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Interview Russia’s Ambassador to the U.S.

Arms Control Today has published an interview with Anatoly Antonov, Russian ambassador to the United States on issues including the current status of U.S.-Russian strategic stability talks, the future of New START treaty, talks on intermediate-range missile systems, involving China in arms control agreements, and President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for a summit of the leaders of the…
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India’s Republic Day. Congratulations For Strategic Partner!

On January 26, the people of India will celebrate the Republic Day. Seventy years ago, on January 26, 1950, the Constitution of India entered into force, proclaiming the country a sovereign socialist secular democratic republic. We congratulate Russia's strategic partner!     Russia and India are close friends and partners. In the seven-plus decades of their…
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Expanded Meeting of Defence Ministry Board Session: Results of the Year

24 of December, an expanded meeting of Defence Ministry Board Session took place at the National Centre for State Defence Control of the Russian Federation, during which the results of the activities of the Armed Forces in 2019 were summed up and tasks for the next period were determined. The President of the Russian Federation,…
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Lavrov told that Moscow will implement contracts for weapon delivery to Iraq

The Russian Federation will implement contracts for weapon delivery to Iraq, Head of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov told on Monday, October 7. “We have a common opinion that we need to implement the decisions of the Intergovernmental Commission for Trade and Economic Cooperation which was held in April. We will also…
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Full transcript of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s interview with Al Arabiya

Below is the full transcript of Al Arabiya's interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin ahead of his first visit to Saudi Arabia since 2007. Al Arabiya's correspondent Mohammed al-Tomaihi, alongside journalists from Russia Today and Sky News, asked Putin questions on a range of subjects including Saudi-Russian relations, Russia's response to the September attacks on…
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Beijing, Moscow upgrade security ties

In the latest sign of Beijing’s and Moscow’s expanding strategic partnership, Russia is assisting China in creating a highly sophisticated missile-defense early warning system.It follows arms sales of Russia’s most high-tech military kit to China, and comes against a backdrop of expanding cooperation between the militaries of the two states, which are forging a new…
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Falling of the Column of Strategic Stability

By Alexander Ermakov  After a period of diplomatic crisis and construction of media-propagandistic argumentation, the USA declared the decision to withdraw from the Treaty on intermediate and short range missiles (INF Treaty). This opens the way for development of new classes of armaments, threatens with a new upsurge of armament race and, in perspective, –…
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Key Unresolved Issues in the WMD Sphere

By Vladimir P. Kozin In terms of the qualitatively new buildup of weapons of mass destruction, each century has its own specific brand name. While the last century was labeled “the nuclear arms age,” the current century could be characterized as “the missile defense age” and “the space-based weapons age.” These three interlinked factors unfortunately…
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Russian Airborne Guided Weapons. Current State and the Future

For the years that passed since the commencement of a large-scale military reform initiated in 2008, the Russian Aerospace Forces (RAF) have incredibly changed. They have received many new aircraft.     Four wings of the Su-35S fighters, almost seven wings of the Su-30SM and Su-30M2 fighters, three wings of the MiG-29SMT fighters, a wing…
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