Russia

Ammo deal is response to US missile shield

December 1, 2011

Russia Today, the state-run television news network, claims that Russia’s plan to sell ammunition-making technology to Havana is a response to the U.S. missile-defence plans in Europe. Moreover, Pravda chimes in on the Cuban armed forces’ modernization starting point: From 1961 to 1991, the volume of arms shipments from the USSR to Cuba made up [...]

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Kalashnikov ammunition production in Cuba

November 30, 2011

RIA Novosti reports today: Russia and Cuba are planning to sign a contract on building an assembly line  for production of ammunition for Kalashnikov assault rifles, Kommersant business daily reported on Wednesday. According to a source in the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade, cited by Kommersant, an assembly line for 7.62-mm rounds used in Kalashnikov [...]

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Russian, Cuban military prosecutors meet

November 25, 2011

The Cuban Military Prosecuting Office (Fiscalía Militar de Cuba) and Office of Attorney General of the Russian Federation met in Havana and exchanged experiences in applying the law, announced Russian Attorney General Sergei Fridinski as reported in RIA Novosti. According to Fridinski, the Russian and Cuban sides exchanged experiences about issues concerning criminal and civil [...]

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Mysterious Russian numbers station

October 5, 2011

This month’s Wired magazine has a great article on the strange Russian numbers station, UVB-76: From a lonely rusted tower in a forest north of Moscow, a mysterious shortwave radio station transmitted day and night. For at least the decade leading up to 1992, it broadcast almost nothing but beeps; after that, it switched to [...]

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Russia’s destabilizing foreign policy in Latin America

September 20, 2011

Stephen Blank (professor of national security affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College) in an opinion piece entitled “Russia’s Second Wind in Latin America,” which was published last month, assesses Russia’s foreign policy in Latin America focused on profit, influence, destabilization and anti-Americanism: Russian policy is not driven by Latin America’s views, but by [...]

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Forgotten martyrs

August 20, 2011

The Wall Street Journal on the heroic forgotten martyrs who died in their struggle against Soviet rule for a free Russia: Today, Dmitry Komar, Ilya Krichevsky and Vladimir Usov are all but forgotten—obscured by deep disillusionment with the political and economic chaos that for many Russians defined Mr. Yeltsin’s attempt at democratic rule in the [...]

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