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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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NATO accuses Russia of publishing fake news about the Alliance
NATO accused Russia of strengthening its disinformation campaign after the annexation of the Crimea in March 2014, Deutsche Welle reported.
According to NATO’s data, the Russian media companies Sputnik and Russia Today (RT) have repeatedly published fake material.
"NATO has been dealing with a significant increase in Russian propaganda and disinformation since Russia's illegal annexation of the Crimea in 2014," the spokesperson of the Alliance, Oana Lungescu, told Reuters on Saturday, …
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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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Snowden's lawyer says reports of his client's extradition are rumors
Lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, representing the interests of ex-CIA employee and notorious whistleblower Edward Snowden said that there was no merit to the information from western media that Moscow is considering Snowden’s extradition to the USA as a present to President Trump.
“Russia has no legal basis for extraditing Snowden. All these talks are simple speculations. This is someone’s wishful thinking,” Kucherena told Interfax on Saturday, February 12. “Someone in Washington, in the USA really …
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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 …