U.S. may hand Putin an excuse to stop monitoring of Russia’s breeder reactors
(NationalSecurity.news) The Obama administration risks giving the Kremlin a pretext to ban inspectors from Russia’s plutonium-breeding fast reactors because of a U.S. budgetary policy change. Lawmakers and diplomats are concerned that the administration’s handling of cost overruns on a controversial U.S. Department of Energy project will hand Russian President Vladimir Putin an unexpected victory. At issue Read More
Russia flies fighter jet 20 feet from U.S. aircraft in dangerous intercept in international airspace
It appears that Russian President Vladimir Putin really does long for the bad ol’ days of the Cold War, given his resumption of tactics, that made for plenty of tensions in the days when the world feared a nuclear World War III. The most recent provocative incident came in late January, when a Russian Su-27 Read More
HIV epidemic tightens it grip on Russia as victims number in the millions
Sub-Saharan Africa is infamous for having the world’s most serious HIV/AIDs problem, a devastating disease responsible for the death of more than 1 million people in 2013. Despite its prevalence there, new cases of HIV infections, both in Africa and other parts of the world, have declined in recent years. But the same cannot be Read More
