Russian army to get Iskander-M systems, other latest weapons by 2018

Russia continues building ramified military infrastructure in the Arctic, including hi-tech lighting systems to monitor the situation in the air, on the ground and under the water, according to the Fleet top brass

Russian President Vladimir Putin also held separate talks with the leaders of France, Germany and Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin has noted "a thaw" in the situation with settling the crisis in Ukraine

A meeting of RUSADA’s Supervisory Board will be held on December 19

"The task is to harmonize the entire legal framework, both Belarusian and Russia, with hundreds of laws and dozens of intergovernmental agreements by June 1, 2020", Belarusian Ambassador to Russia Vladimir Semashko noted

Alisher Usmanov said that the ruthless fight against doping shall not be turned into lynching and the application of new sanctions for the second time for the same doping violation

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Libya risks turning into "another Syria"

The corvette will test-fire its main missile system against various types of targets, according to the Northern Fleet's press office

The high-ranking official stood for full disqualification of Russia from world sports as she believes that Russia caused the biggest scandal ever in the history of sports worldwide

The first issue is return of all detainees from Russia and Donbass, said Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Aleksei Danilov

This work has provided "the planned number of combat-fit strategic bombers" in the fleet of long-range aviation, the defense minister said

At the summit, the meeting between Putin and Zelensky took place for the first time

Putin highly appreciates progress reached between the two countries over the past years on the path towards integration and cooperation

The prime minister believes that the country should appeal the decision of the World Anti-Doping Agency on Russia

Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at the ministry’s conference call on Monday that the Russian Navy would increase the number of warships capable of carrying Tsirkon hypersonic missiles

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "we have all the reasons to file an appeal" to the Court of Arbitration for Sport

The spokesperson Yulia Mendel stressed that the meeting of the Normandy Four leaders was a real chance for achieving ceasefire in Donbass

The call with Vladimir Zelensky was very constructive, the IMF Managing Director said

The fraudster installed fake border posts in a forest in Russia’s Leningrad Region near the Finnish border to deceive a group of four foreign nationals

Before the talks with the French leader, the Russian president had a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel while Macron spoke with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky

"We have chosen the gas pipeline’s route to ensure that it can reach as many settlements as possible", Alexei Miller said

The US team is second

A more compact PP-2000 submachine gun is meant to replace the Kalashnikov AKS-74U assault rifle

The prospective participant Alina Sanko does not have enough time to get a US visa and prepare for the Miss Universe pageant, director of the Miss Russia contest Anastasia Belyak said

China urges US to stop interfering in its internal affairs, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying said

"Our colleagues at the government level, ministers, chairmen of governments have done quite a lot to analyze what had been done within the framework of the Union State treaty", said Russian President

Dmitry Medvedev noted that Ukraine received Russian gas through reverse flow supplies, "but at a much higher price than it could"

After the negotiations and communication in the format of a working lunch, the ministers will also hold a joint press conference

Mark Esper said that "the department is investing every dollar it can" in order to gain an advance in hypersonic weapons

Putin and Zelensky met each other in person for the first time

According to Lukashenko, "at the current stage commitment to the unifying idea is of great importance"

Police beef up security outside Russian embassy in Minsk amid opposition rally

On December 5, Russia’s TVEL fuel company informed Teheran that it had suspended work on a project to revamp two chains of gas centrifuges at Iran’s Fordow facility

This week, Bulgaria will start filling the 11-kilometer section of the gas pipeline on its territory with gas, while Turkey — the 140-kilometer sector, according to the operator

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky admitted that many issues remained open at the Paris summit

Moscow treats the idea of expanding the Normandy format negatively

Putin reminded that the Georgian national participated in combat on the side of separatists in the Caucasus

"Peace, security and development in a single, democratic country is the only goal of the president and the entire negotiating team", Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadim Pistaiko said

Several hundred opposition members came to October Square holding nationalist white-red-white flags and chanting "Live Belarus"

"That’s why we will have to think how to quickly deliver blood samples to Europe", Deputy Director General of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency Margarita Pakhnotskaya said

The Russian president noted that he hopes that the conditions will change through negotiations

The corvette fired the missiles against a simulated enemy’s surface ships

The meeting also touched upon a strategy of territorial defense

The Eastern Military District’s anti-aircraft gunners earlier learnt to operate the new system at the Kapustin Yar training range in the southern Astrakhan Region, the press office informed

WADA has also banned Russian state officials, ROC and RPC officials from attending global sports tournaments

The effort is carried out by the European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano

First of all, this concerns strategic nuclear forces, precision weapons and aerospace defense, according to the minister

The Atlet is currently completing preliminary tests

The Su-57 with the second stage engine known as Item 30 performed its debut flight in December 2017

Opposition activists agreed to hold another rally on December 20