The Houthis in Yemen also recently announced the possession of hypersonic missiles (probably transferred from Iran) to conduct their maritime interdiction actions in the Red Sea. The range of the Fatah hypersonic missile is compatible with the distances separating Israel from Iran. by Pasquale Preziosa Iran is successfully engaging in […]
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by Editorial Staff Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his French counterpart Sebastien Lecornu reportedly had a telephone conversation from which the possibility of holding talks on the conflict in Ukraine emerged. The Russian ministry reported this to the Tass agency: “Availability for dialogue on Ukraine has been noted. The starting points […]
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Niger is essential to stem the migratory flows towards Europe and for this reason every political, diplomatic but also military effort, through assistance and training, is crucial in order not to lose the last outpost, of Western circulation, in the middle of the Sahel by Massimiliano D'Elia Russia, despite the military campaign in Ukraine, does not [...]
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by Editorial Staff The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB) has captured three individuals from Central Asia, accused of planning a terrorist attack in Stavropol, a city in southwestern Russia. According to what was reported by the state agency Ria Novosti, Russian authorities have confiscated materials for the manufacture of explosives and chemical substances at [...]
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by Editorial Staff The situation in Ukraine continues to deteriorate as Russia intensifies its military campaign. Ukraine last week suffered perhaps its heaviest and most destructive attack with 190 missiles, 140 drones and 700 aerial bombs. Russia thus demonstrates to the West that it is highly resilient and persistent in its uninterrupted military campaign that [...]
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by Editorial Staff In Italy there is "maximum anti-terrorism alert" even if there is no information on "hostile initiatives in preparation" by jihadist groups. This is what emerges from the Interior Ministry, after the tragedy in Moscow and in view of the meeting of the National Committee for Public Order and Security, which will be held tomorrow [...]
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by Editorial Staff The director of the Russian security services FSB reported to President Vladimir Putin the arrest of 11 people, including four terrorists involved in the attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow. This was reported by the Kremlin press service cited by Tass. The claim, via social media, by ISIS refers to the fact that Putin has [...]
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by Editorial Staff The US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, writes the WP, flew yesterday, in great secrecy, to Ukraine to reiterate the full support of the United States, despite the fact that the US Congress is still deadlocked on additional funds to support the Kyiv's war effort. Sullivan reached Ukraine at a time […]
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The European Council underlines the "imperative" need for "strengthened and coordinated military-civilian preparedness" and "strategic crisis management in the context of the evolving threat landscape". It therefore invites the Council to continue the work and the Commission, together with the High Representative, to propose "actions to strengthen crisis preparedness and response [...]
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by Andrea Pinto Nothing stopped Vladimir Putin, with almost 90% (between 87% and 90%) of the votes, the modern day tsar reconfirms himself at the helm of the nation for the fifth time, setting a record: 24 years in power without solution of continuity. What is certain is that the victory was already clearly written […]
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by Francesco Matera Is it rhetorical or is something terrible really brewing? The fact is that Putin's threatening proclamations, followed by a trail of counter-arguments from some Western leaders, mitigated by the Pope's hope to "hoist" the white flag of peace and dialogue, are inexorably raising the bar of tension , in […]
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The Swedish flag has been flying at NATO Headquarters in Brussels since yesterday: it was hoisted alongside those of the other members of the Alliance. After two hundred years, Sweden abandons its position of neutrality by fully entering the Transatlantic Organization, alongside the other member countries in a particularly delicate moment for world balances. […]
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by Francesco Matera Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine by constantly bombing the occupied territories, demonstrating the stability of its arsenals, apparently inexhaustible and capable of replenishing themselves without interruption. Even if the population, in real life, begins to suffer from the war effort, according to Kremlin propaganda, the objectives remain [...]
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by Andrea Pinto The Germans, precisely those who were among the forerunners of cryptographic systems with the Enigma system used in WWII, committed a naivety that will cost them dearly in terms of reliability in the presence of the Allies. In essence they embarrassed the Western military and intelligence structure due to a shocking "superficiality" of their [...]
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by Francesco Matera The words of French President Macron on the sending of NATO troops to Ukraine aroused disbelief and amazement, so much so that all Western leaders were preparing to deny this possibility, while Putin raised the specter of the use of tactical nuclear bombs . A use that is foreseen and written clearly on the new […]
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For a credible peace, compromise could really make a difference, but triggering unpredictable scenarios because this marks the failure of the West in the face of the Russian dictatorship. by Andrea Pinto Despite Ukrainian efforts, Russia does not give up on the ground, indeed it continues to conquer important slices of territory in Donbass. If you help them and […]
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by Francesco Matera A powerful rearmament is what Europe sees in the not too distant horizon. The winds of war coming from Ukraine and the threat of a rock-solid Russia, capable of challenging the West, despite the heavy sanctions applied to it, are just some of the factors that push the Old Continent to have to think seriously [...]
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Italy, France and the European Union should dialogue to set up a common strategy to be implemented in Libya, as there are vital interests at stake in the energy field thanks to an important ten-year presence of Eni and Total in the field of hydrocarbon research by Massimiliano D'Elia Tehran is looking to expand its commercial networks in […]
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by Andrea Pinto The accusations, then the denials. The fact is that the opponent of Putin's regime, Alexei Navalny, has died and, according to some rumors revealed by various external sources, there is a noticeable bruise in the center of his chest on his body. Precisely that bruise inspires the different versions/backgrounds that are made in the press [...]
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by Francesco Matera The Head of the Intelligence Committee of the United States House, the Republican Mike Turner yesterday came out into the open, warning American politics and consequently the entire Western world that the Russian threat also and above all comes from space, identifying it as a " serious threat to national security." Turner also […]
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by Editorial Staff Russia has stopped annual payments to the Arctic Council until it resumes “effective work” with the participation of all member countries, Russian state news agency RIA reported, citing the Foreign Ministry. Cooperation between the Western Arctic states of the intergovernmental body and Moscow has been suspended […]
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by Editorial Staff The Kremlin has proposed to the Duma an amendment to the penal code which includes as crimes aversion to government policies in the war against Ukraine, discrediting the armed forces and supporting foreign sanctions against the State. The amendment received the support of the majority of the Lower House of the Russian Federal Assembly and soon […]
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NATO's commitment to supporting Ukraine and defending freedom and democracy marks a new era in collective defense, with a global approach that extends well beyond the defense of member countries' borders. by Editorial Staff The scope of NATO's Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises marks an "irrevocable return" of the Alliance to the patterns [...]
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The Baltic states argue that a victorious Putin in Ukraine could also attack NATO countries, starting with those located near the borders of Russia and Belarus. by Editorial Staff Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia are trying to prevent future events because the Russian threat could materialize with a Ukraine-style invasion. Since the day of independence from the former […]
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by Editorial Staff With the United States still having to unblock the military aid package in Congress and with the West which, more generally, has shown some weakness in continuing to support Ukraine, it is necessary, as far as possible, to take action. Even if the initiative will not significantly change the progress of the war which has been stuck for months, however [...]
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by Editorial Staff The United States recently conducted new attacks against Houthi targets in Yemen, CNN reported. The operation, as stated by the New York Times, would have targeted a radar facility in the country, aiming to limit the Houthis' ability to attack ships transiting the Red Sea. The USS Carney […]
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by Editorial Staff A predictable twist casts more and more shadows on the future of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The news is disruptive and in some ways worrying. The spokesperson of the US Security Council, John Kirby, warned the allies and Ukraine directly, who explicitly said in a press conference that the financing approved by [...]
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by Editorial Staff Russia is intensifying its operational action in the war with Ukraine during 2024, as announced by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Although the conflict has been going on for over two years, with the Eastern Front as the main theater of operations, the situation still seems to be stuck. However, Moscow has outlined a [...]
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by Editorial Staff Kiev's attacks against Russian territory are also extending into the cyber dimension, directly hitting Moscow, also implementing missile and drone raids in the border regions. Ukrainian sources report that a group of hackers from Kiev, probably with intelligence support, hacked the internet provider 'M9com', causing the [...]
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by Editorial Staff No new mobilization, Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree regarding the assignment of citizenship to foreigners who sign a contract to serve in the Armed Forces. Next March's elections give Putin no other choice. This measure adds to the previous pardon granted to prisoners sent to the front, highlighting the commitment [...]
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Russia's unprecedented massive drone and missile attack on Ukraine, in response to Kiev's launch of attack drones on Russian regions on its western border in the Belgorod area and near the capital Moscow. Mykolaiv, Odessa and Dnipro were hit simultaneously: one person died and several were injured. The debris of a […]
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by Andrea Pinto Russia has launched a massive attack in Ukraine, firing 120 missiles, 36 Shahed-class drones, unmarked devices and sending at least 20 strategic bombers into the air. The targets included civilian buildings and strategic locations: there were numerous victims and damage. The Ukrainian response was immediate with 70 [...]
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by Editorial Staff While waiting to gain entry into NATO, Sweden and the United States have recently signed a significant bilateral cooperation agreement in the defense sector. The agreement provides for the availability to welcome 17 US military bases distributed throughout Sweden which will be used for various purposes, including the storage and maintenance of [...]
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by Editorial Staff yesterday the news of the alleged poisoning of the head of Ukrainian military intelligence, Kirilo Budanov, and his wife Marianna, apparently hit "with heavy metals. Ukraine's Defense Ministry said such substances are not commonly used in daily life or military affairs, suggesting possible intentional poisoning. Ukrainian officials have indicated [...]
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by Editorial Staff In the last two months, Moscow has activated a network of Russian sleeper agents in Ukraine, according to Oleksiy Danilov, Ukrainian national security advisor. The goal is to destabilize the country, as the military conflict is at a standstill. The undercover agents were ordered to undermine Ukraine's unity by exploiting internal tensions. Despite the unity […]
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by Editorial Staff Last October, Russian and Chinese company executives met secretly to discuss the possibility of building an undersea tunnel connecting Russia to Crimea. This underwater communication line would allow the transport of goods to Crimea, offering a route safe from Ukrainian attacks. The news emerged [...]
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by Andrea Pinto Russia continues its special military operation in Ukraine by constantly bombing the occupied territories, demonstrating the stability of its arsenals, apparently inexhaustible and capable of replenishing themselves without interruption. Even if the population, in real life, begins to suffer from the war effort, according to Kremlin propaganda, the [...]
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According to data reported by WP, Ukraine, to date, has received the monster amount of 350 billion dollars. The political party headed by the Republicans pushed the US Congress to freeze funds in support of Ukraine to avoid a shutdown, i.e. the blocking of the country's administrative activities. It is a measure […]
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Burevestnik is the brand new Russian nuclear jet missile which, according to some NYT rumors, is ready for a new launch in the Arctic. Many claim that it has already been successfully tested. The new superweapon, according to Moscow's narrative, is capable of hitting every point of the globe while managing to remain [...]
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The biweekly newspaper Time tells a strange story. A 6.000-year-old Cuban found himself sleeping next to Russian soldiers in a trench in Ukraine, more than XNUMX miles from home. According to the story, the Cuban boy accepted an advantageous offer posted on WhatsApp for a job in the construction sector [...]
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The war continues. Ukraine announces its own weapons production while Putin enlists Cuban volunteers
(by Andrea Pinto) Vladimir Putin on the day of the celebrations for the annexation of the former People's Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, through the Tass agency, congratulated the residents on this "truly decisive" annual anniversary , historic and fateful." Ukrainian President Zelensky, in response, participated in the International Forum [...]
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Millions of Russians yesterday received a notification from the country's main government portal inviting them to download an app to report security incidents with a focus on drone attacks. The warning in the notification reads: "Contribute to the fight against drones! The Radar app can be used to report suspicious drones or other terrorist emergencies." The news was reported by WP.
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The Russian Air Force is testing some solutions to shield its aircraft from attacks by Ukrainian drones while they are stationed on flight lines. CNN revealed the news via satellite photos from Maxar Technologies. In the images you can see Russian four-engine planes (Tu-95) protected in the most sensitive parts - wings and fuselage - by [...]
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On August 28, the Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources published the 2023 edition of the "National Charter of China", an official document that has become a point of reference for "national sovereignty".
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(by Andrea Pinto) After Mali, Chad, Burkina Faso, Guinea and Niger, Gabon now also joins the list of African states governed by self-proclaimed governments, following coups perpetrated by regular army soldiers. The president of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba had won the general election for the third time in a row, thus continuing the unusual [...]
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"As part of the investigation into the plane crash in the Tver region, molecular genetic examinations have been completed," the Russian Investigative Committee said today, in a statement on Telegram. “Based on the results, the identities of all 10 dead who correspond to the list in the flight log have been established,” the investigators specify. The Russian federal agency […]
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Yesterday the private plane of Evgenij Prigozhin, founder and head of the private military company Wagner, crashed 300 kilometers from Moscow and less than 50 from Putin's residence in Valdaj. We may never know the causes, it is certain that it was not an accident. Rosaviatsiya, the federal agency that regulates the […]
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The expansion of the BRICS bloc, under discussion at this week's summit in Johannesburg, has attracted a diverse group of potential candidates – from Iran to Argentina – intent on starting a new inclusive process to compete with the western block. There are many issues that emerging countries complain about: According to officials of the [...]
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Russia's first lunar mission failed, the Luna-25 space probe went out of control and crashed on the Moon following a pre-landing orbit preparation problem. A failure that highlights the post-Soviet decline on a space program. The Russian state space agency, Roskosmos, said it had lost contact [...]
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The Ukrainian counter-offensive is proving to be less effective than Kiev had hoped for and Ukraine must accept the fact that it will fail to achieve the main objectives it has set itself. This is supported by US intelligence according to which it is practically impossible for the Ukrainian army to be able to reach the city of Melitopol occupied by the [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) During the hot days of mid-August, the chief of cabinet of the NATO secretary general, a certain Stian Jenssen, publicly launched an apparently inadmissible proposal to turn the Russian-Ukrainian conflict around: "Kiev should cede some territories to have quick and easy access to NATO”. The contents of the sentence, once […]
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Russia is trying everything to revive its economy gripped by international sanctions. After the latest measures of the Russian Central Bank - BCR - (increase to 12% of the reference rate) to revive the fate of the ruble in inevitable free fall, today is the news that Moscow has started the phase of [...]
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The German newspaper Die Welt has published an article where it reveals that Moscow relies on international shipping companies to transport its oil and many of them fly the Greek flag. A business that Athens does not want to give up and which yields about a quarter of its budget to Russia, compared to about [...]
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“In the face of the threat of intervention becoming increasingly apparent… Nigerien airspace is closed as of today,” a representative of the junta said on national television Sunday evening. Last night, before the Ecowas ultimatum expired at midnight, Niger closed its airspace until further notice. In the […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) According to a military analyst and former Russian officer, Andrey Kartapolov, Russia wants to use its private militias to invade countries considered the "weakest links" of NATO. According to the former officer, the Wagner company could be used to conquer an area known as the Suwalki Corridor, a strip of land of 65 km [...]
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin invited at least 29 people to the Kremlin on June 35, including Prigozhin and the commanders of the battalions of the private military group. The meeting lasted almost three hours. After the march on Moscow Putin had labeled Progozhin a "traitor" now the admission of the meeting of [...]
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Tomorrow the NATO summit in Vilnius and Russia will be heard, given that the foundations will be laid for the future entry of Ukraine, Georgia and Sweden into the Alliance. The three cornerstones of the new strategic posture of the 31 NATO members will also be discussed in Vilnius, projecting the interests of the Alliance no longer only to the East but [...]
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Confirmation from the president of Belarus Lukashenko: "The fighters of the Wagner group are in their camps, their permanent camps, the ones where they have been since they left the front". Prigozhin, Lukashenko added yesterday, is not in the territory of Belarus but he is in St. Petersburg and perhaps this morning he went to Moscow. The news […]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday the saga continued on the motivations that prompted the leader of the Wagner Prigozhin to rebel against the established power, threateningly advancing towards Moscow from the territories battered by the war. Masquerade, high treason, shame of failure in the war in Ukraine, desire to expose imposters from the ranks […]
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Red Square and Lenin's Mausoleum have been closed to visitors due to events, Ria Novosti reports, citing the press and public relations department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. "Security measures have been strengthened in Moscow, the most important sites are subjected to greater security", as well as [...]
