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2015

21.5 From 400 to 700 Ukrainians captured in the Donbas conflict zone have been taken to Russia, and many sold into slavery in Chechnya, Ossetia and Adygea, according to an open letter of the relatives of prisoners to the Russian human rights defenders published on the Web site of Open Russia public organization on Wednesday, a Ukrainian news broadcaster has reported.

  • 20.5 Opposition activists in Moscow say they have discovered fresh graves of several Russian Special Forces officers. The accusation comes as Russia's Defense Ministry continues to deny that Russian soldiers are fighting in Ukraine -- despite the recent capture in Luhansk of a pair who identified themselves as Russian officers.

  • 17.5 Putin Controls All Ukraine’s Airwaves, Phones and Computers

  • 21.5 Ukraine has displayed the wreckage of what it says is a Russian spy drone shot down near the city of Donetsk on Wednesday, further adding to a mountain of evidence that the Russian military is directly involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

  • 21.5 Two Swedish Jas Gripen aircraft warned off a pair of Russian fighter jets that were flying close to the southern Swedish island of Öland on Thursday.

  • 22.5 Russia Plans 'Patriotic' TV Channel For Children

  • 21.5 OSCE drones spot Russian-made Strela-10 air missile systems in Donbas

  • 21.5 German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday that there would not be any Group of 8 meetings with Russia as long as it fails to comply with basic common values of democracy and states based on rules of law.

  • 20.5 Putin Launches Broad New Attack against Non-Russian Languages. Vladimir Putin wants to make the number of hours of Russian-language instruction in Russian schools inviolable, something that will mean non-Russian parents will be able to secure instruction in their native languages only by sacrificing other programs and thus putting the future academic and professional careers of their children at risk.

  • 20.5 The Obama administration is considering a range of options to respond to Russia’s ongoing violation of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. Part of the response could involve deploying new U.S. weapons to Eastern Europe.

  • 20.5 OSCE Representative calls on President of Russia to veto new restrictive law that would have negative effect on free expression, free media

  • Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has accused Russia of suppressing the culture of its Finno-Ugric minorities by decreasing education in their traditional languages.

  • Russian politician Boris Nemtsov was shot and killed

  • A passenger bus was shelled by Russian-backed militants near Volnovakha. This resulted in the immediate deaths of 10 passengers, 4 men and 6 women, including a 14-year-old girl. 18 other people were injuried.

  • At least 14,600 Russian militants killed in east Ukraine conflict

  • A trolley on Bosse Street in Donetsk was shelled by Russian-backed militants. Over a 24 hour period, 20 civilians were injured and 15 people were killed. The shelling was carried out by the so-called nomadic mortar mounted on a vehicle.

  • Missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was 'hijacked by Russians', claims aviation expert

  • A plagiarism scandal is making rounds in Russia after it was discovered that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech over the annexation of Crimea, the first anniversary of which will be pompously celebrated in Russia on March 16, mirrored the speech of the German Fuehrer Adolf Hitler over the annexation of Danzig and the Corridor.

  • Russia formally walked out of another arms control treaty, the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty.

  • Danish warships could end up as targets for Russian nuclear missiles if Denmark joins the NATO missile defence shield, according to Mikhail Vanin, the Russian ambassador to Denmark. 21.3.

  • The whole Vostochnyi urban district in Mariupol was shelled by Russian-backed militants. More than 20 people were killed and 75 were injured.

  • An airfield in Kramatorsk was shelled by Russian-backed militants. Shells also hit a residential area. Seven civilians were killed and 21 wounded, including two children.

  • Former Russian presidential adviser Alexander Nekrassov demands Russia to declare war on Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania and Poland 24.3.

  • Russian still denies sending in troops to east Ukraine, making the same false claims the Kremlin made during their illegal annexation of Crimea last year.

  • The last remaining Gulag - Perm 36 has now been closed, while at the same time the opening of a museum dedicated to honouring Stalin is announced

  • In Russia the largest TV channels ORT, NTV, Russia 1 and Russia 2 are owned by the government. Around 60 percent of the media is thus directly owned by the Kremlin or indirectly controlled such as NTV, due to ownership of Gazprom. Russia therefore has in general no free press and media.

