SVT 13.3. President Putin säger att Ryssland ska rusta upp mot Finland. Men satellitbilder visar en motsatt utveckling, den slutsatsen drar finländsk militäranalytiker.
Emil Kastehelmi
Russia, the United States and China have all built new facilities and dug new tunnels at their nuclear test sites in recent years, satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN show, at a time when tensions between the three major nuclear powers have risen to their highest in decades.
Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto julkaisee venäläisen aseistakieltäytyjäaktivistin kirjoituksen, jossa kerrotaan asevelvollisten käyttämisestä maan sotatoimissa Ukrainassa. Kirjoittaja esiintyy nimettömänä, sillä Venäjän käymän hyökkäyssodan vastustamisesta tai siitä objektiivisesti kertomisesta voi saada useiden vuosien mittaisen vankeusrangaistuksen.
(2016) According to Russian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the defense industry, Dmitry Rogozin, both Armenia and Azerbaijan are Russia's strategic partners in terms of arms trade
Hans M. Kristensen & alios i Bulletin of the Atoic Scientists
Ingress: "The US nuclear forces modernization program has been portrayed to the public as an effort to ensure the reliability and safety of warheads in the US nuclear arsenal, rather than to enhance their military capabilities. In reality, however, that program has implemented revolutionary new technologies that will vastly increase the targeting capability of the US ballistic missile arsenal. This increase in capability is astonishing—boosting the overall killing power of existing US ballistic missile forces by a factor of roughly three—and it creates exactly what one would expect to see, if a nuclear-armed state were planning to have the capacity to fight and win a nuclear war by disarming enemies with a surprise first strike."
Gilbert D. 30 Nov :
Europeans can take pleasure in the rare phenomenon these days of diametrically opposed narratives on major international issues being laid out...
"the switch at Euronews was very obviously flicked in time for President Hollande’s visit to Moscow on Thursday, 26 November to agree on the terms of Russian-French military cooperation. In its coverage of the press conference which followed, Euronews gave equal time to the French and Russian presidents and chose the most important assertion from Putin’s statements for airing, his answer to a French journalist on why Assad’s remaining in power is not an impediment to combatting the Daesh, but is rather an essential precondition: as Putin explained, the Islamic State forces in Syria can only be defeated on the ground, and there is only one military force in existence today, the regular Syrian Army of President Assad. This very reasonable logic just happens to fly in the face of everything Washington, and official France as well, has been saying about the Syrian civil war."
Gareth Porter:
"The data supports Putin's assertion that the shoot-down was prepared in advance due to Russian bombing of Turkey-linked rebels in Syria"
"The Turkish shoot-down was thus in essence an effort to dissuade the Russians from continuing their operations in the area against al-Nusra Front and its allies, using not one but two distinct pretexts: on one hand a very dubious charge of a Russian border penetration for NATO allies, and on the other, a charge of bombing Turkmen civilians for the Turkish domestic audience."
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