Topic: Nikolai Patrushev

MOSCOW, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- There is every reason to say that Russia has started reasserting its global position. This includes big-time politics and efforts to expand scientific and military-technical cooperation with other countries, including Cuba, the Soviet Union's main Latin American ally.

MOSCOW, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Russia must secure its territory in the Arctic and improve infrastructure to allow it to exploit oil and natural gas reserves, President Dmitry Medvedev said.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A buoyant Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez boasted Sunday that his air force could sink the U.S. Fourth Fleet in the Caribbean now that it had received 24 Russian Sukhoi Su-30MK2 combat aircraft equipped with missiles capable of sinking ships.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- A Russian analyst says the country may re-establish a military presence in Cuba in response to a U.S. move to put anti-missile defenses in Eastern Europe.

MOSCOW, March 31 (UPI) -- International terrorist groups made several attempts to set up operations in south-central Russia, a Russian counterintelligence official said Monday.

MOSCOW, Jan. 25 (UPI) -- A medium-yield nuke taken apart by terrorists would affect a large area for many years, but a large area would be affected if terrorists damaged a reactor.

MOSCOW, Dec. 19 (UPI) -- The director of Russia's Federal Security Service said Wednesday that 71 alleged foreign spies had been discovered operating inside Russia this year.

MOSCOW, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Russia’s domestic intelligence service FSB claims it has uncovered more than 300 foreign spies over the past four years.

MOSCOW, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- British spies are working at manipulating Russia's political landscape, the chief of Russia's national security agency said in an interview published Wednesday.

BERLIN, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Unknown individuals have bombed a high-speed passenger train heading from Moscow to St. Petersburg. The attack may help outgoing Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has in the past often used domestic and foreign enemies to strengthen his government’s position.