  • Samantha Power announced at a meeting of the UN Security Council that the bodies of 500 civilians killed by Russian terrorist forces have been found in the basements of apartment buildings in Debaltseve!

  • Russian-backed terrorists shelled Artemivsk with cluster munitions from a BM-37 Uragan launcher. A school boy and young woman were killed; her daughter and 4 more people were injured, so that three children of the age 6-8 are among injured.

  • Russian-backed terrorists planted a bomb in Kharkiv during a peaceful rally in commemoration of the Maidan anniversary. Four people were killed and nine were injured.

  • Under Putin's presidency over 125 journalists have been murdered, while only 36 trials have been held.

  • Heads of Russian state-owned companies no longer obliged to disclose financial data

  • Russian Federation does not recognise Parliamentary Assembly Council of Europe, diplomatic immunity.

  • Saudi Prince Slams Putin for Arming Assad and Fueling Conflict in the Middle East

  • Russia closed ATR TV channel in occupied Crimea, the only Crimean Tatars TV channel in the world, because they refuse to spread Kremlin propaganda.

  • A key ally of Russian anti-Kremlin campaigner Alexei Navalny - Vladimir Ashurkov - has been granted political asylum in the UK.

  • The Russian govt, which took the female Ukrainian pilot Savchenko hostage is now investigating her lawyer Mark Feygin for extremism

  • Russian teacher on trial for poem against annexation of Crimea

  • A Russian 'Doctor of Military Sciences' says Moscow should just nuke Yellowstone if tensions boil over

  • State Duma suggests not to let foreigners criticizing Putin in social networks enter Russia

  • Moscow clubs refused to hold a concert in memory of Boris Nemtsov

  • Russian secret service 'execute' pro-Moscow militants who 'shot down MH17'

  • Yemen accuses Russia of supplying weapons to Houthi rebels

  • A Russian protest for freedom of expression. Thousands took to the streets after a threatre director in the city of Novosibirsk was fired, for the way he presented the Wagner opera 'Tannhauser'.

  • ‘Anonymous International’ Leaks Kremlin's Instructions to Russian TV

  • Paranoia progresses: Russian Foreign Ministry requires that 'NATO instructors' get out of Ukraine

  • Extramarital sex in Russia may ban from next year

  • Russia demands that Belarus become part of Russian Federation - otherwise it will be liquidated

  • Crimean journalist reported abducted by Russia's FSB

  • Russian security services ‘shut down’ exhibition about wartime Britain and US

  • Russian military observer: To counter NATO in Baltic, Moscow ready to use nuclear weapons

  • The so-called Latvian Human Rights Committee, connected to pro-Russian MEP Tatjana Ždanoka, received about €95,000 from the Fund for the Legal Protection and Support of Russian Federation Compatriots Living Abroad

  • Russia Lifts Ban On Sending Missiles To Iran. Putin allows to bring S-300 missile systems to Iran in unlimited amount

  • Twenty-five percent of Russian men still die before the age of 55, many from alcoholism and the violent deaths, plus other diseases.

  • Russia, has more heroin addicts than any other country

  • Russia is second only to India (with 1.3 billion people) in the number of cases of M.D.R. (multidrug-resistant) tuberculosis

  • 50 percent of Russia’s water is not potable. Back then, a Russian health minister advised the country to “breathe less” in order to live longer.

  • Russians death rate far exceeded its birth rate: in 2000, life expectancy for men was only 58, and for women 71. The syphilis rate among girls 10 to 14—a statistical category that boggles the mind—had gone up 40 times the previous decade, and only 30 percent of boys between the ages of 15 and 17 were considered healthy.

  • According to the U.N.’s World Health Organization, the life expectancy for a 15-year-old boy in Haiti is three years higher than for a Russian boy the same age.

  • RAF jets intercept Russian planes near UK airspace

  • Russian warships in English Channel 'to conduct anti-aircraft and anti-submarine military drills'

  • Small Finnic nations inside Russia accused of extremism

  • Japan's air force said jet fighter scrambles had reached a level not seen since the height of the Cold War three decades ago as Russian bombers probe its northern skies and Chinese combat aircraft intrude into its southern air space.

