Surprise DNA test confirms Putin is heir to Russian royals!!
I knew he had that regal flair.......
Surprise DNA test confirms Putin is heir to Russian royals!!
I knew he had that regal flair.......
Lukashenko said that he knows nothing about plans to set up a Russian air base in Belarus and added that his nation doesn’t need it, according to state news agency Belta.
“I feel surprised and, to some extent, angry and annoyed by that,” he said.
The Belarusian leader’s statement follows Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order to his government last month to sign an agreement on a Russian military base in Belarus.
It emerged last night that RAF fighter pilots have been granted permission to shoot down Russian jets if they come under attack while completing missions over Iraq.
Pilots were given the shocking order as UK ministers wanted Russia is making the situation in the Middle East "much more dangerous".
RAF jets will be armed with advanced short range air-to-air missiles and British and Nato pilots have been told to fight for their lives if they are fired upon by Vladimir Putin’s air force.
Senior defence sources said it is likely British fighter jets will become embroiled in a deadly air battle with Russian aircraft sooner rather than later.
Yes, but part of the deal is that now they will actually be armed to be able to do so.
It is doubtful the RAF would send tactical aircraft into Indian Country without an ASRAAM or two on the rails...even before Russian involvement in Syria.
Standard & Poor's says the budget deficit will balloon to 4.4pc of GDP this year, including short-falls in local government spending and social security. The government has committed a further $40bn to bailing out the banking system.
Deficits on this scale are manageable for rich economies with deep capital markets. It is another story for Russia in the midst of a commodity slump and a geopolitical showdown with the West. Oil and gas revenues cover half the budget.
"They can't afford to run deficits at all. By the end of next year there won’t be any money left in the oil reserve fund," said Lubomir Mitov from Unicredit. The finance ministry admits that the funds will be exhausted within sixteen months on current policies.
A Russian military satellite which parked itself between two US Intelsat satellites did not put them at risk, a Russian space expert says.
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Intelsat General Corp. operates about 50 satellites, some of which are used by the US military, including for drone missions and communications with "remote military outposts".
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"It's now parked next to another Intelsat satellite," he said.
The USS Ronald Reagan scrambled its fighter jets earlier this week after two Russian naval reconnaissance aircraft flew within one nautical mile of the U.S. aircraft carrier as it sailed in international waters east of the Korean Peninsula, according to 7th Fleet officials. In the latest in a series of incidents involving Russian aircraft, two Tupolev Tu-142 Bear aircraft flew as low as 500 feet Tuesday morning near the Reagan, which has been conducting scheduled maneuvers with South Korean navy ships.