The survey aims to evaluate global conflicts based on their likelihood of occurring or/and escalating, as well as their possible impact on US national interests. This year report said that the top priority for Washington should be a further intensification of the Syrian conflict.

"By prioritizing conflicts based on their overall risk to the United S...

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The press-secretary noted that such political ‘technologies’ were used to provoke the population to violently overthrow the regime.

“These red flags of such political technologies, they are visible everywhere in similar manner. And without a doubt, in many respects what we saw in Uk...

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Emotions during accidents are inevitable, but they should not influence governmental decision-making, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“Emotions are inevitable, but they should not influence the quality of decisions because these decisions are in the interests of millions of people, m...

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Putin emphasized the importance of being careful when it comes to nuclear weapons, stating that although Russia has its nukes ready, it "never either swung or would never swing its nuclear club at others."

"I hope no person is insane enough on Planet Earth who would dare to use nuclear ...

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In one of its publications, German political magazine Cicero called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "Man of the Year".

"It is impossible not to admit that Putin has managed to become a key figure in world politics", Editor-in-Chief Christoph Schwennicke wrote in the publication.

"There...

Russia cannot leave people residing in southeastern Ukraine to the nationalists, and there is nothing excessive about this position, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

"Everyone perfectly understands everything but they think they need to pressure Russia more so that it yields something somewhere. By the way, this is not our...

U.S. tactical nuclear weapons in Europe are a bigger threat to Russia than Russian weapons are a threat to the United States, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

"U.S. tactical nuclear weapons have always been there [on the planes] after WWII, after America became a nuclear power. They are simply modernizing them now," the...

Ten people, including three children, have been hospitalized in Volgograd as a result of a household gas explosion in an apartment house on Kosmonavtov Street, Russian Health Ministry press secretary Oleg Salagai has told Interfax.

"Ten people hurt in a household gas explosion in an apartment house of the city have been taken to...

China’s acquisition of the Su-24 is a pointer to the weaknesses in its domestic fighter programs, but is also a sign that the Russia-China strategic alignment is more than skin deep.