Alerts: Russia

11/24/12, Russia sends ships to Gaza coast in preparation for violence escalation.  The detachment of combat ships of the Black Sea Fleet, including the Guards missile cruiser Moskva, the patrol ship Smetliviy, large landing ships Novocherkassk and Saratov, the sea tug MB-304 and the big sea tanker Ivan Bubnov, got the order to remain in the designated area of the Eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea for a possible evacuation of Russian citizens from the area of the Gaza strip.

6/9/07, Vladimir Putin, whose term as Russian president ends next year, does not rule out running again in 2012, a leading Russian daily reported on Saturday. The future plans of the 54-year-old Putin, by far Russia's most powerful and popular politician, are the hottest topic of the Russian presidential succession.

5/31/07, President Vladimir Putin issued an acerbic warning Thursday to the United States, saying the recent test of a new Russian missile was a direct response to US actions and condemning "imperialism" in world affairs. "Our American partners have quit the ABM Treaty," Putin told reporters after meeting his Greek counterpart, referring to the landmark 1972 US-Soviet treaty limiting the missile defenses of the Cold War superpower foes.

5/29/07, Russian President Vladimir Putin has cautioned against turning Europe into a "powder keg", referring to Washington's plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Europe.

5/17/07, Russia on Wednesday launched a $22.5bn claim against a US bank for alleged collaboration in tax evasion, opening a new front in a widening political conflict with the west. The move comes on the eve of a Russia-European summit which itself has been overshadowed by bitter arguments between Moscow and Brussels. Many concede relations between Russia and the west have hit their lowest point since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.

5/16/07, A three-week wave of massive cyber-attacks on the small Baltic country of Estonia, the first known incidence of such an assault on a state, is causing alarm across the western alliance, with Nato urgently examining the offensive and its implications. Relations between the Kremlin and the west are at their worst for years, with Russia engaged in bitter disputes not only with Estonia, but with Poland, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, and Georgia

5/16/07, In a new book that "totally contradicts everything that has been accepted to this day" about the Six Day War, two Israeli authors claim that the conflict was deliberately engineered by the Soviet Union to create the conditions in which Israel's nuclear program could be destroyed.

5/13/07, Who was President Vladimir Putin talking about when he said the world faces threats to peace like those that led to World War II? Putin’s statement at a Victory Day parade on Red Square on Wednesday was artfully phrased to be both blunt and vague — but political observers have little doubt that one target was the United States.

5/11/07, While this issue has sparked large debate, the dangerous hypocrisy lies in the fact that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is not tackling a much larger neo-Nazi problem at home. According to human rights watchdogs, hate crimes across Russia were up 33 percent year-on-year on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday last month.

5/11/07, Their faces encased in Darth Vaderesque helmets, phalanxes of riot police descend on peaceful demonstrators, swinging their truncheons at anyone opposing President Vladimir Putin's increasingly authoritarian rule.

5/10/07, President Vladimir Putin of Russia obliquely compared the foreign policy of the United States to the Third Reich in a speech Wednesday commemorating the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, in an apparent escalation of anti-American rhetoric within the Russian government.

5/6/07, The pursuit of science in President Vladimir Putin's Russia is driven by profit alone and there was less government interference even under Josef Stalin, a Russian Nobel Prize winner said in a interview.

5/2/07, Journalists will mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May amid growing concern about what campaigners say is a continuing global decline in media freedoms. Russia is again singled out, as a country whose government is allegedly taking aggressive measures to curb media freedom.

5/2/07, Russian President Vladimir Putin told President Bush he could not account for all of Moscow's nuclear weapons at the same time al Qaeda was seeking to purchase three Russian nuclear devices on the black market, former CIA Director George J. Tenet said.

5/1/07, Mankind's second race for the moon took on a distinctly Cold War feel yesterday when the Russian space agency accused its old rival Nasa of rejecting a proposal for joint lunar exploration.

4/29/07, The head of Russia's space agency Sunday said the US has rebuffed an offer from Moscow to jointly explore the moon, while announcing a separate contract with NASA for nearly one billion dollars for the International Space Station.

4/27/07, President Vladimir Putin on Friday renewed criticism of U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Eastern Europe, saying Russia would take "appropriate measures" to counter the system.

4/26/07, President Vladimir Putin charged Thursday that foreigners seeking to thwart Russia's resurgence are increasingly interfering in its affairs.

4/26/07, A row between the United States and Russia over U.S. plans to build a missile shield in eastern Europe escalated on Thursday when President Vladimir declared a moratorium on a key European arms treaty.

4/22/07, Russia’s largest independent radio news network: opposition leaders will not be mentioned on the air and the United States is to be portrayed as an enemy.

4/20/07, Trust between the EU and Russia has reached its lowest level since the end of the Cold War, EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson has warned.

4/14/07, In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically 'connected', and legendary, radio hosts named Don Imus after his threats to release information relating to the September 11, 2001 attacks upon that country.

4/14/07, Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against President Putin's government, which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms Russians have enjoyed since the end of Soviet communism.

4/14/07, Pakistan and Russia pledged to boost economic ties and signed two cooperation agreements.

4/13/07, Russia's parliament alleged on Friday that the United States was helping train radical political groups which threatened the country's stability.

4/13/07, Billionaire Boris Berezovsky said he's helping to plan a revolution in Russia to overthrow President Vladimir Putin.

4/12/07, Deployment of U.S. missile-defense bases in Poland and the Czech Republic is an attempt by the U.S. to control Europe, the former Soviet president said Thursday. "It is all about influence and domination in Europe," Mikhail Gorbachev said. "I believe it is wrong that America did not even bother to consult its NATO allies." Asked how Russia could respond to these plans, he only said: "Time will show."

4/12/07, The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday expressed its annoyance to Tehran over an Iranian air defense exercise near a Russian-built nuclear plant.