The system identifies and warns of missile launches and provides missiles’ flight path data for government and military control centers MOSCOW, November 30. /TASS/. Russia has created a full coverage radar system of warning of a missile attack, the chairman of the board of directors and general designer of the RTI concern, chief designer of the missile attack warning system Sergey Boyev said on Thursday. "Last year we commissioned three long-range radars. In accordance with the president’s instructions we created the full coverage peripheral radar system unparalleled in the past," he said. The system of warning of a missile attack identifies and warns of missile launches and provides missiles’ flight path data for government and military control centers. Also, it provides data concerning space objects for monitoring outer space. New generation radars of the Voronezh type constitute the backbone of the warning system’s ground infrastructures. Currently four Vorone...
Several US media outlets to be banned from State Duma events - Zakharova Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that up to ten US media outlets will be banned from visiting the lower house of Russian parliament, speaking in a meeting of the State Duma's Standing Committee on Rules in Moscow on Monday. "I would like to emphasise we in no case deprive those US media representatives of the accreditation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They are able to freely continue working as journalists in the Russian Federation," Zakharova noted. Zakharova's statement comes shortly after the US Congress withdrew RT America's accreditation on Capitol Hill. The spokesperson confirmed that Moscow's retaliatory measure would only apply to "those media which are funded by US Department of State and BBG." However, she refrained from naming the media organisations, saying instead, ''Let it be a surprise."
Russia's top diplomat recalled that the United States’ newly-adopted nuclear doctrine considerably lowers the threshold of using nuclear weapons MOSCOW, October 18. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes that Moscow and Washington should reaffirm the idea it will be impossible to win a nuclear war. "The Americans and we have made two fundamental statements since the Soviet era to the effect nobody can win a nuclear war and for that reason it cannot happen. It might be a good idea to reaffirm this postulate in the current context," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview to RT France, Paris Match and Le Figaro. Lavrov recalled that the United States’ newly-adopted nuclear doctrine considerably lowers the threshold of using nuclear weapons. "Low yield nuclear warheads are being made with the obvious intention to use them as a possible means of warfare, which would conceptually undermine all existing agreements stipula...
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