NOVANEWS Russia’s Defense Ministry has launched massive artillery drills in the Southern Military District involving some 8,500 troops and a large amount of hardware. It coincides with war games conducted by the country’s Airborne Troops. […]
NOVANEWS Sukhoi Su-27 (RIA Novosti / Igor Zarembo). Six Russian Sukhoi-27 fighter jets and three transport planes have been deployed at Bobruisk airfield in Belarus. Earlier this week Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko invited Russian forces […]
NOVANEWS By Helena Bedwell Photographer: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Pro-Russian demonstrators stand by a statue of Vladimir Lenin in Simferopol, Ukraine, on March 11, 2014. Crimea can be integrated into Russia within two months if its voters […]
NOVANEWS Photo: EPA Russia will be offered to deploy up to 15 more warplanes in Belarus, in connection with NATO activity near the Belarusian border, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated here on Wednesday. “If they […]
NOVANEWS By BRADLEY KLAPPER / Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate panel on Wednesday advanced what could become some of the most significant U.S. sanctions on Russia since the end of the Cold War in a […]
NOVANEWS German Chancellor Angela Merkel lays out her governments policy on Ukraine by addressing delegates at the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house of parliament in Berlin on March 13, 2014. (AFP Photo / Odd Andersen). Germany’s […]
NOVANEWS RIA Novosti / Aleksandr Vilf Russia is ready to retaliate with counter sanctions against the EU and US if they go ahead with economic measures against Russia over tension in Crimea, the Russian Economic […]
NOVANEWS By Jim Puzzanghera WASHINGTON — The United States would not recognize a referendum by Crimea to leave Ukraine, and a shift of that region to Russia “is not a done deal,” a top Obama administration […]
NOVANEWS BY MATTHEW LEE AND JULIE PACE President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama walk across the South Lawn of the White House from Marine One, Sunday, March 9, 2014, in Washington, as they […]
NOVANEWS The Russian center-left has sent foreign allies a memorandum blaming the Ukrainian opposition for an anti-constitutional coup, and warning the European stance towards the Ukrainian extreme right can only aggravate the situation. The document […]