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Russian Fighters, Caught in Ukraine, Cast Adrift by Moscow

From his hospital bed in the Ukrainian capital, Russian fighter Alexander Alexandrov feels abandoned by his country, its leaders and even the local Russian consul.

Alexandrov, 28, says he's a Russian soldier who was captured in east Ukraine after bein

Putin Classifying Troop Losses Proves They're in Ukraine

- Military servicemen who are killed, injured or go missing can be considered military losses, meaning their relatives will be forced to keep information about their deaths a secret, lawyers said Thursday.

Legal amendments introduced Thursday that cla

Kremlin's separatists launch psychological warfare on Donbas residents

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have begun manipulating residents by sending out mass text messages to discredit Ukrainian authorities, a military spokesman said.

"They have equipment that mimics the work of mobile phone operators. On Ap

Ukraine prospects of peace: Life in Luhansk after 'independence'

4 April 2015 Last updated at 00:02 BST

Russia issues nuclear threat over Crimea and Baltic States

Russia has threatened to use nuclear force against the United States and its Nato allies over Crimea and the Baltic States, in a stark warning reportedly issued by Moscow's envoys to their counterparts earlier this month.

At a closed-door bilateral me

Will WW3 happen this year? Are Putin preparing for open war?

(article has been translated with google translate)

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on conscription of citizens of the Russian Federation, in reserve, for military training.

According to the document, this year's military train

The new Putler-influenced (un)freedom of Crimea

Freedom in the world 2015: No civil liberties in Crimea after annexation

Freedom in Ukraine has improved, while civil liberties are on the decline in Russia. The situation in Russian-annexed Crimea is even worse than in the Russian Federation as a who

Global Security is Placed At Risk By US Foreign Policy - President Putin Speaks Out

Selamat bratzo..! (Sirian for "be in satisfaction..!")

Today, one of the prominent BRICS Earth Allies, known to you all as Russia's President Putin, spoke out with much welcome frankness, about some very important world security issues, at the Valda

Putin's Pique

Putin's Piques

by David Remnick

In 1990, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn emerged from his isolation in Cavendish, Vermont, and issued a vatic manifesto entitled “How to Revitalize Russia.” Published at great length in Komsomolskaya Pravda, it was a document out

Why Putin is driving Washington nuts

By Pepe Escobar

Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington's top bogeym