By the end of December, the average daily number of oil and petrol tank cars abandoned on the Russian Railways has reached 9,000 and continues to grow. This is a record number in five years. It is also 2.4 times more than in late 2020, RBC reports. A...

The Baltic Fleet has launched the training of the crews for Sukhoi Su-30SM2 multipurpose fighter jets. The jets will be used to provide additional protection for the air group that stands on guard of Russia's Kaliningrad enclave, The Izvestia newspap...

Russia may reinstate death penalty in the future, Chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, Valery Zorkin wrote in his book "Constitutional Justice: Procedure and Meaning". He explained that the decision of the Constitutional Co...

Russia will deploy hundreds of Zircon hypersonic missiles in the Black, as well as in the Mediterranean Seas to make NATO more agreeable. NATO's flat refusal to discuss Russia's conditions on non-expansion to the east may force Moscow to take extreme...

Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian government, believes that the national teams of the countries whose leaders announced the diplomatic boycott of the Olympic Games in Beijing should be stripped of national symbols. Chernyshenk...

The Supreme Court of Russia has liquidated the historical, educational, charitable and human rights organisation Memorial, which is recognised in Russia as a non-profit foreign agent, following a lawsuit from the Office of the Prosecutor General, RIA...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes that Western countries want to arrange a "little war" in Ukraine and blame Moscow for it. Having orchestrated a war in Ukraine, they will hold Russia accountable for it to subsequently deprive the count...

Tokyo's provocative policy against Moscow caused by Japan's struggle for the Kuril Islands, which the Japanese consider their territory, caused Russia to practice an attack on Tokyo not only from the air, but also from the sea. On December 22, the Ru...

If Ukraine chooses to use military force to resolve the crisis in Donbas, Russia will defend the region and the people living in it, Sergei Tsekov, a Senator of the Federation Council said. This is not a likely scenario, though, because the Ukrainian...

On December 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin held his 17th (consecutively) annual Q&A conference with Russian and international journalists. In 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic, a little more than 500 journalists were allowed for the confere...

During the 1990s, Russia was completely open to cooperation, but the West responded by supporting terrorism in the North Caucasus and contributing to the further disintegration of the Russian Federation. During his large annual press conference held ...

The Russian Ministry of Defense has released a video of the S-70 Okhotnik combat drone testing its weapon. The state-of-the-art UAV dropped a bomb to destroy the target. The video shows the Okhotnik UAV dropping a 500-kilo bomb from the inner compart...

The Russian Ministry of Defence will hold large-scale landing exercises in the Crimea, as well as in Southern Russia. More than 1,200 troops and over 250 units of military hardware will take part in the drills, representatives for the ministry said, ...

The recent combat test of Russia's new Orion unmanned aerial vehicle has marked an important milestone in the development of Russia's air defenses. The experiment showed that the Orion is capable of hitting enemy drones, the Russian Defense Ministry ...

A video of the Kh-22 near-supersonic missile being launched by the Russian Tu-22M3 supersonic bomber appeared on the Internet. The unique video shows the moment, when a Russian long-range supersonic bomber aircraft Tupolev Tu-22M3 launched the Kh-22 ...

The share of state-of-the-art weapons in the Russian army exceeds 71 ​​percent, whereas the share of modern arms in strategic nuclear forces is 89 percent, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting of the Defense Ministry board, TASS rep...

The Russian Defense Ministry has published a video of the test of Russia's state-of-the-art Orion combat drone. The test was conducted in Crimea. The UAV attacked ground targets and a helicopter-type drone that simulated a maneuvering air target, the...

The Russian Foreign Ministry declared two German diplomats persona non grata in a mirror response to Berlin's decision to oust two Russian diplomats. Representatives for the Foreign Ministry pointed out that Russia expressed a decisive protest to Ger...

Russia's Ilyushin Il-96-300PU aircraft, which is used to command armed forces in the event of a nuclear conflict was seen at the borders of Ukraine, Avia.pro website reports. Shortly before that, it was reported that two strategic Tu-95 missile carry...

The Kremlin found the document on climate proposed for approval by the UN Security Council unacceptable. At the same time, the struggle against climate change is a priority for Russia. Russia vetoed a draft UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution on cl...