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Ankara: Turkey is ready to purchase US Patriot system after acquiring S-400 systems from Russia
Russia offered Turkey a better deal for the sale of its anti-missile systems than the United States, said Turkish leader Redep Tayyip Erdogan.
“There can be no talk of Turkey withdrawing from its deal with Moscow. We are in agreement, we are determined,” the newspaper Haberturk quoted Erdogan saying.
He added that Turkey would be ready to purchase US Patriots if the United States was able to offer a deal as lucrative as the one offered by the Russian Federation.
According to Reuters, Turkey’ …
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China to test a new batch of Russian S-400 missile systems
After the destruction of Russian S-400 missiles that were damaged during transportation, China will test the new weapons that were delivered instead of them.
TASS reported, citing its military-diplomatic source, that the test launches of the S-400 Triumph missiles will be made at one of the Chinese testing ranges in early June. It is planned to launch two rockets at ballistic and aerodynamic targets as in the previous year.
Earlier, the CEO of the Russian State Corporation Rostec Sergey …
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Putin will be able to monitor Russia from space in real-time
Russian President Vladimir Putin will be able to use the "Gosudaryevo Oko" (Sovereign’s Eye) space monitoring system to see in real-time “what is really going on with construction sites, facilities, people, sowing and roads” in the provincial regions, announced Dmitry Rogozin, director of the Russian space agency, Roscosmos, which is developing the system.
“The president will have complete access to this system. I think that when contacting the regional governments, this data can be used when …
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Tinder denies reports it will provide users' data to Russian Special Services
The dating service Tinder confirmed that the Russian media watchdog, Roskomnadzor, entered the company in its database of the information distributors, but that this does not mean that the data of its Russian users will be transferred to the authorities, reported Kommersant citing an official representative of Tinder.
“The Russian authorities sent us a registration request and we registered the business in order to comply with the law. However, being registered in the database by no means …
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Russia appeals arbitration court’s Crimean assets ruling in favor of Ukraine
Russia has appealed the International Court of Arbitration’s ruling in favor of the Ukrainian companies Ukrnafta, Stabil, and others, concerning Crimean assets, the Russian Justice Ministry reported.
The appeal was submitted on 27 May to the Swiss Federal Tribunal.
“Firstly, the arbitrators ruled in favor of the plaintiffs without having established that the Crimean peninsula is Russia’s sovereign territory. Nevertheless, the tribunal concluded that Russia is responsible according to the …