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A western village near Moscow capable of hosting pro-Russian foreigners close to Putin's cause. Thus Putin continues to use the means of hybrid warfare so dear to General Valere Gerasimov who today commands the Russian invasion of Ukraine to disorient his adversaries by trying to centralize consensus and remove the specter [...]
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Ukraine immediately into NATO with the creation of a Kiev-Alliance Council, to prepare the political and military bureaucratic practices when Ukraine will then become an effective member. So it was decided, with not a little mistrust, in recent days in Brussels at the defense ministerial. Confirmation of the line is expected at the next summit on 11 and 12 July [...]
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One month after the expiry of the agreement on the export of Ukrainian grain, Vladimir Putin told his senior military officials: “We are considering withdrawing from this agreement on grain. Many conditions that should have been applied have not been met." The announcement just after having affixed his signature on the decree that incorporates the Sea of Azov [...]
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On the sidelines of the Mare Global Forum in Genoa, the Chief of Staff of the Navy, Admiral Enrico Credendino raised the alarm on the presence of the Russian military fleet in the Mediterranean: "The Russians in the Mediterranean have a provocative attitude that was not never seen in the past. It was normal in the Baltic Sea, but here […]
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Chinese premier Li Qiang praised the "strategic cooperation partnership" between Beijing and Moscow, during the meeting held in the Great Hall of the People with his equal Russian Mikhail Mishustin, welcomed with a grand welcome ceremony held in Tiananmen Square. A Memorandum of Understanding on trade cooperation in services was signed, […]
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(by Antonio Adriano Giancane) Africa, a land full of riches and not just diamonds as appeared in the film presentation "Blood Diamond": Africa is much more! Africa is a huge mine of natural resources such as oil, diamonds, gold, rare earths, coltan and cobalt. Even the uranium used by France comes from Africa in particular from Niger. The […]
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China and India, opposed to outright condemnation of Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine, yesterday voted a resolution of the UN General Assembly on relations between the United Nations and the Council of Europe which explicitly refers to the aggression of the Russian Federation of Ukraine. The green light to the text of the resolution (approved last week with 122 [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's propaganda in support of the special military operation in Ukraine is centered on historical reasons, dating back to the empire of Peter the Great and on the narrative of the dangerous enlargement of NATO to Russia's borders. of NATO towards Russia is a thesis studied by many international observers and analysts who, [...]
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Yesterday Moscow announced its intention to deploy its tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus (those with short range ed). Work on the buildings that will house the weapons will end next July. The US Administration, through one of its officials, interviewed by Reuters, made it known that there are no indications that Russia is preparing to [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) In the end what we have always avoided is happening. We probably or inevitably favored China's rapprochement with Russia, with unpredictable consequences for the West, with bitter tastes for the future of the economy and for the growth of tensions in the military field. The meeting in Moscow between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping sanctions, of [...]
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Fixed fighters and Ukrainian pilot training. Poland will deliver four Mig-29s to Kiev, tactically they have an irrelevant significance, but symbolically they can be disruptive because Poland is an EU and NATO nation. Slovakia, Finland and the Netherlands could also deliver air defense aircraft. Americans have […]
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(by Francesco Matera) Italy has sided with Ukraine without ifs and buts, as witnessed by the recent trip of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to Kiev. Days ago the Minister of Defense, Guido Crosetto and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Antonio Tajani leaked the news that the Russian Wagner brigade from Libya [...]
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(by Maria Stefania Cataleta) Towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Western countries have shown that unity that has been lacking from the outset in the countries of the southern hemisphere, especially Africa. The most striking demonstration of this came with the resolution of the GA of 2 March 2022, which condemned the aggression and called for the withdrawal […]
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The Russian army continues its "pounding" war characterized by continuous and incessant waves of bombing in various areas of Ukraine which in vast areas of territory has been completely razed to the ground. Whole villages have been reduced to a pile of rubble that has swallowed up their inhabitants, regardless of gender or age. Many observers […]
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Moscow oil traffic off the Indian Ocean, away from trade routes. Repubblica resumes an investigation by the WSJ where it is told how Moscow circumvents the sanctions with the complicity of the large global oil companies. Oil companies get 49 percent of their crude oil needs from firms in Moscow. To avoid […]
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A strong explosion was heard in Kolomna, a city in Russia in the Moscow region 113 km southeast of the capital. The first images have started appearing on social media.
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The Ukrainians fed up with being bombed for over a year dare to send some rudimentary drones with small explosive charges across the borders towards Russia. Some energy infrastructures were affected, while a small drone - Ukrainian UJ-22 - traveled over 600 km and then crashed about 100 km from Moscow. In Moldova […]
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A Russian A-50 military plane was damaged a few hours ago by a drone strike while parked at an airport near the Belarusian capital of Minsk. This was reported to Reuters by some Belarusian partisans and members of the opposition, now in exile. The front and central parts of the aircraft, as well as the radar antenna, were damaged at […]
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After a year of war we are preparing for the showdown: we sharpen our weapons for the spring assault
After a year of war there is no peace. United Nations votes against Russia. Der Spiegel: China ready to sell drones to Russia. The US allocates another 2 billion. G7: ready to give more help. (by Massimiliano D'Elia) The war in Ukraine today enters its first year without being able to see any on the horizon [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday in Moscow senior Chinese officials, led by the highest exponent of the Foreign Commission of the Communist Party of China, Wang Yi met Vladimir Putin confirming a friendship without limits. Observers and press releases specifically speak of friendship and not of a real pact not to make the […]
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In Ukraine, alarm is growing about a new imminent large-scale Russian offensive. Moscow has begun deploying ships and submarines with tactical nuclear weapons in the Baltic Sea and is amassing fighter jets on the border with Ukraine, according to intelligence sources. But the US is holding back: we have no evidence. For now no jet of the to Ukraine The supply of […]
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For NATO, the EU, the US and the UK, a new challenge lies ahead, the logistical one, because the Ukrainian armed forces need to be resupplied as soon as possible, given that Russia has intensified its firepower. Russia manages to send an average of 20.000 artillery pieces a day to Ukraine, equal to the European monthly production.
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NATO will continue to strengthen its partnership with Japan during the war in Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said during a visit to Japan, where he will meet Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. "The war in Ukraine is important for all of us, we are very grateful for the support that Japan [...]
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In the usual evening message, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky launches another request to thank all the countries that are helping Kiev: “Weapons on the battlefield. A weapon that protects our sky. New sanctions against Russia. But we must also work even more actively to create a court on the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine. Only […]
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After weeks of controversy and resistance, Western leaders speak on the phone, confirm their support for Kiev and reaffirm their commitment to provide military aid to the Zelensky government. The United States will send 31 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, Germany has formalized its willingness to send its Leopard tanks, initially [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the beginning of January, Russian propaganda has changed its narrative. In Russia, newspapers and TV are explicit about the war: "We are defending ourselves from external aggression". The military special operation turned into all-out war as the West effectively entered the war on the side of Ukraine. […]
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The Military Historical Society under the patronage of the Russian Defense Ministry has set up a traveling exhibition entitled "Heroes with Eternally Russian Hearts". The exhibition consists of 48 panels where the Russian fallen in Ukraine are told. The phrase that stands out at the beginning of the exhibition: “In more than a thousand years of Russia's existence, […]
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A Russian navy exercise off the coast of South Africa highlights to the international community Pretoria's refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine. Two Russian warships are expected in Durban next February for a nine-day exercise that will also include Chinese naval units. President Ramaphosa's government does not support sanctions [...]
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An explosion hit a gas pipeline linking Poland with northern Lithuania and Latvia in the north of the country. The news was reported by the Lithuanian public broadcaster Lrt, which also published images of a vast fire in the area. Pipeline explosion riddle heightens anxiety in Baltic states. A gas pipeline that connects the […]
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US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan called the Prime Minister's diplomatic advisor, Francesco Talò. The American request concerns the military supplies of the allies. As Repubblica writes, according to diplomatic sources in Washington, the United States is pressing Rome to provide the anti-missile shield to Ukraine as soon as possible, necessary for [...]
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Ukrainian military intelligence says that Russia is ready to order the mobilization of as many as 500.000 conscripts in January, in addition to the 300.000 already called up last October, thus sending a signal: Putin has no intention of ending the war. Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukrainian military intelligence, told The Guardian that the conscripts [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Giorgia Meloni has never hidden, she has always supported the Ukrainian cause against the Russian invasion. Italy, in agreement with NATO and the Americans, has sent arms and aid to the Ukrainian people, raising Moscow's reaction on more than one occasion. The Meloni government therefore continued in the wake of the government [...]
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In an interview with the Associated Press, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the Ukrainian government aims to hold a peace summit by the end of February, preferably at the United Nations with Secretary General António Guterres as a possible mediator. in the period of the first anniversary of the invasion launched by Russia. To the question […]
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Russia has shot down a Ukrainian drone near one of its long-range bomber airbases inside its territory. Three members of the Russian Air Force were killed in the crash. The news was reported by the Reuters agency. The drone was flying near the Russian Engels air base, home to strategic bombers in [...]
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The White House has accused North Korea of arming the Russian private military company Wagner Group, which has deployed its mercenaries in Ukraine. John Kirby, US national security adviser, told the FT that North Korean deliveries - rockets and missiles - began last November but [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) During the G20 meeting in Bali a strange coincidence: the Russians unleashed a shower of missiles on the Ukrainian bordering Poland. At least two missiles or only its fragments hit a wheat warehouse in the small Polish village of Przewodov causing two deaths. The foreign minister […]
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The procurement of Russian arms from Iran and North Korea heralds a growing convergence of military and diplomatic interests between Moscow and the two anti-Western and IC-sanctioned countries. Washington has accused Russia of procuring large quantities of artillery ammunition from Pyongyang, as well as missiles and drones which it is already purchasing from Iran. [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Tehran has sent its consultants from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to Crimea and Belarus to train Russians to fly Iranian-made drones. Russia has already deployed Iranian suicide drones, the Shahed-136, Shahed-129 and Mohajer-6, against energy installations and civilian buildings in Kiev. To date, attacks with missiles and drones have [...]
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According to reports from the Financial Times, the head of German cyber security headed by the Ministry of the Interior was removed yesterday from his functions with immediate effect by Minister Nancy Faeser. The decision after the German media spread the news of the unfortunate coincidence. The links have not yet been clarified to the investigators [...]
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Something is moving in the face of the defeat of the Russian army. Raising the bar of war or favoring negotiations? This is the dilemma that is shaking the chancelleries of half the world and making the White House troubled. The Kremlin has sent, in fact, important signals to the US, opening Putin-Biden face to face at the G20 [...]
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(by Francesco Matera) Terrorist attack on the Kerch bridge that connects Russia to the Crimea, a fundamental hub for the logistical transit in favor of the troops engaged on the front. Moscow is sure about the principal: Kiev. This was also confirmed by an anonymous Ukrainian source to the New York Times. "The Ukrainian special services have ordered, designed and built [...]
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Truck Bomb Breaks Kerch Bridge In Two A truck bomb exploded on the Kerch Bridge, which connects Russia to Crimea, causing a massive fire. This was reported by Tass citing the National Counter-Terrorism Committee of Russia. The news has just been broken by Ansa. Due to the explosion, you announced in a statement [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) For weeks, the tenant of the Kremlin has been using nuclear weapons against the West that supports Ukraine, in order to obtain a victory that is increasingly distant. Moscow has communicated the outcome of the referendum (farce) for the annexation of the territories where the elections were held illegitimate or obtained by forcing citizens under the threat of [...]
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"Putin in recent days has launched the usual nuclear blackmail, we have already heard it in the past, we must, however, only interpret the signals that come to us from Russia". General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and now president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, told TG4. The general continues: "Putin raised [...]
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In Lugansk and Donetsk, in Kherson and Zaporizhzhia until Monday you can vote for the referendum on the annexation to Russia wanted by Putin, indeed you have to vote because it is the soldiers who, with guns drawn, look for citizens house by house. : there are no seats, you vote on the street, in the gardens and [...]
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Yesterday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a British Telegraph journalist that in Ukraine we cannot talk about war but still about a Special Military Operation. According to Foreign Minister Lavrov, Ukraine is becoming a totalitarian Nazi state. In the meantime, Putin continues with his strategy, calling for a referendum [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Tomorrow morning, Undersecretary for Services, Franco Gabrielli will report to Copasir on the story of the alleged Russian funding to political parties and leaders of about 20 foreign countries. The alarm was raised by the 007 in Washington on the 'soft power' exercised by Moscow, secretly transferring from 2014, the year of the occupation of Crimea, over 300 million [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The United States is increasingly looking to Africa after decades of disinterest. Joe Biden, recently, also following the overt Chinese and Russian expansionist aims, has decided to concentrate every diplomatic effort to bring the hand of regional influence back to the American side. In fact, since the beginning of the century, China has gone from [...]
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Putin's Russia continues with the energy war and threatens to stop oil supplies "to hostile countries", warning that gas stocks will not be enough for the EU to survive the winter. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has threatened that he will suspend supplies of black gold to so-called "hostile countries" if they impose "restrictions". The warning [...]
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The weapon of migrants is used against Italy and Europe from the coasts of Libya under the control of the militias of General Haftar, who is supported by at least two thousand mercenaries of the Wagner Group linked to Russia. To write it is "La Repubblica", which cites sources of the Italian security services explaining: "Libya is a cannon aimed at [...]
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(by Giovanni Ramunno) The two-phase move by the President of the Russian Federation, to annex Crimea first and then invade Ukraine, is a clear signal from the Kremlin that it wants to re-establish, at least in Europe, the spheres of influence, because they are still considered an incontrovertible fact of geopolitics. To achieve its objectives, Russia is convinced [...]
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Ukraine has accused Russia of launching four Kalibr cruise missiles on Odessa, thus threatening the wheat deal signed yesterday in Istanbul. Stop the condemnation of the EU with Borrell and Gentiloni. Zelensky attacks: "Prove only one thing: no matter what Russia says or promises, it will find a way not to implement the agreement". Turkey is concerned "for the [...]
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The United States has carried out new tests on its hypersonic missiles launched from the air and from the ground, thus confirming the first after the previous three failures. The acceleration of the Department of Defense, in the hypersonic technology sector, to recover the worrying capacitance gap with respect to Russia and China. Last Tuesday he was taken to his destination [...]
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Russia and Ukraine agree to create a coordination center in Istanbul on the corridors for the export of grain from Ukraine to the Black Sea. This was stated by the Turkish Defense Minister, Hulusi Akar, as reported by Anadolu, speaking of the meeting held yesterday in Istanbul between military delegations from Kiev, Moscow, Ankara and UN representatives. "In the next weeks […]
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Finally white smoke, the first eight foreign ships have arrived in the ports of Ukraine to export agricultural products, while the Ukrainian Navy will ensure safe transport. "At the request of the Ministry of Infrastructure, naval units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces guarantee the transport of agricultural products by civilian ships through the Bystre entrance of the Danube-Black Sea canal" he [...]
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Boris Johnson confirms the UK's steadfast attitude towards Moscow shown since his first visit to President Volodymyr Zelenskyi. In fact, the British government has further expanded the black list of people affected by anti-Russian sanctions following the war in Moscow in Ukraine: from today the freezing of every entity [...]
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After the G7, where Zelensky asked to help him win the war by Christmas, today the word goes to the NATO summit in Madrid. Yesterday, Secretary General Jean Stoltenberg announced the decision to increase the emergency response forces deployed on the borders of Russia, from 40.000 to 300.000. A massive deployment to reassure [...]
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Russia is struggling to meet payments on the $ 40 billion of its outstanding bonds following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, due to sanctions that have effectively cut the country out of the global financial system and made it its assets untouchable for many investors. About half of the reserves [...]
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US President Biden arrived in Germany last night to participate in the G7, a summit of particular value in the light of the new world order, launched by the predominant autocracies, China and Russia. The goal is to continue in Russia's isolation and start a new sanctioning course against China, guilty of indirectly helping [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Sarmat ICBM, the most sophisticated and feared weapon in the Kremlin's arsenal, will be operational by the end of this year. This was announced by Vladimir Putin himself, speaking to young graduates of Russian military academies. A proud and proud Putin announced to the cadets the operation, by the end of the year, of his [...]
