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Politifact rates it as only "half true." http://www.politifact.com/pund...

Here is another Russian source that includes some relevant facts you left out, mainly the part about Ukraine having not actually done what you accuse because you excessively focus on a "vote" when there are more steps than a single vote for a law to be enacted, or repealed. The law wasn't repealed. http://en.ria.ru/world/2014030...

Reading your description, or the RT description, it would appear that the pro-EU groups in Ukraine supported the repeal. The fact is that the Parliament took an unpopular vote, that resulted in Ukrainian speakers in Kyiv protesting(!), and none of the major pro-EU politicians supported that vote. None of the pro-EU candidates in the recent elections supported repealing the 2012 law.

So while it is "half true" that they voted to repeal the law, it is not true as stated, and certainly not true in the claimed implication that the pro-EU Ukrainians are anti-Russian-speakers.

Here is an in-depth analysis. https://www.opendemocracy.net/...

They have called for a cease-fire to ensure the proper investigation, actually. http://ria.ru/world/20140717/1...

Nowadays they are paradropping BMD APCs with the crew on board...

It is not just the BMDs — there is a paradropping church in Russia's arsenal...

It turns out that Russian airborne units were holding large exercises around the time of the Crimea vote.

Russian Paratroopers Hold Massive Drills as Crimea Vote Nears

MOSCOW, March 11 (RIA Novosti) – An airborne division based in central Russia began large-scale exercises Tuesday against the backdrop of an ongoing political and security crisis in Ukraine.

The Defense Ministry said units of the 98th Guards Airborne Division, based in Ivanovo, a city east of Moscow, were put on high alert and moved to unspecified locations to “check readiness” in simulated combat conditions.

Four thousand troops, 36 military transport aircraft and an unspecified number of combat vehicles are taking part in the exercises, which will run until March 14.

The drills will include a massive simultaneous paradrop involving 3,500 servicemen, the ministry said.

The drills come in the wake of a number of military exercises in Russia’s western regions in the past days, including air defense drills, combat readiness snap checks and a launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

A mass tactical drop of 3,500 paratroopers is pretty big.

It is also worth noting that Russian airborne units are mechanized with air droppable infantry fighting vehicles like the BMD 3. That makes them highly mobile after a drop, and they have significant additional firepower. It is a deadly combination. A World War 2 tank division would find them tough to chew on.

Russian airborne troops with BMD 2 armoured fighting vehicles

A video broadcast on Internet shows Russian airborne with BMD-2 armoured infantry fighting vehicle in Veselaya Lopan 20km from the Ukraine border.

Considering they're actively developing a new class of SSBN (the Borei) to replace the existing Delta models, and they're also actively developing a new rail mounted ICBM everything about that statement seems at odds with reality..

Considering they're actively developing a new class of SSBN (the Borei) to replace the existing Delta models, and they're also actively developing a new rail mounted ICBM everything about that statement seems at odds with reality..

All the while, NASA's Plutonium shortage is threatening the future of deep space exploration.

Here's a link to a Russian article on the matter. http://ria.ru/economy/20130430/935405025.html

According to the article he states that:
1. This ban is a clear example of unfair competition. (using political means)
2. That they (the Russians) will have to work with the Europeans so that they can make their own independent decisions.

Something else intersting from that article is that the Minister of Economic development stated that t-platforms is competing with American and Chinese companies in the European market. I consider this strange since the US mentioned Taiwan but there is no pressure against Chinese companies.

Dmitri Rogosin said that neither US nor Russia have capabilities to shoot something like this down. Source He is proposing a global collaboration though for detection and defense, and also emphasized in his last interview that cold-war-like constellations must be avoided. Source

To be even more specific, let me translate a quote from one of the scientists involved (source):

"This isn't even diamond. The hardness of this phase (lonsdalite) is 1.54 higher than that of diamond, and here we have nanometer-sized crystals of cubic diamonds and lonsdalite - it's a very viscous matrix, which is what defines the extraordinary qualities of the Popygay impactite. The proportion of lonsdalite in some of these samples is as high as 70%."

Also, according to the same article, the market price of those crystals is estimated as $2-2.5 per carat. For comparison, jewelry-grade diamonds go for thousands of dollars per carat.

They need to get out of the airplane manufacturing business... although, bases on the moon may require slightly higher precision and quality control.

http://en.ria.ru/world/20120523/173624567.html

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/remains-45-russian-plane-crash-victims-idd-16392707

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Lokomotiv_Yaroslavl_air_disaster

http://www.airsafe.com/events/airlines/fsu.htm

All your base, are belong to us.

a) the method was tested and shown to not contaminate the water, that's why drilling was allowed to proceed
b) they'll probably extract kerns of ice after freezing.

Russian news site says:

The lake might be absolutely sterile. At this moment, drilling passed 173 meters through the ice formed from the lake water. But examining lake kerns has shown no more than 2-3 cells per milliliter, and even those cells could have gotten into samples while transported or in the lab

The retired missile warning system commander was blaming HAARP - somewhat to be expected from presumably old cold war hawk. Popovkin's comments about the incidents occurring "where we do not see the spacecraft and do not receive telemetric information" suggest something far more sinister, and as a current high-rankin official (taking into account also recent news of space-scientists passports being confiscated) raise questions about whose interests would be served by re-igniting the Cold War. Luckily, Russians seem to be able to see through these ploys.

The Phobos-Grunt satellite itself is already experiencing drag of the atmosphere, and is thus expected to be in the position of least resistance to it. Whoever concluded that must also have been its orbit attitude didn't have a clue. Whether its attitude control was working can be debated a bit, as at this point it's unclear whether one should trust anything coming from the Russian space officials, but early on they claimed its sun tracking was working, and thus it would have maintained correct attitude. There have been no reports of observable tumbling from amateur observers, thus at least the part about it maintaining consistent attitude seem corroborated.