China Reform Monitor: No. 1247
Chinese firms to start work on Laos-China railway;
PLA to help Tajikistan with border security
Chinese firms to start work on Laos-China railway;
PLA to help Tajikistan with border security
Back to the KGB;
Duma elections: the fix was in 
China weighs in on Kashmir tensions;
PLA General Logistics Department re-organized
In October 2015, Russia intervened directly in the conflict in Syria, seeking to prop up its beleaguered ally in Damascus and push back rebel groups that had plunged the country into civil war. The United States, which was backing several insurgent groups fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime, was not impressed.
Drones, coming soon to a lab near you;
Russia's robotic revolution;
A new military mission: Countering robotic sensor systems;
Mind control and drone fleets How Russia plans to take the high ground