Anniversary of Crimea's annexation will be celebrated for three days in Moscow

The fifth anniversary of the annexation of the Crimea will be celebrated in Moscow with a three-day festival called the “Crimean Spring,” reported the website of Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. According to the information provided on the website, the festival will take place from March 16 to 18. Other details, including the schedule and places of the events are not specified.

Earlier, the Crimean authorities subordinate to the Kremlin published the plan of the events devoted to the celebration. …


China calls on Russia to resolve its missile conflict with the USA through dialogue

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Russia's withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty or INF. The United States has already begun its withdrawal from this treaty that was established in 1987.

“The USA's withdrawal from the INF treaty will lead to serious negative consequences,” said spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, Geng Shuang, the Ministry's press service reports. Geng expressed Beijing’s regrets that on February …


Putin announces Russia’s withdrawal from intermediate-range nuclear missile treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that Russia will also pull out from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the TASS news agency reports.

“We will act in the following way. Our response will be a mirror [response]. Our American partners announced that they are stopping their participation in the treaty, we will also stop. They announced that they are engaging in scientific research and development operations, we will do the same thing,” Putin said during a meeting …


Russia considers launching satellites with Topol ballistic missiles

Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos has stated on its website that it’s looking at ways of resuming satetlitev launches using the Start-1 class rocket which is  designed based on the Topol intercontinental ballistic missile.

On January 28, Roscosmos commission arrived at Vostochny Cosmodrome led by Alexander Lopatin, Executive Director for Quality and Reliability Assurance of Roscosmos.

It is reported that Roskosmos’s experts also studied the plausible construction sites of ground infrastructure …


Polish Foreign Minister: Warsaw supports deployment of US nuclear missiles in Europe

The Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jacek Czaputowicz, said in an interview with Spiegel that Warsaw supports the deployment of US nuclear missiles in Europe.

“Our European interests include the deployment of American military and nuclear missiles on this continent,” stated Czaputowicz.

In addition, he did not exclude the possibility that NATO nuclear missiles will be deployed in Poland.

“We definitely don’t want this. However, everything depends on how Russia behaves in the future and …