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Ukraine questions PACE President's ability to lead the assembly due to his stance on Russia
The Ukrainian delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe is preparing to question the power of the president of the Assembly, Pedro Agramunt. This was reported by the first deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament), Iryna Herashchenko, to a correspondent from Evropeyskaya Pravda in Strasbourg.
Herashchenko noted that recently Agramunt has made public statements that are fully in accordance with Russia’s position, including lifting the political …
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Russian police force and Federal Security Service will be mobilized as servicemen if war breaks out
In the event of war, governors, Regional Offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the Federal Security Service and Offices of the National Guard of Russia will be transferred under the management of the Command of Military Districts of the Ministry of Defense, Izvestia reported.
“During the Caucasus-2016 drills, the Ministry of Defense evaluated for the first time how the Command of Military Districts will manage various public offices of the …
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NATO fighter jets escorted Russian military aircraft over the Baltic Sea twenty times last week
Last week, NATO fighter jets performing patrol missions in the Baltic States scrambled twenty times to identify and escort Russian military aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea. The press secretary of the Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces, Captain Thomas Pakalniskis, told the Baltic News Service that Russian military drills taking place near Vilnius account for the great number of Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea.
“Russia conducts intensive drills in the Baltic region and performs …
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Russia and Turkey sign agreement on Turkish Stream pipeline
Two months after the restoration of relations between Russia and Turkey, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan signed an agreement on the construction of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline. The agreement was signed by the Energy Ministers of both countries in the presence of the two presidents in Istanbul on Monday, October 10, 2016.
According to the head of the Russian Energy Company, Gazprom, Alexey Miller, the plan is to build two gas pipelines under the Black Sea. The completion of the …
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The U.S. and Norway discuss plans to deploy U.S. servicemen along Russian border
The Ministries of Defense of the United States and Norway are discussing the possibility of deploying U.S. forces in Scandinavian countries bordering the Russian Federation, Deutsche Welle reported.
“The capacities for additional drills, stocks and such sort of things are evaluated in the Armed Forces,” the Ministry of Defense of Norway noted, adding that it was a long-standing wish of the United States. It is reported that the Pentagon wants to deploy 300 U.S. marines near Vaernes in …