Russia Update

Russia received permission to use Iran’s Hamadan Air Base and Tu-22M3 long-range bombers have already made strikes on Aleppo.

Russia is not planning to break off diplomatic relations with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavovr said today in Yekaterinburg.

He is to be replaced by Anton Vaino as he takes on a new role as ecology envoy.

The Russian and Ukrainian media are avidly investigating the claims made by Russia’s Federal Security Service regarding two alleged Crimean border clashes. The opinion is that war will escalate due to the Kremlin’s vow to respond to the clashes and other factors.

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The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) has overturned the IOC’s ban on Russian athletes allowing rowers and a swimmer to compete.

The Russian Defense Ministry has sent a crew with the latest system for aerosol disinfection of the area in Yamal where people and animals are stricken with deadly Siberian anthrax.

Rosneft threatens Novaya Gazeta with a lawsuit over its expose of the luxury yacht owned by the wife of Rosneft head Igor Sechin. Blogger Anton Nossik is in court for “extremism.”

Twenty-five masked, armed men have reportedly seized a clinic in Buryatia, but their demands are not known and no more information has been supplied by local officials.