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MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Police...

MOSCOW, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Police in Russia"s Urals have detained a gang of skinheads on suspicion of the cold-blooded murder of a homeless man, regional media said on Tuesday.


MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results...

MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday.


NALCHIK, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - Two policemen...

NALCHIK, July 13 (RIA Novosti) - Two policemen were killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in Russia"s volatile North Caucasus region, the republican investigative committee said on Sunday. The attack was carried out late on Saturday in the village of Neitrino of the republic"s Elbrus district, when the assailants opened fire at security police officers, the investigative committee said. The volatile province has seen a surge in militant attacks against police and civilians in recent months. Fighting and terrorist attacks also occur in neighboring Chechnya, devastated by two Moscow-led military campaigns against separatists in the 1990s- early 2000s.

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MOSCOW, August 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's...

"Currently, four Tu-160 [Blackjack], 12 Tu-95 [Bear-H] strategic bombers, 14 Tu-22 [Backfire-C] theater bombers, and four Il-78 [Midas] tankers are in the air. Today and tomorrow they will conduct simulated bombing raids and more than ten cruise missile launches at the Pemboi range near Vorkuta [in Russia's Arctic], and fly over the North Pole, the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, Alexander Drobyshevsky said.

The spokesman said six long-range aviation regiments were involved in the exercises to practice interaction with fighter aircraft, air refueling, and overcoming of enemy air defenses.

Units of the 37th Air Army of the Strategic Command will conduct a total of six tactical exercises in August as part of an annual training program, the Defense Ministry earlier said in a statement.

According to various sources, the Russian Air Force currently deploys 141 Tu-22M3 bombers, 40 Tu-95MS bombers, and 14 Tu-160 planes.




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