Russia remembers victims of Stalinism, but tyrant still popular
The personality of “the national leader and the teacher” is getting ever more mythologized. It is no longer ominous.
Britain: Labour, the Conservatives and the oligarchs
Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska, Labour’s Peter Mandelson and Conservative Party’s George Osborne: Britain’s major parties and the global financial oligarchy.
Russian Strategic Sea Forces Hold First Pacific Test of ICBM from Nuclear Sub
In the Navy history, it is the first firing of an IBM not at the Kura firing range on Kamchatka, but at an area in the Pacific, he noted.
IAEA Shows Photos Proving Iran Modified Missiles for Nuclear Warheads
The UN nuclear watchdog has shown its members documents and photographs suggesting that Iran secretly tried to modify a missile cone to carry a nuclear bomb
US and Russia agree: No new sanctions on Iran
A deal between the US and Russia in New York sealed a very brief non-sanctions draft reaffirming previous council decisions for the five permanent Security Council members and Germany to table.
Walid Jumblatt Interview
I don’t say peace with Israel, but truce, and through the non-alignment policy, Lebanon will stop being used by the Americans or by the Iranians.
Ten Russian warships have docked at Syrian port
Israeli military and naval commanders were taken by surprise by Rear Adm. Andrei Baranov’s disclosure that 10 Russian warships are already anchored at the Syrian port of Tartus
UN nuclear watchdog at ‘dead end’ in Iran
The United Nations nuclear watchdog declared on Monday that it had reached a “dead end” in its year-long effort to get Iran to clarify whether it covertly researched the development of a nuclear weapon.
Syrian Troops Invade Northern Lebanon
The Syrian Army is attacking several towns and villages in Lebanon. Lebanese President Sleiman doesn’t seem to mind.
Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers land in Venezuela, nuclear battle cruiser on way
Like the Russian air contingent, the Russian flotilla is also bigger and more formidable than Russian and Venezuelan spokesmen have indicated.
US-Russian naval rivalries heat up over Black, Caspian, Persian Gulf seas
Washington is testing the Turkish government’s response to the permanent anchoring of US warships at either of the two Georgian ports of Poti or Batumi.
Russia Captures Airfields in Georgia to be Used by Israel for Iran Attack
Under the secret agreement with Georgia, the airfields had been earmarked for use by Israeli fighter-bombers taking off to strike Iran in return for training and arms supplies.