  • 16.4 The Russian president denied Russian military forces were in Ukraine

  • Assassinated or killed Ukraine journalists in Ukraine: Dimitri Labutkin, Sergei Nikolajev, Olga Moroz, Sergei Suhobok, Olesj Buzina

  • 17.4 Russian police sealed the archives at the Perm-36 independent NGO in the building of the museum which shares the NGO's name.

  • 19.4 Irish Fishermen Nearly Dragged To The Depths By What They Believe Was A Russian Submarine

  • 22.4 Russian warship approaches Latvian border. After provocation with aviation Russian turns to provocations with navy.

  • Since the beginning of 2015 the Russian military equipment at the borders of Latvia has been noticed more than 30 times. In particular, in mid-March, the Russian submarines appeared on the borders of Latvia.

  • 24.4 Russian ships are consistently interfering with a strategic energy project of Lithuania that is laying down an electricity link under the Baltic Sea to connect its grid with Sweden's.

  • 25.4 A Russian court has jailed three women for performing a twerking dance in front of a World War Two memorial. Earlier this month, Russian officials closed a dance school after a similar dance video emerged on the internet.

  • 28.4 Finland’s navy has detected a Russian submarine in the sea near Helsinki. Following the findings naval officials detonated light depth charges around 3.00 am this morning.

  • 28.4 Putin gives the world his geography lesson: ‘All the former USSR is Russia’

  • 29.4 Freedom House said Belarus, Russian-annexed Crimea, Iran, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were among the world's 10 worst-rated countries and territories for press freedom. Freedom House said Russia's media sector is increasingly owned by the state, by "private-sector cronies of the political leadership," or by business interests that suppress content critical of the government. Russia also was criticized for "more active and aggressive use of propaganda -- often false or openly threatening -- to warp the media environment and crowd out authentic journalism." The report said Russia's "state-controlled national television stations broadcast nonstop campaigns of demonization directed at the internal opposition, neighboring countries whose polices have displeased Moscow, and the broader democratic world." It said Russian media played a major role in preparing the Russian public for war with Ukraine. It also noted that a Russian law which took effect in August placed new controls on blogs and social media, requiring all websites with more than 3,000 visitors a day to register with state regulators as a "media outlet." Freedom House said that Ukraine," facing a military invasion" by Russia, suspended the retransmission of at least 15 Russian television channels by cable operators. It also noted that Lithuania, Latvia, and Moldova imposed suspensions or fines on Russian television stations for "incitement to war, disseminating historical inaccuracy, and lack of pluralism of opinions in news content."

  • 30.4 Foreign Ministry of Lithuania summoned the Russian ambassador to express strong protest. On April 30 the Russian ship of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet during its regular military exercises entered the Lithuanian exclusive economic zone and illegally ordered to change course to the ALCEDO ship managed by the ABB group. After similar incidents that have taken place on 19 March, April 10 and 24 April this year Lithuanian Foreign Ministry sent protest Notes to Russian MFA. Lithuania also coordinates its activities with Sweden as the activities of the Russian navy are attempts to interfere with the construction work of the sea cable ‘NordBalt’. So far there has been no reaction to these Notes from the Russian authorities in charge. These actions of the Russian Navy Baltic Fleet were carried out under the excuse of protection of their military exercise zones. Russian authorities have never asked Lithuanian institutions or received any prior authorization for such activities in exclusive economic zone of Lithuania.

  • 1.5 Two Russian nuclear-capable bombers intruded into the U.S. air defense zone near Alaska last week in the latest saber rattling by Moscow, defense officials said.

  • 4.5 Vladimir Putin has signed a law increasing fines on the media for what the authorities choose to view as ‘propaganda of extremism’. In Russian-occupied Crimea this can be any peaceful opposition to Russian rule, with the use of the terms ‘annexation’ and ‘occupation’ having resulted in one newspaper being warned about ‘extremism’.

  • 4.5 NATO fighter jets intercepted another Russian military plane flying over the Baltic Sea with its transponder switched off.

