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NATO needs to increase long-range missiles to confront Russia. Last June, they also raised their defense spending target.
During a rare news conference on Friday, the head of the French military, Thierry Burkhard, said Russia remains a “lasting, close” threat.
U.S. relations continues and has not faded, although the U.S. administration is acting in a zigzag manner, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the RIA news agency in remarks published on Friday.
Russia's bold statement about US relations stuns diplomats worldwide and the surprising diplomatic tone will completely change everything.
It’s a key refuge for Moscow’s wealthy, including the record producer Iosif Prigozhin. He insists he still loves President Vladimir V. Putin, no matter what you’ve heard.
From 2015 to 2018, she was Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council. JIM TOWNSEND is an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security.
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Agence France-Presse on MSNMoscow sizzles in record-breaking heatwaveMoscow sweltered on Friday in a heatwave with temperatures topping 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit), according to the Russian weather service, breaching a municipal record registered nearly 30 years ago.
According to Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group focused on media freedom, almost all independent media in Russia have been banned, blocked, or subject to censorship and other sanctions since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
One of Russia’s most powerful men, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is set to visit North Korea this weekend, in a sign of deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang as North Korea gets pulled deeper into Russia’s war in Ukraine.