In response to requests by Western journalists the Pentagon officials said that they were unconcerned by Russia’s plans to parade military equipment on the Red Square on May 9 for the Victory Day parade in order to make a show of strength reminiscent of the Soviet times.

Территория Российской Федерации составляет 17.075.400 кв. км, из которых более 45% расположено за Полярным кругом, в полосе вечной мерзлоты и полярной ночи, протяженность государственной границы 58.322 км, общее количество населенных пунктов 157.895, из них более 30.000 до сих пор не имеют телефонной связи, а свыше 39.000 не имеют и жителей.

МИД Грузии официально уведомил российскую сторону о выходе из двустороннего соглашения между министерствами обороны двух стран о сотрудничестве в сфере ПВО от 19 апреля 1995 года. Соответствующая нота в понедельник была передана директором департамента МИД Грузии по  вопросам России Ираклием Торонджадзе посланнику России в Грузии Андрею Смагу, сообщили журналистам в грузинском …

The Bush administration has used military analysts working for leading TV networks to dupe the public with propaganda dressed as independent analysis and generate favorable coverage of its unpopular wars.   “This was a coherent, active policy,” Kenneth Allard, a former NBC military analyst, told The New York Times on …

Despite the total information blockade, in which the occupied Ichkeria lives, news reports unpleasant for Moscow from time to time nevertheless leak to the media that in “pacified Chechnya”, on the eve of departure of Putin from Kremlin, the war is still goes on.

China is building a major underground nuclear submarine base on the southern tip of Hainan Island, defence group Jane’s said Friday.

Late in January, Chechen puppet president Ramzan Kadyrov declared that only 60-70 “militants” remained in Chechnya. Kadyrov had promised to eliminate all rebels before the arrival of spring. “This is their last winter, believe me,” Ramzan said repeatedly (Interfax, January 23). Why the Chechen president made such a bold statement …

Kavkaz-Center has asked the head of the Informational-Analytical Service of the Caucasus Emirate, Movladi Udugov, to comment on the recent deterioration of relations between Georgia and Russia, their mutual accusations of preparations for military aggression, reports in Russian media about the so called veterans of Georgian-Abkhazian war, members of the …

The chief of staff of Abkhaz troops Merab Kishmaria said that the Abkhaz armed forces had been put on combat alert for possible armed provocations by the Georgian side.   “We are in the loop about Georgian plans for a military intervention in Abkhazia. We are ready … and our …

Kavkaz Center’s source reported that a clash between the unit of Mujahideen and the united gang of murtadin and Russian kuffar occurred in the morning of May 2, 2008. The source reported that the battle lasted several hours.