  • 5.5 An observer who recorded violations in a Moscow-region local election has been hospitalized with a ruptured spleen after being attacked by a group of men, a news report said. Stanislav Pozdnyakov was watching an election last weekend in the Moscow region city of Balashikha when he claimed to have witnessed ballet-box stuffing, the OVD Info news site reported Sunday. A group of eight men later arrived in a BMW with no number plates and severely beat him and another man Dmitry Nesterov, OVD reported, citing Pozdnyakov's friend Dmitry Georgiyevsky. Pozdnyakov initially reported the incident to police, but noticed a bleed a few days later and was taken to Moscow's Sklifosovsky hospital where he he had his spleen removed, the report said.

  • 10.5 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the infamous pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union that agreed to divide up eastern Europe during a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

  • 11.5 A well-known Russian actor Alexei Devotchenko, who was a vocal critic of the Kremlin has been found dead in suspicious circumstances at his home in Moscow.

  • 13.5 British RAF jets intercept Russian spy plane near Estonia

  • 17.5 Russia has placed a book written by former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko on its list of extremist materials and forced an Internet library to remove it. This comes 3 months after Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded a state honour to the man suspected of killing London-based Litvinenko with radioactive polonium. Putin’s award was “for courage and daring demonstrated in carrying out work duties in conditions linked with risk to life”.

  • 17.5 New Moscow Textbooks Must Stress Existence of ‘Great Russian Aryan Race,’ Nikonov Says

  • 18.5 Russia had tried to kill the two Russian servicemen Kiev says it has captured in east Ukraine.

  • Russia's lawmakers adopted a law that declares some NGOs “undesirable” and cooperation with these organizations may result in a 6-year jail sentence. In July, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) became the first NGO on the list of “undesirable.” The Russian Prosecuting Attorney's office said that NED “declared the election results invalid, helped organize political action and discredit the Russian Armed Forces.”

  • 9.6 A Communist lawmaker has proposed banning foreign organizations that provide grants to Russian students to study in the West, a news report said, shortly after comments by President Vladimir Putin suggested such measures may be required to curb the country's brain drain.

  • 10.6 Russian parliament member Vadim Dengin has reportedly asked Russia's Attorney General and federal Investigative Committee to inspect Meduza website for extremism.

  • 21.6 Lithuanian officials says their country is ready to start pumping gas to Ukraine from its new LNG terminal but that Russia was stubbornly blocking the move by excercising its control over Belarusian gas pipeline infrastructure.

  • 27.6 Russian Spies, Suspicious Books, and the New Cold War Emerging in Europe

  • 29.6 In a paid advertisement in The New York Times, Russia presents Latvia's Rundāle Palace as being in Russia!

  • 10.7 Russian Official in Far East Says Moscow Needn’t Be Involved in Rental of Land to Chinese

  • 11.7 NATO Suspects Greece Is Sending Classified Secret Information To Russia! Meanwhile, Greece To Stop NATO’s Eastward Expansion. Putin The Puppetmaster In Greece?

  • 14.7 The Latvian consulate in St. Petersburg, Russia has suffered an attack - of sorts - with smoke bombs and eggs. An activist of the unregistered opposition party Drugaya Rossiya (The Other Russia) has been detained in connection with the vandalism act, reported the BNS news agency via Russian Interfax.

  • 20.7 Putin critic and chess champion Garry Kasparov wiped from Russian record book

  • 21.7 Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine Alexander Hug claims he has met in person with representatives of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, who have arrived in Donbas to perform "certain tasks," according to Ukrainian news service tsn.ua.

  • 25.7 Energy expert: Gazprom has nowhere to sell its gasRead more on UNIAN: http://www.unian.info/economics/1104775-energy-expert-gazprom-has-nowhere-to-sell-its-gas.html

  • 25.7 A number of Russians who went to fight in Ukraine are returning to Russia, where they oppose the government of Vladimir Putin.

  • 30.7 Jews from eastern Ukraine seek refuge from Russian invasion under the rule of a government Moscow claims is infested by neo-Nazis.

