Posts Tagged
Russian Navy

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  2020/04/25 - 19:54 • International, Op-ed

  Moscow worried about Ankara’s plans for canal bypassing Bosporus Strait

  In early March 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that Ankara would soon call for bids on the construction of the planned Istanbul Canal, between the Black and Marmora seas (RIA Novosti, March 8). He said he hoped to...

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  2020/04/12 - 10:45 • Op-ed, Russian Aggression

  Ukrainian espionage incident highlights ongoing Russian naval shortcomings

  Russian-Ukrainian relations, increasingly tense since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, plummeted to a new low after Russia’s forcible absorption of the Crimean Peninsula in March 2014 and subsequent invasion of Donbas. On March 18,...

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  2020/01/21 - 10:45 • International, Op-ed

  Russia may get a new aircraft carrier but only one of Soviet...

  Now that Vladimir Putin has signaled that he wants Russia to have a new aircraft carrier, officials are working hard to realize that project. But their efforts highlight Moscow’s problems: the new one will be a copy of earlier Soviet...

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  2018/12/14 - 21:39 • Crimea, Peace to Ukraine, Russian Aggression

  Why Europe’s security depends on a strong response to Russia, immediately

  This “parallel legal reality” is not limited to Russian missiles which violate the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The general style of Russian foreign policy aims to impose a new form of international relations. Russia...

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  2018/11/29 - 19:28 • Hybrid War

  Russian wave of disinformation from the Azov Sea

  The stories published by Russia Today have clear signs of distorting the facts as they state that “Ukrainian ships entered Russian waters in the Black Sea illegally” while in reality, the bilateral treaty between Russia and...

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  2018/09/01 - 12:36 • International, More

  Russia to buy frigates from China

  In a remarkable turnabout, Moscow is going to purchase specially modified naval frigates from Beijing, the result of Russia’s declining ability to produce ships at home and its inability to buy them in the West because of sanctions and...

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  2018/05/19 - 11:47 • International, More

  China now building five frigates a year: Russia only one every ten

  Last weekend, Beijing announced that its second aircraft carrier had begun sea trials, an especially disturbing development from Moscow’s point of view where analysts are wondering when or even if Russia’s only aircraft carrier will in...

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  2017/04/24 - 05:40 • International, More

  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 this week – and will recondition its only aircraft carrier – despite rising costs – but will build frigates rather...

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  2017/02/16 - 12:27 • International, More

  Moscow acting in the Arctic the way Beijing is in the South...

  Moscow is now acting in the Arctic the way Beijing is in the South China Sea, a Russian move that challenges the US and the West even more than Chinese actions, French commentator Jean-Michel Bezat writes in Le Monde; and Washington in the...

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  2016/12/26 - 05:57 • International, More

  Ten types of Russian weapons didn’t work well in Syria, the Russian...

  Russian forces demonstrated their prowess in the destruction of the opponents of the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu says; but ten kinds of Russian weaponry, especially those in high-tech sectors...

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