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 in northern Moscow. He provided a fake passport and other...
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 program,” Zelin, who is an aide to the defense minister,...
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 Icon museum director Nikolai Zadorozhny, was carrying the 1690...