Pravda.ru / Russia

Resolutions, petitions, requirements and political statements take a lot of time, energy and paper. As a rule, they stir up too much noise and a fat lot of good. If the strong one want to flex their muscles, they do not need to make any statements or resolutions. They can disregard international law and do what they want

Details about the unauthorized action of protest actions organized by opposition activist Aleksei Navalny continue to emerge. A video of a teenager sitting in a police van has gone viral on the Internet. The happy-looking teenager in the video can be heard saying: "We are fine, we will be paid 10,000 euros"

The multi-purpose aircraft carrier will have a total displacement of about 95,000 tons. Its length, width and draft will make up 330×42×11 meters. The width of the flight deck will be 85 meters. The project stipulates for the autonomy of 90 days. The vessel will be able to carry a stock of jet fuel of up to 6,000 tons and the crew of up to 4,000

Russia's Security Council develops a strategic forecast for 12 years. The strategic forecast is to become the ground for making decisions under various circumstances that may appear inside and outside Russia. Is it possible to make long-term forecasts under modern conditions? Will concepts of today be relevant, say, in two or three years?

Specialists of the United Aircraft Corporation are ready to start designing a combat aircraft of the 8th generation. The new development will be more than just an aircraft. The designers plan to create a conceptually new multipurpose combat aviation system with highly developed technical intelligence

Russian settlements need to be "liberated" from monuments to Vladimir Lenin, while Lenin's Tomb in the heart of Moscow on Red Square should be closed. What shall Russia do about 70 years of its history? Not all people may like it, but even if they do not like it, they can not strike this period out from history

Russia's Caliber missiles will be installed on 949A Antey submarine cruisers. Antey submarines are designed for the destruction of enemy aircraft carriers. The underwater cruisers are armed with Granit missiles. They are too big, more vulnerable and inferior to the performance of new Caliber missiles

John McCain spoke of Russia as a "gas station country." Russia the gas station has developed into a country that could allegedly show influence on the course and the outcome of the presidential election in the US. Western "partners" acknowledge that solving major international problems without the participation of Russia is impossible

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that the anti-doping system in Russia has failed entirely. One should admit it, find the guilty and build a new system, he said. "We must listen, despite all those blunders in the work of the independent commission, we must listen to what the commission has done, to the results of its work," Putin said

On Sunday, February 26, a number of events took place in several cities of Russia in memory of Boris Nemtsov, who was assassinated on February 17, 2015. It was obvious in advance that the marches and demonstrations would be held in a political key, because there was a reason for it. The event was a political action

Two-thirds of Russian citizens (67 percent) believe that demonstrations and protest actions are ineffective in influencing policies of the authorities. If people do not see rallies as a way to solve their problems, what other leverage can they use? Experts do not see anything strange about the fact that people lose interest in rallies

Polish historian Andrzej Zapalovsky believes that US President Trump is bargaining on US interests, not only in relation to Ukraine but on other issues. According to the historian, the sentiments inside the circles close to the US administration are changing because Russia could get away with its actions without being punished accordingly for them

Russia is the only real obstacle for Americans in the world. It is only Russia that can technically destroy the USA. The Americans had created a convenient world order for themselves at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. Now they are convinced that Russia wants to reform their world order. The Americans still wants to be another exceptional nation

Speaking about relations with the West, President Putin noted that Western countries tirelessly provoke Russia to make the Russian administration confront the West. He recalled that during the NATO summit in July 2016 in Warsaw, Russia was recognized as a major security threat for the alliance for the first time since 1989

If Russia delivers South Kuril Islands to Japan, they will fall under obligations of the United States in accordance with the fifth article of the Japanese-US treaty of mutual cooperation and security guarantees. In a nutshell, the USA will have to protect the islands like the entire territory of Japan

Chinese publication Huanqiu Shibao wrote in a recent publication that Russian President Putin has become one of the biggest stars of world politics at the time when many Western leaders were grimly leaving the political arena. Over the past 30 years, Russia has experienced three historical eras of Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin

Ten years ago, on February 10, 2007, Vladimir Putin delivered his landmark speech at a security conference in Munich, Germany. The "Munich speech" has since then become a program of Russia's foreign policy. Ten years later, it appears that the picture of the world order, which Putin described in Munich, remains most viable today

In the spring of 2017, Russia may test a Zircon hypersonic missile for the first time. The launch is said to be conducted within the scope of the global non-nuclear deterrence strategy. ICBMs of this capacity will be able to contain USA's plans for the deployment of the global missile defense system

Russia's public debt amounted to 11.1 trillion rubles or 13.2% of GDP as of 2016. The Finance Ministry expects that the national debt will reach 14.7% of GDP by the end of 2017 and by the end of 2019 - 15.7%. Is this number critical for economy? Can it affect living standards of Russian citizens? To whom does Russia have to pay its debt?

The aircraft carrier group of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation returns to its base in Severomorsk. The mission to Syrian shores lasted for nearly four months. The mission of the Russian aircraft carrier group to Syria generated quite a controversy. Suffice it to recall the scandal around the entry of Russian warships to Spanish ports