Russian army helicopter crashes
August 16th, 2012 - 8:03 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian Army Mil Mi-28N helicopter, one of the force's newest machines, crashed Thursday at its base in Mozdok, North Ossetia.The two-man crew in the ... Read more...
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Russian army to get first indigenous UAV in 2014
June 29th, 2012 - 8:38 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The first domestically-developed strike unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will be put in service with the Russian Armed Forces by the end of 2014, a defence ... Read more...
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India, Russia counter-terrorism exercise in August
June 19th, 2012 - 9:17 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) India and Russia are readying to hold their annual joint counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency army war game in August this year in Buryatia in southeast Russia.
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Russian army officer jailed for spying for US
June 1st, 2012 - 10:41 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 1 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian army officer has been sentenced by a Moscow court to 12 years in prison for spying for the US, the Federal Security Service ... Read more...
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French army seeks Russian mine detectors
May 29th, 2012 - 9:52 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 29 (IANS/RIA Novosti) French army experts have expressed interest in Russian improvised explosive device detection systems, following a recent visit to a Moscow training ground, a Russian official ... Read more...
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Russian army officer convicted for shooting guard dogs
May 17th, 2012 - 9:11 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 17 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A court martial in Russia's Leningrad region convicted a unit commander for shooting dead six army guard dogs while he was drunk.According to the Russian ... Read more...
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Man suffering from cancer conscripted into Russian army
May 3rd, 2012 - 4:32 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 3 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian conscript has been diagnosed with an advanced stage bone cancer four months into his military service, rights activists said.Marat Tuzbakov, 20, joined a ... Read more...
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Russian army to get Boomerang armoured carriers
February 22nd, 2012 - 7:34 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Feb 22 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian Army will get its first Boomerang armoured personnel carriers in 2013, a top military official has said.Ground Forces chief Col. Gen. Alexander Postnikov ... Read more...
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Russia to sell armoured vehicles to Indonesia
January 31st, 2012 - 6:32 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia is set to sell up to 60 infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) to Indonesia in a deal worth more than $100 million, Izvestia cited an ... Read more...
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Russia outlines defence spending
January 25th, 2012 - 5:13 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 25 (IANS) The Russian military will sign about 2,000 contracts for defence purchases in 2012, the defence ministry said Tuesday.Russia has prepaid some 60 billion rubles (about $2 ... Read more...
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Russian army buys cutting-edge mine detectors
January 24th, 2012 - 9:55 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian defence ministry has begun buying a new mine-detection device able to spot inactivated mines, hidden underground or inside buildings, a military spokesman said.The ... Read more...
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Russian army officer jailed for burning soldier
January 24th, 2012 - 5:02 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Jan 24 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian military commander has been sentenced to two years at a military disciplinary unit for wrapping a soldier in toilet paper from head to ... Read more...
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Russian ex-army officer jailed for spying
December 8th, 2011 - 7:53 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 8 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A retired Russian Army major has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for spying for Georgia.Vladimir Klenkov passed classified information concerning the location of ... Read more...
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Russia major jailed for beating soldiers
September 10th, 2011 - 5:39 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 10 (IANS/RIA Novosti) A Russian army major has been sentenced to four years in prison for beating a warrant officer and a soldier.A military court in Vladivostok also ... Read more...
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Ex-Russian colonel, guilty of Chechen war crime, buried
June 14th, 2011 - 4:22 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, June 14 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Yury Budanov, the former Russian army colonel who served nine years for the murder of a Chechen woman during the second war in Chechnya, was ... Read more...
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Russian paratroopers receive chapel on wheels
May 28th, 2011 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 28 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The Russian Orthodox Church has given the country's Airborne Troops a mobile chapel to accompany them on combat missions, a paratrooper spokesman said.The chapel is ... Read more...
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Russia expels Israeli military attache for spying
May 19th, 2011 - 10:01 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, May 19 (IANS) The Russian foreign ministry confirmed Thursday that an Israeli military attache has been expelled from the country after being caught receiving secret information from a Russian ... Read more...
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Russia opens criminal case into Moscow’s journalist beating
May 2nd, 2011 - 11:16 pm ICT by BNO News
MOSCOW (BNO NEWS) -- Russian police on Monday opened a criminal case into the violent beating of a local journalist in northern Moscow, RIA Novosti reported.Dmitry Andryushchenko, a journalist working for Russian ... Read more...
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Russian army shoot at snow to control avalanches
March 24th, 2011 - 12:33 am ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Moscow, Mar 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Russian army are in a different kind of battle- with the snow. In a bid to control a future avalanches, the soldiers fired into the mountain ... Read more...
