the number of U.S. bomber flights over the Sea of Okhotsk where they practiced reaching the points

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula was without internet and with intermittent mobile communication on Tuesday after a land cable broke, state news agency TASS and the region's department of digital development said." In Kamchatka, in the Elizovo area, a break in the main land cable occurred," the digital development department said on its Telegram messaging app. There was no information provided on what caused the break.... The department said that a" temporary partial transition to satellite communi

The Antonov An-26 with the same board number# RA-26085 as the missing plane is parked at Airport Elizovo outside Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, on Nov.... The plane belonged to a company called Kamchatka Aviation Enterprise.... The plane has been in operation since 1982, Russian state news agency Tass reported....

MOSCOW( AFP)-A search team recovered the bodies of nine people on Wednesday( July 7) after a passenger plane crashed in Russia's remote far eastern Kamchatka peninsula. The Antonov An-26 plane flying from Kamchatka's main city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the coastal town of Palana with 28 people on board disappeared and crashed on Tuesday. Search teams later found wreckage of the plane near Palana." At present, nine bodies have been found," the regional branch of the emergencies ministry said

A plane carrying 28 people apparently crashed as it came in for a landing in bad weather Tuesday in Russia’s Far East, and everyone aboard was feared dead. Wreckage from the Antonov An-26 was found near the airport in the town of Palana, according to officials.... The plane was on approach in fog and clouds when it missed a scheduled communication and disappeared from radar, officials from the Kamchatka region said. Russia’s state aviation agency, Rosaviatsiya, said that parts of the plane were

A plane carrying 28 people apparently crashed as it came in for a landing during bad weather in Russia’s Far East and everyone aboard was feared dead.... Russian officials say they have found the wreckage of an airliner that went missing in the far east of the country on Tuesday. The plane, a Soviet-designed Antonov AN-26, was carrying 22 passengers and six crew members when it disappeared from radar on the peninsula of Kamchatka. Authorities say they have found debris from the plane about five

Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces (SNF) recently held unprecedented drills. Under the direct command of President Vladimir Putin the automatic communications control system and new battle management algorithms were tested.

MOSCOW— Russia’s defense chief on Tuesday signed a roadmap for closer military ties with China, pointing to increasingly frequent U.S. strategic bomber flights near both countries’ borders. During a video call, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and his Chinese counterpart, Wei Fenghe, “ expressed a shared interest in stepping up strategic military exercises and joint patrols by Russia and China, ” according to the Russian Defense Ministry.“ China and Russia have been strategic partners for many yea

Russia has started actively building up its presence in the region after the commissioning of Sakhalin gas deposits. After liquefying the bulk of the gas, Russia supplies it to its Asian partners.

Change of the government in Tokyo is unlikely to lead to major changes in Russian-Japanese relations. However, it inevitably prompts a review of their prospects.