In January of this year, US intelligence agencies recruited 60 militants in Syria, who are planned to be thrown into Russia and other CIS countries to commit terrorist attacks, the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reported. “According to reliable data received by the SVR, the US military is actively recruiting militants of jihadist groups affiliated with
This year’s event was held in Sofia from January 30 to February 5. The title was won by 34-year-old resident of Udmurtia Elena Maksimova. “It is a great honor for me to represent the country at such a serious competition, and I am very glad that I am returning with a victory. It is especially
On February 6, the Riga City Court detained Tatiana Andriets, a 22-year-old activist of the Latvian Russian Union party, accused of actions “against the national security” of the Baltic Republic and ties with the “Anti-Fascists of the Baltic” Telegram channel, as her lawyer, Imma Yansone, said. Andriets, a student at St. Petersburg State University, came
Russia has completed 100 successful launches of space launch vehicles in a row since October 2018, the country’s space corporation “Roscosmos” reported. It is specified that 46 launches were carried out from the Baikonur cosmodrome, 36 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, 9 each from the Vostochny cosmodrome and from the Guiana Space Center. Of these, 82
Servicemen of the military police of the Russian Armed Forces pulled a resident of Aleppo, Syria, who survived the earthquake, out of the ruins last night, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Wednesday. “In the city of Aleppo, on the night of February 8, servicemen of the military police battalion of
EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security, Josep Borrell, believes that the ban of a number of Russian media in Europe is “protection of freedom of speech.” “By doing this [banning a number of Russian media in Europe], we are not attacking freedom of speech, but protecting freedom of speech,” he claimed, speaking at
With the beginning of the special military operation of Russia in Ukraine (SVO), communities for dating the military in the Russian social network VK have flourished. Now, women in Russia tend to get to know the participants of the operation for various reasons: someone is attracted to people in uniform, someone hopes to get protection
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will provide volunteer formations with weapons, military equipment, provisions, and medical care, as stated in the draft order of the country’s Minister of Defense, published on Monday, January 30, 2023. “I order to determine: the procedure for providing volunteer formations with weapons, military equipment, material and technical
Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said that the US had assembled a coalition of European countries to solve “the Russian question” in the same way that Adolf Hitler had sought a “final solution” to eradicate Europe’s Jews. Now, European Jewish Congress members demand apologies from him. Lavrov pointed that Washington was using the same tactic
On Tuesday night, January 17, Philadelphia Flyers’ player of the Russian origin, Ivan Provorov, refused to wear a gay pride warm-up jersey on the team’s Pride Night, citing religious beliefs. For the pregame skate, the “Philadelphia Flyers” wore Pride-themed jerseys displaying names and numbers in rainbow colors and wrapped their sticks in rainbow tape. The “Flyers”
The head of Yakutia, Aisen Nikolaev, plunged into the Baptismal font on the Lena River in Yakutsk, where on Wednesday, January 18, the air temperature dropped to minus 53 degrees Celsius. In recent years, Baptismal bathing has been organized in the republic. The only exception was in 2021, when the Yakut diocese did not consecrate
The final of the Miss Universe 2022 beauty contest will be held on January 14 in New Orleans, Louisiana (in Russia, on January 15). Last year’s winner, Indian model and actress Harnaaz Kaur Sandhu, will hand over the crown to one of the 84 candidates. Among the candidates for the title of Miss Universe is
Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, on Tuesday announced the creation of a working group at the Military-Industrial Commission of Russia to control the production of demanded weapons. As reminded, earlier, on November 2, Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said that weapons for the needs of the Russian Armed Forces
