Mark Episkopos
Security,
This is the four-decade developmental story of the MiG-29, and the major driving force behind the prevalence of numerous aircraft variants in the Russian Air Force roster.
Here's What You Need to Remember: As a fighter...
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Top Pentagon officials pledged Thursday to “take action” if the US military could corroborate intelligence suggesting Moscow paid militants linked to the Taliban to kill US soldiers in Afghanistan. General Mark Milley, chairman of the...
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Just Security: “Why would the Russian government think it could get away with paying bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers? One answer to that question may be the extraordinary response that Moscow received when the Trump...
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Michael Peck
History, Eurasia
Let's take a look.
Key Point: Drive on Moscow, like Operation Typhoon, is a race against time.
After seventy-five years, the question remains so tantalizing: What if the Germans had captured Moscow in December 1941?...
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UFC Lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov 's father, Abdulmanap Nurmagomedov, died Friday at the age of 57. According to RT.com (h/t CNN's Ben Morse ), Abdulmanap died in a Moscow hospital from complications related to COVID-19...
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Caleb Larson
Security, Europe
Moscow did improve later versions though.
Key Point: The original version had a lot of problems. Here is why it took a while to overcome some of them.
The Tu-22M proved itself as a capable bomber, but its...
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Nikola MikovicU.S. Soldiers navigate a stream during a security patrol in Chabar, Afghanistan, Dec. 3, 2009. The Soldiers are from Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 5th Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. (Photo:...
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San Francisco is now the third city in the world with the most billionaires, per a new Wealth-X report.
The tech hub gained two billionaires in 2019, bringing its total billionaire count to 77.
San Francisco beat out cities including London, Moscow,...
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday left the door open to President Vladimir Putin attending a US summit but insisted the administration has been firm over Moscow’s activities in Afghanistan. President Donald Trump “gets to...
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The referendum is likely to extend Putin's term in officeA poster urging citizens to vote in Russia's upcoming constitutional referendum, stressing amendments on social policy. Moscow, June 2020. Photo (c): Alexey Kovalev. Used with...
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MOSCOW - Former German Chancellor and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rosneft Gerhard Schroeder believes that the US sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 project are a deliberate termination of the transatlantic partnership, according to his...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The French government calls on the Airbus planemaker to limit layoffs and use the benefits of the state support for the country’s coronavirus-hit aviation sector, Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance Agnes...
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WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - The unsubstantiated allegations reported in the US media that Moscow offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to assassinate US soldiers in Afghanistan are a lie aimed at disrupting cooperation between Russia and the...
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Last Friday’s New York Times piece citing anonymous intelligence officials on an alleged Russian plot to offer rewards to Taliban-linked militants to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan has been criticized and condemned from all sides,...
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Moscow denies offering bounties to kill U.S. soldiers, but it sees the militants as key players in a future Afghanistan. Here’s what Russian officials and others say about their interest in Afghanistan and their links to militants there.
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The New York Times' allegation that Russia has been offering reward money to Taliban-linked militants in Afghanistan to kill US and coalition troops has been attacked from all sides, with Moscow, the Trump administration and the Taliban itself...
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This year, instead of the traditional May 9 Victory Day parade, Russia marked the anniversary of the triumph over Nazi Germany on June 24, on the 75th anniversary of the first parade dedicated to the occasion in 1945. For the event, nearly 14,000...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United Kingdom needs to protect jobs to prevent an unemployment crisis as the country slowly recovers from the coronavirus, a UK-based think tank said in a report on Monday.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Thirty bodies have been recovered after a large boat capsized in the Buriganga river in the capital of Bangladesh on Monday morning, national media reported.
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Hundreds of people have joined a "Back the Blue" rally in the city of Fredericksburg in the US state of Virginia to support law enforcement officers amid calls to defund the police.
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