During the Cold War two of Russia’s four fleets were nuclear ones, the Northern Fleet based out of Murmansk in the Kola Peninsula in the Arctic, and the Pacific Fleet based out of Vladivostok and Petropavlovsk.
Most analysts have maintained that this disposition has remained the case until now.
But can we be certain of that?
...[T}he Administration's unexpected December decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria has left Israeli policymakers on edge, and for good reason.
Human rights, Russian style;
Kyiv goes its own (religious) way;
New signs of Sino-Russian weapons cooperation;
The Kremlin declares war on rap music;
Nukes in Crimea?
A changing of the guard at the Expediency Council;
Iran's Afghan exodus;
Tehran's assassins;
The politics of Iran's water woes
Xinjiang spending on security rises exponentially;
A Cambodian crackdown on Chinese fraud;
China's Orwellian social credit system begins to bite;
Chinese scientists reveals "gene-edited babies";
Gunmen attack Chinese consulate in Karachi