Military intervention in the sovereign affairs of other states may lead to outright war, including nuclear war, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. “The introduction of all sorts of collective sanctions bypassing international institutions does not improve the situation in the world while reckless military operations in foreign states usually end up...
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Moscow Cop Steals Over $380,000 Using Forged Documents
A Moscow traffic policeman has stolen more than 12 million rubles ($387,270) from the account of a bank client using forged documents, the National Investigation Committee said Thursday. The crooked cop, Alexey Zorin, on May 16 arrived at a department of Raiffeisen Bank located...
Russia to Field New Ground Attack Jet
The Russian Air Force will start receiving new ground attack aircraft based on the Sukhoi Su-25SM Frogfoot combat jets by 2020, Col. Gen. Alexander Zelin said on Thursday. “This new type of a ground attack aircraft has been included in the state arms procurement...
Museum Boss Held with Million Dollar Icon
A Moscow museum head has been detained at an airport as he tried to smuggle in a 17th-century icon valued at $1 million that was stolen from Russia in 1994, police said. The 62-year-old man, identified by the news site Life News as private...
Russian Opposition Activist Jailed for 10 Days
A Moscow court sentenced Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin to ten days in jail for disobeying police orders during Wednesday’s opposition rally in central Moscow. Yashin was arrested among some 30 people during a “people’s stroll” protest which gathered hundreds of opposition activists at...
Russia Folds Soyuz-U Launch Program
The launch of a Soyuz-U carrier rocket from the Plesetsk Space Center in northern Russia on Thursday was the last in its 40-year history, spokesman for Russia’s Space Forces Col. Alexei Zolotukhin said. The Soyuz-U orbited on Thursday a Cosmos-series reconnaissance satellite to expand...
Russian Steals Ambulance for ‘Side Job’
A 24-year-old local man in the Russian city of Izhevsk stole an ambulance from a car service, driving it around for two days before getting caught, police said on Thursday. The man, whose name was withheld, picked an opportune moment for the carjacking, climbing...