MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will carry out a second deployment of new intercontinental ballistic missiles in December as part of President Vladimir Putin’s programme to modernise nuclear defences, local media reported on Saturday.
The deployments come at a time of strained relations between Russia and NATO over U.S. plans for a missile defence shield in [...]

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The battle for Moscow—the biggest, bloodiest clash in human history—helped turn the tide against Hitler. But the Soviet leader came closer than most realize to defeat.
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A RUSSIAN activist expected to take over a sinister youth group with ties to the Kremlin has warned that a campaign of harassment against the British ambassador in Moscow will be resumed if he shows support for the country’s beleaguered opposition in the run-up to parliamentary elections in December.
Nikita Borovikov, 26, who is being groomed [...]

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Beijing and Washington are building new alliances throughout the continent.
Yet the underlying message was clear enough. Taken together, the Malabar and Peace Mission exercises point to a potentially dangerous reality taking shape: the emergence of two competing security camps in Asia. On the one hand stands the United States, still the area’s dominant military power; [...]

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Russia is not only engaged in a military buildup. Russia wants to use its economic muscles. You might ask what economic muscles Russia could have? It is bankrupt, backward, hobbled, demoralized and generally dismissed as an effective economic actor. We must remember, however, that positions in the world economy can change, that tables can be [...]

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Putin’s Inspiration Is Much Older Than the Cold War
Having just grabbed a piece of the Arctic the size of Western Europe, the Russian military has announced ambitious plans to establish a permanent presence in the Mediterranean for the first time since the end of the Cold War. The guiding hand behind this Russian resurgence is [...]

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YEKATERINBURG, Russia, Aug. 31 — For the first time in 3 1/2 years, Russia on Friday allowed visiting American officials to look inside the world’s largest fortified warehouse for nuclear materials, a graveyard for plutonium that Russia has tried to keep closed.
The Fissile Material Storage Facility, a hulking fortress with walls 23 feet thick [...]

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