Russia has appointed senior civilian technocrat Vasily Osmakov as deputy defense minister, Defense Minister Andrei Belousovannounced Friday at a meeting of post-Soviet republic chiefs in Kazakhstan.
The United States last tested in 1992, China and France in 1996 and the Soviet Union in 1990. Post-Soviet Russia, which inherited the Soviet nuclear arsenal, has never done so ...
Defence Minister Andrei Belousov informed Putin that recent US remarks and actions made it "advisable to prepare for full-scale nuclear tests" immediately. Belousov added that Russia's Arctic testing ...