US President Barack Obama has completed his official visit to Cuba. At the international airport. José Martí in Havana was personally accompanied by Cuban leader Raul Castro. On Tuesday, Obama delivered an address to the Cuban people, thanking the local people for their hospitality and reminding ...
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced the onset of a new cold war between NATO and the Russian Federation. He made this statement during his speech at the Munich Security Conference, Interfax reports. “In our assessment, NATO’s political line remains unfriendly and closed...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that if twenty more American atomic bombs are deployed in Germany, Russia will be forced to take countermeasures. “Of course, this is another step, and, unfortunately, a very serious step towards escalating tension on the European continent,”...
The United States plans to deploy modernized nuclear bombs B61-12 in Europe, which can be used by Tornado aircraft of the German Air Force, German media reported. Since the third quarter of 2015, funds have been allocated from the US military budget to adapt these ammunition for German aviation. Bundesluftwaffe aircraft, ...
Unofficial radio exchanges and holiday greetings between Russian and American military pilots have become a tradition since the Cold War. Thus, a source in the naval aviation of the Russian Navy commented on the incident on July 4, 2015 to Lente.ru, noting that it cannot be considered ...
“Today Russia has more flexible, multifaceted and large-scale relations with the outside world [compared to Soviet times]. It has contracts with Western companies worth many billions of dollars. It is highly dependent on the international market. Its citizens travel by the millions...
US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter has pledged that Washington will oppose Moscow's attempts to restore the Soviet sphere of influence. As reported by the Associated Press, he stated this at the Berlin research center Atlantik Brucke, which deals with issues of German-American relations. “We don't want cold and ...
US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that Russia is trying to restore the zones of foreign policy influence, as it was in Soviet times. The US and its allies will not let the Kremlin throw them back into the past, the minister added. Speaking in Berlin, Carter said that the allies in ...
The United States has short-term and long-term problems in Russia. The first problem is temporary, and it is simpler, it is the hostile attitude of Vladimir Putin and his closest circle to Washington. The second problem is more long-term, and it is much more complicated, it is the hostility of ...
Against the background of the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, talk of a "new cold war" has become fashionable. Even experts who have studied the Soviet Union and Russia from the distant times of mutually guaranteed destruction and detente to the collapse of communism say that the normalization of relations between Russia ...