Russia receives another batch of Sukhoi-34 bombers
Russia’s combat aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has delivered another batch of front-line bombers Sukhoi-34 to the customer – the Defense Ministry, TASS reports. “The planes took off from the manufacturer’s airdrome in Novosibirsk to head for their location,” the company said in a news release obtained by TASS. The news release does not specify the number […]
Russia and Turkey to mull Akkuyu NPP, Turkish Stream
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan plan to discuss the construction of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant and the Turkish Stream pipeline at the G20 summit in China, RIA Novosti reported Aug. 30 citing Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov, Trend reports. The discussion of prospects to implement joint strategic projects […]
Kyrgyzstan vows to punish those responsible for terror attack on Chinese embassy
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Kyrgyz counterpart, Erlan Abdyldaev, on August 30 discussed in a phone conversation the terrorist attack against the Chinese Embassy to Kyrgyzstan and pledged closer cooperation in the fight against terrorism. Abdyldaev said the Kyrgyz side condemned the suicide attack “in the strongest terms,” and that on behalf of […]
Finding home in the ger district
Alexander McNab – The UB Post Ulaanbaatar is a city known as a cemetery of nomadism, a place where wandering people have gone to settle down inside four cement walls in towering apartment blocks, but for Froit van der Harst, the entrance into U.B. was only a continuation of over a decade of placeless-ness. After […]
Large, moody and dangerous
Andrei Lankov – The Korea Times It is clear, that since mid-July, the relations between South Korea and China, which in recent years had been quite friendly, have begun to deteriorate quickly. The reason for this crisis is widely known: in July, despite stern warnings from Beijing, the South Korean government decided to deploy the […]
Mongolia and India consider launching direct flights
Indian Ambassador to Mongolia Suresh Babu asked Prime Minister J.Erdenebat to study possibilities for launching an Ulaanbaatar-Delhi direct flight to improve business relations and cooperation between the two countries, during a meeting this week, The UB Post reports. During the meeting, the Prime Minister expressed hope that friendly and close ties between Mongolia and India […]
Uzbek President Islam Karimov hospitalized
President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov hospitalised, the Russian media reports. According to news agencies, Kerimov is currently hospitalised. The President undergoes a medical examination that, together with the treatment “will take time”. Karimov is 78-years-old and he rules Uzbekistan since 1989. He is the region’s oldest leader. No Obvious Successor RFERL/RL publishes that he was […]
Putin to open Russian school in Kyrgyzstan
Russian school will be opened in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, in September, the head of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky said, Vestnik Kavkaza reports. “Russian Peace Foundation almost completed construction of Russian school in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, we will open it during the visit of Vladimir Putin to Kyrgyzstan […]
Russian soldier sentenced to life for Armenian killings
An Armenian court has found a Russian soldier guilty of murder charges and sentenced him to life in prison for the 2015 massacre of seven members of an Armenian family, RFERL reports. The court in Armenia’s northwestern city of Gyumri issued the verdict and sentence aga inst Russian Army Private Valery Permyakov on August 23. […]
Iran to purchase 60 Russian light helicopters
The Russian Helicopters holding is in talks with Iran on the deliveries of Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters for Iran`s health ministry, the company’s press service said on August 23. “Russian Helicopters issue is in talks to supply Ansat and Ka-226T light helicopters in the interest of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of […]