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(by Paolo Giordani) The director of the “Kiev Post”, Bohdan Nahaylo, called the historic trip to the Ukrainian capital of French President Macron, German Chancellor Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Draghi “an expiation”. What did the leaders of the three major countries of the European Union have to "atone for", including the Romanian president Johannis? In the eyes of Ukrainians, the [...]
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Biden thunders from Los Angeles: “I know, many thought I was exaggerating, but I knew I had solid information to predict Putin's impending aggression. There was no doubt, but Zelensky, like many others, did not want to listen to us “. The response from Kiev was not long in coming. The spokesman for the Ukrainian president, Sergei [...]
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Emmanuel Macron has not yet decided if and when to visit Kiev but is preparing to launch a pincer diplomatic-operational operation on the Ukrainian, Moldovan and Romanian front to give France a new international prestige in the light of the activism of the British Boris Johnson. The elections are near in France and Macron does not want to commit [...]
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The Russian newspaper Izvestia revealed Turkey's plan to resolve the Ukrainian wheat issue. It will be the Turkish navy to mine the Black Sea and then escort the Ukrainian ships in neutral waters. The goal is to free up almost 53 million [...]
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Russia and Ukraine produce only a third of the world's wheat and barley, but most of this is sold to African countries, which import 40% of their needs from them, while Rwanda, Tanzania and Senegal reach 60%. , Egypt at 80%. The grain freeze cost Kiev 11% of [...]
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The Extraordinary Council of the EU Commission on Monday seemed a success. On the other hand, yesterday at the meeting of the ambassadors some clutches were reactivated. Not only the question of oil (we are still a long way off on the date for the interruption of transport by sea) now the question of Patriarch Kirill has also intensified the debate on sanctions against Russia. [...]
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(by Paolo Giordani) Almost 100 days after the beginning of what Moscow calls a "special military operation" (the post-Soviet version of the British understatement almost always has ironic implications), the hypothesis of a ceasefire in Ukraine and the start of "serious" negotiations still appears remote, for various reasons. The first and most evident is that not only [...]
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At the extraordinary European Council, the 27 must decide whether or not to apply the sixth package of sanctions to Russia. An arduous and much debated decision considering that there is no community of intent, each country looks to its own internal problems, especially as regards the issue of energy independence. "We cannot imagine that after the conflict the [...]
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In the draft conclusions of the summit to be held tomorrow in Brussels, the EU indicated that up to 4 million tons of wheat should be brought out of Ukraine per month. From the beginning of the war to today, only 240 thousand tons of wheat have passed, about 1% of that currently blocked in Ukraine. There are 25 million [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) The military conduct, corroborated by the aggression by Russia against Ukraine, causing enormous suffering to the civilian population and the destruction of public and private structures, up to the point of razing some Ukrainian cities to the ground, was considered by the international community as falling within the context of a real war. This last word is [...]
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The problem of blocked wheat in Ukraine and Russia requires swift responses. With Ukrainian Black Sea ports closed by the Russians since the invasion began, and over 20 million tons of grain locked in silos, Westerners have appealed to Moscow to defuse a food crisis that has now gone global. The [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The effects of the war in Ukraine are being felt globally. If in Africa we are close to collapse, with unpredictable developments of instability, due to the lack of wheat and cereals from Ukraine and Russia, for many other countries the effects of the sanctions imposed on Russia are unleashing a sort [...]
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Password in the Kremlin? Reinforce the western side. By the end of the year, over two thousand new weapons will be deployed in the western regions with 20 new warships. NATO is expanding and Moscow's response to the "growing military threats" from the West is not diplomacy but continuous and progressive armament. To worry [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Yesterday from Finland a historic decision by President Sauli Niinistö and Prime Minister Sanna Marin who wrote about their opinion of membership of NATO: "Finland must apply for membership of NATO without delay". On Sunday, after the parliamentary confrontation, the decision will take the expected bureaucratic process of joining the Alliance. The two […]
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The Senate and Defense sites were made unreachable during the day, along with other institutional sites. The Defense Staff in a statement announced that its site has been undergoing scheduled maintenance for some time. The Russian hacker group 'Killnet' who, according to [...]
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“In Italy and in Europe, people want an end to these massacres, this violence, this butchery. People think what we can do to bring peace ”. "We must use every channel for peace, for a ceasefire and the start of credible negotiations". "What is happening in Ukraine has led [...]
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Biden signed a law to speed up the supply of arms to Ukraine inspired by a 1941 measure that allowed the United States to arm the British army against Hitler. The 'Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act' had been approved by an overwhelming majority by Congress ten days ago, but Biden wanted to sign it, not surprisingly, today, on [...]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, on the eve of the great parade to celebrate the victory over Nazism, addressed the message of good wishes to all the countries of the former Soviet bloc, including Ukraine, and to the two separatist republics of Donetsk and Lugansk: "As in 1945, the victory will be ours ". "Today our military, like their ancestors, [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The British secret services are certain: the Russian military is one step away from humiliating defeat in Ukraine, they have already lost 25 percent of their war capacity. The findings from the bulletin published yesterday from London tell us that the Ukrainians, thanks to weapons and Western know-how, are [...]
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The countries that have not joined the sanctions against Russia are India, China, Cuba, Nicaragua and Bolivia. But many others, from Mexico to Argentina, have offered facade support to the peremptory American demands to take sides for Ukraine. In Africa openly in favor of Putin's Russia are registered, South Africa, Angola, Algeria, Congo, Burundi, Equatorial Guinea, [...]
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Before flying to the United States, the Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, was in the European Parliament. The war in Ukraine causes crises on several fronts and is therefore the cause of a necessary review of the role of the European Union. Draghi has no doubts about what is wrong in the EU and calls for a review of [...]
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Serghei Lavrov the other evening on Rete4 during the transmission of the White Zone by Giuseppe Brindisi narrated the Moscow rhetoric on the war in Ukraine. Arousing the indignation of Israel and the world Jewish community when he said that Volodymyr Zelensky, a Jew, leads a country infested by Nazis, because "in my opinion Hitler also had origins [...]
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(by Giovanni Ramunno) The Preamble of the UN Charter reports that the peoples of the United Nations, "determined to save future generations from the scourge of war which twice in the course of this generation has brought unspeakable afflictions to humanity", constituted the United Nations Organization. To do this, the United Nations Charter identified, in the ban [...]
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Russia is running out of precision missiles and its arms factories are failing to meet demand. The sanctions are having, albeit slowly, a clear impact on Russian war industrial production. Now Moscow is forced to transport its missiles from distant parts of the country to the Ukrainian front. "The […]
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THE RUSSIAN VETO PARALIZES THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON THE UKRAINIAN CRISIS. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE UNITED NATIONS TAKES PART (by Giuseppe Paccione) Much has been said about the institution of the right and the power of veto, that is, the right to prevent the adoption of any resolution with one's negative vote, which constitutes the distinction between States [...]
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In the hearing of Defense Minister Lorenzo Guerini at Copasir - Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic - "the contents of the second interministerial decree authorizing the transfer of military means, materials and equipment to the governmental authorities of Ukraine, on which the Committee agreed with the Government in the affixing of the [...]
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Corriere della Sera reported that the Moscow Defense Ministry announced that eleven Italian professional fighters would have died in combat on Ukrainian territory. Russia has labeled them as mercenaries, like the other 50 compatriots who would have joined the International Battalion under the orders of the state [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) With unprecedented speed, the international community immediately responded to the demands of the Kiev authorities regarding the responsibility for international crimes committed on its territory by Russian troops and non-state actors flanking the special military operation wanted by Putin. This effort which is needed [...]
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Moscow and Kiev let it be known, by means of press releases, that they have begun debating a draft negotiation that, to tell the truth, no one has yet seen. In Istanbul, the Ukrainians claim to have given their counterpart a draft agreement that many consider to be "waste paper" because it is not acceptable to the Kremlin. The spokesperson [...]
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British intelligence has informed the government of the beginning of a new phase in Ukraine marked by a war of attrition that could last several months. A spokesman for Downing Street said this, correcting the shot with respect to forecasts according to which Moscow, in the event of an initial failure, would risk finding itself soon without sufficient resources [...]
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"Russian troops have started the battle for Donbass," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last night. Many explosions were heard early in the night in Mykolaiv, east of Odessa. Bombings have also been reported in Kharkiv. A village in the Belgorod border region was reportedly bombed from the side [...]
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The Russian Defense Ministry reported that the head of the Russian navy, Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov, met with the crew members of the sunken cruiser Moskva. Yevmenov reassured the sailors: "you will continue to serve the Russian navy". The Russian Defense Ministry released a 26-second video showing Yevmenov and two other officers in [...]
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The pressure of the Russians on the city of Mariupol is getting harder, "If they continue to resist, they will all be eliminated". According to what was announced by Interfax, which quoted the spokesman of the ministry Igor Konashenkov, this is the message sent by the Russian Defense Ministry to the Ukrainian resistance barricaded in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, after [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) As was shown, the international community, with broad support from the United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Council, by adopting resolution A / ES-11 / L.1, condemned the aggressive act Russian vis-à-vis Ukraine. The threat or use of military coercive action contrary to the UN Charter is clearly illegal, under international law [...]
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Purge within the FSB, the Moscow intelligence service, the former KGB. At least 150 officers have been dismissed by the security agencies because they are personally guilty of the setbacks suffered during the invasion of Ukraine. The news was disclosed by the London newspaper Times, primed by British intelligence sources. There's more: according to the English MI5, many [...]
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Putin: "The Ukrainians have pushed the negotiations into a dead end, it is they who have created difficulties in bringing them to an acceptable level and the military operation will go on until there are acceptable negotiations". According to the Kremlin, Ukraine would not have respected the agreements reached with Russia in Istanbul and Ukraine would be used as one [...]
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Aleksandar Vucic's Serbia, even if it condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, winks at Putin: it has not aligned itself in imposing sanctions on Moscow and there is strong pro-Russia sentiment on the part of the population that has dropped several times in the square in support of the special operation in Ukraine. All this net of a feeble [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) For a month and more, the international community has been witnessing the overturning of the status quo of the international legal system since the beginning of the invasion of Russian troops, which have crossed the borders of Ukraine, a sovereign, independent and member of the United Nations. Clearly, there was no lack of broad condemnation by States and international organizations of the Russian aggressive conduct and [...]
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Kremlin spokesman Peskov said yesterday that “the operation could be completed in the near future. It continues, we are achieving our goals. Substantial work is being carried out both militarily, in terms of the progress of the operation, and through the negotiations that are being negotiated with the Ukrainian counterparts “. Everyone looks to May 9 when [...]
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The US Department of Defense is almost certain that Putin has given up on conquering Kiev, even if he does not slow down arms supplies to Ukraine, sending another 134 troops to favor a partial replacement of the soldiers who have already fought for over 40 days. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said yesterday at the conference [...]
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Yesterday Italy aligned itself with its Western partners by expelling 30 Russian diplomats who worked at the Russian Embassy in Italy. Berlin expelled 40, while France and Spain, respectively 35 and 25. The other countries of Europe follow: Romania, Sweden, Slovenia and Denmark. The spokesperson for the Moscow Foreign Ministry, Maria [...]
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Washington, according to the NYT, is ready to indirectly supply tanks to Ukraine. Contacts are already underway to encourage what is called an arms transfer because these are not American systems. The United States, in fact, will shop in the immense Eastern European market, where they can find material compatible with that [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The youngest of those identified so far had turned eighteen, writes Dragosei on corsera. David Arutyunyan died in the Donbass region, hit by a shrapnel. One of the many Russian boys of the so-called Putin generation sent to slaughter in Ukraine. Some were even conscripted with a few months of naja. Many others […]
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the night, in a heartfelt video, talks about the Russian forces that would be gathering in the south to attack the Donbass massively. Today negotiations should resume and perhaps the opening of the desired humanitarian corridor in favor of some 200 civilians trapped in Mariupol, before the final Russian attack. Western intelligence and [...]
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The Ukrainian military intelligence agency yesterday published a list with the names, addresses and passport numbers of 600 Russian citizens, alleged agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB). The FSB is the Russian internal security and counter-intelligence agency and its staff also operate in the former Soviet republics, including [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, caused by the Russian invasion with the aggression towards a sovereign and independent state, China has tried in every way to stay out of the Russian-Ukrainian war struggle. This is demonstrated by the abstention of the Chinese delegation from adopting a couple of draft resolutions (S / 2022/155 and S / RES / 2623/2022) discussed in [...]
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Yesterday the US president, Joe Biden landed in Europe to participate in the summits of NATO, G7 and the EU Council. An event that has never happened before, that of concentrating the meetings of the major international cooperation fora in a few days. After the alarm raised by the American secret services of a probable use of chemical weapons by [...]
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The United States to help Europe for the energy crisis and for independence from Russian gas, this is the proposal of the CEO of JpMorgan, Jamie Dimon. For Dimon, sources close to the dossier explained to ANSA, a plan modeled on the historic aid package launched by the United States in 1948 to contribute to the reconstruction of Europe is urgently needed [...]
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Will it be propaganda or a (likely) tip-off from Russian intelligence passed under the table to the Ukrainian intelligence agency? Ukrainians argue that a conspiracy is underway by senior Russian government officials, with the aim of ousting (perhaps even by killing) President Vladimir Putin and fostering a negotiated agreement with the West. They thought about prudence [...]
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(by Giuseppe Paccione) For weeks we have been discussing the issue of procuring military tools in favor of the Ukrainian military forces that must defend themselves from the aggression of Russia, which began on 24 February. Some member states of the Atlantic Alliance have already sent weapons, others have ensured this supply as soon as possible, such as the United States which has guaranteed [...]
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The repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the food market and the implementation of the CAP Strategic Plans at the heart of the EU Agriculture Council The situation of the agri-food market following the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the identification of measures aimed at guaranteeing food security in the 'EU in the aftermath of the crisis: these were the central points of the EU Agriculture Council [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Moscow has announced that for the first time in Ukraine it has used the Kinzhal, hypersonic ballistic missiles with nuclear or conventional capability that are launched by a modified Mig-31. It is one of the six "next generation" weapons cited by Putin in his speech on March 1, 2018. A demonstration to the world that hypersonic technology [...]
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According to Interfax reports, Moscow warns that it has used "another hypersonic missile against Ukrainian military targets". While 'The Kyiv independence' accuses the Russian military forces of having transferred "thousands of Ukrainian civilians" to "camps" where their cell phones and documents are "checked" and then "deported to remote cities of Russia". But on Telegram, the authorities [...]
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The Russian Defense Ministry announced that a Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missile was used in a special operation in Ukraine. As reported by the spokesman of the Russian Defense Ministry, Brigadier General Igor Konashenkov, the operation took place yesterday and saw the use of "Kinzhal missiles" which "destroyed a large underground deposit with missiles [...]
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A covert program run by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which began shortly after the Russian invasion of eastern Ukraine in 2014, is said to be helping Ukrainians repel the Russian military advance. According to Yahoo News, the CIA began training Ukrainian special forces personnel, starting in 2015, when the Kremlin took away Crimea [...]
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The Financial Times revealed a hypothesis of an agreement between Russia and Ukraine, a 15-point plan that provides for the neutrality of Ukraine and the renunciation of joining NATO, in exchange for guarantees on its safety by the United States, Great Britain and Turkey. Ukraine would continue to have its own army but with [...]
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On Cusano Tv to 'The Entrepreneur and the Others', General Pasquale Preziosa, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force and today president of the Eurispes Security Observatory, treated the question of the war in Ukraine with disarming lucidity, giving a most studied version of the global situation. An analysis that differs from that written on [...]
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Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it is appropriate to learn more about the state apparatus that allows the modern Tsar, Vladimir Putin, to keep the whole world in check. Against a GDP of just over 1700 US dollars (year 2020), Moscow spends around 4 percent each year on military spending (70 [...]
