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Moscow cancelled Maslenitsa Festivities, which celebrate the last week before Lent and the upcoming long fast, due to the crash of a Saratove airlines flight shortly after take off from Domodedovo Airport, on the way to the Russian city of Omsk. 71 people on board ranging from age 5 to…
Image by Arro Russia’s oldest natural gas buyer is ready to break up after more than 74 years. Poland Looks To Diversify Energy Supplies With US Natural Gas (LNG) Poland, which relies on Kremlin-controlled Gazprom PJSC for about two-thirds of its gas, says diversification trumps potential price cuts it could…
Image by Kremlin.ruhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ A Russian resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was automatically aborted at the last minute. Engineers are attempting to find the reason for the scrubbed liftoff of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Russia Playing Catch Up With SpaceX…But Will It Work?…
Svaboda.org We were not going to report on the allegations of a young prostitute, calling herself Nastya Rybka, in the Russian press as it seemed scandalous for scandal’s sake. However, the issue is just not dying down in Russia with independent media continuing to report on the allegations Russian opposition…
Image by Kremlin.ru Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week that he thinks Russia will eventually achieve normal relations with the West and Washington/Brussels will get bored with sanctions. “I believe that soon they will get bored with it. Those who do such things,” Putin told a congress of the…
Screenshot RUPTLY Local media reports over 30,000 people attended the funeral of Major Roman Filipov, who died after ejection over Syria, by detonating a hand grenade as he was attacked by Islamists on the ground. Filipov was laid to rest at the Alley of Heroes in the city of Voronezh’s…
A U.S. military airstrike has killed over 100 Pro-regime soldiers fighting for the Assad government, against anti-Assad rebels. Russian contract soldiers were killed in the attack. Russian Attack Jet Shot Down Over Syria By Rebels, Pilot Dead According to Igor Girkin, an ex-commander of Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, two…
Infrared Images: Chernobyl As You’ve Never Seen It Before.