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Vladimir Putin announced ambitious plans to revive Russia's military power and restore its role as the world's leading producer of military aircraft yesterday.

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RAF jets scrambled to intercept Russian bomber

As military posturing goes, it has all the echoes of a classic Cold War contretemps. High above the North Atlantic, an RAF fighter jet offers a none-too-gentle reminder to a Russian aircraft that it is fast approaching British airspace.

https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2302783.ece


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When Condoleezza Rice unveiled plans to funnel a staggering quantity of US military aid to several countries in the Middle East, it made headlines all over the world. Now it seems that Russia is moving its fleet to the Mediterranean. How will this affect Syria, Israel and Iran?

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18214.htm


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An American general said that US fighter jets have had to scramble to intercept Russian bombers on an increasingly regular basis.

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The war of words between Moscow and the west over missile defence intensified over the weekend as Vladimir Putin, Russia's president, declared a new radar station near St Petersburg to be "the first step in a large-scale programme".

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/328d9098-4909-11dc-b326-0000779fd2ac.html


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Russian bombers have flown to the US island of Guam in the Pacific in a surprise manoeuvre reminiscent of the Cold War era.

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6938856.stm


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The Russian navy plans on producing a new submarine-based missile system in 2008. It is part of a big increase in the country's spending on research, development and procurement of weaponry, prompting fears of a new cold war.

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,498338,00.html


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The SVR, one of the intelligence services that replaced the Soviet Union's KGB, will increase its work, primarily through information gathering and analytical support, Putin told security officials in Moscow yesterday.

https://tinyurl.com/2jk4cd


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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

07/20/07

The media has been rife with declarations that the cold war is back, and the spy-jinks we’re being told about — the Brits apparently planted a recording device inside a rock, and positioned it on a Russian street to unknown purposes — are like something out of a John Le Carre novel. Le Carre, you’ll remember, writes of multi-layered conspiracies, like those Russian wooden dolls that contain several smaller dolls within, and this model is pretty much what we’re looking at when it comes to the Litvinenko affair. The Russians, for their part, have their own convoluted tale to tell, with Lugovoi accusing the Brits of running an extensive spy network within Russia, and at least one other person coming forward to confirm that, yes, they were recruited by the Brits to spy on the Motherland. What’s important to realize, however, is that, whatever the credibility or motives behind these charges and counter-charges, the very real geo-political consequences of this row are becoming increasingly serious — and dangerous...

https://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11320


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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The Russian military is once again treating Nato as the glavny protivnik, the primary enemy, and drawing up plans for a nuclear war. And Putin's explicit aim is to challenge, and then counter, America's world dominance.

https://tinyurl.com/2kfr7j


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