Image by Zac allan Two North Koreans have been found dead in separate rooms in the same Moscow hotel amid reports they both suffered ‘acute heart failure’. The men had complained of severe chest pains and shortness of breath before they died on Saturday at a hotel in the west…
Russia And Iran Sign Oil-For-Goods Barter Deal; Escape Petrodollar.
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 Dr. Andreas Hugentobler The word donos — the act of ratting on someone to authorities — is a hallmark of Stalin’s Great Terror. In those troubling times, a single denunciation from a neighbor, colleague or relative was enough to have an innocent person interned in labor camps. Sometimes,…
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 Clay Gilliland The country Nikolai Klimkin serves does not officially exist and has remained trapped in a limbo of impoverished stagnation for decades. The 32-year-old is a solider in the army of the self-proclaimed state of Transnistria — a tiny sliver of land that claimed independence from Moldova…
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…