WASHINGTON, April 16 (UPI) -- The announcement of Russia's latest agreement to provide Belarus with S-400 air-defense systems is of much more than routine significance.

WASHINGTON, April 13 (UPI) -- Russia has closed a deal with Israel's largest aerospace company to buy new state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles.

MOSCOW, April 10 (UPI) -- Russia has struck a deal with an Israeli company to buy intelligence-gathering drones, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.

WASHINGTON, March 9 (UPI) -- Russia is sending signals that its years of anger at NATO and the Bush administration are behind it and it is ready to resume closer cooperation with the U.S.-led alliance.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Despite facing the threat of bankruptcy because of rock-bottom global prices for its oil exports, the Russian government is pushing ahead with a costly new plan to re-equip and upgrade its armed forces with state-of-the-art and high-tech weapons by 2020.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- Russia's leaders are determined to massively increase their spending to expand and modernize their armed forces, but with global oil prices collapsing, where are they going to find the money to do it?

WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Russia, flush with wealth from its record-level oil and gas exports, is planning to further boost its defense spending by almost 50 percent over the next three years, a senior legislator in Moscow said last week.

MOSCOW, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- Replacements are expected soon in the "space spy community." Yet another American Navstar Global Positioning System satellite will be launched into low Earth orbit in the fall.

MOSCOW, Aug. 1 (UPI) -- The realities of the modern international aircraft industry have compelled major Russian military and civilian manufacturers to enter co-production deals and employ technology developed by American, European and other international companies.