RIA Novosty / Russia

Russia will adequately respond to what it sees as an “unrestrained expansion” of NATO’s missile defenses, a top defense ministry official said on Friday.

The Russian Navy is preparing for a six-month expedition to the Antarctica, the first in more than three decades, the Defense Ministry announced on Thursday.

Russia was first to implement the next generation Armata project. Though the idea of such a tank was first developed in Germany, the latter lacked the funding and political will to put it into practice, die Welt wrote.

Russia's Defense Ministry refuted the statement made by the NATO chief that Russia had allegedly used military drills in order to hide the shift of troops to Ukraine.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev has been hospitalized in Moscow due to a "disease recurrence," Gorbachev told the Russian News Service radio Thursday.

Western political thinking about its relationship with Russia is simplistic, inaccurate and often partial and misleading, according to a new report from the UK-based think tank Chatham House.

German satirist Uwe Steimle made fun of the common propaganda statements, according to which Russia is an aggressor attempting to acquire more and more territories under its control. The difference between Russia and the West is that "Russians left" Germany a long time ago, while "American friends" modernize nuclear weapons on German soil, he said.

Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation system will be fully operational before the end of this year, the Russian Space Systems head said in an interview, published Thursday.

A Russian MiG-31 (Foxhound) interceptor successfully downed a cruise missile that was fired by a Tu-95MS (Bear) strategic bomber over the Pemboi Range in Russia’s northwestern region, the Russian Defense Ministry’s Central Military District’s press service said Thursday.

Despite rounds of sanctions imposed by the West, Russia continues search for alternative ways of economic development, Spanish daily newspaper ABC wrote.

Russia is fortifying its border with Ukraine amid the ongoing conflict in the neighboring country, the head of the country’s Border Guard Service said Thursday.

The 28th Russian humanitarian convoy for residents of Ukraine’s southeastern regions (Donbas) will leave for Donetsk and Luhansk on Thursday, carrying over 1,000 metric tons of aid to the crisis-hit areas.

The ship is being built according to schedule. The first corvette of the newest class was built in the Far East and launched on May 25.

The European Union’s Court of Justice registered a lawsuit filed by Russia’s largest defense manufacturer Almaz-Antey disputing sanctions imposed against the company, the court said on its website.

Russia is capable of building its own equivalent of Mistral-class helicopter carrier equipped with nuclear power engines as Moscow is aware of the design of the French-made ship, deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma's Committee on Industry Vladimir Gutenev told RIA Novosti.

The effects of the European Union's sanctions against Russia are still being felt across the bloc's member states, with many businesses in Germany's north "seriously affected" by the trade embargoes, Schleswig Holstein's state finance minister has said.

Latvian armed forces posted on Twitter that a Russian submarine and ship were allegedly seen near the Latvian border.

In July 2013, a Proton-M carrying three Russian GLONASS satellites crashed in flames shortly after liftoff.

Air defense units from Russia’s Central Military District have been re-deployed to the Kapustin Yar and Ashuluk testing ranges, located in the Astrakhan region in the country’s south, as part of a snap combat-readiness check, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press service said Wednesday.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin reprimanded a military industrial official for his misleading statements that Russia has decided not to buy two Mistral-class helicopter carriers from France, the Russian Kommersant newspaper reported Wednesday.