  • 4.8 'Russian' Soldier Discovered In Donbas, Kiev Slams Russia For Backing East Ukraine Rebels

  • 6.8 Russian authorities do not wish to cooperate with Estonia in the criminal case that was launched by Estonian investigative bodies in regard to the kidnapping of Eston Kohver, the staffer of the Internal Security Service (ISS) who was deprived of his freedom on Estonian territory and taken to Russia by unidentified individuals coming from Russia on Sept. 5, 2014. Kohver who was engaged in stopping cross-border smuggling, might have crossed a line in Russia's criminal world which is controlled by not only criminals but also people who actually hold the power in the country, Andrey Kuzichkin, a political refugee living in Estonia and former head of the Tomsk Region's culture department, told the daily Postimees at the end of last week.

  • 8.8 US further toughens industry sector sanctions against Russia

  • 18.8 Russia’s refusal to negotiate on nuclear disarmament and veto of the decision to create a tribunal on the Malaysian Boeing crash over the Donbas at the UN Security Council are a clear evidence of inadequate actions of Putin being in despair, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to the statement made by Borovoy in an article for Apostrophe.

  • 23.9 Barnaul rolled out a newly paved road for Patriarch Kirill’s visit. And then, when he left, it rolled it back up.

  • 30.9 Poland to bring back thousands of exiled Poles from former Soviet nations So far, about 5,000 ethnic Poles have been brought to Poland from Kazakhstan, Georgia and Uzbekistan

  • 1.10 Russia launches air strikes in Syria against Assad enemies - as it happened

  • 1.10 Syria Is Our Land! Russian Propaganda Is Gaining Momentum

  • http://www.russialies.com/russias-top-160-lies-about-ukraine/

  • 8.10 MH17 victims' bodies 'found to have shrapnel from Russian missiles in them'

  • 15.10 Russian soldiers jailed for refusing to fight in Donbas

  • 16.10 Putin Allies Said to Be Behind Scrutinized Deutsche Bank Trades

  • 19.10 OSCE spots heavy weapons of militants not withdrawn as agreed

  • 19.10 Russia was stalling opening of "Ilovaisk corridor" to organize ambush of Ukrainian troops – Defense Ministry

  • 26.10 Red Army choir fails to find venue for performance in Lithuania

  • 26.10 French diplomat prohibited to draw at Savchenko's trial.

  • 26.10 Russia Intensifies Air Strikes

  • 26.10 Deutsche Bank is facing a major escalation of a U.S. probe into its activities in Russia, as a money laundering investigation of its Moscow unit widens to examine possible sanctions violations, said people familiar with the case.

  • 26.10 Russian media claimed that "Ukrainian Banderites" in NATO uniforms were killed in Syria. They listed the source that did not publish any such reports and used photos taken by Reuters in 2012 and 2013.

  • 27.11 Suspended OSCE monitor confirms he's Russian GRU officer

  • 27.11 Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov says the country's Reserve Fund could be exhausted by the end of 2016 if world energy prices remain at current levels.

  • 28.10 FIFA latest: Russia handed 2018 World Cup BEFORE vote began, reveals Sepp Blatter

  • 30.10 NATO Chief: Russia Tested Missile Last Month In Violation of INF Treaty

  • 31.10 On Saturday morning, October 31, an Airbus A321 Russian passenger flight operated by Metrojet crashed somewhere in the mountainous area of central Sinai, en route to St. Petersburg. According to flight records, there were 224 people on board. The flight was organized by the St.-Petersburg-based tourist company Brisco. Meduza recaps what we know, so far, about the Metrojet tragedy.

  • 31.10 If you thought Russia's tales about crucified babies were outrageous, this piece of propaganda is even more bizarre! Russian TV channel ran a story about alleged conversations between the Governor of Odesa, Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili, former Defense Minister of Georgia and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Avakov. While the channel readily acknowledged that there is no audio recording of the said exchange, they repeated bizarre story about a plot to send MANPADS from Ukraine to Syria (which they claimed was approved by U.S. Senator John McCain) to shoot down an American airplane and blame the Russians. This bizarre tale also throws all of the following into the mix: Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, Arsen Avakov, his adviser Anton Gerashenko, ISIS and Crimean Tatars. This fabricated story was aired by Russia's Channel One:It was based entirely on a transcript of a nonexistent recording, which was posted (without accompanying audio) by the following website, calling itself "Ukrainian Wikileaks." It should be noted that the "transcript" was posted on October 21, 2015, but the audio was never added (quite simply, because it doesn't exist):

  • 31.10 Russia’s international propaganda outlet just recycled an old, debunked claim that Stalin’s terror-famine in Ukraine was a Western “hoax.”

