Section: Newsweek (USA)
Russian Army Can Outgun British Troops, Leaked Report Warns
The Russian army can outgun British troops on the battlefield, following military advances by the Kremlin, a leaked report suggests. The assessment by the British Army’s warfare branch, seen by The Times newspaper, warned that Russian weapons, including rocket launchers and air defense systems, were more powerful than their British...
Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Try To Reignite Their ‘Bromance’
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan ended their nearly year-long spat with a two-hour chat in St Petersburg on Tuesday, Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported. While their countries are far from allies, Putin and Erdogan’s relationship has often been described as a political “bromance.” But...
Ukraine Blames International Response to Georgia Crisis for Russian Intervention
Russia’s 2014 interventions in Ukraine occurred because the international community did not punish it sufficiently for its military intervention in Georgia in 2008, Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said. In 2008, a war of words erupted into armed confrontation between Georgia, Russian-backed separatists in Georgia’s...
Russians Grow Increasingly Indifferent to Vladimir Putin As Economy Bites
Russians are feeling more indifferent towards President Vladimir Putin than at any time before the Ukraine crisis, according to independent pollster the Levada Center. Putin, who returned to a controversial third but non-consecutive term as president in 2012, saw a huge boost to his approval rating following the decision to intervene in the...
Ukraine Reports Russian Military Activity on Crimea Border
Ukraine has reported an increase in Russian military activity on the border with annexed Crimea as activists on the peninsula claim an armored column of Russian military vehicles has been spotted moving north into the region. Ukraine’s Deputy Minister on Crimean Affairs, Georgiy Tuka, said that the Russian government in Crimea has called...
Where Do Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Stand on Russia?
“Is Donald Trump really a wannabe mole for the Kremlin?” one of the headlines of Russia’s main pro-government tabloids reads on Friday. “No wonder two of his wives are from our kind, beautiful, slavic,” Komsomolskaya Pravda declared, referring to Trump’s Czech-American ex-wife Ivana Trump and Slovenian-born current wife Melania Trump....
Putin To Be Main Guest At G20 Summit, Says China
Vladimir Putin will be the guest of honor at the next G20 summit, hosted by China, a Beijing official told Russian state news agency Itar-Tass. Putin was ostracized during the G20 summit in 2014 and left early, as he was heavily criticised for backing rebels in east Ukraine, fighting government forces. Russia was also banned from G8 summits and...
Thousands of Russians Call for Putin to Sack PM Medvedev
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is facing calls from the public to resign or be sacked after a series of controversial statements about the Russian economy. Medvedev is currently holding talks with ministries in a bid to plan the three next annual budgets at once and stabilize the ailing Russian economy. He said it will be difficult not to...
Ukraine Rebels Warn of Return to Full Fighting ‘Very Soon’
Russian-backed rebels in Ukraine’s east have threatened a return to full-scale conflict “very soon” if Kiev does not recall forces away from the contact line, newspaper Izvestia has reported. Over the last two months violence in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, known collectively as Donbas, has risen to the highest...
Russia Looks to Napoleon for Economic Tips
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is turning to Napoleon Bonaparte for inspiration in jumpstarting his country’s economy and establishing a more watertight legal framework, according to news website Lenta. Speaking at a forum in Russia’s Vladimir region, Medvedev praised the Corsican-born commander’s rule and told a group...
