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VLADIMIR PUTIN CONFIRMS RUSSIAN MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN SYRIA'S CIVIL WAR
Last week Syrian state television released images showing an advanced Russian-built armoured personnel carrier, the BTR-82a, in combat... READ MORE›
RUSSIA CONFIRMS BOMB DOWNED ITS PLANE OVER EGYPT, VOWS RETRIBUTION
We will find them anywhere on the planet and punish them, Putin said... READ MORE›
US BEGINS MILITARY TALKS WITH RUSSIA ON SYRIAN CRISIS
The Russian military buildup in Syria could serve the Kremlin's interests in several ways... READ MORE›
RUSSIANS STRIKE TARGETS IN SYRIA BUT NOT ISIS AREAS
Illustrating the widening complexity of the war, the United States conducted its own airstrikes in Syria on Wednesday, near Aleppo, without warning to the Russians... READ MORE›
DO THEY KNOW IT'S CHRISTMAS? 16 COUNTRIES WHERE PEOPLE ARE CELEBRATING TODAY
Some of the same Christmas traditions are shared among most countries which observe the Julian calendar... READ MORE›
'RUSSIA KILLS US-BACKED SYRIAN REBELS IN SECOND DAY OF AIR STRIKES AS IRAN PREPARES FOR GROUND OFFENSIVE'
The same sources say the Russian air strikes will soon be accompanied by Syrian army and allied ground advances... READ MORE›
OUTSIDE MOVES SHIFT SYRIA CONFLICT TO PROXY WAR
TOW missiles weave across fields, their red contrails blazing, chasing Russian-made vehicles used by Syrian government forces and blowing them up... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN DEFIES WEST AS RUSSIA BOMB 'SYRIAN REBEL TARGETS INSTEAD OF ISIL'
Vladimir Putin this week defended Russia's support for Syrian president Assad on the grounds of defeating Isil, calling for an anti-Hitler style coalition... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AND NATO 'ACTIVELY PREPARING FOR WAR'
The preparations include major military exercises by both Russia and Nato that appear designed exclusively to respond to one another's capabilities and potential war plans... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN CRUISE MISSILES HELP SYRIANS GO ON THE OFFENSIVE
Some Free Syrian Army groups have been hit in Russian strikes... READ MORE›
DID U.S. WEAPONS SUPPLIED TO SYRIAN REBELS DRAW RUSSIA INTO THE CONFLICT?
Instead, the Russian military intervened to shore up the struggling Syrian army -- an outcome that was not intended... READ MORE›
NATO WARNS RUSSIA AFTER WARPLANE ENTERS TURKISH AIRSPACE
But Russia, which began its air campaign in Syria last Monday, showed no sign that it was backing down... READ MORE›
RUSSIAN ACTOR AND PUTIN CRITIC FOUND DEAD IN MOSCOW
However, Mr Devotchenko's outspoken criticism of the rule of Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, is likely to provoke intense scrutiny over how and why he died... READ MORE›
RUSSIA CARRIES OUT AIRSTRIKES IN SYRIA FOR 2ND DAY
Russia, like Mr. Assad, has tended to make little distinction among the many insurgent groups in Syria's four-year-old civil war... READ MORE›
OBAMA SEES RUSSIA FAILING IN SYRIA EFFORT
Mr. Putin had to go into Syria not out of strength but out of weakness, because his client Mr. Assad was crumbling, Mr. Obama said... READ MORE›
SYRIAN REBELS SAY RUSSIA IS TARGETING THEM RATHER THAN ISIS
He concludes This is what the criminal Russian planes did... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN CALLS DONALD TRUMP A 'VERY BRIGHT AND TALENTED MAN'
Vladimir Putin has given the Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump a ringing endorsement, reciprocating Trump's praise for Russia... READ MORE›
PUTIN SAYS RUSSIA BEEFING UP NUCLEAR ARSENAL, NATO DENOUNCES 'SABER-RATTLING'
Putin made his comments a day after Russian officials denounced a U.S... READ MORE›
DILL WITH IT: RUSSIAA??S OBSESSION WITH THE SPINDLY HERB MENACE
Dill with it Russiaa??s obsession with the spindly herb menace... READ MORE›
SYRIANS FLEEING WAR FIND NEW ROUTE TO EUROPE A?? VIA THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
Intriguingly, in 2013 a Facebook group which advises Syrians about how to reach Europe suggested that Norway's border with Russia was impenetrable... READ MORE›
VLADIMIR PUTIN'S UNITED RUSSIA PARTY UNVEILS 'STRAIGHT FLAG' TO RIVAL GAY PRIDE SYMBOL