  • 2.11 Homes of journalists and activists searched in Crimea

  • 2.11 Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov sues Russia’s FSB for defamation

  • 2.11 Irina Khakamada slams Vladimir Putin on economy situation in Russia

  • 4.11 Syrian opposition leader warns of deception by Russia during peace talks

  • 5.11 Russia’s Senate Speaker proposes a single online portal for Russian-language media

  • 5.11 UPDATE 1-OPEC, Russia oil battle heats up as Sweden buys Saudi crude

  • 6.11 Pro-Russian terrorist was detained in Chisinau airport of Moldova coming on a flight from Moscow

  • 9.11 On Nov. 9, President Vladimir Putin attended a meeting in Sochi on the state of the Russian defense industry. He gave a pretty boring speech about defeating U.S. missile defenses to some pretty bored-looking generals. But there was one aspect of the event that was downright terrifying. Russian television cameras caught a page in a briefing book describing the development of a new nuclear weapons system called Status-6.

  • 9.11 Russia Fears Islamic Terror Blowback Over Syria After Sinai

  • 9.11 Ramzan Kadyrov hired a comedy troupe to work in the Chechen government

  • 9.11 EU planning to extend sanctions against Russia at December summit

  • 10.11 The Russian Supreme Court definitively pronounced lawful the president's decree making secret casualties suffered in special operations in peacetime on Tuesday."

  • 10.11 Russia’s defense budget will increase by a modest 0.8 percent in 2016, according to information obtained by TASS.

  • 10.11 Ukrainian Intelligence spots convoy of Russian tanks in Donetsk

  • 11.11 100 armed people in Ukrainian military uniform, who do not belong to the government forces, were found in Donetsk

  • 11.11 Olympics Panel Says It Will Strip Medals From Doped Russian Athletes

  • 12.11 Some Russians Petition Putin to Launch Nuclear Strike at US But Most Oppose the Idea

  • 12.11 Russia plans to loan Iran billions of dollars

  • 12.11 Kremlin’s Campaign against Russophobia Threatens both Russia and the West, Polish Experts Say

  • 16.11 Terrorist Attacks in Paris and Airbus Crash Benefit Russian Security Services

  • 16.11 G20 leaders say Russia should target Islamic State

  • 17.11 Sweden's FM categorical on sanctions against Russia

  • 17.11 Three Ukrainian soldiers wounded in Donbas conflict zone in last day

  • 18.11 A senior Russian MP suggested travellers should sign documents before crossing state borders

  • 18.11 511 kilograms of caviar squashed by tractor in Russia

  • 19.11 Edwin Moses of WADA said Russian athletes should be banned from Olympics

  • 19.11 EU and U.S. ready to renew Russia sanctions over Ukraine

  • 19.11 Stolen Kremlin records show how the Soviets, including Gorbachev, created many of today’s Middle East conflicts

  • 20.11 Kremlin-backed militant leader Igor Plotnytsky has given testimony in Russia’s imitation trial of Nadiya Savchenko, but what he said is top secret

  • 20.11 At around 4:30 a.m. on November 20, separate distress signals indicated that power lines that carry electricity from mainland Ukraine into the annexed Crimean peninsula had been damaged.

  • 20.11 Two more power lines leading to Crimea damaged

  • 23.11 Russian Air Raids Help ISIS out in Daraa

  • 23.11 The ruble was the world's second-best performer last week, gaining as much as 3%, as the U.S. and Russia discussed ways of coordinating efforts to strike at Islamic State in Syria and Iraq in the wake of the Paris attacks. The mood shifted as the two sides disagreed on keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power.

