The Russian Ministry of Defense has refuted Bellingcat’s assumption regarding the link between the mass award of medals to Russian servicemen and its participation in the conflict in the Donbas. As the statement of the Russian Defense Ministry says, the increase in the number of awards in the Russian Army from 2014 to 2016 is caused by the activation of military drills and the Olympic Games in Sochi.

The relative increase in the number of awarded servicemen from 2014 to 2016 is caused by the …

U.S. restrictions disrupt the important Russian-Austrian deal that should be completed before the construction of a new gas transportation system (GTS).

The Chairman of the Managing Committee of Russian energy company Gazprom, Alexey Miller, assured that the extension of the U.S. sanctions against Russia that were imposed due to the war against Ukraine will not affect the activity of the Russian energy giant. However, there are many of Gazprom’s specialized structural units among the more than …

Russia is working on an airplane with a new generation laser weapon, according to TASS, citing a source in the Russian defense-industrial complex. “We are working on a new generation of air-based lasers,” the source added, stating that they will be installed on the aircraft. The project is listed in public sources and can be found in the index under A-60.

Previously, the newspaper Izvestia (a long-running high-circulation daily newspaper in Russia) wrote that A-60 planned to convert the …