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Biden is convinced that Russia will try to interfere in European elections
The Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, called Russia the greatest threat to the international liberal order, predicting that Moscow will try to influence the course of elections in Europe, as it did in the United States, Reuters reported.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Biden stated that, “Under Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Russia is working with every tool available to undermine the European project, test the fault lines of Western countries and return …
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Lithuania approves an updated national security strategy
On Tuesday, Lithuanian Parliament approved an updated strategy of national security, as reported by Delfi news agency. 107 members of Seimas voted in favor of the document. No one was against it. One person abstained.
14 threats and risk factors are listed in the strategy. The updated National Security project was prepared by the previous administration. The strategy was last reviewed in 2012 and was planned to be adapted to the changed situation.
Conventional military threat was the first …
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Polish diplomats were not let into Russia through the border with Belarus
Border guards turned away the Polish diplomats, who were trying to cross the Russian-Belarusian border in the Smolensk region.
The incident occurred at the Krasnaya Gorka checkpoint. According to the FSB border management of the region, two cars with diplomatic license plates traveled from Belarus to Russia and were stopped at the border between the two countries on a Moscow-Minsk highway.
A border guard spokesman, Alexander Laznenko, explained that there are no border control staff that …
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US Permanent Representative to the UN: Russia's actions threaten the world order
Russia is undertaking aggressive and destabilizing actions that threaten the world order, as stated by the U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, Samantha Power, Reuters reported.
"Russia's actions do not support the international order. They undermine the one that already exists," she said.
In her speech, Power referred to the "Russian intervention" in the conflict in southeastern Ukraine, Russia’s support of the government in the civil war in Syria, and "attempts to influence elections in …
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US Navy plane tracked the movement of the Russian aircraft carrier group in the Mediterranean
According to websites that track military aircraft, the U.S. Navy’s P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine patrol aircraft conducted a reconnaissance flight on Tuesday over an area in the western Mediterranean, to track a Russian Northern Fleet aircraft carrier group that is returning to Severomorsk, Interfax reported.
According to their information, the aircraft took off from an air base in Rota (Spain), on Tuesday afternoon and carried out a patrol mission to the north of the Spanish island of Alboran, …