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The secretive Kremlin-linked group is growing in scope and ambition, winning contracts normally reserved for local security firms. Many believe it is not up to the job. * They were recently in South Africa as well. Russia in Africa – BRICS – Mozambique (Cabo Delgado) Saipem-led joint venture awarded Anadarko’s gas project in Mozambique… Continue reading Russian military and Mozambique (gas)
The Russian Navy is sending its Slava class missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov (055), accompanied by the Project Sliva class rescue tug SB-406 and tanker Vyazma. These vessels left the port of Malabo in Equatorial Guinea on 11 November as part of their long-distance voyage, having departed the Northern Fleet’s main naval base of Severomorsk on… Continue reading Russian and Chinese naval vessels heading for South Africa
The US push to claim Syrian oil fields is "banditry," the Russian Defense Ministry has said. A US military convoy was heading towards oil fields at Syria's Deir el-Zour, where Washington already maintains a small force. * On 25 October 2019 , the U.S. Defense Department said that it planned to increase up its… Continue reading US and Syria – oil fields
This is just not a Russian or Putin idea only. Here is more behind it than it is publicly announced. This is ridiculous, it is really outrageous to take away so much territory from Syria and the Kurdish province, or country that once was existed as a bigger country and was known as Kurdish territory. … Continue reading Kurdish in shock – human violations by various countries – war crimes
* It was the year 2019, when civilians were fleeing northern Syria as Turkish troops advance in Kurdish-controlled areas. The offensive was made possible by the withdrawal of US troops. It has opened a new front in Syria's eight-year-old war. So, who are the key players in this particular conflict and what are their goals?… Continue reading Kurdish – Syria – Turkey – Russian (violation of human rights)
* Tydens samesprekings in Sochi het die Russiese president Vladimir Poetin en sy Turkse eweknie Recep Tayyip Erdogan op 17 Oktober 2019 'n ooreenkoms gesluit oor die lot van noord-Sirië om 'n nuwe status quo in die streek te skep. Was die "ooreenkoms" slegs om die Koerde hieruit te kry sodat die Turke daar oor… Continue reading Russian – Turkish – Kurdish – Syria (Sochi “Agreement”)
BRICS .... Moet ons begin bekommerd raak of wees oor die Russiese "teenwoordigheid" of is dit minerale wat die Russe na SA en die res van Afrika trek? Rusland is ook in Mosambiek betrokke by die noordelikste provinsie waar daar groot neerslae van gas is. Te verstane as daar gekyk word hoe daar na… Continue reading Russia in Africa – Summit October 2019
Two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers touched down today at South African Air Force Base Waterkloof in the country's capital Pretoria, marking the first time these bombers have made a visit to anywhere in Africa. This comes on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin opened the first-ever Russia Africa Summit in Sochi on the Black Sea and as… Continue reading Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers – Waterkloof
Russian mercenaries and military hardware have arrived in Mozambique to help the government fight jihadists in the latest example of an African country turning to Moscow for help. The contingent of about 200 soldiers, including elite troops, three attack helicopters and crew in the southern African state reflects the Kremlin’s increased influence on the continent. … Continue reading Russia in Africa – BRICS – Mozambique (Cabo Delgado)
Russian Air Force Tu-160 Strategic Bombers To Make Unprecedented Visit To South Africa... On 22 October 2019, two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack bombers will land at Air Force Base Waterkloof in what is the first known visit of the strategic bombers to Africa. The Director at African Defence Review has published on social media an invite… Continue reading Russian Air Force Tu-160 Strategic Bombers in SA
It was confirmed by Turkey representatives, they have received a sophisticated Russian surface-to-air missile system, defying U.S. threats for more than a year that purchasing the S-400s would result in harsh retaliation against the fellow NATO ally. Photo - A Russian plane carrying the first batch of equipment for S-400 missile defense systems arrives at… Continue reading Turkey – USA (Russia)
Who are the Saami peoples. The indigenous Saami peoples, these Northern old growth forests are essential to Saami reindeer herding, a traditional way of life that the Saami hope to continue into future generations. The Saami are the indigenous people of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia The Arctic Council is the leading intergovernmental… Continue reading The Saami people – Arctic Council
2018 During the Cold War, the KGB was scared that means of communication would be in the hands of the ordinary Soviet people. The FSB still distrusts the citizen. However, unlike the KGB, the FSB does not try to stop modern ICT but to use it: to keep the opposition under control in its own country… Continue reading Russia – Internet
February 2019 - President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Members of the Federation Council, State Duma deputies, citizens of Russia, Today’s Address is primarily devoted to matters of domestic social and economic development. I would like to focus on the objectives set forth in the May 2018 Executive Order and detailed in the national projects. Their content… Continue reading Putin: ‘State Of The Nation’
2012 - 2014 - The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has signed a decree that will extend the use of SORM-2 to social network surveillance. It’s known that the Russian Government is applying a strict surveillance on the Internet within the country, the Kremlin has developed a system code named “SORM-2” to monitor Russian citizens. The… Continue reading Russia – SORM surveillance . . 123
Opinion by Pavel Luzin - The basic laws of physics mean there is no such thing as a nuclear- powered missile. He doesn’t believe that aliens have visited Earth, he doesn’t believe in magic and he doesn’t believe in perpetual motion. He also doesn’t believe that it’s possible to build a nuclear-powered cruise… Continue reading Russia’s Deadly ‘Nuclear’ Explosion
Rumors and speculation continue to swirl around a radiological accident last week at a missile test site in northwestern Russia even as officials held a memorial service today for those who died in the incident. The Kremlin has now acknowledged that the incident killed at least seven scientists and other personnel from a major state nuclear research… Continue reading Burevestnik – Russia
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, at the end of 2017, a successful launch of the newest Russian cruise missile with a nuclear power plant took place at the Central Range of the Russian Federation. In the course of the flight, the power plant reached the set power level, provided the necessary level of thrust.… Continue reading “Burevestnik” – Russia
10 August 2019 - Nuclear accident in Russia as missile may have exploded during test - radiation casualties. Sparse details, but apparently there has been an incident with nuclear ordnance in Nyonoska, Russia, spiking some meters, and causing some radiation casualties requiring the distribution of iodine. Five have now been reported killed even as the Russian official line was the explosion… Continue reading Russia – Nuclear powered cruise missile Burevestnik
On a cold January 24 in 1894 in the Shigir area of the Ural Mountains in Russia was found the most amazing wood Stone Age sculpture ever unearthed—the Shigir Idol. It was buried or had found its way into a peat bog and there it was perfectly preserved for the last 11,000 years! *… Continue reading Russia – Shigir Idol – Oldest Sculpture
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