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Hardly had the dust from the explosions of American Tomahawk missiles settled in Syria, Washington decided to continue the suppression of rebels. North Korea can be next target.

January 6, 2016 at 4: 30 a.m. Moscow time means of standard seismological monitoring of the various countries recorded in northeastern North Korea in the area of the test site Pungere (province of Agando), 200 km from the border with Russia, a quake with a magnitude up to 5 points. By the nature of the oscillations it has been found that it is not natural, but manmade. After a few hours followed a statement of the Central Telegraph Agency of Korea (KCNA), from which the world learned that North Korea carried out an underground test of a hydrogen bomb. Read more (on Russian)…

The events of the downed Russian SU-24 aircraft by the Turkish side once again showed how difficult relations between Ankara and Moscow. Read more (on Russian).

September 28, 2015 in New York hosted the 70th jubilee session of the UN General Assembly, with the participation of all members of the organization. Read more (on Russian)

Causes of slippage Russia’s “turn to the East” are as abstract guidelines for a “turn” and attempts to implement it through the intensification of bilateral relations with certain countries in Asia. Read more in the article of V. Larin on the website “National Interest“.

In the first half of April 2015 the Head of the government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev visited the countries of South-East Asia – Vietnam (April 6-7) and Thailand (April 7-8). These are two countries with different level and nature of bilateral relations with Russia are united by the fact that the current state of Russian-Vietnamese and Russian-Thai relations requires serious rethinking and diplomatic support.

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