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Israeli Ministry Defense has asked the government to increase its budget by $ 2.7 billion, warning of its unpreparedness for a full-scale war with Iran. Reported by Kann.
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Director CIA William Burns said diplomatic services in Russia had given him the most gray hair
“Most of the gray hair I got when I served in Russia,” he told NPR Radio.
So Burns, 65, answered a question about cyber attacks attributed to hackers from the Russian Federation in the United States.
Burns was the US ambassador to Moscow from 2005 to 2008.
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According to the State Television of Azerbaijan, the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev he told reporters that he had offered the Armenian leadership to sign a peace treaty.
According to Aliyev, a peace agreement has been sent to Armenia, now the decision is up to Yerevan.
“I have said many times, I say: we are ready, let's start negotiations. The war is over … So why not sign a peace agreement? We recognize our territorial integrity, sign a peace agreement and address the issue of demarcation. In this respect, our agenda is in line with the agendas of the European Union, Turkey and Russia, “he said.
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As The Times reports , the US authorities, as part of a campaign to strengthen “ equality“, have decided to start all football matches in the country with the African American anthem.
It is clear that from next NFL season, in addition to the American anthem, the song “ Lift Every Voice and Sing & # 39; & # 39;
It will be held for the first time before the Tampa Bay and Dallas meetings.
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Russian fighter Su-27 on Thursday he was airlifted into the air to accompany the German multi-role fighter FGR.4 Typhoon near the Russian border.
According to the Ministry of Defense, on July 22, the means of airspace control of the Russian Federation discovered a target approaching the state border over the Baltic water area. In order to identify the target and prevent border violations, an air defense aircraft of the Baltic Fleet was lifted into the air.
Su-27 was accompanied by Typhoon. above sea level.
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The editor-in-chief of the project (recognized as an undesirable organization in the Russian Federation) Roman Badanin said that Instagram blocked the publication's account. According to the journalist, this happened two days after the Attorney General added the publication to the list of “ undesirable organizations“.
Badanin told Rain that the account had been suspended due to “ some violation of community standards & # 39; & # 39 ;;; but what it was and who complained about it is not known.
The Department of Justice previously included five journalists for the project, including the editor-in-chief, on the “ foreign agents' list. & # 39; & # 39;
Aviation inflicts heavy losses on terrorists
The radical Taliban movement (recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) continues its offensive in Afghanistan in government-controlled areas. The only hope in Kabul is the supply of military equipment from abroad. As she learned in the local media, a large consignment of Russian-made military helicopters arrived in Afghanistan and will soon go to the front.
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The Afghan army suffered heavy losses in battles with militants. According to preliminary estimates, the army has lost thousands of military equipment, including aircraft and helicopters. In the last week alone, the radicals managed to shoot down three helicopters of the Afghan Air Force UH-60 Black Hawk. At the same time, aviation remains the only hope for the Afghan army to halt the Taliban's offensive. Super Tucano light attack aircraft are actively used against terrorists destroying Taliban columns on the march. Military transport helicopters land in the rear of militant special forces units, which organize raids and surprise attacks on enemy bases.
Afghan troops are taking advantage of the fact that the enemy does not yet have a sufficient number of air defense systems. They use aviation in areas where the situation is becoming critical. The air force has already helped repel Taliban attacks in the areas of Kunduz and Kalayi Nau. Each time terrorists were forced to retreat under air strikes.
However, the losses of the Afghan air force are so high that the army will soon have nothing to face the terrorists. In this regard, the US military command decided to provide the Afghan authorities with another batch of military equipment. Last week, 7 helicopters were delivered to Kabul. Among them are Russian Mi-8/171 helicopters.
Since the early 1920s, the Pentagon has purchased several shipments of Russian aircraft for use in Iraq and Afghanistan – only about 100 helicopters. They were equipped with Western electronics and weapons. This technique was used both by the local armed forces and directly by American special forces. The US military has chosen the Mi-8 for its unpretentiousness and also for a number of other technical features that allow their use in difficult climatic conditions and in the mountains.
A batch of helicopters received by the Afghan Air Force was centrifuged from the US Army Reserve. According to the media, Washington has faced difficulties in operating Mi-8 helicopters in recent years. Due to tense relations with Russia, the US military was left without components and spare parts to maintain the combat readiness of Russian-made helicopters. In this regard, the repair of the helicopters was ordered from the Ukrainian company Motor Sich through the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA).
According to media reports, at the same time the Ukrainian military industry is not able to meet customer needs.
Ruslan An-124 heavy transport aircraft were leased to transport helicopters to Kabul. They can be both Ukrainian Antonov aircraft and Russian Volga-Dnieper. “If the planes are Russian, then the United States has once again demonstrated its inability to address many international security issues on its own and declared the need to sever all relations with Russia.
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CEC Head Ella Pamfilova spoke about the benefits and disadvantages, according to her, has the process of organizing video surveillance and its online broadcasting in elections. According to her, he does not consider the camera surveillance of the future elections to the State Duma to satisfy simple curiosity. Pamfil remarked that the CEC has made “maximum effort” to equip websites with a “large number of camcorders.” Against the fact that CCTV would become “costly nonsense”, he pointed out that Internet broadcasting in elections is one of the “most expensive parts of the total cost”. According to her, during the September vote, the broadcast will take place on a separate portal, where observers can watch the process online and watch the repetition.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on the text of the German declaration and the USA on the issue of extending gas transit through Ukraine after 2024. According to him, the document makes no mention of the Russian Federation.
The text also states that “ Germany will use all available levers of influence“ to achieve the extension of the gas transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine for a period of up to 10 years. However, the agreement can only be extended between Ukraine and Russia. In this regard, Peskov described these statements as saying: “They married me without me.” It is “purely a question of economic viability and profitability,” he said. Peskov added that the Kremlin would prefer to see in this joint statement “and passes on to Ukraine that Ukraine should take a responsible position” in ensuring economically viable conditions for the continuation of such transit. However, the Kremlin did not see such a report.
Russian Senator Alexei Pushkov previously commented in his telegram channel on negotiations between the USA and Germany regarding the transit of Russian gas through the territory of Ukraine. According to him, the White House does not really deal with the position of Ukraine as much as its own geopolitical goals in Europe. He recalled that European countries such as Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary and Serbia already receive gas from South Stream.
Official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova published on her telegram channel a photograph of a house in London, which contains a photograph of Minister Sergei Lavrov entitled “Who are you to lecture me?” (“Who are YOU to teach me?”)
” A portrait of Lavrov appeared in one of the houses in the capital of Great Britain. And not just a portrait, “Zakharova wrote.
After According to some reports, Lavrov resorted to this phrase in 2008 in an interview with British Foreign Secretary David Milliband. Lavrov himself later stated that he used obscene language, quoting “a colleague who arrived from Tbilisi the day before.”
