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FSB may be well pleased with Zapad-2017 outcome, Belarusian analysts say
The Zapad-2017 military exercise has ended “without the annexation of Belarus, a new round of aggression against Ukraine,…
Zapad-2017 – anything but a joint Russian-Belarusian exercise, Sivitsky says
Moscow has advertised Zapad-2017 as a joint Russian-Belarusian military exercise, but it is anything but as it includes…
Past due bills for housing forcing Russian defense ministry to cut weapons acquisitions
Last year, the Russian defense ministry has taken eight billion rubles (120 million US dollars) out of its…
“Putin’s three greatest ‘achievements’ – unifying Ukraine, the US and the West” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Clash between Tuvin and ethnic Russian soldiers at Russian training academy turns violent
Sixty ethnic Tuvin professional soldiers clashed with about 100 ethnic Russian professional soldiers at a sergeants training academy…
Moscow’s plans to cut military pensions seen driving military retirees to back opposition
The first rule of any government is that the state pays the people with guns charged with protecting…
Demographic decline powering rise of dedovshchina in Russian and Belarusian armies
Dedovshchina, the Russian term for the mistreatment of more recent draftees and recruits by their seniors or of…
Russia can no longer afford a blue water navy, defense minister suggests
Sergey Shoygu, Russia’s defense minister, says that Moscow will still build submarines – a giant one was launched…
‘Spetsnaz of the USSR’ – the new Russian irregulars in Syria now fighting for Assad
The Syrian military does not have enough personnel to simultaneously launch major attacks, suppress militants, and garrison cities…
Russian military’s spring draft shaped by demography and economics
The declining size of the prime draft age cohort in Russia everywhere except in Muslim areas and the…
Three signs Russian military and its political bosses are in trouble
The Kremlin-controlled media and often–echoing it–Western outlets paint a picture of Russia as a burgeoning military power, with…
Ten types of Russian weapons didn’t work well in Syria, the Russian defense minister says
Russian forces demonstrated their prowess in the destruction of the opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad,…
Moscow scrambling to fill ranks of its forces in Syria and elsewhere
Russia’s indefensible actions against the civilian population of Aleppo, actions that rise to the level of crimes against…
Ethnic clashes replacing ‘dedovshchina’ abuse in Russian military units, Moscow paper says
Russians and many in the West have come to believe that “dedovshchina,” the notorious practice in which draftees…
Russia’s nuclear threats and spy games
Last week it was reported that three Russians were arrested on espionage charges. Two Russian citizens and one naturalized US…
Russia’s involvement in Donbas war open secret in Donetsk – France 24
The war in Donbas has been ongoing for 2,5 years. The economy of Donbas is devastated, and despite…
Putin and Russia both far weaker than many think, three analysts say
Vladimir Putin and the country he heads are far weaker than Moscow propaganda suggests and, what is equally…
Russia hit problems recruiting for war in Donbas, Tymchuk says
Russia’s military commanders over the “LNR” and “DNR” regimes are increasingly concerned about the inability of the two to recruit…
No one in the Donbas believes the ceasefire will last
No one in the Donbas believes the ceasefire declared there a week ago will last, and many say…
Moscow mis-reporting its military expenditures to the UN
According to the data that Russia provided to the United Nations, its military expenditures in 2015 grew by…