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PARIS/BAMAKO, Feb 17 (Reuters) - France and military allies said on Thursday they would leave Mali after almost a decade based there fighting Islamist insurgents around West Africa, moving instead to Niger despite public disenchantment with Paris' role in the region. Coups in Mali, Chad and...

PARIS, Jan 25 (Reuters) - The military coup in Burkina Faso deals another heavy blow to France's fading efforts to stabilise the Sahel region, where Islamist militants have grown in strength and people's attitudes towards former colonial masters have hardened. Successive coups in Mali, Chad and...

The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, signed the Law On the Genocide of the Belarusian People during the Great Patriotic War – as BelTA was informed in the press service of the Belarusian leader. The law envisages legal recognition of the genocide of the Belarusian people committed by...

The specialists examined the dry dock and its equipment to check readiness of all mechanisms for operation Shipbuilding Complex “Zvezda” (Bolshoy Kamen, Primorsky Territory) announces the completion of its dry dock, one of the largest in the world. According to the statement, start-up and...

The "Sibir" will add to the rapidly growing fleet of powerful icebreakers tasked to keep the Northern Sea Route open for year-round shipping. The acceptance certificate was signed at a ceremony onboard the icebreaker at the Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg on December 24, Rosatomflot informs...

102 clerics of the Patriarchate of Alexandria from Africa joined the ROC. Photo: foto.patriarchia.ru The Russian Synod has announced reception of 102 African priests of the Patriarchate of Alexandria into its jurisdiction. Among its decisions made on December 29, 2021, the Synod of the ROC...

The source noted that NATO was in talks with Russia on this issue TASS, December 26. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has decided to convene a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC) on January 12, Anadolu Agency stated on Sunday, citing a source in the alliance. The source noted that...

Two Project 955A Borei-A strategic missile submarine cruisers will be laid down at Sevmash in 2023. The military-industrial complex reported this on Saturday, citing a source. TASS… According to the news agency, a corresponding contract should be signed in the coming year. Nuclear submarines...

A nuclear medicine center based on a cyclotron complex, as well as facilities for the production of radiopharmaceuticals, will be built in Serbia over the next three years Rusatom Overseas President Yevgeny Pakermanov and Serbian Innovation Minister Nenad Popovic © Serbian Minister for...

Silver Artifact Found in Scythian Barrow in Central Russia VORONEZH OBLAST, RUSSIA—According to a statement released by the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, an unusual silver plate bearing a mix of Greek images and images from Asia Minor has been recovered from the...

Two of Russia’s most famous aircraft manufacturers, Sukhoi and MiG, are going to be merged into one company under the leadership of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), according to company’s press release. The decision was taken in the last UAC directorate meeting on November 30, 2021...

Norway's Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced that it is in the country's best interests to protect its northernmost areas with its own armed troops. orway's Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt announced that it is in the country's best interests to protect its northernmost areas with its...

It has a guaranteed striking range of up to 14,500 meters MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. The export modifications of the latest Russian Ka-52M and Mi-28NM attack helicopters will receive a new multi-purpose missile codenamed item-305E, Deputy CEO of the High Precision Weapons Company (part of the...

The Tsirkon multi-purpose hypersonic missile is designated to strike sea and ground targets MOSCOW, November 27. /TASS/. Russia’s Military-Industrial Corporation Research and Industrial Association of Machine Building (MIC NPO Mashinostroyenia) in the Moscow Region town of Reutovo started a...

Russia has begun making the wings of the CR929. Parts of the Sino-Russian dual-aisle long-haul aircraft are currently under construction by the AeroComposite company in Ulyanovsk by the Volga River. After years of significant delays to the program, CRAIC is now targeting mass production of the...

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare1. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling2,3,4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 BC3...

According to Russia's top diplomat, since 2014, NATO has curbed any contacts with Russian mission, announced the complete termination of practical cooperation both in civilian areas and among the military MOSCOW, October 18. /TASS/. Russia is suspending the operation of its mission to NATO...