Image by Vladimircaraedit The tiny former Soviet republic of Moldova expelled five Russian diplomats today as tensions between Chisinau and Moscow heat up quickly. The last few years have seen high drama unfold in the relationship between the two nations. Last year the Moldova people rose up against the theft…
Image by Александр Мотин Sixteen people were killed when a severe thunderstorm hit Moscow and the region around the Russian capital on Monday, officials say. Hundreds of trees were toppled, and about 150 people needed medical help. It was the deadliest storm in the city for more than 100 years,…
Image by Kremlin.ru The Serbian president-elect and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic declared today that the Balkan nation has no plans to join the NATO alliance, as many of its former Yugoslavian nations have. Serbia is a long-time ally of Russia and was not expected to join the Western defense bloc….
Image by Alisher Hasanov The Ukrainian government today raided the offices of Russian internet giant Yandex in Kyiv and Odessa. The portal is very popular in the country and Ukraine had shut down access to the site earlier in the month. Kyiv accused the service of collecting personal data on…
The new Russian-designed and built, short to medium haul, narrow-body airliner made its first flight over the weekend. Designed by Irkut, part of United Aircraft Corporation, the MC-21 will compete against Boeing and Airbus for international orders. It will also replace the Russian-built Tupolev Tu-134 and Tu-154. Sources at the…
Image by © A.Savin, Wikimedia Commons EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager will ask the Russian state-owned, natural gas giant, Gazprom for more concessions to end a six year anti-trust case against the Russian firm on Monday. The meeting is seen as evidence of a thaw in tensions between the EU…
Image by King of Hearts A member of the Russian parliament, while speaking at a security conference in Slovakia, declared that Russia would use nuclear weapons if NATO entered East Ukraine or the Crimean Peninsula. The comments seem to highlight Russian concern over the encroachment of NATO on its western…
Image by Rei-artur The Baltic nation of Estonia, one of the NATO members in the region concerned about perceived Russian aggression, expelled two Russian diplomats on Friday. Estonian Foreign Ministry declared that Russia’s Consul General in the city of Narva Dmitry Kazennov and Consul Andrei Surgayev would be expelled from…
Russia is building a military research and testing center in the Arctic region, furthering its already strong hold to land claims in the region, at the expense of other world powers. Lt. Gen. Igor Makushev, head of the Military-Scientific Committee of the Russian Armed Forces, said the center will be…