Muammar Gaddafi’s forces, comprised of an incongruous mixture of the military, militias and professional mercenaries who are veterans of massacres in Chad and Darfur, have launched an offensive. Foreign correspondents say that they are...

Discussions over the Kuril Islands in Russia have become quite practical: is it necessary to transform the old Soviet 18th machine gun artillery division into a “modern style” motorised rifle brigade and fortify the anti-aircraft defence...

After completion of withdrawal of the Russian troops from the security zones established after the combat operations were over, the situation in the region is not getting less tense, while the threat of another large-scale war seems to be...

11 September Dmitry Medvedev held a meeting in the Kremlin, dedicated to the “questions of development of the military forces”. The meeting being a secret one, published was only the introductory speech by the President about “making new...

Monday morning a small unmanned aircraft was shot down by Georgian policemen guarding the oil pipe-line Baku-Supsa, North-East of Gori, near the village of Tsitelubani. The aircraft flying at the height of 50 m was shot down with gun fire....

Open face-off with the West, US and NATO after the August war with Georgia was not a surprise for the Russian military and political leadership, and their response was quite prompt. Since 1st September “the most large-scaled complex...