Therefore, in response to the LGBT movement's rainbow flag, the United Russia Party unveiled a banner celebrating the traditional, nuclear Russian family... READ MORE›
RUSSIA OFFERS FRANCE PUPPY AS GESTURE OF 'SOLIDARITY'
The Russian Interior Ministry tweeted a photo of the puppy and the letter on Nov. 20... READ MORE›
ANGER, PROTESTS AS RUSSIA DESTROYS TONS OF BANNED FOOD
Local media in Smolensk in western Russia near the border with Belarus reported people gathering peaches that had remained whole and using them to make moonshine... READ MORE›
IRAN TROOPS TO JOIN SYRIA WAR, RUSSIA BOMBS GROUP TRAINED BY CIA
At the United Nations, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference Moscow was targeting Islamic State... READ MORE›
NATO TESTED BY RUSSIA RAISES ITS GUARD AND ITS TONE
NATO officials have been discussing whether to keep the batteries in Turkey, given Russia's actions, but Mr. Stoltenberg played down that possibility... READ MORE›
RUSSIA TO U.S.: TALK TO US ON SYRIA OR RISK 'UNINTENDED INCIDENTS'
Russia to U.S. talk to us on Syria or risk 'unintended incidents'... READ MORE›
ONE YEAR ON, MH17 EVIDENCE AGAINST SEPARATISTS APPEARS OVERWHELMING
A growing body of evidence suggests russian-backed separatists shot down malaysian airlines flight mh17 after mistaking it for a ukrainian military plane... READ MORE›
CLOSE MILITARY ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE WEST A??AT COLD WAR LEVELSA??
Black Sea encounter On 7 September, the Canadian frigate Toronto was buzzed by a Russian aircraft in the Black Sea with the plane coming within 300 metres... READ MORE›
VICIOUS RESPONSE TO EFFORT TO EXPOSE RUSSIA TROLL ARMY
Abusive online harassment is hardly limited to pro-Russian Internet trolls... READ MORE›
MEMO FROM MOSCOW RUSSIA SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TERRORISTS FAMILIES ARE TARGETED
The Russian security services have also manipulated relatives for various ends, such as to inadvertently pass poisoned food to suspected militants on the run... READ MORE›
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SYRIA CEASEFIRE BEGINS, BUT IS SHAKY WITH EARLY CLASHES[1]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the United States could join the peace process once President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP RIGHT ON EUROPEAN DEFENCE SPENDING, SAYS NATO CHIEF
It's not viable in the long run that the United States pays 70 percent of the total defence spending of NATO, the former Norwegian prime minister said... READ MORE›
SYRIA CRISIS: US WEIGHS TOUGHER RESPONSE TO RUSSIA
It was the stiffest U.S. warning to the Russians since the Sept. 19 collapse of a truce they jointly brokered... READ MORE›
AS SYRIA CEASE-FIRE FAILS, OBAMA MAY LEAVE SUCCESSOR 'PROBLEM FROM HELL'
Obama has limited the U.S. role to supporting groups fighting Islamic State in northeastern Syria... READ MORE›
DONALD TRUMP EVOKES COLD WAR THREAT
Donald Trump has made the Cold War a hot topic in American politics... READ MORE›
COMMENTARY HOW NATO REALLY PROVOKED PUTIN
The exercises come just weeks after the United States inaugurated the first of two controversial missile-defense installations in Eastern Europe... READ MORE›
BELGIUM SHOWS OFF RUSSIAN PLANE INTERCEPTS
Four Belgian F-16s were based out of Amari Air Base in Estonia, a NATO member country, from January to April... READ MORE›
SYRIA TRUCE, WITHOUT JIHADI PARTICIPATION, STARTS SATURDAY, U.S., RUSSIA DECLARE
The United States and Russia on Monday announced plans for a landmark cessation of hostilities to take effect in war-torn Syria on Feb. 27, excluding the... READ MORE›
THE SYRIAN WAR ENTERS A DANGEROUS PHASE
In particular, the historic tensions between Russia and Turkey are being exacerbated by the bloodbath on their doorstep... READ MORE›
KERRY VOICES CONFIDENCE IN SYRIA CEASE-FIRE
But Mr. Medvedev's speech, and a later appearance by Mr. Lavrov did nothing to dispel questions about Russia's commitment to ceasing hostilities in Syria... READ MORE›
NATO MOVES TO BLUNT RUSSIA'S EASTERN EUROPEAN BUILD-UP
The Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, squeezed between NATO members Lithuania and Poland, is seen as a potential flashpoint... READ MORE›
OBAMA URGES TURKEY TO REDUCE TENSIONS WITH RUSSIA
In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said similar ties between Russia and Turkey had failed... READ MORE›