Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB] announced on May 14 that it had caught a CIA agent in Moscow red-handed in the process of recruiting a Russian man who was in fact a FSB undercover agent. “The FSB’s counterintelligence service detained a CIA agent, who was working in [...]
Sol W. Sanders That loud noise you hear now coming out of the Middle East is the sound of a frighteningly dangerous game of chicken between Russia and Israel [and inferentially the U.S.]. Last minute pleas by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Soviet President Vladimir Putin delivered at Sochi on the Black Sea [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan has undergone satellite topography mapping in the search for energy. Canada’s WesternZagros Resources has overseen the completion of satellite topography mapping of an energy block in Kurdistan. The target was the Garmian block, which encompasses 1,780 square kilometers. and also includes Russia’s Gazprom. WesternZagros, which [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com A large-scale military drill was ordered by Russian President Vladimir Putin last week to intimidate a defiant Georgia for rejecting a Kremlin-proposed draft of a non-aggression pact that would recognize the runaway region of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Yet while the drill was going on in earnest, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has been examining the expansion of its new task force in the Mediterranean Sea. The Russian Navy said its Mediterranean task force could reach six warships in 2013. The Navy said it could contribute one or more nuclear submarines in operations near Syria. “Depending on the scope of assignments [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has denied plans to export an advanced long-range air defense system to Syria. The Kremlin said Russia would not deliver the S-300PMU2 to the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. Officials said Moscow has completed all air defense projects with Damascus. “Russia has sold and signed contracts a long [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com The conviction of a former Dutch diplomat has exposed a wide net of Russian espionage against the West that traces its roots back to the Soviet KGB era. On April 23, a three-judge panel in the Hague sentenced Raymond Poeteray to 12 years in prison for having [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid The claim that the Russians somehow “warned” the U.S. about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as established fact. But while U.S. intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have been treated with kid gloves and even [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com MOSCOW — Russia has reported an attack on its aircraft by Sunni rebels in Syria. The Russian Transportation Ministry said a passenger jet was shot by surface-to-air missiles during a flight over Damascus. The ministry said the charter aircraft, which flew 159 people, came under fire on April 29 during a flight [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com For decades, the Russians have been brutally suppressing the Chechnya independence movement. While the U.S. has been fighting Al Qaida-inspired terrorists worldwide, Russia’s obsession with Chechnya rarely occupied a prominent spot in America’s national awareness. That was all changed nearly two weeks ago in Boston when two [...]
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