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[Link] A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Massive ‘Satan’ Nuclear Missile
Read: 23/11/2022 www.vice.com
In April 2022, two months after Russia escalated its invasion of Ukraine, the Kremlin test fired a RS-28 Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), a weapon the West calls the Satan 2.
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[Link] Russia to Build Its Own Orbiting Space Station, Abandon ISS
Read: 27/7/2022 www.vice.com
Before he was removed as Russia’s space chief, Rogozin feuded with NASA astronauts, implied that Russia could crash the station into the United States, and shared a video that joked about the nation marooning an American astronaut in space.
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[Link] Russia’s Ambassador to the US Says He Hasn’t Talked to Putin in Almost 5 Years
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s top diplomat in the U.S.
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[Link] $35m chalets, $14,000 bottles of wine and $700 tips: Russians made this town rich. Now they have vanished
Read: 10/4/2022 www.abc.net.au
Before the war against Ukraine started just over a month ago, the exclusive French ski resort of Courchevel was buzzing with wealthy Russians. They constituted 7 per cent of its tourist population, but in terms of the town's income, Russia's elite were a goldmine.
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[Link] There’s No Such Thing as a ‘Non-Kinetic’ No-Fly Zone
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
On March 7, Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich tweeted a thread of various Ukraine and defense updates.
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[Link] Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary general of the transatlantic alliance.
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[Link] ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact
Read: 4/11/2021 www.defenseone.com
The United States’ “Five Eyes” intelligence-sharing pact is a World War II relic that needs updating to better keep tabs on China, the chairman of a key house subcommittee on intelligence told Defense One. Arizona Democrat Rep.
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