia plunging into new Cold War’
Published: 29 December, 2012, 10:35 Edited: 30 December, 2012, 00:17 Tit-for-tat moves between Russia and the US are plunging the two nations into a new Cold War, says Russia expert Stephen Cohen. Washington’s longtime policy towards Moscow is to… Read More ›
Silent sub: Russian noiseless Borei class nuclear submarine immersed
Published: 30 December, 2012, 17:26 Edited: 30 December, 2012, 18:20 Super-modern, powerful and almost noiseless Russian nuclear submarine Vladimir Monomakh has been put in water to become the third ship of the Borei project. The cruiser is about to… Read More ›
Eli Lilly Coughs Up $29 Million for Bribes: ” As is customary with the SEC, Lilly did not have to admit that it did anything wrong “
WASHINGTON (CN) – Eli Lilly & Co. will pay $29 million to settle charges of bribing foreign officials for contracts in four countries, the SEC said Thursday. Lilly subsidiaries paid off government officials in Russia, Brazil, China and Poland to… Read More ›
Russia Developing New Long-Range Ballistic Missile: “able to overcome any existing missile defense system”
Dec. 14, 2012 – 08:21AM | By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE | 1 Comments MOSCOW — Russia is developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the military announced Dec. 14, in an apparent attempt to remind the United States of Moscow’s rocket capacities…. Read More ›
Top ten signs that your authoritarian regime is in trouble
Posted By Daniel W. Drezner Thursday, December 13, 2012 – 2:01 PM Ellen Barry reports in the New York Times that the Russians see the handwriting on the wall in Syria: Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia’s top envoy… Read More ›
Closed EU doors to prompt new Union – Union of Slavic Nations?
Sunday, 09 December 2012 According to Igor Muradjan, analyst for Armenian daily Erkramas, as of this spring (2012) there are attempts to find common language between Serbia and Bulgaria’s common interests. There have been talks for a Union between Serbia,… Read More ›
Is the end of the world really nigh? Authorities reassure Russians over Mayan Armageddon prophecy amid reports of ‘unusual behaviour’
Some parts of Russia, which is often said to have a penchant for mystical thinking, appear to have been spooked by the Mayan predictions Rob Williams Monday, 3 December 2012 As the 21st of December nears, Russian authorities are attempting… Read More ›
Swiss prosecutors say death of Russian whistle blower will not derail huge fraud investigation
Alexander Perepilichnyy, a 44-year-old businessman who left Russia three years ago, was found dead outside his luxury mansion on an exclusive private estate in Surrey two weeks ago Jerome Taylor Wednesday, 28 November 2012 Prosecutors in Switzerland say… Read More ›
A $230 million fraud – and a trail of death that just keeps growing
Alexander Perepilichnyy is the fourth person connected to a murky tax case to have met a suspicious end Jerome Taylor Tuesday, 27 November 2012 With its sweeping vistas of the Persian Gulf and central location in the Middle… Read More ›
Plane loads of cash: Flight records reveal Russia flew 30 tonnes of bank notes to Syrian regime
The logs show that a cargo plane belonging to the Syrian Air Force made eight round trips between Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport and Damascus over three months this summer Shaun Walker Monday, 26 November 2012 According to newly released… Read More ›
Russian expert warns of possibility of large-scale war in Middle East
Nov 24, 2012 22:17 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Turkey has asked NATO to deploy “Patriot” missiles on the Turkish side near the Turkish-Syrian border. In an interview with the Voice of Russia, Russian analyst Konstantin Sivkov said: “Deploying these missiles… Read More ›
GM corn variety ‘cannot be regarded as safe’: Author of study linking food to cancer issues new attack
Study found rats eating GM corn NK603 suffered higher risk of tumours Researchers hit back at critics who they suggest are too close to industry By Lewis Smith PUBLISHED: 07:12 EST, 21 November 2012 | UPDATED: 10:51 EST, 21 November… Read More ›
Data on 9 million Greeks stolen
Nov 21, 2012 07:08 Moscow Time Photo: EPA Greek police have arrested a 35-year-old programmer suspected of stealing the personal data of nine million people or two-thirds of the population of the country. According to investigators he tried to sell… Read More ›
Russia loses space contact
Thu, 15 Nov 2012 8:27 AM Russia on Wednesday lost the ability to send basic commands to most of its satellites and segment of the International Space Station following a vital cable failure near Moscow. The Roscosmos space agency attributed… Read More ›