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Top Russian army official on India visit
December 7th, 2010 - 12:57 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Dec 7 (IANS/RIA Novosti) The chief of the Russian General Staff, Army Gen Nikolai Makarov, will be visiting India Dec 7-9 to discuss bilateral military cooperation, the Russian defence ministry said ... Read more...
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Russian arms dealer extradited to US
November 16th, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Bangkok, Nov 16 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Former Russian army officer and alleged arms dealer Viktor Bout has been extradited from Thailand to the US, the Russian consul said in Bangkok Tuesday.Bout was ... Read more...
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Indo-Russian military drill ends with resolve to fight terrorism
October 23rd, 2010 - 6:29 pm ICT by ANI
Ranikhet (Uttarakhand), Oct 23 (ANI): Demonstrating their resolve to fight against terrorism and to boost bilateral defence cooperation further, strike infantry units of the Indian and Russian Armies ended a joint military ... Read more...
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No change in US’ plans to extradite Russian businessman
August 31st, 2010 - 12:40 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Aug 31 (IANS/RIA Novosti) There was no change in the US' plans to extradite Russian businessman Viktor Bout, suspected of illegal arms trade from Thailand, the US Department of State said.
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Russia to seek repatriation of man extradited to US
August 20th, 2010 - 7:08 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 20 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Russia will seek repatriation of a Russian businessman due to be extradited from Thailand to the US on arms trafficking charges, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday.
Viktor ... Read more...
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Ex-army officer hangs himself in Russian jail
July 23rd, 2010 - 4:35 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, July 23 (IANS) A former Russian army colonel hanged himself in a police station after he was arrested on charges of raping two underage girls.
The unnamed former army officer, now a ... Read more...
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Russian army general visits Cuba
September 16th, 2009 - 12:24 pm ICT by IANS
Havana, Sep 16 (EFE) Russia's armed forces general staff chief Nikolay Makarov is visiting Cuba, officials have said.
Makarov arrived in Cuba Monday. The officials didn't provide details on his agenda or the ... Read more...
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Russias increased missile output announcement aimed at testing Obama early
December 25th, 2008 - 4:15 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 25 (ANI): Russia has thrown down a new challenge to incoming Barack Obama Administration with an announcement that it will sharply increase production of strategic nuclear missiles.Moscows strategy appears ... Read more...
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Medvedev, Sarkozy talk before summit on Georgian crisis
September 1st, 2008 - 11:10 am ICT by IANS
Moscow, Sep 1 (DPA) Just hours before a European Union (EU) emergency summit on the crisis in Georgia, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and French President Nicolas Sarkozy discussed the situation on the ... Read more...
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Russian-backed paramilitaries ”ethnically cleansing villages”
August 28th, 2008 - 4:27 pm ICT by ANI
London, Aug.28 (ANI): Russian-backed paramilitaries are ethnically cleansing villages on Georgian soil, The Times quoted refugees and officials, as saying.
South Ossetian militiamen have torched houses, beaten elderly people and even ... Read more...
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Russia to pull out from Georgia Monday: Medvedev (Lead)
August 17th, 2008 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
RIA Novosti
Moscow, Aug 17 (RIA Novosti) Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Sunday said that Russian troops would pull out from Georgia Monday. He declared this during a telephonic conversation with French President Nicolas ... Read more...
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No Russian withdrawal yet from Georgian positions
August 17th, 2008 - 4:05 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Tbilisi, Aug 17 (DPA) Russian military forces Sunday were showing few signs of falling back from positions deep in Georgia, as US President George W. Bush called on the Kremlin to honour ... Read more...
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Bush calls on Russia to end Georgia crisis
August 17th, 2008 - 2:58 am ICT by IANS
DPA
Washington, Aug 17 (DPA) US President George W. Bush called on Moscow to end the crisis in Georgia as Russian President Dimitry Medvedev signed a six-point European Union-mediated peace plan in the ... Read more...
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Russian tanks remain as Bush, Medvedev trade barbs over Georgia (Lead)
August 16th, 2008 - 4:15 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Tbilisi, Aug 16 (DPA) Russian armoured forces were showing little inclination to quit Georgia Saturday, in the wake of an exchange of barbs between the Presidents of Russia and the US over ... Read more...
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Georgians divided on Saakashvili, but united against Russia
August 15th, 2008 - 5:47 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Tbilisi, Aug 15 (DPA) The residents of the Georgian capital Tbilisi - often loudly - express widely differing opinions on President Mikhail Saakashvili and his failed gambit to invade and overpower the ... Read more...
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Rice to visit Georgia, Russians not moving out(Lead)
August 15th, 2008 - 3:35 pm ICT by IANS
DPA
Tbilisi, Aug 15 (DPA) US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice was en route to Tbilisi Friday, as Russia's military continued to occupy two Georgian provinces despite a ceasefire agreement obliging them to ... Read more...
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