By Andrei Frolov 2017 has a chance to be remembered as a revolutionary year in the history of Russian foreign arms sales. This results from the fact that Russian arms producers have been particularly successful this year in making a number of breakthroughs in markets that were previously inaccessible, or nearly inaccessible – the petrol-states…
NATO and Global Policy in Rambo Style
By Gabriela Ionita. When viewed from a world-wide perspective America is what in the language of Hollywood producers is called an overplay. This means a play-actor, not very bright and talented, but possessing with very distinctive physical features who exaggerates all the techniques he knows, from gestures to his speech, trying to be noticeable or…
Caspian Tangle
Author Oleg Gerasimov. The disintegration of the Soviet Union did not contribute to the world’s stability, but rather brought a large number of contradictions in an enormous melting pot of potential conflicts, which were basically caused by the presence of non-regulated zones and the spheres of bilateral relations. Today, mass media pay great attention…
Deveselu: East and West, PR & Business
Text: Gabriela Ionita, a Romanian journalist, Editor in Chief of Power & Politics World. Political analyst, expert in the field of international relations and security issues analysis (mainly connected with the Russian Federation and Commonwealth of Independent States). She took her university degree in Communication and Public Relation at the National School of Political and Administrative…
Airbus A400M Atlas: Fatigued Before Start-Up. To be replaced with the Antonov An-70?
By Vladimir Dobrunin Last year, on May 9, 2015 the Airbus A400M Atlas military transport aircraft crashed near Seville. This aircraft was Airbus Consortium’s pride and glory, the result of an ambitious development program that was meant to show everyone which company was able to develop the best aircraft in the world. The crashed aircraft…
Iran. The S-300 saga
There was an interesting event on April 11, 2016 – the saga of delivery of Russian air defense missile systems S-300PMU-1 to Iran came to an end. Hossein Jaber Ansari, Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman, officially declared that Tehran received the first components of the S-300 ADMS from Russia. Interestingly, this information has been neither confirmed…
The destiny of the Muslim world will be decided in Syria
The evidence for that is not only the Biblical prophecies, but also the modern geopolitics By Sarkis Tsaturyan, PhD in History, REX News Agency Editor-in-Chief Why Syria? The civil war in Syria is a global incident. And it is not only about the fact that the Syrian Arab Republic is located at the…
10 major deals announced at DIMDEX 2016
Middle East Naval Commanders Conference at DIMDEX 2016 focuses on security of Gulf waters DOHA, 31 March 2016: The second day of the fifth Doha International Maritime Defence Exhibition and Conference (DIMDEX 2016) opened with ten major deals signed between Qatar and exhibiting companies. At a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signing ceremony, the following…
Arms Export: Weapon Generation Change Around the Corner
According to reliable sources, including Western expert community, Russia continues to hold its position as the world’s second largest arms exporter. By Leonid Nersisyan For example, the research group for the U.S. Congress states that in 2014 the arms export income of Russian companies totaled $10.2 billion, maintaining the same level in comparison…
Syria: Direct and Indirect Tasks
In late September 2015, the scenario that had seemed to be a sci-fi story or a computer game’s script became real. The Russian Air Force launched an air operation against militants of the so-called “Islamic State” (the terrorist organization banned in Russia). By Pavel Rumyantsev and Leonid Nersisyan Since late August, the events…