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A condemnation of the Russian military intervention in Ukraine is contained in a letter signed by 4 teachers, academics, students, graduates and staff of the prestigious 'Lomonosov' Moscow State University, the oldest in Russia. 'We categorically condemn the war our country has waged in Ukraine', the document states. Meanwhile, Maria Ovsiannikova, the woman [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Putin's army thought that, as happened in the Crimea, taking Ukraine would be child's play, a quick and painless operation. In fact, the massive use of troops and vehicles in Ukraine was narrated to Russian public opinion as a "special operation", without ever uttering the word "war". But already after a few days the [...]
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The Russian air attack at dawn, near Lviv, targeted a military base (Ivano-Frankivsk) just 25 kilometers from Poland and seems to be a direct message from Russia to NATO and the EU. At the base there is also the International Center for Peace and Security (Ipsc) where the exercises were held last September [...]
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According to US military experts, a wide range of Russian military equipment, which has fallen into the hands of Ukrainian forces since February 24, could prove to be a "gold mine" for US and Western intelligence agencies. As the war enters its third week, there is well-founded information that Ukrainian forces have come into possession [...]
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The systems of the International Atomic Energy Agency monitoring the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia have stopped transmitting data; yesterday there was a similar interruption from the Chernobyl site: the IAEA says it is "worried". Meanwhile Zelensky believes "that the threat of nuclear war is a bluff" by Putin. "Bombing a children's hospital is proof [...]
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"The TV is fucking us and we drink it." Thus a Russian soldier, Valera, imprisoned by the Ukrainians while talking on the phone with his family at home. The scene is filmed by the military in Kiev and expertly broadcast online to counter Putin's propaganda which, in Russia, tells another version of the war. Vara [...]
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Since darkness fell in Kiev, the sirens have continued to be activated repeatedly, warning the population of possible Russian bombings. The bloody war continues, although a faint hope can be nurtured today with the meeting between the delegations from Kiev and Moscow scheduled on the border with Belarus. Belarusian President Lukashenko [...]
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"This war will last a long time" and "we must prepare": French President Emmanuel Macron said today during a visit to the Agricultural Fair. Macron has ensured that weapons will be sent to Zelesky while Biden has sent 350 million dollars. Meanwhile, the Russian para are trying to leave Kiev without light, but they were [...]
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(by Luca Fiorletta) A siren rings in the heart of Eastern Europe and reminds the Western world that war really exists, that it is not just an exotic or distant fact: its reality is such because it belongs to the human being and the man, you know, has always been the same. Not even the pandemic of our day [...]
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The West is compact in imposing sanctions on Russia, while on the ground the battle is pressing by the hour, with deaths and injuries registered. The Moscow bulletin reports 74 military targets destroyed, including 11 runways. According to the Ukrainian presidency, "more than 40 Ukrainian soldiers and about 10 civilians have been killed". Another 18 victims, including [...]
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Strong explosions were reported in Ukrainian cities in Odessa, Kharvik, Mariupol, Lviv and in the capital Kiev, where the Russians attempted to take control of the airport. Navigation in the Sea of Azov blocked. Russian tanks, with the 'Z' mark on the sides, would have entered Ukraine from numerous points along the border, including from Belarus and [...]
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Today at 04.00 the rhetoric of diplomacy was replaced by war, Vladimir Putin launched 'the special military operation in Ukraine. The announcement came during a live broadcast where Putin said his goal is to demilitarize but not occupy Ukraine. Then he turned to the West: "Anyone who tries to interfere or threaten us, he must [...]
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Once intelligence could predict the enemy's moves well in advance, now it apparently failed to read Russia's real intentions. You have often told of Putin's bluff. You started talking about the invasion of Ukraine only after the fact, that is when Moscow amassed over 150 thousand men [...]
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Last night Putin went to the facts, on live TV he recognized the independence of the two separatist republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, signing a decree and two collaboration treaties. Late at night the first Russian armored vehicles entered Donetsk, as a peacekeeping force, or to defend pro-Russian citizens from reprisals by the Ukrainians. Every […]
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The very latest on the crisis in the Donbass About 40 thousand refugees have fled the Donbass and arrived in the Russian region of Rostov. This was reported by the Interfax agency citing Alexander Chupriyan, interim minister for emergency situations. “More than 40 thousand people, who had to leave the neighboring regions, arrived in Russia. At this point […]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The invasion of Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "peace" interventions in Nagorno-Karabakh in 2021 and in Kazakhstan in January of this year, the intervention in Syria in 2015 in support of Bashar Assad, in Libya in 2017 to protect Khalifa Haftar and the Wagner mercenaries scattered from Cyrenaica [...]
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While the CIA is almost certain, there will be an invasion on Wednesday, diplomacy is trying to avoid the irreparable. Unfortunately, from the conversation between the US and Russian presidents, Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin, there was not the hoped-for turning point, both have firmly reaffirmed their positions. Biden was peremptory: "in the event of an attack, the West [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Conventional attack with aviation bombing and invasion with armored vehicles or simply massive cyber attacks, followed by a coup? The hybrid war has probably already begun, thousands would be fake social accounts that have been making propaganda for the Russian separatists of the Donbass for months. It would therefore be [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Luckily the Tap is there. Remember an old proverb: "the mouse with only one hole lives little and badly". Thus the Tap gas pipeline, opposed some time ago by a part of Italian politics (M5S), is today perhaps the best initiative that our country could pursue, demonstrating unusual foresight. The Tap that [...]
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Ukrainian security forces arrested alleged Russian operatives who were preparing a riot in the capital to destabilize the situation. On Monday 14 February the Duma will instead decide on the recognition of the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. Meanwhile, six Russian warships, which left in January from the ports of Severomorsk, on the Sea of [...]
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Russia is really ready to invade and the first city to fall could Mariupol, halfway between Crimea and Donbass, a territory occupied by pro-Russians since 2014. In addition to US intelligence, the number one of the White House, Biden, also announced it during a press conference when he talked about a minor raid by the Russians. [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) A message appeared on most Ukrainian institutional computers: “Ukrainians, all your personal data has been deleted and it will not be possible to get them back. Be afraid, and expect the worst ". Thus the servers of important ministries such as that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Education were violated. Late yesterday [...]
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According to reports from "Reuters", Russian paratroopers have been sent to Kazakhstan as an international peacekeeping force to quell the violent unrest in the Central Asian country. The announcement was made by a military alliance of former Soviet states. Previously, the Kazakh police had stated that, during the riots, caused by the increase in prices [...]
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France and Germany will be protagonists in 2022, Paris will take over the presidency of the Community semester while Berlin will take over the presidency of the G7. There are many knots to be solved, from the pandemic to the climate emergency, from the strategic contrast with Russia and China to economic growth. Germany wants to make the G7 "forerunner of a climate neutral economy and a fair world", [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Hypersonic technology, missiles and aircraft that can travel at a speed between 5.000 and 25.000 km per hour (between 5 and 25 Mach). The thermal effects, typical of hypersonic speeds, impose on these vectors aerodynamic arrangements such as to create strong shock waves in the atmosphere on which, thanks to the upward thrust, they glide for [...]
Read MoreXi Jinping and Vladimir Putin spoke three times this year, the last time yesterday during almost two hours of remote interview via videoconference. The two countries to the east of the globe, anti-American par excellence, have long been pulling the strings to try to build a granite block to oppose the United States and the [...]
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Yesterday, the Russian state aviation authority - Rosaviatsia - reported that a Russian Aeroflot airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Moscow was forced to change altitude over the Black Sea because a NATO CL-600 reconnaissance plane flew crossed its route. The state airline said that [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The Pentagon is concentrating a large part of the resources allocated to Defense to the development of hypersonic weapons to maintain and strengthen leadership in the new global strategic sector. The main objective is to counter China and Russia which, very quickly, are acquiring new capabilities to develop their own versions. The day before yesterday, the Department [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The aim was the constitution of a well-trained group of "mercenaries" to be recruited preferably from newly retired military and policemen. Target? Fighting in Yemen on behalf of Saudi Arabia. The judicial and police authorities, with the collaboration of the intelligence services, managed to tighten the circle and put [...]
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Israel accused Iran of hatching a plot to kill Israeli citizens in the Republic of Cyprus. The heavy accusation, following the arrest of a man, of Azerbaijani origin and with a Russian passport, found in possession of a pistol with a silencer. Cypriot police reportedly followed the suspected killer as he entered [...]
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The Shanghai Cooperation Organization - SCO - should mark the beginning of an alternative multilateralism that could unite the efforts of China and Russia, especially today, in the controversial Afghan landscape. The speeches at the Dushanbe summit by Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping seem to point in this direction. The Afghan crisis is creating a convergence of interests [...]
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Yesterday from Ramstein Air Base in Germany, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and the head of the US State Department, Antony Blinken, held a remote summit extended to 22 countries on the common approach to be held with the new Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan . On the same day, almost in response, Pakistan organized [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Turkey and Qatar today have become the referents of the Western world in Afghanistan, their diplomatic and intelligence network is growing day by day within the country. Main objective: to counter, as far as possible, competition from China and Russia, the only countries, together with Pakistan, which have kept open the [...]
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The very delicate Afghan question has once again highlighted how important it is for Europe to achieve real and evident strategic autonomy in all sectors in order to be able to intervene and take positions, thus becoming "part of the solution and not of the problem" in perfect autonomy without waiting or be conditioned by the "decisive" choices of the great super powers [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) The complete conquest of Afghanistan by the Taliban was "sudden" and "unexpected" only for those who, in recent months, have not paid attention to the slow and progressive implosion of the country. It all started last October when US President Donald Trump announced that American troops would [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) All over the world there are large-scale hacker attacks, in some cases, targeting critical infrastructures causing serious problems that are difficult to solve immediately. A phenomenon that has shown, in a disarming way, the extreme vulnerability of States in the face of the virtual threat whose principal (often of state origin) is [...]
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The New York Times has published satellite images, taken in the Xinjiang region, which show the construction of at least 110 silos intended to house intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. It is the second site identified in recent weeks. The first journalistic scoop on the subject was made by the Washington Post. The images were taken by [...]
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A senior MI5 executive, Ken Mc Callum has warned the British public about the danger of Chinese and Russian spies very active on British soil in an attempt to steal technology, sow social discord and attack the country's critical infrastructure. The threat, argues the senior official, must be treated on an equal footing with that arising from Islamic terrorism. [...]
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The Spanish newspaper EL Pais reported the news of two Russian aircraft that flew in the skies of Lithuania, not far from the NATO air base in Šiauliai. By coincidence, the joint press conference between Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was taking place at that moment. The conference […]
Read More(by Andrea Pinto) Parts of the Long March 5B rocket re-entered the atmosphere at 10:24 am Beijing time (0224 GMT) and landed in a position with coordinates at 72,47 degrees east longitude and 2,65 degrees latitude north. The news was released by the Chinese state media according to a statement from China Manned Space [...]
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A Leghorn is wanted, he would have hired mercenaries in Italy with military Kalashnikovs and uniforms of the Moscow army, who fight in Ukraine alongside pro-Russian troops. The last to be arrested by the Carabinieri del Ros is a young man from Messina recruited when he was just 23 years old. Investigators investigate the various levels of an organization that [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) I'm in charge of Benghazi. Haftar the other day did not allow a presidential plane carrying Prime Minister Abdelhamid to land at Benghazi airport. The parliament, on the other hand, did not vote the budget law on the new prime minister, a clear signal that highlights the political weakness of the Libyan prime minister. It seems [...]
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(by Andrea Pinto) Yesterday the official status, the Italian naval attaché at the embassy in Moscow is no longer a welcome person. Thus, today the captain of the vessel, Curzio Pacifici will have to repatriate. The Farnesina's reaction was immediate: “deep regret is expressed for the unilateral decision of the Kremlin”. Our officer unlike the two Russian officials Dmitri Ostroukhov and Aleksey [...]
Read MoreThe Black Sea is becoming the busiest and hottest sea in the world these days. Russia, after having deployed about 100 men on its western border close to Ukraine, is now also moving by sea to tighten Kiev in a deadly grip after the growing resurgence of separatist activists. Fifteen warships [...]
Read More(by Andrea Pinto) The American intelligence community has recently drafted the Global Risk Assessment Report where it warns the government about Chinese initiative in the development of new military space programs, capable of targeting US and allied satellites. The report, drawn up by the Office of the National Director of Intelligence, highlights that the Chinese Defense would be seriously [...]
Read MoreIn the midst of the alleged Israeli cyber attack against the Natanz plant, there is the resumption, albeit feeble, of talks to resume the nuclear deal between the US and Iran. In Vienna in recent days there are "indirect" talks between the US and Iran to consider a possible approach on the issue. The Iranian Atomic Agency reported that [...]
Read MoreTwo Russian diplomats stationed in Bulgaria have been declared "unwanted persons" by the Bulgarian government because they were allegedly involved in an affair that led to the arrest of at least six Bulgarian citizens, accused of having carried out acts of espionage on behalf of Moscow. As reported by intelNews, the six arrested were stopped by counter-intelligence [...]
Read More(by Andrea Pinto) The Times reports that Russia has sent "jamming" against RAF planes - Royal Air Force - taking off from the island of Cyprus. Military intelligence sources reported that a "hostile state" has systematically attempted to interfere with the satellite communications of the A400M transport aircraft with [...]
Read MoreWhile RUSSIA, China and the United States continue to invest in important projects to develop a hypersonic capacity, which now seems destined to completely change the perception of the time needed to travel long distances, "European countries have not invested sufficiently in hypersonic technological research and are not present in this historical change, risking [...]
Read MoreThe first agreement in Europe has been signed between the Russian government fund and the ADIENNE Pharma&Biotech company for the production of the Sputnik V vaccine in Italy. This was announced by the Italian-Russian Chamber of Commerce in a note published on its website: "In the past few hours the managing director of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), Kirill Dmitriev, confirmed [...]
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Yesterday an earthquake shook the Kremlin when The British Sun reported that Vladimir Putin would be suffering from Parkinson's disease. Government spokesman Dmitry Peskov immediately denied: “A complete nonsense. The president is fine and in excellent health conditions ”. The Sun, according to a source who knows the [...]
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Senior UK officials said the country will seek to "modernize" its counterintelligence laws after a parliamentary report criticized the government for failing to stop Russian espionage operations. Earlier this week, a report by the Intelligence and Security Committee of [...]
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The Russian security service arrested the media adviser at the space agency on suspicion of providing military secrets to an intelligence agency in a western country. A former journalist, Safronov was the military correspondent for the Russian newspaper Kommersant, which some describe as the Russian equivalent of the British Financial Times. He then worked as [...]
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As the debate focuses on Afghanistan, Russian forces challenge US troops in Syria As intense debate rages in the US over the alleged subversion of US military targets in Afghanistan, sources warn that Russia is increasingly challenging Washington's troops in Syria. According to recent reports, the Kremlin [...]
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Russia has denied offering rewards to the Taliban for killing US troops in Afghanistan. In a series of 'tweets' on its account, the Russian embassy in Washington spoke of 'fake news' and accused the New York Times, which had written about it, of circulating news that triggered threats to diplomats [...]
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The United States said the Russian military flew over Libya, with a dozen unidentifiable planes, in an attempt to provide air support to Russian mercenaries fighting in Tripoli. What happened shows an important escalation of the Russian military intervention in the Libyan civil war. The war has been raging in Libya since 2011, [...]
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The Russian government has sent a number of secret agents to Ireland to monitor submarine fiber optic cables, which enable communications traffic between North America and Western Europe. The spies were reportedly sent to Ireland by the main directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, which is known in Russia as [...]
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The Space 19+ ministerial conference, organized by ESA - European Space Agency - last November in Seville highlighted the need to start gradually increasing the budget for the 22 member countries. The desired increase is expected to reach approximately 45%, equal to 14,4 billion euros over the next three years. An effort, writes the Sole24Ore, which [...]
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Following the escalation of the situation in Libya with the involvement of Turkey and Russia in support of the two rival factions of the Government of National Accord (GNA) chaired by Fayez Mustafa al-Sarraj and the Libyan National Army (LNA) commanded by General Khalifa Haftar, the president of FederPetroli Italia intervenes - Michele Marsiglia "It is a war for the [...]
