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Estonian PM: Russia's actions in Europe are acts of war
According to Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, Russia’s actions in Europe can be regarded as acts of war, Postimees reported.
"Our eastern neighbor [Russia] uses both conventional and hybrid methods [of war]… [through] interventions via cyber-attacks in presidential elections, the financing of extremist parties in Europe … spreading propaganda and lies,” Rõivas stated.
The Estonian Prime Minister compared Russia to a schoolyard bully who is looking for conflicts wherever they can be found. …
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EU demands Syrian war crimes be brought before ICC
At the EU Council meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the EU member countries the EU representatives have reached the conclusion that Syrian troops and the Russian Aerospace Forces are responsible for targeted airstrikes on schools, hospitals and other social facilities in Aleppo.
The EU condemned these actions in the Syrian city in a joint statement issued at the meeting.
The statement said that hospitals and schools have become the targets of airstrikes. The EU went on to say …
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Russian Foreign Ministry: Moscow will respond to U.S. sanctions
The possibility of U.S. sanctions against Russia due to the situation in Syria will not go without a response. The response may be symmetrical, the Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergei Ryabkov, told reporters. "Any hostile actions against Russia will not be left without a response," Ryabkov said, as quoted by Interfax.
Ryabkov also said that "at different stages of the current sanctions policy (against Russia) Moscow has repeatedly warned that they will be answered though …
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Russian warships approached Latvia’s borders again
The Armed Forces of Latvia have again discovered Russian warships near the country’s borders.
The National Armed Forces of Latvia reported this on Twitter.
Ships were recorded twice during the day on Sunday.
“In the Latvian exclusive economic zone, at a distance of 11 nautical miles from the border, on October 16, Parchim-class corvette Kazanets from the Armed Forces of Russia has been identified,” the statement says.
In addition, at a distance of eight nautical miles from the territorial …
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The UK has frozen all of Russia Today accounts
The Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today, Margarita Simonyan, tweeted on her Twitter page that all accounts of the multilingual Russia Today TV Company have been blocked in the UK.
“All of our accounts have been blocked in the UK. The decision should be subject to review. Long live freedom of speech,” she tweeted.
As previously reported, an investigation into the case against the Kremlin’s English language Russia Today TV Channel, which published inaccurate information about a gas production …