The Pentagon has released new video of a Russian Su-27 fighter jet veering directly into the path of an American B-52 bomber in what US officials decried as an ‘unsafe and unprofessional’ intercept. The B-52 was conducting ‘routine operations’ over the Black Sea on Friday morning when two Russian Su-27s crossed within 100ft of its … Read more
The Russian navy conducted major war games near Alaska involving dozens of ships and aircraft, the military said Friday, the biggest such drills in the area since Soviet times. Russia‘s navy chief, Adm. Nikolai Yevmenov, said that more than 50 warships and about 40 aircraft were taking part in the exercise in the Bering Sea, … Read more
Vladimir Putin forms elite ‘spec ops force’ to intervene in Belarus if protests ‘get out of control’ Vladimir Putin said is he will intervene in Belarus if protests ‘get out of control’ He confirmed Russia has created a reserve police force to send to the country Added that move would honour joint defence pact Russia … Read more
The U.S. military’s top cyber official said Russia launched a ‘concerted effort’ in 2018 to meddle with the U.S.’s midterm elections and was successfully fought off. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command and the director of the National Security Agency, wrote in Foreign Affairs Tuesday that Cyber Command and the NSA teamed … Read more
US President Donald Trump could fast-track the coronavirus vaccine being made by Britain’s Oxford University to get it into use before the country’s election. White House insiders say Mr Trump is considering pushing for approval for emergency use of the jab, which is one of the world’s most promising candidates. Early trials of Oxford’s jab … Read more
A second Russian Covid-19 vaccine is on the way which ‘avoids the side-effects of the first one’ launched in a blaze of publicity by Vladimir Putin this month. The new drug is from a former top-secret Soviet biological weapons research plant in Siberia, now a world-leading virology institute. Clinical trials of Russia‘s second vaccine named … Read more
Russia says a second Covid-19 vaccine is on its way which ‘avoids the side-effects of the first one’. Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin rushed to launch the Sputnik5 vaccine in a blaze of publicity, but criticism soon followed after test subjects reported numerous side effects. Russia’s release of the drug was met with widespread scepticism as to … Read more
The nondescript cafe is where Alexei Navalny, the main opposition leader and Putin’s most vociferous critic, sipped a cup of tea before boarding a flight back to Moscow yesterday Tomsk, one of the oldest cities in remote Siberia, rarely makes headlines in Russia – let alone around the world. Not any more. For the Vienna … Read more
Wife in Britain’s biggest ever divorce case may NEVER get her hands on Russian oligarch ex’s £343million superyacht awarded to her by UK judge after court in Dubai ruled he can keep it Judge ruled that Farkhad Akhmedov is the rightful owner of the yacht Luna Comes amid multi million pound legal battle with ex- wife … Read more
First daughter Ivanka Trump told her father’s 2016 presidential campaign to draft a stream of Donald Trump tweets linking to hacked Democratic emails dumped by WikiLeaks in the final weeks of the campaign, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s final Russia report reveals. She made the directive in an October email sent to top Trump campaign staff, … Read more