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Europe: "now or never". The message launched in the book of General Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo
Massimiliano Cannata on Eurispes.it did a wonderful review on the book; "The defense of Europe", by Pasquale Preziosa and Dario Velo. Today more than ever we need Europe, we need to believe in and pursue concrete actions to find a true and credible European identity, an identity which, in the light of the latest events in the Middle East - [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) While Turkey has approved for a year the sending of its troops to Tripoli on January 7, the European mission will go to Tripoli and Benghazi, to try to make the two parties, Haftar and al Serraj, dialogue. to strike a lasting political agreement. Our foreign representatives have not [...]
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Le Monde interviewed the UN special envoy for Libya Ghassan Salamé. Very interesting is the examination of the latest events in Libya by the senior diplomat who for years has been trying to metabolize a political solution, always opposed by the parties involved. Now, argues Salamè, the credibility of the UN is at risk, should the military solution prevail [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Turkish Parliament will meet in extraordinary session on Thursday 2 January at 14, when in Italy it will be 12, to anticipate the vote on President Erdogan's AKP motion authorizing the sending of troops to Libya in support of the government of national accord of Fayez al-Sarraj against the offensive of the militias of [...]
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Italy lost Libya in 2011 when Gaddafi was overthrown by force at the hands of Sarkozy's France. France has never digested our relevance, our privileged lane in Libya. The final push for Italy is the signing, on November 27, of the Turkish-Libyan treaty on the jurisdictional areas of the Mediterranean of [...]
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The opinion of General Pasquale #Preziosa on the hypersonic # is authoritative. The article by the former head of the # Aeronautica Militare globally analyzes this new and disruptive strategic weapon, whose effects on future inter-state balances are only imaginable and difficult to predict. In 2014 a first symposium was held in Italy from which it emerged that the hypersonic would have a [...]
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The New York Times reported that Russian military announced last Friday that it had deployed a hypersonic weapon that manages to escape American missile defense systems, kicking off a new chapter in the long arms race between the two most important nuclear powers. in the world. American officials are hesitant about [...]
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked, during a visit to Tunisia to allow Tunis, Algeria and Qatar to be part of the Berlin conference on the Libya dossier to be held on January 14-15, 2020. Erdogan added, in a joint press conference with Tunisian President Kais Saied, to be sure that Tunis [...]
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Al Serraj's armed forces arrested pilot Amer Al-Jagam after his plane was shot down in southern Al-Zawiya. As reported by The Libia Observer, the pilot reported that the mercenaries of the Russian group Wagner operate in coordination with the operations room of Tarhouna in ground operations (snipers) [...]
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(by Pasquale Preziosa) Who will defend the Europe of tomorrow? There is no answer to this question, none of the European countries has a precise idea and any innovative initiative triggers, in European countries, the spring of conservatism, creating stagnation of thought. According to the founding fathers, European countries will have to live together to avoid further disasters after two [...]
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The news is reported by all Libyan newspapers, from the Libyan Observer to the Libyan Address. Surprisingly, Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj flew to Turkey to meet Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the early afternoon. The main issue addressed was the agreement to send Turkish troops to help the Tripoli government. Only [...]
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The Egyptian press reported that General Khalifa Haftar announced “zero hour for the start of the decisive offensive on Tripoli. The Cyrenaica general even gave his men his final instructions: "do not touch private homes and properties". There are, however, four European countries, Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain that still hope to be able to find [...]
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President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he could intervene in support of the Libyan government of national unity of Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. The basis of the possible Turkish intervention, writes Il Giornale, is the Tripoli-Ankara agreement signed on November 27, a memorandum of understanding that ranges from military collaboration to gas drilling in the Mediterranean. The Turkish Parliament [...]
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Apparently Italy, but also Europe, are less and less influential in Libya. For months, General Kalifa Haftar's troops have had support on the ground from Russian contractors of the private company Wagner Group (former Russian military), very close to the Kremlin. It is no coincidence that Haftar's militias have become more [...]
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In these days in London the NATO summit to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the signing that sanctioned the constitution. A summit that promised to be red-hot due to the recent utterances of French President Macron: "NATO is in a kind of brain death" and due to the fierce attitude of Donald Trump who [...]
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it is investigating possible counter-intelligence threats in connection with the popular online application #FaceApp, which is based in Russia. The application first appeared in January 2017 and quickly became popular with smartphone users around the world. Allows [...]
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Soon #Gazprom will announce the start of liquefied gas supplies to China through the “Power of Serbia” pipeline. With this work, Russia is preparing to conquer world leadership in the distribution of energy, in particular of liquefied gas. As Bellomo writes in Il Sole 24Ore, the Russian move will tend to [...]
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The United States and Russia are at loggerheads over the extradition of a Russian cryptocurrency magnate arrested and detained in Greece. Apparently, according to rumors, the Kremlin spies used cryptocurrencies with the complicity of the company under investigation. The tycoon in question is Aleksandr Vinnik, 39, who in 2011 co-founded [...]
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China last Thursday successfully completed a crucial landing test in northern Hebei province ahead of a historic unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year. China is on track to launch its mission to Mars, said Zhang Kejian, head of China National Space on Thursday [...]
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Yesterday a bolt from the blue. French President Emmanuel Macron used very harsh words about NATO: "he is in a state of brain death". The criticisms leveled at NATO by French President Emmanuel Macron are "an unnecessary broadside". This is what Chancellor Angela Merkel declared during the press conference with the NATO secretary general, [...]
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The chemical structure and mechanism of action of a top-secret family of nerve agents known as novichoks may soon be on the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) list of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). The term novichok (which means "novice" in Russian) was given by Western scientists to a class of nerve agents [...]
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La Stampa interviewed NATO Secretary General Jean Stoltenberg who illustrated the situation of the International Organization in the face of emerging and future challenges, with a detailed focus on Russia and China. Prudent about the Turkish intervention in Syria but determined to denounce Russian interference in Europe and to ask the allies for greater efforts to deal with [...]
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According to the Russian press, the Kremlin authorities have arrested three American diplomats, accused of having tried to enter a "secret" weapons test site in northern Russia. The site in question is located near the Russian city of Severodvinsk which hosts numerous military shipyards and is "off limits" for citizens [...]
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In a report, the New York Times argues that Russian intelligence is using an elite espionage unit whose sole objective is to carry out operations to subvert European political and economic systems. The unit allegedly carried out a series of intelligence operations in recent years, ranging from espionage to disinformation campaigns and even [...]
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In a surprising move last week, Iranian authorities arrested a Russian journalist in the Caucasus region, accused of spying on behalf of Israel. They later agreed to release her after diplomatic pressure from Russia. But the move surprised observers, because Iran rarely takes actions unwelcome to Moscow. The [...]
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Russian authorities announced Tuesday that a gas explosion damaged a section of a medical facility in Siberia that houses live samples of viruses such as Ebola and smallpox, but added that a biomedical emergency did not need to be declared. The blast reportedly occurred on Monday at the State Research Center in [...]
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With the test launch of a missile that flew more than 500 kilometers, the United States boldly entered a future that past leaders had tried to avoid. The announcement came in a brief Pentagon press release sent to the media yesterday after noon: “On August 18 at 14:30 pm Pacific [...]
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The failed White Sea missile test, which killed five Russian scientists, involved a small nuclear reactor. This was announced by a senior executive of the institute where the victims worked: the institute deals with sources of power on a limited scale, which use "radioactive material, including fissile and radioisotope materials", for [...]
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Other than Salvini, Savoini & co. With Russia the facts are done by Angela Merkel with Gazprom. Now with Ursula von der Leyen, the new president of the EU Commission, the game is done. Fausto Carioti on Libero explains the details of the operation. Side by side, Putin's lobbyists, the team led by the Chancellor and the [...]
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergej #Lavrov yesterday at the meeting of the foreign ministers of the countries that make up the #Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), who met in Rio de Janeiro, commented on the American policy in the field of defense and security, the interview was taken up by the #Tass news agency: "The development of plans [...]
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The president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir #Putin has landed in Rome. The first appointment at the Vatican, for the audience with #Pope Francis. The parade of cars, reports ANSA, coming directly from Fiumicino, reached the Vatican through St. Peter's Square and the Arco delle Campane, to then reach the San Damaso courtyard. Here Putin and his [...]
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After the probable "stop" to supply the # F-35, Turkey is increasingly looking to the Russian #Sukhoi jets, or the Su-57, a direct competitor of the F-35. The news was reported by the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak. The Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighter aircraft is a single-seat stealth multi-role aircraft designed for air superiority and [...]
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The first ever summit between the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un began this morning with a private interview at the Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok. This was reported by the news agency "Sputnik", adding that, at the end of a meeting in the restricted format, the two sides will continue the consultations [...]
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US officials officially announced that they have stopped supplying F-35 fighter aircraft parts to Turkey due to Ankara's decision to move forward with the purchase of the Russian surface-to-air missile system (S-400). The delivery of parts and manuals necessary to prepare the planned delivery of the aircraft will therefore be blocked, [...]
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Russia on a par with China is very active in Africa. Weapons and logistical assistance, this is the bargaining chip with African countries to gain access to mineral and energy resources and territorial political influence. The countries where Russia is actively interfering are Libya, Sudan, Mali, Niger, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Mozambique, Angola. [...]
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Russian media confirmed that a plane carrying 100 Russian soldiers arrived in Caracas on Saturday, raising tension between Washington and Moscow over the escalating crisis in Venezuela. The arrival of Russian troops in the Venezuelan capital was first reported on Saturday morning by Venezuelan reporter Javier Mayorca, who said on [...]
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About 300 contractors linked to Russian military intelligence (GRU) have allegedly supported General Haftar in his recent actions in southern Libya. The news appeared in The Telegraph. Russian support would have come through the private company, known as the Wagner Group, which would have supplied the Libyan army with artillery, tanks, drones and ammunition. [...]
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China's Xinhua news agency, a Moscow official reported, reports that Russia will take reciprocal and asymmetrical measures in response to possible US threats to use outer space for military purposes. According to the Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov, the intentions of the United States [...]
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The Swedish prosecutor in Stockholm confirmed the news, released by media reports, of the second arrest for espionage. The arrest came after a man was arrested in the Swedish capital on Tuesday, allegedly also accused of spying on behalf of Russia. As reported by intelNews, a man was arrested [...]
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A growing number of people are in pre-trial detention in Lithuania: "the Baltic state is continuing to investigate an alleged Russian espionage association, very active in the country". On Tuesday, government prosecutors asked for an eight-year prison sentence for Roman Sheshel, accused of giving confidential information [...]
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A senior counterintelligence officer from the Belgian external intelligence service is under house arrest on charges of sharing classified documents with Russian spies. A Belgian newspaper reports it. Furthermore, the head of the agency's counter-intelligence department has been barred from his office while an internal investigation is underway into allegations of illegally [...]
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Russia is increasingly active in cyber space: it would be thinking of its own web outside the world internet network. An "independent" web, immune from any external cyber attack. Industry insiders explain that the Moscow initiative is nothing more than an expedient to increase control and censorship on the internet, [...]
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Today the two-day visit of the Minister of Agricultural, Food, Forestry and Tourism Policies, Sen. Gian Marco Centinaio in Russia. The trip will be an opportunity to consolidate institutional relations with Kremlin representatives, meet entrepreneurs and exponents of the Italian business community and visit the Prodexpo Fair, the largest [...]
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The Navy of the Russian Federation plans to operate more than 30 Poseidon nuclear submarine drones in the near future. This was reported by the news agency "Tass", to which a source inside the national industrial complex released some statements today. "Two submarines equipped with Poseidon drones will enter service with the [...]
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The visit to the port of Manila, in the Philippines, by a group of ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet, under the command of the Chief of Staff of the submarine forces Eduard Mikhailov, ended. According to the press office of the Eastern Military District for the Pacific Fleet, Russian military ships were [...]
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On the Twitter profile of the Russian embassy in London it is clearly written that the evidence of the Skripal case has been destroyed by the British authorities. The reference is to the dismantling of part of Sergey Skripal's home in Salisbury, announced in recent days by the British security forces. "The evidence on Salisbury poisoning is systematically [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Since the US primacy in the world, as a global police force, is fading or is no longer what it once was, the international order is today more than ever in chaos. World leaders are increasingly tempted to test the limits of international law to strengthen their influence and [...]
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The toll is still provisional and records four people dead and dozens are missing in a gas explosion that occurred around 4 am in an apartment building in Magnitogorsk, a Russian town in the Urals. Rescuers are at work in the rubble after having extracted four people alive, including two children. The frost and the [...]
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lavrov in an interview with the television network "Rossiya-1" said that "Russia will provide a mirror answer in the event of the placement of US missiles in Europe, prohibited by the Treaty on medium-range nuclear forces (Inf ). Unfortunately, our European colleagues, whose independence we wish to be reflected in their [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The symbol of Libya's opening towards the outside has been attacked. The headquarters of the foreign ministry has suffered an attack which, as the hours pass, takes on an increasingly symbolic meaning. Libya, still divided and in conflict after the dismissal and killing of Gaddafi, seeks the path of stabilization through [...]
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Leonardo today announced the signing of a contract with Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (“Sakhalin Energy”) for the supply of three AW189 commercial twin-engine helicopters. The helicopters will be deployed as part of the transport operations modernization program in support of the Oil & Gas industry and will be based on the Russian island of Sakhalin. The start of deliveries is [...]
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According to a cybersecurity company and the European Union, Russia "would have prepared the way" for the seizure of the Ukrainian navy ships, launching a major cyber attack on government sites and disinformation to public opinion. A private cybersecurity company claimed that Moscow would launch a series of cyber attacks against servers [...]
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As reported by askanews, the United States intends to present, this week, a new strategy to strengthen its presence in Africa and counter the growing influence of China and Russia on the continent. The plan, prepared by the White House National Security Council, will mark a change of course for the administration, eager to [...]
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The fact that Russia is very skilled in hybrid conflicts is now a known matter, just go back a few years and analyze how Moscow annexed Crimea. There are also many alleged interference in the US presidential elections, in the elections in France, Germany and Italy. Yesterday Sputnik Italy reported an investigation underway from [...]
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A former Russian police officer, who is serving a prison sentence in Russia for spying for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump, asking to be released. Yevgeny A. Chistov was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) in 2014 on charges [...]
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(Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi) In the same hours as European leaders were returning home after the Brexit summit in Brussels, while trying to reach the Ukrainian port of Mariupol, three Ukrainian warships were hit and seized by the Russian armed forces in the sea of Azov on the Kerch Strait (northern part of [...]
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Russia takes center stage in NATO. Allied foreign ministers met to discuss ways to dissuade Moscow from its stance against Ukraine and encourage it to abide by the important nuclear treaty that stands in the Cold War era. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and partners [...]
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Two Ukrainian ports in the Azov Sea, Berdyansk and Mariupol, have been blocked by Russia as ships are prevented from leaving and entering, Ukraine's infrastructure minister Volodymyr Omelyan said. Overall, 35 ships were prevented from carrying out normal activities. The Ukrainian minister on Facebook also said [...]
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Two gunboats and a Ukrainian tug were captured by Moscow forces, two sailors injured. Riots triggered by nationalists in front of the Russian consulate in Lviv High tension between Russia and Ukraine in the Black Sea, off the coast of Crimea. Moscow closed the Kerch Strait, the only maritime connection with the Sea of Azov, after [...]
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Mohammed bin Salman (Mbs), Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, intends to diversify the kingdom's energy strategy, including nuclear power. Bin Salman, through the Saudi PressAgency, has announced that a nuclear reactor will be built. This will result in the beginning of one of the seven strategic projects for the development of the country that also concern renewable energy, the [...]
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According to reports from the French newspapers, on the occasion of the recent visit to Bangui by Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, France, to regain lost ground in Central Africa, has decided to adopt a new strategy that involves sending weapons and money to counter Russian activity. In fact, since December 2017, Moscow has been supplying Central Africa with [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is in Moscow these days, in a very "hot" moment for both countries. Italy is probably looking for a significant bank in light of two really important "issues" for the health and life of the yellow-green government. The rejection by the [...]
