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Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister: Russia will expand its military presence in Venezuela
Venezuelan Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Gil, returning home from a visit to Moscow on Thursday, said that Russia could soon expand its military presence in Venezuela.
“New missions will probably arrive” to reinforce the contingent of 100 soldiers deployed in Caracas at the end of March, Gil noted.
According to the deputy minister, no specific duration for the soldiers’ stay in the country has been set. “The group of specialist soldiers is [in Venezuela] as part of our agreements and contracts …
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NATO promises to strengthen support for Georgia and Ukraine in the Black Sea
NATO will increase its ships presence in the Black Sea and will conduct joint exercises and information exchange with Georgia and Ukraine, announced Alliance Secretary-General, Jens Stoltenberg.
NATO members agreed on a package of measures to support their "close partners" - Georgia and Ukraine. On Thursday, April 4, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, announced this at a meeting dedicated to the 70th anniversary of NATO. These measures, among other things, …
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Russian Defense Ministry claims to possess ‘mind reading’ technology
While the US is developing laser anti-missile defense systems, the Russian army is apparently preparing for psychic warfare.
The official Russian Defense Ministry magazine Armeisky Sbornik recently published an article which claims that the Russian army has a method of “combat parapsychology” that makes it possible to hack computer programs, disrupt radio communication and read other people’s thoughts using willpower alone.
“A person’s psychic reserves, even a soldier’s, can readily be …
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Russian spy sentenced to seven years in prison in Lithuania
Lithuania has sentenced Lithuanian citizen Roman Sesel to seven years in prison on charges of spying for the Russian Federation, DELFI reported. Sesel collected data on the NATO ships, the company Klaipedos Nafta and other facilities. Under Lithuanian laws, spying is punishable by three to 15 years of imprisonment.
"The evidence collected in the case proved that he had not only been given the assignment, but had also performed specific spying actions," said Gintare Daugelaite, spokeswoman for …
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German Foreign Minister: Berlin sees no grounds for lifting sanctions against Russia
Germany sees no reason for lifting EU sanctions against Russia. “No” was German Chancellor’s Official Spokesperson Steffen Seibert’s laconic reply to the question posed to him on Wednesday, April 3, by a DW correspondent - "Should German Minister for Economic Affairs Peter Altmaier’s participation in the opening ceremony of the Mercedes assembly plant in Yesipovo, located near Moscow, be seen as Berlin’s departure from the policy of sanctions against the Russian Federation?"
“Sanctions …