Russia Loses Contact With Satellites, Space Station
Published: Thursday, 15 Nov 2012 | 2:32 AM ET . By: Reuters . Russia’s space agency scrambled to refigure communications with civilian satellites and the International Space Station on Wednesday after a cable broke outside Moscow, but said the satellites… Read More ›
NATO in global cyberwar games
Nikita Sorokin Nov 12, 2012 19:35 Moscow © Collage: The Voice of Russia In the four days of its annual Cyber Coalition wargames beginning with Tuesday, NATO will be practicing operations to neutralize crippling cyberattacks on the infrastructure. In the… Read More ›
Russia will send humanitarian aid to New York
Nov 11, 2012 21:58 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti On Monday, the 12th of November, the Russian Emergency Ministry is planning to send two planes with humanitarian aid to New York which was hit by Hurricane Sandy. Two Iliushin-76 planes… Read More ›
Iraq sticks to Russia arms contracts: dismissed reports that his country has cancelled all $4.2bln dollars worth of its arms contracts with Russia
Nov 10, 2012 21:28 Moscow Time © Flickr.com/The U.S. Army/cc-by Iraqi Defence Minister Saadun al-Dulaimi has dismissed reports that his country has cancelled all $4.2bln dollars worth of its arms contracts with Russia, signed in Moscow in October during a… Read More ›
Russia, Italy in joint naval exercises
Nov 9, 2012 18:31 Moscow Time Photo: RIA Novosti A frigate and a naval tugboat from Russia and two frigates from Italy have successfully carried out joint counter-piracy and air defence exercises in the Ionian Sea. The mock attackers were… Read More ›
China submarines soon to carry nukes, draft US report says
Thu, 8 Nov 2012 02:52 GMT Source: Reuters * Report urges China be brought into arms-limitation talks * Submarine-launched nuclear warheads seen within 2 years * China is accused of being “most threatening” power in cyberspace By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON,… Read More ›
Russian attack sub discovered just 200 miles from US East Coast is given safe harbor during Hurricane Sandy
Nuclear-powered sub believed to be part of Russia’s Northern Fleet It was armed withtwo types of anti-sub warfare missiles and torpedoes First time a Russian Sierra-2 class sub has detected near a U.S. coast U.S. defense officials are downplaying the … Read More ›
Polish editor laid off over plane crash story
Photo: EPA The editor in chief of Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, a correspondent and two other staff members have been fired for running an article claiming high explosives were found at the scene of the 2010 plane crash that killed then… Read More ›
Russia Takes Iraq Back
by James Dunnigan November 2, 2012 While Russia may be having problems with several of its major weapons customers (China and India), it has landed a new big spender. Iraq recently agreed to buy over $4 billion worth of… Read More ›
Face the facts: Russian nuclear warheads power American homes
Posted on October 29, 2012By Raisa CamargoEconomy and Finance For nearly 20 years, the United States has been using weapons-grade uranium from dismantled Russian nuclear warheads to fuel domestic nuclear power plants. (Face the facts) For nearly 20… Read More ›
GhostShell leaks 2.5 million Russian government accounts as #ProjectBlackstar
Posted by Mohit Kumar on 11/03/2012 05:14:00 AM | Team GhostShell hackers group who was responsible for the recent leak of some millions of records from top universities around the world once again strike back. As the part of “Project… Read More ›
Poland found explosives on wreckage of president’s plane: report ( TNT and nitroglycerin )
Polish investigators found traces of explosives on the wreckage of the government jet that crashed in Russiatwo years ago, killing Poland’s president and 95 others, daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Tuesday. Without citing sources, the newspaper said prosecutors and explosive experts… Read More ›
The hidden real truth about Benghazi
– Doug Hagmann (Bio and Archives) Sunday, October 28, 2012 Most people know that we’ve been lied to about the attacks in Benghazi, but few realize the extent of those lies or the hidden secrets they cover. After… Read More ›
Cargo Ship with 700 tons of Gold Ore disappears
Monday, 29 October 2012 Cargo carrier Amurskoe disappeared in the Sea of Okhotsk while carrying 700 tons of gold ore. Three ships, an amphibious aircraft and a helicopter are undertaking search and rescue operations to find the eight crewmembers of… Read More ›