Pravda.ru / Russia

The project documentation for the construction of the bridge across the Kerch Straight, between mainland Russia and the Crimean Peninsula, has finally been approved officially. The accuracy of the estimated cost of the project has also been confirmed. The construction of the Kerch bridge will cost 211.851.575,730 rubles

Barack Obama no longer considers Russia a weak country. The opinion expressed by the US president means that the US elite shares similar thoughts as well. Washington has failed to destroy Putin either on Ukrainian or Syrian fronts. Obama called the Russian army the world's second strongest army

Ukrainian officials said that the country needs to recognize the existence of war between Russia and Ukraine to gain the support of the international community. Calling Ukraine a country "governed by the rule of law", Kiev blocks the movement of Russian heavy trucks to EU. Ukraine needs to make "mobilization plans to get ready for war conditions

There is a question about Russia's pull out from the WTO. During three years of our membership in the WTO, the Russian budget has lost 800 billion rubles. Indirect losses are evaluated at four trillion. "We are open to dialogue and trade, but we do not want to play by someone else's rules," Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov said

A growing number of Russian regions realize that tourist business, if properly organized, can be a good source of income. Belevsky pastille, Venevsky buns, Syzran tomatoes, Novgorod gingerbread, Arkhangelsk cod and many other delicious made-in-Russia products have been gaining popularity not only in Russia, but also abroad

Deputy Head of the Federal Air Transport Agency of the Russian Federation released a new statement on behalf of the department and addressed relatives of the victims of Flight MH17 disaster. The statement was released after the relatives of the victims requested Russia and Ukraine should reveal their radar data about the crash

For the last couple of years, the Western press has been feeding upon numerous reports and articles about the proposed collapse of the Russian economy and Russia as a nation. Many would often compare today's Russia with the USSR during the late 1980s, or with events in 1998 and 2008, when oil prices were in their decline too, just like they are now

A Russian military adviser was killed in a mortar attack in Syria on February 1. According to sources in the Syrian army, the shelling could be conducted from the side of Turkey. The shelling of command posts of Syrian armed forces in the north of the country has become more frequent during the recent several weeks

Russia has reached a completely new level of warfare technology during its operation in Syria. Yet, the US and its allies have all they need to do the same, but they do not try to succeed at this point. Poor quality of intelligence information and financial inefficiency in the operation against ISIL brings up obvious questions

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov called White House spokesman Josh Earnest's remarks about the Russian president "outrageous and offensive." In a recent press conference, Earnest stated that the US administration was sharing the view about Putin's corruptness. "We hope that our American colleagues will give us some explanations on that," Peskov said

China's Xinhua news agency, the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, has released a detailed and harsh statement about recent information attacks against Russia and China. Such attacks are enthusiastically conducted by bloggers, Western press and liberal media of Russia and Ukraine

The BBC that has repeatedly found itself in the midst of corruption scandals has released a propaganda documentary about Russian President Putin. This is how we can see the professional purity of the BBC journalism. What can we expect from the corporation that referred to the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin as "The Tomb of the Unknown Rapist?"

Historically, Russia has always fought intuitively for the survival of all mankind. Of course, the events do not always look this way. But whatever they look like, this huge country has repeatedly rebuffed the most powerful forces of evil which were becoming a threat to the very existence of our planet.

Why did Russia start the operation? The analysis shows that the fall of Damascus would have become a powerful factor for the Islamic State to strengthen and expand further. Syria has been our historical ally, and Russia could not leave Syria to the mercy of fate. It took Russian military men months to develop the Syrian operation

The Russian economy may recover in the next two years regardless of what will be happening to oil prices, former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said. the creation of federal reserves, the reduction of the Russian public debt and the free floating of the national currency may resume the growth of the Russian economy

the mass perception of Putin as the new leader is associated with the fact that 1999 became the year, when elderly Russians started receiving their pensions without delays for the first time in years. Afterwards, from 2004 to 2008, a completely new consumer environment was created. The Russians renewed their home appliances, many bought cars

The Soviet Union did not break up because of the oil prices, although it did create a number of problems for the country. The myth was created to conceal the consciously made choice of the then Soviet administration. The choice was to deliberately destroy the Soviet Union. They lied when they said that the Soviet Union was starving in 1990-1991 because of very poor harvest

Russia has been paying the PACE, the Council of Europe and the European Court for Human Rights for years. It just so happens that all these payments were made to receive criticism and listen to anti-Russian remarks, Russian officials said. In April 2014, Russia was stripped of its powers in the organization because of the crisis in Ukraine

If the air space in the zone of combat operations on the territory of Ukraine had been closed from the ground level without any restrictions in altitudes, the accident would not have happened. Russian officials are convinced that Ukrainian authorities deliberately concealed or misrepresented real threats to the safety of civil aviation flights

Russia started developing a new anti-aircraft artillery system that is said to replace well-known "Shilka" and "Tunguska" systems. The new anti-aircraft artillery system is to have the caliber of 57 millimeters. Serial production of anti-aircraft guns on mobile chassis started during the First World War