The website is supported by Pavel Podvig. He has been the principal investigator of the Russian Nuclear Forces project from its very beginning and was the editor of the Russian and English editions of the book Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces. Pavel Podvi
AFP 29 Augusr 2009 - Russia plans to purchase a French naval helicopter transport ship this year and is interested in jointly producing more of the vessels, the head of Russia's armed forces said here Wednesday... The French navy currently has two Mistral
RIA Novosti. Le porte-hélicoptères français Mistral est arrivé le 23 novembre pour une visite de travail à Saint-Pétersbourg, en prévision d'une possible acquisition par la Russie d'un navire de ce type. RIA Novosti Alexeï Danichev Le porte-hélicoptères f
09TELAVIV2757 2009-12-22 09:09 SECRET Embassy Tel Aviv: MOD Political-Military Chief Amos Gilad described recent Russian cooperation on Iran as encouraging, but expressed reservations that Russia would join in any sanctions against Iran. He explained
Andrew Mack "... in the case of Kissinger and his collaborators, there is also a coldly "realist" calculation: that in a nuclear-free world, the United States would be the world's pre-eminent military power - one no longer be vulnerable to annihilation
"Russia has the largest chemical weapons arsenal in the world. Yet after years of complications it is finally being destroyed. A new facility - Shchuchye in Siberia - has finally started neutralising nearly 6,000 tons of nerve agents."
In Northeast Asia, the largest militaries in the world confront each other. Yet, these countries have also begun to create a peace and security system through the Six Party Talks. In the Joint Statement of September 19, 2005, the countries agreed to the d
"Sarkozy's comments, at a summit with Medvedev, were the strongest to date by an American ally against the missile-defense plans — and undercut the rationale behind U.S. President George W. Bush's European security strategy."
China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Except for Uzbekistan, the other countries had been members of the Shanghai Five, founded in 1996; after the inclusion of Uzbekistan in 2001, the members renamed the organization. Candidate
The CSTO was formed in October 2002 by Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan. Signed an agreement with the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in 2007.