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Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former employee of the CIA and the
National Security Agency (NSA),
hit the media spotlight after he leaked to press information
about an extensive surveillance program by the US government, which allegedly monitored phone and electronic conversations of millions of Americans.
Russia's leading aerospace exhibition and air show MAKS-2013 will take place in Zhukovsky (Moscow region) on August 27 – September 1. A wide range of combat and civilian, mass-produced and prototype aircraft will be exhibited at the event.
A bilateral meeting between presidents of Russia and the United States is not on the agenda of the G20 summit in St. Petersburg due in early September, a senior US administration official said on Friday.
Russia assumed the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 nations for the first time on December 1, 2012. G20 is a forum of the world’s largest economies consisting of 19 countries and the European Union. It was established as an instrument of global crisis management following the 2008 economic crisis.
A military strike on Syria not sanctioned by the UN Security Council would be inadmissible no matter how “limited” it is, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
Syrian mass protests started in Daraa on the border with Jordan on
March 18. They were prompted by the arrest of a group of school students
who wrote anti-government mottos on walls. The unrest later spread to
other Syrian regions.
August 30 (RIA Novosti) – US President Barack Obama and the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania vowed Friday to cooperate on security and trade as the three ex-Soviet Baltic states made their first joint White House visit since joining NATO a decade ago.
Russia won’t negotiate any defense contracts with Iran as long as the Islamic Republic continues its litigation with Moscow over a failed S-300 air defense systems deal, a Russian deputy premier said on Friday.
US President Barack Obama said Friday that a potential military strike on Syria would be a “limited” operation aimed at punishing the Syrian government for a chemical weapons attack it allegedly carried out last week, comments that came amid flagging support from American citizens and allies for such an operation.1
A Syrian Christian church representative in New York called on Friday for the world community to peacefully resolve the “endless war” in Syria, amid US talks of military intervention in the two-year civil war.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that Russian “obstructionism” in the UN Security Council has pushed Washington to act against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, which Washington has blamed for a deadly chemical weapons attack last week, without waiting for a UN resolution.1
As US President Barack Obama decides how to respond to the apparent use of chemical weapons in Syria, two former American presidents who faced their own international crises offered some advice on Friday.
The Pentagon has opened a criminal investigation of a US Army aviation unit which granted contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to Russian and US firms for maintenance and overhaul of Russian helicopters, Reuters reported.
Secret “black budget” data leaked by Edward Snowden shows the United States has built a global “espionage empire” employing over 100,000 people in 16 spy agencies and costing tens of billions of dollars annually, the Washington Post reported Friday.
Ukraine and Russia are set to sign off on a joint production deal to modernize the An-124 heavy lift transport aircraft, with the final document to be signed in September, a Ukrainian government news bulletin said Friday.
US President Barack Obama is meeting Friday at The White House with the presidents of the former Soviet Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, for talks that are expected to focus on regional defense, trans-Atlantic trade, and energy and cyber security issues, the White House said.
US President Barack Obama should be stripped of his Nobel Peace Prize if the United States carries out a military strike on Syria, Alexei Pushkov, head of the Russian parliament’s International Affairs Committee, said Friday.1
Ukraine will decide through popular vote whether to sign a free-trade pact with the European Union or join the rival Russia-led Customs Union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych said Friday.