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After Moscow's announcement of the delivery of the surface-to-air missile system, the French Foreign Minister said that the deployment of the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft defense system in Syria risks fueling military escalation and hindering prospects for a political solution to the seven-year conflict. Russia accused Israel of being [...]
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According to a report by the British government, the so-called "Cyber Caliphate" is one of many apparently non-state but actually run by the Russian state. The group, believed to be the online hacker wing of the Islamic State, first appeared in early 2014, claiming to operate as the online wing of the Islamic State of Iraq and [...]
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Western intelligence agencies thwarted a plot involving two Russian hackers who intended to go to a laboratory that investigates nuclear and biological weapons to hack computer systems and steal digital information. According to reports from the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the two men [...]
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A Russian-made device allegedly caused mysterious ills to more than two dozen American diplomats in Cuba and China, according to US government officials. Since September last year, Washington has recalled most of its staff from its embassy in Havana and at least two other diplomats [...]
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According to reports from the Arab newspaper, based in London, al-Hayat, there are at least 7.500 fighters of the militias financed by Iran and the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah who are moving towards the front of the northern Syrian province of Idlib, to participate in a ground operation against the last stronghold of the rebels not financed by the West. For […]
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Syria, the bombing began in the province of Idlib
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According to some sources, the CIA whistleblowers, whom the United States has relied on in order to steal the strategies and tactics used by Moscow, in recent months, have not spoken. For many years, US intelligence agencies have been building networks of Russian whistleblowers. These are officials placed in leading positions within [...]
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Russia has accused the British Royal Air Force (RAF) of having intercepted one of its military aircraft flying over the Black Sea twice in a single week. The accusation, launched by the Russian embassy in London, came after the RAF intercepted a Russian maritime patrol plane over the Black Sea on Friday. [...]
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Russia will begin delivering its advanced S-400 missile defense system to Turkey in 2019, a Turkish defense official said in April that the delivery of the S-400 batteries had been reported by Interfax news agency. anticipated from the first quarter of 2020 to July 2019. Turkey and Russia [...]
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Last May, while the President of the Republic Mattarella gave his peremptory "no" to the candidacy of Paolo Savona as Minister of the Economy, more than 400 new accounts were created on Twitter in a few minutes.
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Israel used its new air defense system on the Syrian border, where Russian-backed forces from Damascus brought rebels together. Moscow has asked for an "urgent" meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu has planned to meet the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, and his boss [...]
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Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini met his counterpart Vladimir Kolokoltsev and the deputy secretary of the Russian Security Council in Moscow. The contents of the ongoing negotiations are summarized in the statements by Matteo Salvini, "it will be necessary to convince the European partners through dialogue, but without excluding the exercise of the veto, on the damages of the extension of sanctions to [...]
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Italian researchers from CSE Cybsec have discovered a backdoor on Italian networks, a 'back door', used to circumvent the defenses of computer systems. The port has been recognized as a variant of the well-known X-Agent backdoor. Used to target Windows systems, the backdoor is part of the arsenal of a Russian paramilitary group, known by the acronym [...]
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France beat Croatia 4-2 and raised the most prestigious cup for the second time in history, after the 1998 triumph. Chirac at the time said: “a tricolor victory of many colors”, with reference to a multi-ethnic national team. French in the lead for an own goal by Mandzukic that touches a splendid free-kick by Griezmann. Draw for Perisic for [...]
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Greek security was undermined and Greece expelled two Russian diplomats and refused to credit two others. Greece had not joined with the 30 countries that had expelled or refused to accredit Russian diplomats in March, in solidarity with the UK. The expulsions had come in response to the attempted murder [...]
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Trump complimented this week when Boris Johnson, the foreign minister, resigned because he was opposed to soft Brexit. A statement that Downing Street had not liked that the British tabloids had punctually revived and fed to the public opinion. A story that was undermining the meeting with Theresa May. Trump how often we [...]
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A high-tension NATO summit in Brussels, Trump threatens to leave NATO and pushes to get all alliance members to spend at least 2% of domestic GDP on military spending under the 2015 agreements. The Guardian reports that Bulgarian President Rumen Radev reportedly told the press that Trump will push [...]
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After the American withdrawal, the European Union, China, Russia and Iran confirm their commitment to respect and fully implement the provisions of the Iranian nuclear agreement. This was announced by Federica Mogherini, EU High Representative, at the end of the ministerial meeting that took place today in Vienna. During the meeting, the participants also expressed [...]
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The head of the German internal security agency has publicly accused the Russian government of a large-scale cyber attack that allegedly targeted German energy suppliers. The allegations follow an announcement on 13 June by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), charged with protecting the government's electronic communications […]
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High-impact threats from the Islamic State at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In a video released by the 'Daily Star' online site, the jihadists promise "a massacre that has never been seen before in history". Four minutes of images, analyzed by the Middle East Media Research Institute, show some bombs exploding inside and [...]
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It is no coincidence that the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was organized while the G7 is taking place in Canada. It is also no coincidence that Trump had talked about the G8, trying to include Russia, among the greats of the earth. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional alliance led by China and Russia, of [...]
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Defense Minister Elisabetta Trenta at the Alliance ministerial, after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, during his speech to the Chamber of Deputies, had words of appreciation for the Atlantic Alliance with a wink to Russia. The remarriage was prompt, both NATO and the United States who immediately wanted to dictate the line [...]
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The effect of the sanctions on Russia led to a loss of about 3 billion euros for Italy, Coldiretti said in a statement. Yesterday the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, during his speech to the Senate of the Republic made clear hints of openness to Russia, unequivocally giving a turn to Italian foreign policy. Nello [...]
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The crisis triggered in the Gulf last June 5 following the decision of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt to interrupt diplomatic and trade relations with Qatar, continues to have its effects especially on the population. Qatar was asked to cut ties with Tehran and a series [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron yesterday tried to find a cause in their common unease over US President Donald Trump's actions on Iran, climate change and international trade. France disagrees with the Kremlin for its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine four [...]
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Flight MH17 that flew in the skies over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was shot down by a missile from a Russian military base. This was established by investigators working on the international investigation into the accident of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 which exploded in the air, causing the death of about 300 passengers and 15 members [...]
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Some member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) gained access to the Soviet Union's so-called "Novichok" nerve agents in the 90s, through an informant recruited by German intelligence, reportedly. NATO countries refer to nerve agents of the "Novichok class" to describe a series of substances developed by the Soviet Union and the [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) To date, the official ISIS group has never mentioned the upcoming world championships in Russia in its public literature. I remember that the sympathizers have no connection with the main branch of the terrorist movement. However, one point should be clarified: threats and greater involvement of sympathizers are not at all [...]
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Chinese intelligence agents gave a former US Central Intelligence Agency officer "hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash" in exchange for classified information. The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, on January 15, accusing him of possessing classified information that included lists of real names […]
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A huge amount of Facebook ads bought by Russian groups during the 2016 US elections sought to instill divisions and discord over racial issues. And the closer we got to the election date, the more the ads insisted on this topic. This was reported by the USA Today newspaper which analyzed the more than 3500 advertisement (ads) [...]
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(by Alessandro Rugolo) On 5 December 2016, with decree no. 646 signed by the President of the Russian Federation, the Cyber doctrine of Russia is renewed. Previously, in 2011, Russia had acceded to the United Nations International Convention on Information Security but did not have its own doctrine. Reading the document is enough [...]
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According to new research, Russian Twitter accounts have spread messages in support of the opposition Labor Party in an effort to influence last year's UK election. Research from Swansea University and the Sunday Times found that around 6.500 automated accounts sent messages praising opposition Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn […]
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Thousands of military personnel and dozens of armored vehicles, defense systems and even drones have appeared in central Moscow for a rehearsal of the Victory Day parade, offering a sneak peek at what's new to show at the upcoming parade. About 12.500 people attended the rehearsals, staged at the iconic Red Square until [...]
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The Russian Federation Secret Service (FSB) arrested four suspects who were preparing attacks in Moscow. This was announced by the press office of the secret services themselves cited by the RIA Novosti news agency. "The group came from the city of Novyj Urengoj and was planning a series of major attacks in the Moscow region" - reads the document made public [...]
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A Norwegian retiree, arrested in northern Russia late last year on suspicion of spying, served as a courier for the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS), according to his lawyer. Last December, intelNews reported on the arrest of Frode Berg, 62, from Kirkenes, a small town in the far north of Norway, located near [...]
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A Russian investigative reporter, who wrote a series of articles on Russian soldiers in Syria, died after falling from the balcony of his apartment in western Siberia. Some of his colleagues say they suspect murder. Maxim Borodin wrote an online detective magazine for Novy Den (New Day). In recent weeks, Novy [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned yesterday that further Western attacks in Syria would wreak havoc on the business world as Washington threatened to increase pressure on Russia with new economic sanctions. In a telephone conversation with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani, he agreed that the Western attack had damaged the odds [...]
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a group of Russian lawmakers on Sunday that the Western missile attacks in his country were an act of aggression, Russian news agencies reported. Russian lawmakers met Assad after the United States, France and Britain launched attacks [...]
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Russia wanted an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Saturday April 14, proposing a Resolution to condemn the aggression against Syria, but the motion was not approved. The document, circulated by Russia among the members of the UN body shortly before the meeting, denounced "the aggression against Syria by [...]
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According to the international press, the urgent session of the Security Council will be held in about an hour at the United Nations building in New York following the bombings of Syria carried out by the United States, United Kingdom and France. Previously, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed that the bombing of Syria [...]
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After the first political reactions to the missile attack carried out last night in Syria, to provide his authoritative more purely military point of view is the former Chief of Staff of the Italian Navy, Admiral Giuseppe De Giorgi, who in a note states: "From a military point of view, the attack appeared [...]
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Seven US aircraft carried out a reconnaissance mission in the eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Syria, not far from the Russian air base of Khmeymim and the logistics center of the Russian Federal Navy in Tartus. It emerges from the monitoring data of military flights published on the Twitter page of Mil Radar, reported by the Russian media. [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) The apparent American lack of interest in the Middle East has for some time been favoring new processes of strategic influence of new / old international players. Syria is an area that in this regard is demonstrating how the triumvirate Russia, Turkey, Iran is doing good and bad weather in a perspective that is anything but pacifying, to the detriment, above all, of the civilian population [...]
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China and Russia agreed to foster bilateral ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who met with Chinese councilor and foreign minister Wang Yi yesterday and accepted the Chinese invitation for a state visit in June. Wang, who is also a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, expressed [...]
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According to Newsweek, the increase in Russian intelligence activities on US soil has prompted American intelligence agencies to reevaluate the position of retired Russian specialists, asking them for advice on Putin's intelligence methods. Furthermore, Russian defectors living in the United States are re-evaluating their personal safety in light [...]
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(by Massimiliano D'Elia) Russia today gave two Italian diplomats a week to leave the country. This was reported by the Italian Foreign Ministry in a note, in a growing "escalation" of deportation actions after the incident of the nerve attack against the former Russian spy who lived in England, Serghei Skripal. Monday […]
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Although the size is unprecedented, the recent expulsions of more than 150 diplomats by some 30 countries and organizations around the world have hardly dented Russia's huge diplomatic footprint. Coordinated expulsions were announced last week in response to Britain's accusations that the Kremlin attempted […]
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Britain secured the largest expulsion of Russian diplomats in history by sharing "unprecedented intelligence" with dozens of foreign countries about the attempted murder of former spy Sergei Skripal. Nearly 30 countries and international organizations, including the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, have expelled or refused to [...]
Read MoreSergei Skripal, the Russian double agent who was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent in England earlier this month, wrote to the Kremlin asking to return to Russia, according to one of his old school friends. Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, remain in critical condition in the hospital, [...]
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At least 37 people are estimated to have died in a fire that destroyed a shopping center in the Siberian city of Kemerovo. The Russian media says dozens of people are missing, including many children. The glow started on the fourth floor of the Winter Cherry building, reports Russia's Sputnik news site. [...]
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In an interview with the BBC last week, General John Nicholson reported that Russia, despite common interests in the fight against terrorism and narcotics, has acted to undermine U.S. efforts in Afghanistan and would do so by providing support. financial and even weapons to the Afghan Taliban. "There have been […]
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Trump will soon meet Putin but, like the leaders of the various European countries, he is ready to expel Moscow diplomats from the United States after the story of the nerve gas used to eliminate former Russian spy Serghei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury. Bloomberg reports that the decision may not be final. [...]
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The European Union has recalled its ambassador to Moscow in response to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal, a Russian double agent, who was attacked with a nerve agent in England earlier this month. Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, remain in critical condition in the hospital, almost three weeks after being poisoned [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) A few hours ago the Russian media released two important data on the Avangard hypersonic sliding system. Little attention has been received in Europe. The first fact is that the hypersonic system unveiled by Putin last March 30st will be implemented on board the 100 UR-XNUMXUTTKn missiles returned by Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR for [...]
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Password? re-discuss the main EU treaties, to recover shares of national sovereignty. Relations with Russia, on the other hand, would be a common element in a hypothetical government pact between the 5 Star Movement and the Lega. The two parties that won the elections have always looked with interest, in recent years, at the leadership of Vladimir [...]
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Vladimir Putin won with a plebiscite, the exit polls give him well over 70% of the preferences, for the Fom polling center it would even be 77%, while all the other challengers trudge in the dust, with single-digit percentages. To save himself is' only the communist 'with the Rolex' Pavel Grudinin, the only one able to overcome [...]
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The friction between London and Moscow has not subsided following the incident involving the former Russian spy and her daughter, victims of a chemical attack while they were in British territory. Speaking in this case is the Russian ambassador to the EU Vladimir Chizhov, who in the course of an interview given by [...]
Read MoreAccording to Russian press agencies, the Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned the British ambassador to the country, Laurie Bristow, for an urgent meeting. Russia stands ready to expel British diplomats in retaliation for Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to expel 23 Russians. The spokesperson for the Foreign Ministry [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) A few hours ago the satellite broadcaster Zvezda, the official channel of the Russian Defense Ministry, released some details of the secret operation. To be involved, in my view, could have been the K-317 Pantera (Akula) and the K-154 Tigr (Akula I) which I remember are part of the Division of Animals / Звериной дивизии deployed in Gadzhiyevo. [...]
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The Russian army denied the news released today by the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights that it had blamed the Russian aviation for intervening in Eastern Ghouta where 80 civilians were killed during today's bombing that hit areas besieged by rebels mainly in the localities of Saqba and Kfar Batna. "The statements [...]
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The Salisbury police operation could still take several weeks. The British government is expelling 23 Russian diplomats after Moscow refused to explain how a nerve agent was used against former Russian spy Sergei Skripal, 66, and his 33-year-old daughter Yulia in Salisbury on Sunday, March 4. The prime minister […]
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Australia takes a strong position alongside Great Britain in the "thorny" story of the attack through the use of a nerve agent on former spy Serghei Skripal and his daughter Yulia. It therefore condemns Russia the Canberra government and in underlining it clearly, it supports London's right to react in retaliation, announcing the expulsion [...]
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The White House has expressed the US position on the nerve agent which the UK claims was used by Russia to poison former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter on British soil. "The United States stands in solidarity with its closest ally, the United Kingdom," said the spokesperson [...]
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Twenty-three Russian diplomats expelled and assets will likely be confiscated from officials and businessmen. The premier, Theresa May, reported to the House of Commons the "strong and robust response" to what is certain are Moscow's "faults" in the attempted murder of the former Russian spy and his daughter in Salisbury, on the 4th [... ]
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The nerve agent who poisoned the Russian double spy in England last week may have been smeared on the handle of his car, according to some sources. Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, are in critical condition after being poisoned on March 4 by strangers in the English city of Salisbury. Skripal, [...]
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The international community is observing with the utmost attention the story that is affecting London and Moscow for the alleged use of military nerve chemicals in the attack suffered by the former Russian spy Skripal and his daughter on 4 March. Theresa May yesterday in parliament, after the first investigations, accused Russia of being the director [...]
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As supposed by Britain, the United States also speculates that it is "very likely" that Russia is behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal. Rex Tillerson, US Secretary of State, has "that Russia is behind the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and threatens" serious consequences ". In a note, the Secretary of State [...]
