Shanghai six: a strength test
The active final phase of the antiterrorist exercises Peace Mission-2007 with participation of heads of the member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)...
Blackseafor as a tool of geopolitical influence
Multinational operational tactical exercises of navies of the countries of the Black Sea region Blackseafor are being held now in the Black Sea. These...
North Caucasus is alerted again
No sooner the soldiers sheathed the weapons after Southern Border-2007 (SB-2007) exercises of the North Caucasian Military District held in the middle of July...
Ukraine wants friendship with Russia
Against the background of political contradictions existing in the Ukraine, Kiev attempts to normalize its relations with Russia. This step has a simple explanation:...
Russia started conversion of its strategic missiles
Russia starts large-scale use of discarded strategic missiles RS-20 (SS-18 according to Western classification) for launching its satellites. This program was named Dnepr. It...
Kalashnikov brand: achievements and problems
The 60th anniversary of the creation of the Kalashnikov automatic rifle AK-47 was actively celebrated in Russia in early July. In the last 30-40...
On the quality of conscript resources of Russia
Last week, Major General Valery Kulikov, chair of the central military medical commission of the Defense Ministry, published the data manifesting extremely low levels...
Russia chooses a hard line
On the eve of the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President George Bush, Moscow takes unprecedented hard-line actions for defending its...
New integration attempts
Last Wednesday, a preplanned meeting of the council of the defense ministers (SMO) of the CIS countries was held in Moscow. The ministers discussed...
Omsk justified the expectations
Last week (between June 5 and 9), the seventh international show of military hardware, technologies and armament of the ground forces VTTV-Omsk-2007 was held...
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Monitoring of the media
Why people use media monitoring
Monitoring of the media Media monitoring is a simple and efficient, though rather laborious method allowing one to keep track of...
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