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Russia held military events on a group of disputed islands off Hokkaido on Saturday, commemorating the day designated by Moscow as the anniversary of its victory over Japan in the Pacific War in 1945. The events, held on three of the four islands known collectively as t...

Mikhail Gorbachev enters history as a tragic figure—a pragmatist who ruled the Soviet Union for 66 months, believing he could save its dysfunctional, Russian-led imperium with liberalizing reforms. Yet Gorbachev’s struggle to humanize the Soviet machine led to its collapse. And while he and his Western counterparts managed to end the Cold War, Gorbachev in his final months watched his successor ignite in Ukraine a catastrophic version of the bloodshed he had labored to avert in Europe. Whene...

The Kremlin placed its potent fighter jets on combat alert as Russia's large-scale week-long military exercise, Vostok 2022, commenced.

The Vostok 2022 strategic command and staff drills are running on September 1-7 under the command of Chief of Russia’s General Staff Valery Gerasimov

The week-long military drills include 50,000 troops from 14 countries.

During the drills, the coalition troops will practice defensive and offensive operations in repelling a notional enemy’s aggression in the eastern area for the purposes of maintaining peace in the Eastern region

The crews of Su-35S, Su-30SM and MiG-31 fighters of the Eastern Military District went on air defense combat alert at operational aerodromes in the Khabarovsk, Primorsky and Kamchatka Regions and the Chukotka Autonomous Region

In total, more than 50,000 servicemen, more than 5,000 units of weapons and military equipment will be involved in the Vostok-2022 exercises

A 28-year-old Russian woman, Veronika Khomchuk, has been accused of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl so her boyfriend could rape the girl.

It is noted that the Vostok 2022 strategic maneuvers will bring together over 50,000 troops and more than 5,000 items of armaments and military hardware