In footage released by the Ministry of Defense on Thursday, the newly modernized Marshal Shaposhnikov, an Udalay-class naval destroyer, let off its A-190 artillery unit, as well as its 30mm six-barrel cannon and at least two naval torpedoes in the Peter the Great Bay. The bay has been a hotspot …
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Stunning footage released by the Russian Defense Ministry on Saturday demonstrates the moment sailors on the K-551 Vladimir Monomakh submarine man their battle stations before launching a devastating payload of RSM-56 Bulava (‘Mace’) ballistic missiles towards their target some 5,000 kilometers away. All four missiles fired from the Sea of …
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Footage from RT’s Ruptly video agency shows total mayhem at the ‘Carrefour’ food store, as protesters ransacked the shop with seeming impunity. Products are seen littering the aisles as alarms are heard ringing in the background. Demonstrators also pelted the store with rocks, shattering its windows, and set a fire …
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A sizable ‘Count Every Vote’ rally that began in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon continued into the evening, drawing around 400 or 500 marchers, a local protest group estimated. Though the earlier action appears to have gone off without incident, with a large crowd allowed to march through the streets hoisting …
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The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) acknowledged the incident in a pair of tweets on Wednesday afternoon, not long after the illicit flyover was caught on film during the Trump rally. “At approx. [2pm] NORAD F-16 aircraft investigated a general aviation aircraft that was not in communication with [air traffic control] …
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The missile was fired from a land-based mobile launcher at a military facility in India’s eastern Odisha state. Its extended-range version can hit targets over 400km (248.5 miles) away, as opposed to the original model, which could travel 290km (180 miles). The head of the Defense Research and Development Organisation, …
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“We are removing false claims that the wildfires in Oregon were started by certain groups,” Andy Stone, policy communications manager at Facebook, tweeted late on Saturday. Defending what is effectively an act of censorship by the social media giant, Stone noted that speculation suggesting the blazes have been ignited by …
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In Russia there are 126 forest fires on the area of 74 685 thousand hectares, according to Avialesohrana. Per day was able to eliminate 62 of natural fire on the area of 5 thousand hectares in 18 regions of the Russian Federation. The largest fire is raging in Chukotka: there …
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TASS, 5 January. Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova donated $25 million to fight forest fires in Australia. She announced this on his Twitter page. “The last 15 years, Australia in January for a month has become my home (in these terms is the Australian Open – approx. TASS). It’s hard …
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President Putin on 6 August met in Sochi with flood victims in Irkutsk region — now a family of Tulun and other settlements caught in the flood zone, relax in the “Dagomys”. After the President’s visit to Irkutsk region was invited to Moscow and St Petersburg, on vacation in Sochi, …
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