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16Jun

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Europe, Russia, USA

Leading US Military Magazine Says Russia Years Ahead in Missile Technology (Russian TV News)

NOVANEWS Russian TV regularly reports on the whole array of cutting edge weapons announced by Russia last year which have rendered much of the US arsenal irrelevant. An interesting report. Transcript: "The probability of interception remains close to zero." The US Military Watch magazine which reviews the defense industries of the biggest countries has actually admitted the absolute vulnerability of the US missile defenses against Russia's cutting-edge missiles. The huge article mentions the Avangard systems, expressing respect and concern over the fact that these missiles not only freely fall from space, but also have a maneuverable re-entry vehicle with an engine. That's too much for Washington. The Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile was referred to in the same way. Actu...

4Feb

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Russian Foreign and Defense Ministers on US Treaty Breaches

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research On February 2, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minuster Sergey Shoigu briefed Vladimir Putin on the history of US Treaty breaches – since the Clinton co-presidency. It’s nothing new, ongoing for the past 20 years or longer. In 1987, the treaty was agreed on by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan, a landmark agreement. According to Lavrov, the US has been violating the treaty at least since 1999 – by “testing combat unmanned aerial vehicles that have the same characteristics as land-based cruise missiles banned by the treaty,” adding: Since then or perhaps earlier, the US has been “us(ing) ballistic target missiles for testing their missile defense system, and in 2014 they began (deploying) their missile defense sys...

24Sep

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Russia, ZIO-NAZI

Russian Military Fumes Over Zionist ‘Deliberate Provocation,’ as Putin Sighs Over ‘Tragic Circumstances’ in IL-20 Downing

NOVANEWS Russian Military Fumes Over Israel’s ‘Deliberate Provocation,’ as Putin Sighs Over ‘Tragic Circumstances’ in IL-20 Downing Russian MoD: “Israeli pilots used the Russian plane as cover and set it up to be targeted by the Syrian air defense forces.” A Russian MP officer stands guard at the Russian air base in Hemeimeem, Syria, with an Il-20 electronic intelligence plane of the Russian air force is in the background. An Il-20 aircraft was shot down Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018, by a Syrian missile over the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 15 people on board, as the Syrian military fired on Israeli fighter jets attacking targets in northwestern Syria. Photo | AP By Elliott Gabriel MOSCOW — The Kremlin appears to be attempting a delicate balancing act Tuesday as it sought to bal...

3Aug

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Russia’s Naval Strategy in the Indian Ocean

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Global Research Note to readers: please click the share buttons above Russia is pursuing a remarkably balanced naval strategy in the Afro-Bengal Ocean (Indian Ocean) that strives to maintain equal relations with its Pakistani and Indian counterparts, being drawn to the region not just because of its desire to maintain strategic stability between these two rivals through “military diplomacy”, but also to protect forthcoming offshore energy investments and participate in the game of prestige that all Great Powers are presently playing in this crucial body of water. The Russian Navy isn’t usually the first branch of the Armed Forces that comes to mind when thinking about the country’s military, but it nevertheless has taken on a heightened strategic im...

20May

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Russia

Is Russia About to Abandon the OPEC Deal?

NOVANEWS By Irina Slav OilPrice.com OPEC and Russia are meeting in a little more than a month to discuss the progress of their oil production deal and what’s next. On the face of things, there will be no surprises: every country taking part in the deal is still committed to the cuts until the end of the year. But Russia pumped more than its quota in both March and April. But Energy Minister Alexander Novak hinted that Russia might like to see a gradual easing of the cuts following the June meeting. But Iran sanctions will remove a certain amount of Iranian crude from international markets, making space for more from other producers, and Russia may just surprise its partners in the deal. Citigroup commodity analysts this week estimated that Russia has 408,000 bpd in idled capaci...

15Apr

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Will Russia Destroy the West’s Self-Delusion?

NOVANEWS Vladimir Putin has to call out the Israeli regime. The United States, France and the UK would not have been in Syria had the Israeli regime and the Neoconservatives in America diabolically persuaded Trump to attack. By: Jonas E. Alexis …by Jonas E. Alexis and Henry Makow Henry Makow has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Toronto in 1982 and is the author of the best-selling book Cruel Hoax: Feminism & the New World Order. Makow grew up in a Jewish family. Jonas E. Alexis: Vladimir Putin has recently declared that the current attack in Syria by the United States is a violation of international law. It is also “an aggression against a sovereign state which is at the forefront of the fight against terrorism.”[1] Putin also believes that history will ...

21Mar

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Putin says Russia will decrease military spending

NOVANEWS Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will reduce its military spending during his new term as the leader of the country, a day after he was re-elected in a presidential election with a landslide. “We have plans to decrease our defense spending both this year and next. But this will not lead to any decline in the country’s defense capacity,” said Putin during a meeting with other presidential candidates in capital Moscow on Monday. He added that “We will not allow for any sort of arms race.” Putin’s comments come as ties between Moscow and Washington have plummeted to levels not seen since the Cold War due to the two countries’ disputes over the crises in Ukraine and Syria and after US officials accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 US presidential election. Since September 2...

8Mar

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It’s Okay to Constructively Criticize Russia, Even President Putin Does It!

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Oriental Review The Alt-Media’s “politically correct” “glorification” of all things Russia-related is a “well-intended” but knee-jerk response to the rampant Russophobia of the Mainstream Media, but it nevertheless results in the generation of an overly “perfect” and therefore inaccurate version of the country that’s at odds with reality and was just debunked by none other than President Putin himself. Misreading Russia President Putin’s keynote speech to the nation last week naturally captured the attention of the global media, with the Mainstream Media (MSM) intensifying their relentless fear mongering campaign by over exaggerating decontextualized statements about Russia’s hypersonic weapons program while the Alt-Media was swooning over the Presid...

6Mar

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Russia not going to engage in Arms Race – Kremlin

NOVANEWS By: Jim W. Dean, Managing Editor … from Russia Today, Moscow Western media has had a field day trying to demonize Putin. Only the Koolaid drinkers bought into it [ Editor’s Note: Peskov had to come out today to give round two on Putin’s Russian Parliament speech, which Western media had launched a coordinated presentation for its being an offensive act. Anyone who has been following geopolitics knows how the US decided to trash the US START treaty, and Mr. Nobel Peace Prize had no problem jumping aboard, as he did with NATO moving toward the Russian border, with the violent Ukraine coup as the cherry on top, putting Obama in a special one man category for the Peace Prize trashers. There was not much new in Putin’s speech. We all knew these weapons have been in developme...

17Feb

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Russians Spooked by Nukes-Against-Cyber-Attack Policy

NOVANEWS By Ray McGovern and William Binney | Consortium News Moscow is showing understandable concern over the lowering of the threshold for employing nuclear weapons to include retaliation for cyber-attacks, a change announced on Feb. 2 in the U.S. Nuclear Posture Review (NPR). Explaining the shift in U.S. doctrine on first-use, the NPR cites the efforts of potential adversaries “to design and use cyber weapons” and explains the change as a “hedge” against non-nuclear threats. In response, Russia described the move as an “attempt to shift onto others one’s own responsibility” for the deteriorating security situation. Moscow’s concern goes beyond rhetoric. Cyber-attacks are notoriously difficult to trace to the actual perpetrator and can be pinned easily on others in what we call “false...