• US Air Force plane again flew close to Russia's border over the Baltic Sea

    An RC-135W strategic reconnaissance aircraft from the US Air Force made another approach towards the Kaliningrad region on Monday on a reconnaissance mission, according to sites that track the movement of military aircraft, Interfax reported.

    A US military aircraft, with the tail number 62-4139 and call sign WOMP17, reportedly left the Mildenhall airbase in the UK at 9:40 am Moscow time, and approached the border of the Kaliningrad region from the Baltic Sea side at nearly 1:00 pm, while …

  • Lavrov reminded Kerry that the United States has not yet separated the opposition from the terrorists in Aleppo

    Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov conducted a telephone call with the secretary of state of the United States, John Kerry.

    As reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, a conversation initiated by the United States took place. Lavrov noted that illegal armed groups in eastern Aleppo and its so-called local council refuse to cooperate to resolve the situation.

    “It is emphasized that the Russian Aerospace Forces and Syrian Air Forces have not …

  • Putin approved the establishment of joint Armenian-Russian group of forces

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the proposal by the Russian government to form an​ Armenian-Russian joint group of forces. The corresponding document was published on November 14 on the official website of Russian legal information.

    On June 30, 2016, the Armenian parliament ratified the government’s decision to join Russia’s air safety system.

    Armenia, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO). …

  • Putin and Trump agree that international terrorism is the common enemy

    On November 14, Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Federation contacted his future colleague, the 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump by telephone by mutual agreement, the Presidential Administration of Russia reported.

    According to the Kremlin’s website, Putin and Trump agreed on the extremely poor current state of U.S.-Russian relations. They also favored active joint work towards normalization of these relations and working towards constructive cooperation. …

  • Syrian and Russian militaries to begin clearing operation in Aleppo

    In the next 24 hours, the Syrian army, with support of the Russian Aerospace Forces and Navy, will most likely start the operation to clear militants from Aleppo,  Izvestia reported on Tuesday, with reference to the first deputy chairman of the Russian Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Franz Klintsevich.

    “It’s been almost three weeks since the humanitarian pauses followed one by one which, however, hardly made any progress. A humanitarian catastrophe is raging in Aleppo now. …