Contents tagged with Russia
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Lavrov: The Kremlin has already initiated dialogue with the Trump administration
Russia has begun a dialogue with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, as stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during an interview with Channel NTV.
"We respect the positions of any country, and are always ready to sit down and discuss any approaches, even those that completely contradict our own. I believe that our dialogue with the administration of Donald Trump, which has already begun, will become more intensive as soon as all parts of the administration engaged in …
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Estonian President: Russia is trying to turn governments against one another
Russia is trying to turn everybody against each other in international politics, as Estonian President, Kersti Kaljulaid, stated in an interview with the LNT channel, Delfi reported.
According to Kaljulaid, Russia wants to influence the democratic processes in countries using any visible rifts.
The Estonian President believes that until Russia starts to change from the inside, we should not expect that the West will renew a close cooperation with them.
She agreed with the views expressed by …
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Commander of Lithuanian Air Force was dismissed becuase he intended to repair helicopters in Russia
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis discharged the Commander of the Air Force of the country, Colonel Audronis Navickas, due to his intent to repair military helicopters in Russia, as reported by Delfi.
The Minister made this decision based on the results of an official investigation. The Air Force commander was dismissed from his duties at the beginning of the investigation a few months ago.
As a result of the Minister’s decision, the Colonel is on a temporary reserve list of …
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OSCE: Number of ceasefire violations in the Donbas remains unacceptably high
The Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Alexander Hug, stated that the number of ceasefire violations in the Donbas has decreased but still remains high.
“The number of violations has significantly decreased in recent days but it still remains unacceptably high. From midnight on February 9 to midnight February 10, the OSCE mission recorded 460 violations of the ceasefire, with 55 violations in Luhansk region alone,” Hug said at a press conference …
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Iran says it will continue to allow Russian military aircraft to use its airspace
Iran will continue to allow Russian military aircraft to pass through Iranian airspace on their way to and from Syria.
“We uphold in this regard a close cooperation with Russia by opening the airspace of Iran," the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Shamkhani, said on Saturday, February 11th.
Shamkhani also noted that Russian aircraft are allowed to use Iran’s Hamedan air base for refueling purposes.
The Secretary stated that such allowances entail complex …
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Russia's newly-formed 22nd Army Corps begins combat training in the Crimea
The Russian military has created the 22nd Army Corps of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, and the new corps has begun combat training in the Crimea, the commander of the Southern Military District of Russia, Colonel-General Aleksandr Dvornikov, stated.
"At present, the 150th Motorized Rifle Division in the Rostov region, the 42nd motorized rifle division in the Chechen Republic, and the 22nd Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea were formed and began combat training. Also a squadron of Ka- …
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Former NATO commander: Trump must send weapons to Ukraine
U.S. President Donald Trump must avoid the mistakes of Barack Obama, who was not determined enough to provide Ukraine with the weapons necessary for its self-defense, as stated by General Philip Breedlove, the former Commander in Chief of NATO forces in Europe, while testifying to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
“Trump Administration, which understands the value of negotiating from strength, should adopt a position of forward defense in dealing with the Kremlin challenge to NATO. …
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The Kremlin says it does not know how 700 tanks appeared in the Donbas
Russia does not supply tanks to the so-called DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and LPR (Luhansk People's Republic), though the number of tanks there has reached 700 units, as stated by the Press Secretary for the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, UNIAN reported.
"To answer the question of how the tanks have gotten there, it seems you will have the same result whether you ask Moscow or Kyiv where the tanks are from. Here I have no information,” said Peskov. “I can tell you that, of course, …
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Ten U.S. tanks were deployed to Lithuania
On Friday morning, ten American tanks were deployed to Lithuania within the framework of American obligations to NATO’s collective defense, Delfi news agency reports.
"The equipment is already at the railway station in Gaižiūnai. Unloading operations will begin shortly," Loreta Kavaliauskiene, spokeswoman for the Duke Vaidotas Mechanized Infantry Battalion stated.
It’s not the first time that the U.S. brings tanks for exercises, but this time there will be more tanks than ever before since …
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Putin hopes for the complete restoration of relations between Russia and the United States
Russian President Vladimir Putin is hopeful for the total restoration of relations between Moscow and Washington in entirety.
"U.S.-Russian relations have greatly deteriorated over the past five years. Of course, they need to be restored. It is in the interests of both the Russian and American people. We have heard the opinion of President Trump on this matter. We hope that these relations will be restored in full and on all fronts. However this depends not only on us, but also on the …