Russia's Defence Minister, Sergei Shoygu, held telephone talks with the US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper. In this call, Shoygu extended an invitation for the U.S. Defence Secretary to Victory Parade next month in Moscow. The Russian ministry of defence published a statement about the call between Shoygu and Esper. Their talk covered the fight…
NATO Exercises Provoke Russia
NATO exercises provoke Russia, that was the main idea that Chief of MOD GS Sergey Rudskoi addressed on Monday. He described these exercise activities near Russian border as having "a clear anti-Russian Orientation" Russia perceived the drills planned for the eve of 9 May as aggressive. Furthermore, but Russia's General Staff viewed them as an…
German Arms Exports to Egypt, UAE, Turkey in Numbers
The German Ministry of Economy announced that the value of arms deals that Germany agreed to export to Egypt, Turkey and the UAE amounted to more than 330 million euros. According to DW Arabic, from January 20 to May 3, 2020, Germany approved arms shipments to Egypt alone for €308.2 million. The German government also…
An Interview with US Ambassador to Russia
John Sullivan, U.S. Ambassador to Russia, has given an interview to Interfax, in which he talks about various issues from the stabilisation of energy markets, prospects in arms control dialogue, to the commemoration of the 75 victory in WWI, Space cooperation, and more. Here follows a part of this interview. -The 75th anniversary of Victory…
Global Military Expenditure $1917 billion in 2019- SIPRI
Global military expenditure was $1917 billion in 2019, an increase of 3.6 per cent in real terms. The five largest spenders in 2019, which accounted for 62 per cent of expenditure, were the United States, China, India, Russia and Saudi Arabia. This is the first time that two Asian states have featured among the top…
An Overview of Russia-Algeria Military Cooperation
SIPRI's latest report on trends in international arms transfers in 2019 states that Algeria was the third on the list Russia's top arms clients between 2015-2019. The North African country is only the second after Egypt in military power in Africa. In 2015–19 Russia delivered major arms to 47 states. A total of 55 per…
Unmanned Vehicles Against the Coronavirus
On the last day of 2019, Chinese authorities reported several cases of some “unusual pneumonia” in the city of Wuhan because of some unknown virus. The novel coronavirus (Covid-19) hit the entire world calling governments for immediate and very strict measures to control the spread of the pandemic. One of…
Iran’s missile shield
Developing own missile capabilities has been the main priority over many years as part of Iranian defense strategy aimed at containing the USA and its regional allies. Sanctions of the UN Security Council remaining in force against Iran until autumn 2020 and banning supplies of many ordinary armaments including combat airplanes…
75th Anniversary of WWII Victory Postponed
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced the decision to put off the anticipated parade in Moscow’s Red Square to mark the 75th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism, Kommersant writes. The head of state emphasised that the risks associated with the coronavirus epidemic were still extremely high. He noted though that 2020 had been declared…
Iskander Missile System ‘Scares NATO’
The Russian missile arsenal has no analogues in the world in terms of the number of products, writes The National Interest. “Moscow inherited an extensive collection of missiles from the Soviet Union, and despite the fact that the Russian missile arsenal is somewhat outdated, it forms the basis for Moscow’s strategic actions,” American journalists note. According to…