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French expert says West would be foolish to indulge Russia in PACE
The PACE Committee recently approved a draft resolution proposing a change in the Council’s Charter so that its…
Kremlin rapidly losing control of ‘private military company’ story
Personnel of Russian private military companies, which are illegal according to Russian law, have appealed to the International…
Russian mercenaries fighting in Ukraine and Syria decorated with state awards, cyber sleuths reveal
Read also: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas In early October, the SBU…
Russian private military companies proliferate ‘to make money on war’
Despite the fading of the Wagner private military company which attracted so much attention earlier because of evidence…
Russia’s private military companies a more toxic form of Latin American death squads, Pastukhov says
Many countries have private military companies, Vladimir Pastukhov says; and there is no reason that Russia should not…
From Donbas to Syria: investigation reveals Ukrainians fighting in Russian PMC Wagner
Read more on PMC Wagner: Wagner mercenaries: what we know about Putin’s private army in Donbas Ukraine names…
Will Syria’s Ghouta survive the long proxy war?
The Damascus suburb of Ghouta has developed into a rebel stronghold preventing the regime, Iran, and Russia from…
Identical statues to Russia’s “Wagner” mercenaries erected in Syria, occupied Donbas
A statue identical to the one to Russian mercenaries in Syria which surfaced in January has now popped up…
Terrorist threat to Crimea: Russian ties to the Islamic State
Rabbi Abraham Shmulevich, president of the Institute of Eastern Partnership (Israel) evaluates the accuracy of this report and…
“Russia Now Leading Source of ISIS Fighters” and other neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Even direct costs of Putin’s aggression unsustainable, Pashkov says
The indirect costs of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea as well as his military…
Russia and its authoritarian friends lag increasingly behind its free enemies, Illarionov says
Not only are the countries Russians identify as friendly more likely to be authoritarian and poor than those…
Moscow planning to send 60,000 Muslim troops to Syria, Saudi newspaper says
Citing unnamed “informed sources,” a Saudi newspaper says that “Russia has prepared approximately 60,000” predominantly Sunni Muslim soldiers…
How the head of PACE became Putin’s lackey
After visiting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad together with a delegation of Russian deputies, Pedro Agramunt, the president of…
‘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…
Ukraine and the US-Russia confrontation
Europe now wants to keep Russia and the United States from a military conflict in the Middle East…
Poll reveals one-third of our readers would sue Russia for Crimea annexation
The UN International Court of Justice in The Hague held hearings on Ukraine’s case against Russia; a court…
Putin now fears a threat he helped create – 4,000 Russian citizens fighting for ISIS
Vladimir Putin told Russian military leaders yesterday that Moscow now estimates that there are some 4,000 Russian citizens…
Russia’s interest in Libya
While US President Donald Trump is doing its best to prove that Russia is going to become a…