Moscow/Caracas: Russia, consistently supplying military and financial aid to Venezuela, has started moves to take over the Venezuelan oil sector. A report published in the media claimed that a Russian company would be taking over the Venezuelan oil company, PDVSA, against the loans provided to it. Although the Venezuelan leaders have dismissed the claims, the […]
Ceylanpınar: It is evident that the alignment of the Syrian Kurds, the Syrian government and Russia, against the background of the US military withdrawal and the Turkish attacks on the Kurds, has significant strategic importance. A Syrian Kurdish commander informed while talking to a local news agency ‘US President Donald Trump supports Syrian Kurds, Assad […]
Riyadh: Russian President Vladimir Putin embarked on a visit to the Middle East, given the developments of the additional US military deployment in Saudi Arabia as also the US military withdrawal from northern Syria. On Monday, President Putin visited Saudi Arabia. Both the countries informed that they discussed on Yemen, Syria, cooperation on oil and […]
Moscow: Against the background of the rising tension in the Middle East, Russia kicked off ‘Strategic Nuclear War Games’ on Tuesday, that would include 12,000 soldiers, 105 fighter jets, 15 warships, five submarines and more than 200 missile launchers. Along with the 16 ballistic and cruise missiles, the ‘Strategic Nuclear War Games’ set to last […]
New York: ‘Unit 29155’, a group from Russian intelligence, is working on creating instability and turmoil in Europe. Since the last few years, Unit 29155 has attempted to create anarchy in the European countries by assassinating big leaders and officials. Leading the US daily ‘The New York Times’ made this claim. But the Russian analysts […]
Moscow: 10 bilateral agreements were signed during Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s visit to Russia. These include agreements for trade, investment, marine products, science, electronics along with cooperation in the nuclear energy sector. The sources informed that over and above this, President Putin and President Duterte also held talks regarding bilateral security cooperation. This is the […]
Moscow: Russia has jointly tested its new advanced stealth drone along with a fighter jet. The Russian Defence Ministry released videos of the joint air exercises of the S-70 Okhotnik drone and Su-57 fighter jet. In a statement, the Russian Defence Ministry said that the drone carried out the assigned tasks, coordinating with the systems […]
Moscow: The largest Russian oil company ‘Rosneft’ has decided to permanently outcast US dollar from its transactions. In an independent release, Rosneft clarified that henceforth, the oil rates will be announced only in Euro, instead of US dollars. All the customer companies have been issued instructions regarding this and the company has already started transacting […]
London/Moscow: The character of warfare is evolving. Distinctions between peace and war “don’t exist any longer” in the modern world. I feel I am now at war, but it’s not a war in the way we would have defined it in the past. And that is because great power competition and the battle of ideas […]
Moscow: “I don’t have much to say about higher audit institutions, but as for international organisations like the IMF, they must die,” said Herman Gref, chief of the Russian Sberbank demanding the IMF be abolished. Last year, some European countries had hinted at initiating efforts to find an alternative to the IMF. Against this backdrop, […]