| Russian warships leave Scotland for Atlantic Posted: Russian warships and support vessels which had taken shelter in the Moray Firth are heading for the Atlantic, according to the Royal Navy. HMS York has been tracking aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, a destroyer and two frigates. Three oil tankers in the task group left the warships to pass through the Pentland Firth on Thursday. [...]  |
| Russia seizes radioactive objects from flight to Iran Posted: Russian authorities seized radioactive material from the luggage of a passenger on a flight from Moscow to Tehran on Friday. The luggage, belonging to an Iranian citizen, contained 18 metal objects packed in individual steel cases, Russia’s Federal Customs Service said in a statement. The agency said the material, the radioactive isotope sodium-22, can be [...]  |
| Syria deploys Russian anti-sea missiles on coast, Scuds on Turkish border Posted: Expanded Russian military and diplomatic support for the Assad regime was underscored by the deployment Friday, Dec. 16, of advanced Moscow-supplied Yakhont (SSN-26) shore-to-sea missiles along Syria’s Mediterranean shore to fend off a potential Western-Turkish invasion by sea. Last week, Russia airlifted to Syria 3 million face masks against chemical and biological weapons and the [...]  |
| Russian missile chief: We can nuke your AMD Posted: Russian strategic missiles may target American anti-ballistic missile shield facilities in Europe, the commander of the Russian missile troops has warned. The missiles on duty have blank flight programs, but they can be promptly targeted at any destination, including the controversial European AMD sites, Lieutenant General Sergey Karakaev told journalists on Friday. "There are no [...]  |
| BREAKING NEWS: Radioactive material which was on its way to Iran seized at Moscow airport Posted: The Russian customs service said today it had seized radioactive material found in the luggage of a passenger bound for Tehran at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport. The service said in a statement that tests showed the material was a radioactive isotope which could be obtained only ‘as a result of a nuclear reactor’s operations’. More [...]  |
| Indefinite detention bill passes in Senate Posted: Exactly 220 years to the date after the Bill of Rights was ratified, the US Senate today voted 86 to 13 in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, allowing the indefinite detention and torture of Americans. After a back-and-forth in recent days between both the Senate and House yielded intense [...]  |
| Turkish military on war preparedness after Syrian Scud Ds moved to border Posted: War tensions around Syria rose alarmingly Thursday night, Dec. 15, when Turkey’s top military council convened “to review the armed forces’ preparedness for war” in response to the deployment of Syrian missiles, some tipped with chemical warheads, on their common border. DEBKAfile’s military sources report the meeting was led by Turkish President Abdullah Gul and Prime [...]  |
| IMF chief warns over 1930s-style Depression Posted: The world risks sliding into a 1930s-style slump unless countries settle their differences and work together to tackle Europe’s deepening debt crisis, the head of the International Monetary Fund has warned. On a day that saw an escalation in the tit-for-tat trade battle between China and the United States and a deepening of the diplomatic [...]  |
| Putin says US involved in Kadhafi killing Posted: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused the US special forces of being involved in the killing of deposed Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. “Who did this?” Putin said in his annual televised phone-in with Russians. “Drones, including American ones. They attacked his column. Then using the radio — through the special forces, who should [...]  |
| Russia proposes UN Security Council resolution on Syria crisis Posted: Russia on Thursday surprised the Western powers by proposing a Security Council resolution on the Syria crisis as international fears over the crisis grew, diplomats said. As a key ally of President Bashar al-Assad, Russia has tried to head off Security Council intervention in the Syria crisis. With China, it vetoed a council resolution proposed [...]  |
