If this is your first time visiting Bible Prophecy In The News, I’d like to invite you to subscribe to our RSS feed. Never miss an update.. Thanks for visiting!Russia test-fired two separate missiles, including one capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads more than 7,000 kilometres, and launched three satellites into orbit on Christmas Day.
The RS-24, an intercontinental ballistic missile, was launched from a facility in northern Russia on Tuesday. Its warheads successfully hit targets at the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula almost 7,000 kilometres away.
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Russia will take “measures of reprisal” if the United States insisted on deploying a missile shield in central Europe which could threaten Moscow’s national security, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday.
The U.S. missile defense plan will be “a strong action designed to weaken Russia’s nuclear deterrent,” said Mikhail Kamynin in a foreign ministry statement.
Russia would “have no other choice than to take measures of reprisal,” he said.
Russia’s head of strategic missile forces, General Nikolai Solovtsov, has threatened to target planned U.S. missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic …

Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time’s “Person of the Year” for bringing his country “roaring back to the table of world power,” the magazine said on its Web site.
Putin, 55, who has said he may become Russia’s prime minister after stepping down as president next year, has helped lead the country back to stability “at significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize,” Richard Stengel, the magazine’s managing editor, wrote in an article explaining the choice.
“With dauntless persistence, a sharp vision of what Russia should become …

Russia’s nuclear weapons chief threatened Monday to target a planned US missile defense shield in central Europe if Washington fails to take into account Moscow’s worries, the Interfax news agency reported.
General Nikolai Solovtsov, head of strategic missile forces, said that such a decision could be taken if the US shield is seen to “undermine the Russian nuclear deterrent capability.”
In that case, “I do not exclude… the missile defense shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic being chosen as targets for some of our intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Solovtsov said, according …

Russia successfully conducted a test launch on Monday of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the navy said.
A statement said the missile was launched from the Tula nuclear powered submarine in the Barents Sea in the Arctic and hit a designated area in the Kura testing ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia’s Pacific coast.
“The launch was conducted from an underwater position as a part of training to test the readiness of the marine strategic nuclear forces,” the statement said.
A navy spokesman would not say what type of missile was tested. …

The Russian navy is deploying to the Mediterranean. Unlike past rumors on the issue, this is a declaration that comes directly from the defense minister who was speaking with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time. The deployment is just as important for what it does not mean, as it is for what it does.
The Russian navy is deploying to the Mediterranean. Unlike past rumors on the issue, this is a declaration that comes directly from the defense minister who was speaking with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at …

President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday suspending Russia’s participation in a key post-cold war arms treaty, triggering an angry reaction from the US, which declared the move a “mistake”.
In a significant new indication of the worsening diplomatic relationship between Moscow and Washington, Mr Putin personally ratified a law that means Moscow will suspend the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE) in a little under two weeks.
Western military experts believe the CFE, first signed in 1990, is a significant treaty that limits the number of battle tanks, heavy artillery, …

A Mideast summit in Moscow could bolster Russia’s prestige and please Arab nations such as Syria, but progress would depend heavily on the actions of Israel and the Palestinians, analysts said Thursday.
Moscow has offered to host a follow-up to the peace conference held this week in Annapolis, Md. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the idea “received support” during the summit, but stopped short of saying it was definite. He said the timing was not yet clear.
An official with the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, said a Moscow …

Though more than a dozen parties are on the ballot for Russia’s parliamentary election Sunday, one would hardly know it. The pro-Kremlin United Russia (UR) party, whose standing has jumped more than 25 percent since President Vladimir Putin announced he would head its candidate list last month, could fairly win up to two-thirds of votes for the 450-seat State Duma, according to most polls.
But in what some experts say may be the least democratic election since the USSR collapsed, boycotted by Europe’s election-monitoring body, the campaign has been marred by …

Vladimir Putin called his critics foreign-funded “jackals” and accused the West of meddling in Russian politics in a scathing speech Wednesday meant to drum up support for the main pro-Kremlin party.
The thunderous attack came as Russia heads toward Dec. 2 parliamentary elections that have turned into a plebiscite on Putin and whether he should retain power after stepping down as president next year after two consecutive terms.
Thousands of flag-waving supporters who packed a Moscow sports arena for the speech joined in chants urging Putin to remain Russia’s “national leader.”
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