RIA Novosty / Russia

Russian paratroopers will extensively use training areas located along its western borders for combat training missions, Airborne Forces Commander Col. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov said Friday.

As Turkey shows increasing signs of invading Syria, Turkish journalist Erman Cete and Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute speak to Radio Sputnik’s Loud & Clear to discuss the meaning for relations between Russia and NATO.

The World Council of Nuclear Workers (WONUC) has awarded a prize to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for contribution to the settlement of the Iranian nuclear program issue, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that Russian influence must be based on our economic and intellectual achievements and not just defense capabilities.

Easing the visa requirements for foreigners visiting the northern Russian cities of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk could add significantly to boosting tourism in the country's Arctic Region, media reports said.

The fighter aviation division of the Russian Southern Military District received four Su-30SM (NATO reporting name Flanker-C) fighter aircraft on Friday, the district’s press service said.

The Russian Tretyakov Gallery is planning to organize worldwide exhibitions in the upcoming years, the museum’s director said Friday.

Russian Foreign Ministry said that Moscow plans to further implement the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.

According to a source in the Russian defense industry, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet, Guards’ missile cruiser Varyag, will undergo a modernization until 2020.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday rejected claims that Russia is pursuing a military solution to the Syrian crisis instead of political settlement.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Vladimir Putin and the country's Security Council have discussed the work of the Baghdad information center, founded to exchange data and coordinate the fight against terrorism.

There has been no contact between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

According to a military diplomatic source, Russia’s Mediterranean Sea ship task force could reach 20 warships depending on set assignments.

The Russian government could broaden the list of excisable goods to include palm oil, soda and chips, the Vedomosti newspaper reports.

An international team of hackers, who were exposed in November by Russian special police services, managed to infiltrate the world’s biggest payment systems including VISA and MasterCard, a spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said Thursday.

Navy's deputy commander-in-chief f said that Russian Navy high command and representatives of leading shipbuilding enterprises will discuss the outlook for submarine and above-water shipbuilding during a conference in Saint Petersburg.

The possibility of the Zika virus entering Russia is being controlled, it will be immediately isolated should it be brought into the country, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said on Thursday.

Ural Works of Civil Aviation (UWCA) in 2017 is going to start production of four H135 Airbus Helicopters, according to the department of information policy of the governor of Sverdlovsk Region.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova is holding a weekly press briefing in Moscow.

US European Command (USEUCOM) has recently unveiled its updated security strategy document 'Theater Strategy', where it labelled “revanchist Russia” as its top priority threat; however a UK-based journalist and blogger thinks that the document would actually make more sense, if you swap the words Russia with US.