Eastern Europe

Reuters: Helicopter mistakenly fires on parked vehicles in Russia war games

A military helicopter on a rural training exercise in western Russia mistakenly fired rockets at a group of parked vehicles, knocking at least one …
Reuters

Associated Press: Russian navy launches barrage of cruise missiles in drills

The Russian military says its warships have test-fired cruise missiles in an exercise that comes along with weeklong war games held by Russia and …
Associated Press

Reuters: Russia retail sales up 1.9 percent year-on-year in August, more than expected

 Retail sales in Russia rose more than expected in August, data showed on September 19, underpinning an official forecast that the economy is on track …
Reuters

Washington Post: WikiLeaks releases files that appear to offer details of Russian surveillance system

WikiLeaks, the secret sharing organization accused of playing a key role in Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. election, has released …
Washington Post

Reuters: Russia unveils monument to designer of iconic AK-47 rifle

Russia on September 19 unveiled a statue of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the AK-47 assault rifle that became by some estimates the most lethal …
Reuters

Guardian: Russian helicopter accidentally fires rocket at onlookers

A Russian attack helicopter accidentally fired at least one rocket into a group of people during large-scale military exercises close to Nato’s …
Guardian

Aljazeera: Chinese-Russian naval drills begin off North Korea

South Korea and the US also stage exercises in the Korean Peninsula, conducting a joint bombing drill. China and Russia have started joint naval …
Aljazeera

Esquire: The FBI’s wiretap on Paul Manafort just brought the Russia probe to another level

Paul Manafort is extremely under investigation. On Sept. 19 morning, CNN reported that the FBI had sought and secured a secretive order from the …
Esquire

Washington Post: What would a Russia-NATO war look like? Russia’s wargaming it right now

LUGA, Russia — A revitalized Russian military on Sept. 18 sent tanks, paratroopers, artillery, antiaircraft weapons, jets and helicopters into frigid …
Washington Post

UNIAN: Zapad 2017 drills – Ka-52 attack helicopter fires missile at spectators (VIDEO)

Two spectators sustained grave injuries after one of the pair of Ka-52 attack helicopters flying in an attack formation accidentally fired a rocket …
UNIAN

Euronews: Vladimir Putin looks on as Russia flexes its military muscles (VIDEO)

The Zapad-2017 drills are a joint exercise between Russia and Belarus, but the Russian Defence Ministry says the West has no cause for alarm. Read …
Euronews

Court postpones preliminary hearing of Siemens lawsuit over Crimean turbines to October 16

MOSCOW – The Moscow Arbitration Court on Sept. 18 postponed the preliminary hearing of a lawsuit filed by Siemens against LLC VO Technopromexport …
Interfax-Ukraine

Reuters: Putin watches as Russia intensifies war games that have rattled West

MOSCOW – President Vladimir Putin observed Russia’s biggest war games in years on Sept.18, watching as his forces successfully repelled an imaginary …
Reuters

112.ua: Russian military aircrafts violate airspace of Lithuania during West-2017 drills

Two Russian military aircrafts Il-76 invaded the airspace of Lithuania on Sept.16, while Russian-Belarusian West-2017 military exercise is under way, …

Associated Press: Putin attends military drills that worry Russia’s neighbors

LUZHSKY RANGE, Russia – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sept. 18 attended the weeklong war games with Belarus that have demonstrated the Russian …
Associated Press

RFE/RL: Russian court to hold hearing in lawsuit over Wallenberg’s fate

A Russian court is scheduled to hold a hearing on Sept. 18 in a lawsuit against the Federal Security Service (FSB) by relatives of Raoul Wallenberg, a …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Al Jazeera: Russia denies bombing US-backed SDF troops

Russia has denied accusations it bombed US-backed fighters in Syria, saying the US military received advance warning of an air strike targeting ISIL …
Al Jazeera

Euromaidan Press: Siemens stops shipments to Ukraine’s Naftogaz, fearing lost contracts in Russia

The German company Siemens has stopped supplying equipment for the modernization of the gas transportation system of Ukraine, fearing to lose orders …
EuroMaidan press
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