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Ukraines Bid to Join NATO Snags on Trumps New Agenda |
26.01.17 16:24 |
f.USSR |
A team of NATO experts is in Kiev for consultations on Ukraine’s participation in the Alliance forces’ planning and assessment. Sputnik asked Oskar Krejčí, a professor of international public relations in Prague, about Ukraine’s chances of joining the Western defense alliance. |
Sputnik |
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Rex Tillerson means business and it’s fine with Russia and China |
26.01.17 16:13 |
Americas on the move |
Rex Tillerson, US President Donald Trump’s nominee as state secretary, has narrowly won confirmation from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee – 11 senators in favor and 10 against. The split is on party lines and the clincher came on Monday when Republican senator Marco Polo (who regarded Russian President Vladimir Putin to be a ‘war criminal’ and vainly insisted that Tillerson agreed with him) fell in line at the eleventh hour. |
M K Bhadrakumar |
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Russia Defense Report: Russia’s Anti-Missile Shield |
12.03.16 21:16 |
f.USSR |
March 4 saw the 55th anniversary of the first successful anti-ballistic missile intercept performed by a Soviet defensive system, the Sistema A, which used the V-1000 anti-missile equipped with a conventional blast-fragmentation warhead, to destroy the warhead launched by an R-12 intermediate-range ballistic missile. |
southfront.org |
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Migrant crisis: EU and Turkey in Aegean stand-off |
06.03.16 11:36 |
European trends |
As winter turns into spring, the coastguard has begun picking up hundreds of refugees and migrants every day, as soon as their flimsy rubber boats enter Greek territorial waters. It marks a change in policy. Previously the coastguard would intervene only if migrants were clearly in danger, or boats were about to sink. |
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