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The British prime minister said yesterday in parliament that it is "highly likely" that the nerve agent used to attack the former Kremlin 007 in England last week was developed by Russia. But sources in London told the BBC that the British government will not invoke Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization […]
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MI6, British intelligence began threatening the physical safety of dozens of Russian deserters residing in Britain a week after the attempted murder of former KGB Colonel Sergei Skripal in southern England. The 66-year-old double spy and his daughter, Yulia, were found in a catatonic state in the city [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) This morning the Russian Defense Ministry released a video and confirmed the test. As I wrote earlier, Russia's new anti-ship hypersonic missile could be a launched variant of the 9K720 Iskander ballistic system. And beyond the anti-ship capabilities, the missile would be able to hit any [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Under the cue of my overseas analyst colleagues, I downloaded and reread documents and texts on Project Pluto, the first nuclear ramjet in the world conceived during the Cold War. During the annual speech to the United Chambers of the Federal Assembly, Putin said verbatim: "We have successfully tested the nuclear-powered cruise missile." We have to understand [...]
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The Labor newspaper "The Guardian" writes in an article that the Kremlin is satisfied with the outcome of the Italian political elections. According to Putin, the victory of the Salvini League and the pentastellati could bring Italy closer to Russia in foreign policy. In the article, the correspondent from Rome Stephanie Kirchgaessner notes that very little was said in the election campaign [...]
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On March 16, the foreign ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey will discuss the Syrian crisis agreement in Astana as promoters of the peace process in Syria. The news was announced in a press release by the Kazakhstan Foreign Ministry. "According to the information received from the states guaranteeing the [...]
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Russia has completed tests on small-sized nuclear powertrains to be installed on cruise missiles and autonomous underwater vehicles. This was declared to the “Sputnik” agency by a source in the military-diplomatic apparatus of Moscow. "Tests on small nuclear propulsion units have been completed, both for cruise missiles with unlimited range [...]
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On the Baltic Sea, during the "truth and justice" forum in the north-west of Russia in Kaliningrad, Vladimir Putin, after announcing yesterday the existence of the super missile, talks about a new mission for Russia. The message to the nation was not simply an election campaign announcement, but a further turning point in foreign policy. After, the interview with [...]
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President Putin confirmed that Russia is in possession of hypersonic weapons and recalled that all countries with high scientific potential "are actively developing hypersonic weapons". "Russia already has this type of weapon," Putin said. The Kinzhal hypersonic complex has been in service in the Southern Military District since the first [...]
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The Iranian foreign ministry praised the Russian veto on a resolution drafted by Britain accusing Iran of violating the UN arms embargo on Yemeni rebels, calling it a "defeat" for the United States. The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Bahram Qasemi, said in a statement that the resolution proposed by [...]
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The Americans in Afghanistan rejected Moscow's concerns about an alleged presence of ISIS in the country, asking Moscow and Tehran to "instead support the Afghan government and not the Taliban". This was reported by the Tolo TV in Kabul. Russian Foreign Minister Serghiei Lavrov recently claimed that the followers of [...]
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Six days when the Syrian regime's planes dropped bombs and barrel bombs on the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta, which UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called "hell on earth". According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, at least 468 civilians, including 108 children, have died in air raids and [...]
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The spokesperson for the American State Department, Heather Nauert, in a briefing with reporters pointed the finger at Russia accusing it of "particular responsibility" for what is happening in eastern Ghouta, where the raids of the Damascus regime have provoked since last Sunday over 400 dead. "Without Russia's support for Syria [...]
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According to reports from senior US administration officials, the White House is considering adopting further sanctions against Russia, rejecting allegations of leniency against Moscow. Congress has already voted sanctions against Russia, accused by the Americans of interfering in the 2016 elections. But on the 30th [...]
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The Russian Foreign Ministry, in a statement published on the Mid website, announced that "a few dozen Russian citizens" have been repatriated and hospitalized following their injury "in a recent clash in Syria". In recent days, the news of dozens of Russian victims became involved [...]
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The hybrid war waged by Russia is turning into a true global conflict. This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian state, Petro Poroshenko, during his speech at the Munich security conference. "Today, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the hybrid war waged by Russia is gradually [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) The United States and Germany will host the two new NATO commands that will be activated in the event of war with Russia. This is what emerges from Brussels where a meeting of NATO defense ministers is underway. With the two new headquarters, as established last November, the commands [...]
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Investigators continue to investigate the Saratov Airlines An-148 plane crash which crashed in Moscow on Sunday and resulted in the deaths of 71 people. The plane crash has reignited questions about the twin-engine aircraft which was jointly developed by Russia and Ukraine, but which was put out of production due to […]
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An airline, An-148, crashed on the outskirts of Moscow after colliding with a Russian post office helicopter during its take-off. The plane was on the Moscow-Orsk route. A spokesperson for the Russian Federal Agency for Air Transport (Rosaviatsia) confirmed to Ria Novosti that 65 passengers were on board the plane, including [...]
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Israel is as if it were by now at war and has begun to hit military targets of the regime but also of "Iranians". It lost one of its jets during the most serious escalation of tensions that has involved the three countries in years. An Israeli pilot was seriously injured. The current tension is the most [...]
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The chief editor of the Russian National Defense magazine, Igor Korotchenko, told the Xinhua news agency that the new nuclear policy, recently announced by the United States, showing its ambition for global domination, will destabilize the world by damaging the existing system of control and balance. . "This is a strategy of intimidation and threats, including the use of nuclear weapons, [...]
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The country that has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world should take the initiative to follow the trend of disarmament instead of going against it, ”the Chinese Defense Ministry said today. The US military believes its nuclear weapons are seen as too large to use and want to develop low-yield bombs. [...]
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The Russian Foreign Ministry published on its website a harsh criticism of the content of the new nuclear doctrine made public by the United States: "it deeply disappointed us, the degree of hostility and the anti-Russian orientation of this document are impressive". We will have to take Washington's intentions into account and take the necessary steps to ensure [...]
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According to Tarek Qabil, Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry, Egyptian exports to Russia could exceed the record level of $ 500 million for the first time. In fact, the country's exports to Russia rose to 464,8 million euros in the period January-November 2017, a significant increase compared to [...]
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The Congress of the Syrian National Dialogue will be held on 29-30 January 2018 in Sochi, dedicated to resolving the situation in Syria and "promoting the Geneva process". As Askanews learns from the Russian side, the initiative "was initiated by Moscow, which maintains contacts both with the government of Syria and with a wide spectrum of forces [...]
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North Korea shipped coal using a Russian route last year. Unloaded in two Moscow ports, the coal was then transported to South Korea and Japan, in a probable violation of UN sanctions. The UN Security Council had banned coal exports on 5 August [...]
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According to news from the Nova agency, the experts of the Russian Civil Initiatives Committee, led by former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, found a high number of candidates in the presidential elections next March. However, the institution's analysts believe that the role of parties in the process is marginal. "The development of formal legal procedures" [...]
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According to what was announced by Telegram Mash, a student, identified as "Antom", entered a school in the Siberian city of Ulan-Ude with a Molotov cocktail and an ax, injuring seven people, a teacher and six students. The boy, after entering the school, went to one of the classrooms, where a lesson was in progress, and [...]
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(by Franco Iacch) Syria, here are the drones that attacked the Russians. Official photos show one of 13 fixed-wing drones that took off from the southwestern region of Idlib which attacked two Russian military bases in Syria on 6 January. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, strange. On the tactical evolution of drones in asymmetrical contexts I [...]
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Defeated ISIS now we are moving towards Idlib, so the Syrian army has started its campaign against the militias linked to Al Qaeda that still control the area, while thousands of civilians flee towards the Turkish border besieged as well as by weapons , from the bitter cold of these days. He had been the Russian Foreign Minister [...]
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Washington has called for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the situation in the Islamic Republic after the demonstrations in recent days. While Moscow, (also flanked by China), said it was against, accusing the United States of interfering in the country's internal affairs, and threatened to ask for a procedural vote to try [...]
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Europe will find itself forced to pay a higher oil bill, while Russia transfers more of its supply to the Chinese oil market. As the world's second largest economy buys more, crude oil shipments from the port of Primorsk in the Baltic region will be cut, according to industry consultant FGE. The reduction will push [...]
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Russia is looking for financial engineering solutions to circumvent the imposed sanctions that inevitably tie Moscow's economy. Here, then, is the “cryptorube”: an electronic currency to be used to carry out international trade, circumventing sanctions. This was reported by the Financial Times citing a speech by Sergei Glazev, economic adviser to President Vladimir Putin. On [...]
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Relations between Ankara and Moscow are becoming increasingly close and are now also strengthening on the military level. In fact, since 2020 Turkey has been working to defend its airspace with Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile batteries that have the capacity to shoot down any aircraft 400 km away and are in [...]
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Russian oil tankers have supplied North Korea with fuel on at least three occasions in recent months, transferring cargo overboard, according to two major Western European security sources, providing an economic lifeline to the Communist state. Sales of petroleum products from Russia, the second largest oil exporter in the world and [...]
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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) Forecasts are the main tool for planning the future. The transformations of global trends and the new directions of the behavior of states can be identified through geopolitical analysis. Geopolitics can identify what may happen and when, with the due limitations that refer to the complex behavior of [...]
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The United States announced repercussions for the two North Korean officials working behind their country's ballistic missile program on Tuesday, while Russia reiterated its offer to mediate to ease tensions between Washington and Pyongyang. The new steps of the United States were the latest in a campaign aimed at coercing Korea [...]
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Officially an independent candidate, the Kremlin leader started his election campaign for a fourth presidential term by participating in an event of his "United Russia" party. The party represents "a great force of unity for the country", declared Vladimir Putin, promising to continue on the path of renewal of Russia. The prime minister […]
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The electoral campaign for the election of the new Russian president officially began today in Russia. Candidates must, within 90 days, complete the official nomination procedure at the congresses of the relative parties or obtain the support of electoral groups at the meetings and deliver the documents to the Central Electoral Commission within the deadline, collect signatures [...]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, called Donald Trump on the phone, to thank him for the information provided by the CIA that made it possible to foil a terrorist attack in St. Petersburg. The information, the Kremlin said in a statement, "helped locate the trail, find and arrest a group of terrorists who were preparing explosions in the cathedral [...]
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If that were the case, it is not edifying to know that the US-led coalition would train former ISIS terrorists. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the training would take place in the refugee camp of Al Hasakah, in Syria, as a base for training militiamen, including members of terrorist groups from different areas of the Middle Eastern country. According to [...]
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In three months, Russian weapons and ammunition will be delivered to Bangui with the approval of the United Nations, despite the embargo still in force. The news was announced by the special adviser of the President of the Central African Republic, Fide'le Gouandjika, specifying that “we had to wait three years from the request presented by the presidency to receive new equipment necessary for our [...]
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(by Pasquale PREZIOSA) On October 12, the United States lifted the previous embargo measures against Sudan. This event was celebrated with the visit of the US Deputy Secretary of State to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, John Sullivan. Despite the presence of these signs of detente between the two countries, Sudan gives [...]
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Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced that after the killing of former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, at the hands of the Houthis, Russia is seriously concerned about the development of events in Yemen, as there is the great risk of slipping into military and political chaos accompanied by a humanitarian catastrophe without [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, Russia has stated that it will provide $ 2,75 billion by 2025 for the development of the Arctic continental shelf and for the economic development of the surrounding areas. Russia will explore polar oil and infrastructure construction jointly with China having already underway construction of [...]
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Sochi has been a success and it seems that it has begun a process of reorganizing the situations that have remained hanging, even the historical ones such as the Golan Heights. Bashar Assad said he was ready, after speaking with Vladimir Putin, to discuss the construction of a demilitarized area up to 40 km from the separation line of the territories [...]
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Countries of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership have set the cornerstones for cooperation activities in the energy sector, the fight against Russian propaganda, dialogue "where appropriate" in matters of common security and defense, commitments for civil aviation agreements, and the firm will that "as soon as possible" we can make progress towards a new one, [...]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned state and private defense companies to be ready to quickly transform their production in view of an upcoming war. So the Kremlin tenant reports the British Sky News network, he addressed the officials of the Defense Ministry on Wednesday, ordering that the companies in the sector [...]
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Russia, Turkey and Iran are determined to continue cooperation in the fight against terrorism and to work to organize a conference for Syrian dialogue that is capable of bringing together all factions of Syria. This is what the Russian president, Vladimir Putin declared in the press conference organized in Sochi at the end of the summit [...]
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As reported by the Nova Agency, the government of India today approved the text of a cooperation agreement with Russia to combat terrorism and organized crime: the Indian Minister of Justice Ravi Shankar Prasad said, according to whom it is of an extraordinary initiative taken by the government today to have an Indo-Russian agreement [...]
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The US Department of Commerce, after finding that imports of steel wire rods from Russia, Belarus and the United Arab Emirates were sold to the United States at less than fair value, said in a statement that the United States will impose anti-dumping duties of up to 756,9% on [...]
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According to the Nova agency, there is great anticipation for the trilateral summit on Syria to be held today in Sochi, Russia, and which will be attended by the presidents of Russia, Iran and Turkey, respectively Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rohani and Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The meeting was preceded by a meeting held yesterday, also in [...]
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According to data from the Joint Organizations Data Initiative (Jodi), an international association that monitors data on oil and gas production, Saudi Arabia, in terms of oil production, was overtaken by Russia in September. The latter produced 10.249 barrels per day, clearly ahead of Saudi Arabia's 9.973, reaching 10 billion [...]
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The Russian, Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers met today in Turkey to discuss Syria, just days before a trilateral summit crucial for the de-escalation process in this country. The Russian Sergei Lavrov, the Iranian Javad Zarif and the Turkish Mevlu Cavusoglu met in Antalya, in southern Turkey, [...]
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The tones between Russia and the United States on the "Syria" question remain on despite the embryonic agreement signed between Putin and Trump. The presidents of Russia and the United States last November 11 published a joint statement on the conflict in Syria, a rare occurrence given the complexity of relations between Washington and Moscow. "No military solution" and [...]
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Russia, for the second time in 24 hours, once again vetoed a resolution by the UN Security Council which provided for the one-month extension of the mandate relating to the joint investigative mechanism of the United Nations and Opac that investigates the attacks chemists in Syria. This is Moscow's second veto [...]
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Tonight, at 20.45 pm at the “Meazza” stadium in Milan, in front of no less than 70.000 spectators, Italy will play, without any possibility of failing, access to the final phase of the World Cup scheduled in Russia in 2018. After having incredibly complicated our lives in last Friday's first leg play-off, tonight, the only result [...]
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Donald Trump is on Vladimir Putin's side and takes it out on his predecessors responsible for US intelligence, accused of having favored the suspicion of Russian influence on the presidential elections. Trump is convinced that US intelligence activity is aimed at hindering a collaboration with Russia necessary for the White House both on the front [...]
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According to the Nova Agency, Russia and the Philippines could sign a cooperation agreement in the development of nuclear energy during the visit of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to Manila which kicks off today. This was stated by Harry Roque, the spokesman for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, quoted by the newspaper "The Manila Times". The Russia […]
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North Korea would be ready for a nuclear attack against the United States: the Russian information agency "Sputnik" reports, according to which this is the content of the letter that the North Korean delegation presented in October to the President of the Federation Council Russian (upper house of the Moscow parliament), Valentina Matvienko, during a [...]
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Tass, the Russian state news agency, is working on an information channel dedicated to children aged between 8 and 14 and will be an attempt to “relaunch the media for the children of the past. This project - explained the Deputy Minister of Communications Alexei Volin - was created [...]
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Russian energy giant Gazprom has completed construction of the offshore sections of the second stretch of the Turkish Stream pipeline on Russian territory. This was reported in a press release by South stream transport Bv, Gazprom's subsidiary for the development of the project, in which it is emphasized that work continues on the construction of [...]
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The Day of Russian National Unity was established following the amendment of article 1 of the federal law on the days of military honor of Russia of December 24, 2004. The new day of national holiday, as noted by the news agency “Sputnik ", Approved by the initiative of the Religious Council of Russia, was celebrated for the first time [...]
