Belarus To Host Joint Military Exercises In September With Russian Forces
Belarus To Host Joint Military Exercises In September With Russian Forces.
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Belarus To Host Joint Military Exercises In September With Russian Forces.
Russia Opens Investigation Into Murder Of Roscosmos Official.
Two Russian soldiers are posted on a mountaintop. One of them is looking through binoculars. The first soldier asks the other, “Can you see Putin?” “No, I can’t,” the second soldier shrugs. “Nevertheless,” says the first soldier, “he exists.” An old family friend named Olga is telling this joke as…
Armenia was once the center of IT innovation for the USSR. A turbulent history has stifled the economy, but things are starting to look up for the Caucasus republic. A highly-skilled, post-soviet engineering workforce and a diaspora of advocates, combined with new government initiatives, are igniting renewed growth in Armenia’s…
Russian dominance in weapons exports, the second largest in the world behind the United States at 25% of the market, could falter as China and India become more self-sufficient and economic conditions internally could take their bite. Moscow has historically excelled at air defense systems, aircraft, and missiles; however, there…
Since the day of Donald Trump’s election, high-ranking Russian officials have been dropping like flies and today’s reports that a top official of Russia’s space agency has been found dead brings the total to eight. As we noted previously, six Russian diplomats have died in the last 3 months –…
As the blockade in East Ukraine shuts down rail lines from Donetsk into the government-controlled regions of the country for another week, gravely impacting the nation’s economic growth, the International Monetary Fund and the government in Kyiv announced today that the IMF is delaying further disbursement of aid until they…
The respected scientist from the Institute of Laser Physics in Novosibirsk was kidnapped while on a trip to Kazakhstan and forced to work as a slave on a remote farm. His family raised the alarm with police when he went missing, but until now knew nothing about his fate. He…
Bulgaria Says It Will Protect Its Border From Turkey Release Of Migrants.