Russia’s FSB security service said on Thursday it would punish dozens of new agents who celebrated graduating from the agency’s training academy by ostentatiously driving through Moscow in a luxury convoy allowing themselves to be photographed. Millions of Russians have watched footage of the incident, with many, including veteran spies,…
Originally posted at WhatDoesItMean.com…you decide… The Investigative Committee (SLEDCOM) is reporting today that Valentina Matviyenko, Chairperson of the Federation Council, has initiated a legal inquiry as to placing on the Federal Security Service (FSB) “Unified List of Organizations, Including Foreign and International Organizations That Have Been Recognized As Terrorist [Groups]…
In a bid to match U.S. naval power projection capability, Russia is sending the accident prone aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, to the Mediterranean to allow combat operations in the Syrian theater. This would be the first time that a Russian aircraft carrier would be engaged in combat. The ship has…
It seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin has Turkish President Erdogan more under his thumb than previously thought. After apologizing to Russia for shooting down a Russian jet who entered Turkish airspace, Erdogan is bending over backwards to please his new Russian Godfather. Turkey now says that Russia can use…
If there is one thing that bothers the Kremlin, it is additional Nordic countries joining the NATO alliance. Any movement in that direction always engenders a response from Moscow and not it a good way. Russian State News Agency TASS reported on recent comments from Putin no the subject. Russian…
Moscow Becomes One Big Free Fitness Club…a very avant garde city…
An explosion at a Donetsk hospital in East Ukraine targeted famed pro-Russian separatist Sparta battalion commander Arseny Pavlov, Alexander Zakharchenko, head of the self proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR) stated recently according to RIA Novosti. “They primed an explosive device. It was a terrorist attack. There are many places that…
There has been a global outbreak of nervousness in the long run-up to Britain’s Brexit vote Thursday, with European Union politicians and heads of state apoplectic about the possibility of a member of the club saying no thanks and walking away from the utopia they have created. International markets and…
Beam me up Scotty! Russia plans to spend a lot of money (trillions of rubles) in an attempt to develop teleportation by the year 2035. The effort comes as part of a long-range plan to boost Russian scientific output and the nascent, domestic, information technology industry. “It sounds fantastical today,…
On June 16th, American F-18s launched from a carrier in the Med, tried and failed to stop Russian jets from bombing US-backed forces fighting the Islamic State in Syria. It seems Russian SU-34 Fullback bombers struck American backed forces garrisoned on Syrian side of the Jordanian border. The US Navy…