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Journalist Shapiro, on The Washington Post - (TWP), reported on how FACEBOOK, unknowingly, helped influence the recent elections in the US by circulating news to voters, which contained subliminal messages, generated by an agency created in Russia in St. Petersburg. Some messages posted on Facebook supported Trump's campaign, others attacked [...]
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According to Nova, the value of the contract for the supply of Russian S-400s to Turkey is more than 2 billion dollars. This was stated by the general manager of the state company Rostekh, Sergej Cemezov. "The value of the S-400 agreement with Turkey is more than 2 billion dollars", said the director [...]
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Despite quarterly revenues above $ 10 billion, Facebook lost share yesterday after the market, reversing course from an initial rally fueled by profits soaring 79% and revenue increased by 47% annually. Investors have punished the title of the social network which, first through its CEO Mark Zuckerberg [...]
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The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will meet today the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during his visit to Tehran. This was stated by the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitrij Peskov, who illustrated the progress of the visit already announced in Iran. “The president will be on a working visit to Iran. There will be a Russian-Iranian bilateral talks. One [...]
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During the 2016 election campaign, approximately 126 million Americans may have opened posts on Facebook with content "manipulated" by the Russian government. This is what emerges from a statement drawn up by Colin Stretch, legal representative of the aforementioned social network and filed with the Senate Justice Commission. To publish this news, that [...]
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The Russian market is “increasingly strategic for Italian companies, which Sace and Simest will not lack their support. New projects for 2,5 billion euros are being studied ". Alessandro Decio, CEO of Sace, said this during the Vtb Capital Investment Forum “Russia Calling!”, According to what the two companies announced. [...]
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US drones took off from Sicily intercepted 10/15 km from the southern borders of Russia. The Russian Southern District reports that Global Hawk drones, RC-135 aircraft and P-8A Poseidon are regularly intercepted during their patrols on the Black Sea. Moscow notes that RC-135 drones and reconnaissance platforms take off from Sigonella, Sicily. As we know Sigonella [...]
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A White House official said President Trump intends to spend at least $ 430.000 of his own money to help pay for both legal bills for White House staff and help investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump's first private financial commitment, [...]
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According to the NOVA Agency, the Russian opposition activist, Alexei Navalnyj, will be released today after 20 days of administrative detention, imposed for repeated violation of the rules on the organization of rallies and demonstrations. Navalny is scheduled to be released in the morning. As previously reported by his staff, the activist, immediately after his release, will go to [...]
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British sources, and more in detail information in the possession of the newspaper "The Times", launch a heavy accusation against Russia that, according to what emerged from the confidences released to the English newspaper by alleged "members of the Islamist group" and "Afghan officials", undermining NATO efforts to stabilize Afghanistan. Moscow would be financing the movement [...]
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According to Nova, Russia is undermining NATO's efforts to stabilize Afghanistan by financing the Taliban movement through a secret program of illegal oil supplies: the accusation is the British newspaper "The Times", which cites "members of the Islamist group "and" Afghan officials "as sources of the complaint. According to the article published today, Monday [...]
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Russia will continue its dialogue with the United States to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on the Iranian nuclear program intact. This was stated by the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergej Ryabkov, to the "Tass" news agency. “Of course, we will dialogue with the United States. Our goal is always the same: we must preserve the great achievement of [...]
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The statements on the sidelines of the Russian-Chinese briefing are for the press and half true. As we know, US missile defense is structured on a global network of sensors to detect and track any launch against American targets. Coverage is based on several sites around the world and in space. The satellite constellation [...]
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Kaliningrad, Moscow plans to strengthen Iskander presence in response to US maneuvers in Poland. The missile brigades of the Western District equipped with the Iskander-M missiles (10-meter CEP), perform permanent rotations over Kaliningrad. The Iskander is a high-precision ballistic system optimized for use at close range. Those in rotation in Kaliningrad have [...]
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North Korea: Celebrates 72nd anniversary in a minor tone. Hackers allegedly stolen secret plans from South Korea and the US North Korea celebrates 72 years of the Workers' Party without any new ballistic missile launches. The celebrations for the seventy-second anniversary of the party's founding were contained and kept to a minimum. To raise the alarm, [...]
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According to the Washington Post, Google has uncovered evidence that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election by buying ads on its platforms. It appears that the ads were not bought by the same Moscow-related group that bought ads on Facebook, which could mean that the Russian effort to hire [...]
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Iran is respecting the nuclear deal, the words of the Head of the IAEA The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Aiea) of the UN, the Japanese Yukiya Amano has made clear that Iran is respecting the nuclear treaty signed in 2015. His words confirm the data of a report of the same international organization published [...]
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According to Nova, an agreement has been reached between Russia and Saudi Arabia for the supply of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems. This was confirmed by the Federal Service for Russian military-technical cooperation. "It is confirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has reached an agreement on the supply of S-400 Cornet-AM air defense missile systems, [...]
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North Korea: vice president Morozov, Pyongyang tests long-range missile North Korea is preparing to test a long-range missile that it believes could reach the west coast of the United States: Russian Vice President Anton Morozov, just returned, has announced it from a visit to Pyongyang. According to the Russian news agency "Ria [...]
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US-Russia, Moscow interfered in the presidential elections but there is no evidence of Trump's involvement as President and Vice President of the US Senate Intelligence Commission, Republican Richard Burr and Democrat Mark Warner have revealed that the investigations confirm the "interference" Russians in the 2016 presidential elections, but admitted that there is currently no proof [...]
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Cyber: Russians succeeded in the impossible, stealing US classified information directly from the NSA Two authoritative American newspapers wrote last Thursday that in 2015 Russian hackers stole US cyber secrets directly from the National Security Agency (NSA) after a employee had put information on their home computer. As previously reported by the Wall [...]
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Russia-Saudi Arabia: cooperation agreements focus on energy and AK103 rifles. Common Fund for 1 billion dollars and "enough" Iran meddling in the Middle East According to Nova, most of the agreements that are signed today at the Russian-Saudi investment forum will concern energy, but also the agricultural, mining and manufacturing. It has […]
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Since the tension between the countries of the Persian Gulf has risen in an anti-Doha sense, Turkey and Iran, like two hawks, have thrown themselves on Qatar to increase their influence in the region and to increase trade flows. It would have been unimaginable long ago to see a Shiite country like Iran supporting the cause [...]
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Exclusive, nobody talks about it, 700 Russian mercenaries fight and die in Syria alongside regular troops. Two years after Russia's entry into the war in Syria (30 September 2015), alongside President Bashar al-Assad's army, the Kremlin's narrative of its military operations is studded with successes, few defeats and above all a limited number of […]
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Russia is preparing a meeting in Moscow between Libyan Prime Minister Fayez al-Serraj and the commander of the Libyan Armed Forces Khalifa Haftar. This was reported by the daily Izvestia, citing "a high-level source close to Russian diplomatic circles". The information, adds the newspaper, was confirmed by Serraj himself, who has already given his ok [...]
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The first Russian fifth generation fighter is now identified as Sukhoi-57. The T-50 of the Pak-Fa Program, the first fighter in the air domain (a term coined and currently valid only for the American F-22 Raptor) in Moscow, received its official name from the Russian Aerospace Forces on XNUMX August. The video highlights the flight of a [...]
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Video: Russia, joint military exercises with Pakistan in the Caucasus Joint military exercises between special forces of Russia and Pakistan in the North Caucasian republic of Karachai-Cherkessia kicked off today. The maneuvers will last two weeks. 200 military personnel from both countries will take part. "Druzhba 2017" (friendship) will simulate counter-terrorism operations, operations for the [...]
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Russian Minister Novak, Gazprom and Novatek will invest in gas pipelines and LNG terminals in Morocco Gazprom and Novatek are ready to participate in the construction of gas pipelines and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in Morocco. This is what was declared by the Minister of Energy, Alexander Novak, in an interview broadcast by the television station "Rossiya 24". "Our companies are interested in [...]
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Russia: Gazprom could allocate another 50 billion rubles to Turkish Stream Russian energy giant Gazprom could allocate another 50 billion rubles (866 million dollars) to finance the Turkish Stream gas pipeline project. This was announced by the press service of the company. In January, the media reported, citing documents from [...]
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Catalonia: El Pais, Russia mobilizes 'fake news' machine The disinformation and 'fake news' machine set in motion by Russia in the past US presidential campaign and in recent crucial votes in Europe is working "at full speed" in Catalonia as well. The Spanish newspaper 'El Pais' denounces it on the front page, claiming to have [...]
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Turkey, exports to Russia increased by 52,5 percent in the first eight months of the year According to news from Nova, exports from Turkey to Russia between January and August recorded a 52,5 percent increase. compared to the same period of the previous year, amounting to 1,6 billion dollars. The Assembly of Exporters reports [...]
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India, Russia: We have begun discussions on a new nuclear power plant Russia and India have started substantive discussions on a new nuclear power plant in the country, based on a Federation project. This was announced by Alexey Likhachev, head of the Russian nuclear energy corporation Rosatom. "We await an official announcement from the Indian side, but we have [...]
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Russia active to interfere with elections in Germany: German intelligence at work to prevent hybrid attacks The Bavarian State Office for the Protection of the Constitution (LFV) warns that in the elections in 2017 (parliamentary elections of 24 September 2017) and 2018 (election state in Bavaria in autumn 2018) strengthened the websites of [...]
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The representative of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Captain Vyacheslav Trukhachev, announced that the Russian frigate Admiral Essen has made its way back to the base in Sevastopol via the Mediterranean Sea. "The most advanced frigate of the Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Essen, began its return to Sevastopol after [...]
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The Ambassador of Italy to the Russian Federation Cesare Maria Ragaglini went on a mission to the Samara Region in recent days, visiting the cities of Samara, Togliatti and Oktyabrsk. The Region is now characterized by a dynamic and rapidly expanding business fabric, capable of attracting many foreign investments in recent years, especially in the industrial sectors [...]
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Putin will meet Erdogan in Ankara on September 28, focus on Syria and S-400 It is learned from Agenzia Nova that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will meet his Turkish counterpart, Erdogan, next Thursday. Erdogan announced this in a speech at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum in New York, adding that before the meeting in Ankara he will have a telephone conversation [...]
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Naftogaz, Ukraine's leading oil and gas company, has filed a complaint with an International Arbitration Tribunal in which it is claiming $ 5 billion in compensation from Russia for losses incurred as a result of the illegal seizure of assets belonging to to claim five billion dollars from Russia [...]
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The Anatolia news agency reported that Hamas (deputy) leader Musa Abu Marzook and other high-level members of the organization arrived in Moscow to meet with the Russian government, and this occurred almost simultaneously with the dissolution of the Administrative Committee for Gaza. , announced by Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during his visit to the [...]
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At the conclusion of a meeting in New York that took place on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, the Chinese and Russian foreign ministers have launched an appeal for a "peaceful solution" to the North Korean "vicious circle". Beijing's chief of diplomacy, Wang Yi, and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, asked all parties involved [...]
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Russia, Siemens turbine case, Moscow Arbitration Court postpones preliminary hearing The Moscow Arbitration Court has postponed the preliminary hearing in the Siemens case against two Tekhnopromexport companies of the Russian state group Rostec to 16 October. The case concerns the transfer by the two companies of Rostec from the original destination of Taman in [...]
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The president of the Russian Senate, Valentina Matvienko, said that Russia is opposed to the US proposal of a UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Ukraine, controlled by pro-Russian separatists and not seeing any logic. Yesterday in Kiev, the representative of the US State Department for Ukraine, Kurt Walker, reiterated his [...]
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The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, in an interview with the Russian agency "Ria Novosti" spoke of relations between Russia and the United States which are going through a difficult period. What is important is the ability of these two countries to find compromises for the sake of the security of much of the world. "I am very worried about the crisis around [...]
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Moscow and Ankara have reached an agreement on the supply of Russian-made S-400 anti-missile aircraft to Turkey. The contract has already been signed and a first payment has already been made, as anticipated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The delivery of these devices to Turkey satisfies the geopolitical interests of the Federation [...]
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According to reports from the Kommersant newspaper, everything would be ready in Russia to launch Vladimir Putin's candidacy for president in the elections scheduled for next year. The newspaper reads that the election campaign strategy is almost ready and that it was discussed last week, in a meeting of the "political bloc" of [...]
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The bombing carried out yesterday by the Israeli air force on a chemical plant in western Syria is a clear signal sent by Israel to Russia and the United States. This was claimed by the Israeli daily “Haaretz”, which stresses that the intensity of the fighting in Syria had significantly decreased following the ceasefire agreement reached last July. With this attack, Israel proves that it does not [...]
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Tension skyrocketing on the Korean peninsula. A few days after launching a missile that flew over Japan, North Korea conducts its sixth nuclear test since 2006, the most powerful yet, and announces that it has tested a hydrogen bomb with "perfect success". A decisive escalation in the tension between Pyongyang on the one hand, [...]
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The laying of the railway arch of the controversial bridge that will unite Crimea with Russia has been completed. The Guardian reports it, explaining that the 6000-ton arch was positioned at a height of 35 meters above the sea in an operation that involved hundreds of workers. This is a key step in completing the [...]
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Russia and Qatar, the two main gas producers in the world, yesterday relaunched their commercial ties in the midst of the crisis that is affecting the Gulf emirate after the breakdown of diplomatic relations by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt accusing Doha of supporting terrorism. We learn from the visit to Doha by the Foreign Minister [...]
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The United Nations Security Council condemned North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile, which flew over Japan. At the end of an emergency meeting, the 15 members of the UN executive approved a declaration in which the test is defined as an "outrageous" threat and asks [...]
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In mid-August, General Khalifa Haftar, military commander of the Lybian National Army (LNA), traveled to Moscow. The visit did not arouse much interest, it seemed like one of the classic foreign visits to the Russian capital. The visit began at the airport with the meeting of the Libyan Ambassador to Russia. Meeting, according to many, "unusual", seen [...]
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Millions of Japanese woke up to an alarming message from the government, on cell phones and via email, urging them to stay indoors and seek refuge because a North Korean missile was flying over the territory. The sirens sounded on all the locations located in the trajectory of the ballistic missile, which flew over Japanese territory [...]
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Relations between Amman and Damascus have taken a positive turn and Jordan is optimistic that we can continue in this direction. This was stated by the Minister of State for the Media and spokesman for the Hashemite government, Mohammed Al Momani, during an interview reported today by the Jordanian newspaper "Al Ghad". TO […]
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Russia produced 10,18 million barrels per day in June, maintaining its place at the top of the world oil output rankings for the fourth consecutive month. Data from the Rosstat federal state service highlighted this. With a total production of 9,95 million barrels, Saudi Arabia was ranked second in the same [...]
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The decision to withdraw the troops of the Russian Federation from Donbass, the eastern area of Ukraine, has already been taken and will have to go into effect. This was stated by the Deputy Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Juri Hrijmcha, to the broadcaster “5 Channel” commenting on the results of the meeting between the United States Special Representative for Ukraine Kurt Volker and the adviser to the Russian President Vladislav Surkov. [...]
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The United States will suspend procedures for issuing tourist visas in Russia, starting August 23. The procedure, as reported by the Russian news agency "Tass", will resume from XNUMX September only in the US embassy in Moscow, and for an indefinite period of time. Washington's initiative comes in response to the reduction in personnel imposed by the Russian government on the diplomatic mission [...]
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The battle of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia continues. Today the Russian Supreme Court upheld the April 20 ruling that declared the religious organization of Jehovah's Witnesses "extremist" by imposing a ban on activities in Russia and ordering the seizure of assets in favor of the state. The appeal was therefore rejected [...]
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The Syrian army, backed by strong Russian airstrikes, captured a series of oil wells in the southwestern province of Raqqa yesterday as Islamic State military militants retreat to defend their territory in the country. Ikhbariyah state television quoted a military source as saying that the army had taken control of [...]
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Oil, Russia: Libya and Nigeria participation in the decision to invite Libya and Nigeria to a meeting of the OPEC-Non-OPEC Technical Committee (JTC) to monitor the implementation of the oil output cut agreement will be taken within two weeks . This was announced by the Russian energy minister Alexander Novak. "We have already spoken with the OPEC Secretary General, [...]
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