U.S. closes 12-year chapter at strategic Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan
On June 3, a small ceremony closed to the public marked the end of a 12-year-long major operation crucial to the U.S.-led military efforts in Afghanistan. The Manas Air (more…)
Moscow ends arms embargo against Pakistan in signal to India’s Modi
Russia announced June 2 that the Kremlin had decided to lift the embargo on weapons sales to Pakistan. Moscow also said it was ready to proceed with a Mi-35 (more…)
India’s new leader ‘Modi-fies’ relations with its South Asian neighbors
On May 26, one historic moment was accompanied by another. Yes, India’s newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi was sworn in as the new leader of the world’s largest (more…)
Russian Proton-M rocket crashed before reaching orbit in expensive failure
Russia’s gigantic 5.8-ton Proton-M rocket carrying an expensive Ekspress-AM4R satellite crashed 9 minutes after it was launched on May 15 from Kazakhstan’s Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was only 40 seconds (more…)
Russia’s sanctioned Rogozin denied travel through Ukraine air space
The government plane for Russia’s Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin was denied entry through the air space of Ukraine and Romania last week. Rogozin was on the sanction list of (more…)
U.S. to help Ukraine recover billions from pro-Russian syndicate
“Ex-President Viktor Yanukovych headed a mafia structure in Ukraine that spread across different state structures,” Ukraine’s acting Prosecutor General Oleh Makhnitsky has charged. He further disclosed that Yanukovych’s mafia-like (more…)
Russia to build 50 data-collection stations in three dozen countries
A senior Russian official has confirmed that Moscow plans an ambitious network of global data-collection stations in 36 countries in sync with its Global Navigation Satellite System or GLONASS. (more…)
Report: Washington intends to expose Putin’s Swiss bank account
Washington’s non-military sanctions against Russia’s adventurist gambits in Ukraine is getting personal, with the reported public disclosure of Vladimir Putin’s enormous, certainly ill-gotten, assets in a Swiss bank account (more…)
Russian ICBM hit target thousands of miles away amid Ukraine crisis
On April 14, a mobile missile launched at the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia successfully hit the target thousands of miles away at the Kura test center in (more…)