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(Reuters) A group of men wearing mudded khaki pants and rubber boots are digging into hard clay with their shovels at the bottom of a pit in Russia’s Kaliningrad region some 1200 km (750 miles) west of Moscow. The men are searching for amber – 50-million-year-old fossilized tree resin. Kaliningrad region, enclaved between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic Sea shore, is home for 90 percent of world’s amber deposits and some of them lay just […]
JUNE 15 (Reuters) — Twenty-five private pilots established a new world record on Saturday (June 6), after flying in formation over the Russian town of Istra. A video posted to a social media website showed the helicopters taking off before creating a diamond-shaped formation in clear skies. Artem Kurpitko, one of the pilots involved in the airshow, said he came up with the idea a year ago and began training after inviting other private pilots […]
Britain has pulled out agents from live operations in “hostile countries” after Russia and China cracked top-secret information contained in files leaked by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the Sunday Times reported. Security service MI6, which operates overseas and is tasked with defending British interests, has removed agents from certain countries, the newspaper said, citing unnamed officials at the office of British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Home Office (interior ministry) and […]
At least 54 crew on a Russian fishing trawler died and 15 were missing after it sank in freezing waters off the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Western Pacific Ocean late on Wednesday (April 1), officials in the area said. 63 of the 132 people on board the Dalniy Vostok were rescued with the sea’s temperature near zero degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit), emergencies officials said. “The rescue operation is continuing in the Sea of Okhotsk […]
Firefighters in the Russian capital Moscow on Friday (January 30) night battled a large fire in the library of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences. The fire broke out in on the top floor of the three-storey building shortly after 10pm (1900 GMT), and emergencies workers said they had localised the blaze a few minutes after midnight, according to Russian news agency RIA. RIA reported the fire consumed 2,000 square metres (21,500 square […]
Aerial footage shot by a drone and posted to a social media website on Friday (January 16) purports to show terminal buildings and other structures at Donetsk International Airport in a state of complete destruction after months of conflict there. Army.SOS, a Ukrainian group that supports the army by buying ammunition, food and supplies for soldiers, said the video was shot on January 15, but neither the video’s authenticity, nor the date it was shot […]
(Reuters) – Russia used its annual appearance at the U.N. General Assembly on Saturday to accuse the United States and its Western allies of bossing the world around, complaining they were attempting to dictate to everyone “what is good and evil.” The speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the 193-nation assembly was the latest example of the deteriorating relations between Moscow and Western powers, which have imposed sanctions on Russia over the conflict in neighboringUkraine. “The U.S.-led […]
(Reuters) – European Union governments agreed on Thursday to begin their new sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis on Friday but could lift them next month if Moscow abides by a fragile truce, while the United States prepared its own fresh sanctions. The steps are the latest by the United States and the EU following Russia’s annexation of Crimea in March and what the West sees as an effort since then to further destabilize Ukraine by backing pro-Russian separatists with […]
According to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Russia still has an estimated 1,000 troops inside eastern Ukraine. This is despite the ceasefire between the Ukrainian government and the pro-Russian rebels. Besides the aforementioned troops, 20,000 more are stationed at the border.
The United States and the European Union is preparing to implement stricter sanctions against Russia over its continuing offensive actions in Ukraine.
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow had to strengthen its position, economically and militarily, in the resource rich Arctic region, where other countries are vying for influence. “Our interests are concentrated in the Arctic. And of course we should pay more attention to issues of development of the Arctic and the strengthening of our position (there),” Putin told a youth camp outside Moscow, enumerating military and economic plans for Russia’s Arctic.
The United States has openly accused Russia of openly sending combat troops in Ukraine, thereby tightening economic sanctions against the country.