  • 23.11 Moscow Begins Process to Transfer S-300 Anti-Aircraft Systems to Iran

  • 23.11 Young Russians flow en masse to fight for Islamists in Syria and Iraq, Moscow expert says

  • 23.11 A New Arms Race Threatens to Bring the U.S. and Russia Back to the Nuclear Brink

  • 23.11 Donetsk resident tries to smuggle grenade on board at Kyiv airport

  • 24.11 Russia with current borders and values will remain a threat to Ukraine, Europe and itself, Portnikov says

  • 25.11 Russian FSB blocking Ukrainian Internet traffic in Donetsk, Luhansk

  • 25.11 Following government warning, all tourist agencies in Russia suspend the sale of trips to Turkey

  • 25.11 Russian warplanes carried out heavy raids in Syria's northern Latakia province on Wednesday, a day after Turkey downed one of Moscow's jets in the area, a monitoring group said.

  • 25.11 Occupational authorities of Crimea decided to sever relations with Turkey, including ferry connection and business contracts, because of the Russian plane shot near Syrian border.

  • 26.11 The threat of a hybrid war in Lithuania is real, it is Russia's strategy for the post-Soviet area and Lithuania needs to strengthen its defence system and host allied soldiers in the country to deter Russia, according to the US military analyst and the president of Jamestown Foundation Glen Howard.

  • 26.11 Crimea-based Federal Security Service (FSB) officials havev summoned Safinar Dzhemileva, the wife of the Crimean Tatars' leader Mustafa Dzhemilev, for questioning, the Crimean news agency Krym.Realii has reported.

  • 27.11 Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has used a meeting with his Syrian opposite number in Moscow to launch a stinging attack on the Turkish government.

  • 27.11 39 percent responded that Russian intervention in Syria was “highly likely” to lead to a drawn-out war resembling the one fought by the U.S.S.R. in Afghanistan in the 1980s. Thirty-two percent deemed this outcome “rather unlikely.”

  • 27.11 Russia Hits Border Crossings As Fighting Breaks Out North Of Aleppo

  • 27.11 Two Russian soldiers captured in east Ukraine

  • 28.11 PUTIN'S DECREE INTRODUCES BAN OR RESTRICTIONS ON IMPORT OF CERTAIN TYPES OF GOODS FROM TURKEY - KREMLIN

  • 28.11 PUTIN'S DECREE RESTRICTS ACTIVITY OF TURKISH ORGANIZATIONS IN RUSSIA - KREMLIN

  • 28.11 PUTIN SIGNS DECREE ON SANCTIONS AGAINST TURKEY - KREMLIN

  • 28.11 PUTIN'S DECREE BANS EMPLOYERS FROM EMPLOYING TURKISH CITIZENS FROM JANUARY 1 - KREMLIN

  • 28.11 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTED TO TAKE MEASURES BANNING CHARTER FLIGHTS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TURKEY - PUTIN'S DECREE

  • 28.11 RUSSIAN TOUR OPERATORS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM WORKING ON TURKISH DESTINATION - PUTIN'S DECREE

  • 28.11 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTED TO TIGHTEN CONTROL OVER TURKISH AIR CARRIERS FLYING IN RUSSIA TO ENSURE SAFETY - PUTIN'S DECREE

  • 28.11 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTED TO TIGHTEN CONTROL OVER TURKISH ROAD CARRIERS OPERATING IN RUSSIA TO ENSURE SAFETY - PUTIN'S DECREE

  • RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTED TO TIGHTEN PORT CONTROL AND CONTROL OVER TRANSPORT SAFETY AT PORTS IN AZOV AND BLACK SEAS - PUTIN'S DECREE

  • 28.11 MOSCOW-ANKARA AGREEMENT CONCERNING TRIPS BY TURKISH CITIZENS TO RUSSIA TO BE SUSPENDED FROM JANUARY 1 - PUTIN'S DECREE

  • 2014- Russian Ukraine war

  • 2014- Russia annexes Ukraine's Crimea

  • 2013- Dagestan Insurgency

  • 2011- Involvement in Iraqi insurgency

  • 2011- Involvment to Syrian civil war

  • 2009- North Caucasus Insurgency

  • 2007- War in Ingushetia

  • 2000- Chechen Insurgency

  • 1948- Involvement to Arab-Israeli Conflict


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