The revelation that Ukraine is the recipient of the lion’s share of German funds for civil society support in Eastern Europe shows that Berlin is keen to stake out a leading political role there, Russian Duma Deputy Aleksey Plotnikov told Radio Sputnik.
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Russia has nothing to do with the suspected “acoustic” attack on US diplomats in Cuba, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday.
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Next month’s joint Russian-Belarusian Zapad-2017 exercises have prompted hysteria from Polish officials and media, which have described the ‘dangerous’ drills as ‘the largest since the end of the Cold War’. Speaking to Sputnik, Vice Admiral (ret.) Marek Toczek and independent analyst Konrad Rekas explained the real motives behind the fearmongering.
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In the wake of successful drills involving the Russian electronic warfare system Krasukha-4, Sputnik looks into why such systems are of paramount importance to the defense capability of the country’s army.
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The B61 is an American nuclear gravity bomb. Its development was initiated by the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, in 1960. The first test was conducted in August 1963 and the bomb was eventually adopted in 1968.
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