Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2018 - Moscow on Monday announced new security measures to protect its military in Syria, including supplying the Syrian army with an S-300 air defence system and jamming radars of nearby warplanes following the downing of a Russian plane last week.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 17, 2024 - Russia is boosting its army size to 1.5 million active soldiers due to threats along its borders, including hostility in the West, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 - The defence ministers of Russia and Israel on Monday signed an agreement on military cooperation, hailing the unity between Moscow and the Jewish state.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 23, 2010 - President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday signed a decree banning supplies of S-300 missiles and other arms to Iran in a long-awaited move after weeks of deliberations by Russian officials.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 23, 2011 - Russia believes Israel and the United States were responsible for unleashing the malicious Stuxnet computer worm on Iran's nuclear programme last year, a top official said Friday.
Vilnius (AFP) Sept 25, 2014 - Russia is acting like a terrorist in Ukraine and in its intimidation of other neighbours, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite said in an interview released Thursday.
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 21, 2017 - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday took an indirect swipe at the United States, telling the United Nations that military hysteria over North Korea's nuclear and missile tests would lead to disaster.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 24, 2015 - Russia's defence ministry on Thursday said it will hold naval drills in the east Mediterranean in September and October, as the West frets over a military buildup by Moscow in Syria.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 21, 2010 - Russia has in principal agreed to a deal to buy a Mistral helicopter carrier from France and the forthcoming tender will be a formality, a senior Navy official was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
Moscow (Interfax) Nov. 18, 2000 - Russia said on Saturday that both Moscow and Washington hope a Russian-U.S. dialogue on strategic stability will not be interrupted.
United Nations, United States (AFP) Sept 21, 2016 - Russia and the United States clashed at the United Nations over the carnage in Syria on Wednesday, as air strikes pounded Aleppo following the collapse of a ceasefire.
Moscow (Interfax) Feb. 16, 2001 - Specific Russian proposals on the development of a non-strategic missile defense system for Europe will be presented to NATO Secretary General George Robertson during his visit to Moscow on February 19-21, Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, head of the international defense cooperation department at the Russian Defense Ministry, announced at a Friday news conference in Moscow.
Moscow (Interfax) Nov. 1, 2000 - The Russian Strategic Rocket Forces on Wednesday carried out one more intercontinental ballistic missile training launch, RSRF spokesman Ilshat Baichurin has told Interfax.
Moscow (Interfax) Feb. 7, 2001 - The leader of the Russian Communist Party and of its faction in the Russian State Duma Gennady Zyuganov sent an open letter to President Vladimir Putin Wednesday, urging him to prevent the crashing of the orbital station Mir.
Vladivostok, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 13, 200 - Russia will scrap five nuclear submarines decommissioned from the Pacific Fleet by 2010 under a joint project with Japan, a Japanese deputy foreign minister said Tuesday. The Victor class vessels will be dismantled under the Star of Hope program for the dismantlement of decommissioned nuclear submarines in Russia's Far East, which was adopted in 2003 during a visit of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to Russia.
Moscow (AFP) Feb, 5. 2001 - Russia is ready to dust off its Soviet-era star wars systems if the United States opts to withdraw from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty by deploying a missile shield, Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev told Interfax Monday.
