Chechen leader rebukes Russian border change claim

Western hopes that Russia will be divided into smaller states are in vain as only Moscow can decide on the location of the country’s borders, the leader of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, has said.

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NATO members to build ‘concrete bunkers’ on Russian border

Estonia announced on Friday that it intends to build hundreds of bunkers along its border with Russia. Fellow NATO members Latvia and Lithuania have signed on to the project as well. Defense ministers of the three Baltic states met in Riga and approved the construction of what they called “anti-mobility defensive installations” on their eastern…

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Pakistan notes growing economic ties with Russia

Islamabad has offered Moscow a barter agreement to shift away from Western currencies in settlements, a minister has said Trade turnover between Russia and Pakistan has grown by over a third since last summer, as the two countries bolster economic ties, Pakistan’s minister for commerce, Syed Naveed Qamar, told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

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