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Pavel Podvig

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Watching Reykjavik from Moscow

The forty years that separate us from the Reykjavik summit are only one year shorter than the distance from the summit to the end of World War II. I am not quite sure what to do with this fact, other than to note that most of the summit par...

7 days ago
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Is the Dead Hand back? Well, it never went away

Three media outlets - the Sunday Times, Danwatch, and the Dossier Center - published stories about the facility at Kosvinsky Kamen, which is part of the system often referred to, not quite correctly, as the Dead Hand or Perimeter. These st...

18 days ago
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Launch of a Glonass satellite

On 18 September 2026, the Air and Space Forces conducted a successful launch of a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Plesetsk space launch site (Ministry of Defense video; also on YouTube). The launch took place at about 19:50 MSK (16:50 UTC). The...

a month ago
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Attempted test launch, probably of Avangard, from Dombarovskiy

Cross-posted from russianforces.org

By all indications, Russia was preparing to conduct a test launch of an ICBM from Dombarovskiy/Yasnyy toward Kura during the 3-5 September 2026 window. The evidence suggests that the weapon to be tested...

a month ago
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Launch of mobile Yars missile from Plesetsk

Cross-posted from russianforces.org

On 28 August 2026, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported conducting a successful launch of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk test site. According to the MoD announcement, a...

2 months ago
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