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Following the transfer of Russia's former defence minister Sergei Shoigu to other duties amid corruption investigations, another high-ranking Russian general has been arrested for taking bribes, state media reported on Tuesday. Lieutenant-General Yuri Kuznetsov had received money from a company for favours, according to the state news agency TASS. Cash totalling 100 million roubles ($1.1 million), including foreign currency, was seized in searches of his offices and home, a spokeswoman for investigators told the agency. Gold coins, luxury watches and other jewellery were also found. The well-c...
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Following the dismissal of former Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu amid corruption investigations, another high-ranking Russian general has been arrested, state media reported on Tuesday. Lieutenant-General Yuri Kuznetsov, head of the ministry's cadre administration, is accused of a "criminal offence," according to the state news agency TASS. It did not provide further details. Meanwhile, the well-connected military blog Rybar said officials were probing Kuznetsov's activities in his previous post within the General Staff dealing with state secrets. Police reportedly searched his offices...
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Indrek Jurtšenko is a trained opera singer. But today he takes me to a military manoeuvre in the Estonian forests. Armed civilians, part of the “Estonian Defence League” (EDL), are war-gaming together with professional soldiers: “In our exercise there are 500 people from Estonia, Lithuania and France participating”, he says. The drill is called “Northern Frog” and takes place around a former soviet military airfield. Close to the landing strip, infantry troops from NATO-partner France fortify trenches. In the nearby forest, Baltic volunteers are gathering. They are armed civilians with profess...
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has invited NATO partner Canada to enter into a joint partnership with Norway to protect infrastructure in the far north. "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the northern Atlantic and Arctic," Pistorius said on Friday in the Canadian capital Ottawa at a meeting with his counterpart Bill Blair. The initiative could be the umbrella for joint activities. Blair said that the Canadian Arctic was exposed to new and growing threats. Canada has noticed that Russia and China are ...
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has invited NATO partner Canada to enter into a joint partnership with Norway to protect infrastructure in the far north. "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the northern Atlantic and Arctic," Pistorius said on Friday in the Canadian capital Ottawa at a meeting with his counterpart Bill Blair. The initiative could be the umbrella for joint activities. Blair said that the Canadian Arctic was exposed to new and growing threats. Canada has noticed that Russia and China are ...
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has invited NATO partner Canada to enter into a joint partnership with Norway to protect infrastructure in the far north. "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the northern Atlantic and Arctic," Pistorius said on Friday in the Canadian capital Ottawa at a meeting with his counterpart Bill Blair. The initiative could be the umbrella for joint activities. Blair said that the Canadian Arctic was exposed to new and growing threats. Canada has noticed that Russia and China are ...
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has invited NATO partner Canada to enter into a joint partnership with Norway to protect infrastructure in the far north. "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the northern Atlantic and Arctic," Pistorius said on Friday in the Canadian capital Ottawa at a meeting with his counterpart Bill Blair. The initiative could be the umbrella for joint activities. Blair said that the Canadian Arctic was exposed to new and growing threats. Canada has noticed that Russia and China are ...
DPA International
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has invited NATO partner Canada to enter into a joint partnership with Norway to protect infrastructure in the far north. "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the northern Atlantic and Arctic," Pistorius said on Friday in the Canadian capital Ottawa at a meeting with his counterpart Bill Blair. The initiative could be the umbrella for joint activities. Blair said that the Canadian Arctic was exposed to new and growing threats. Canada has noticed that Russia and China are ...
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German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has invited NATO partner Canada to enter into a joint partnership with Norway to protect infrastructure in the far north. "Let us initiate a trilateral strategic maritime partnership with a focus on securing sea lines of communication through the northern Atlantic and Arctic," Pistorius said on Friday in the Canadian capital Ottawa at a meeting with his counterpart Bill Blair. The initiative could be the umbrella for joint activities. Blair said that the Canadian Arctic was exposed to new and growing threats. Canada has noticed that Russia and China are ...
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On April 22nd, some 5,000 soldiers from seven European countries and the United States took part in a NATO defensive exercise, 80 kms south of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Part of Operation Steadfast Defender 2024, the largest series of maneuvers by the Atlantic alliance since the end of the Cold War, the exercise tested the inter-operability of forces. “In line with our regional plan, we are exercising the defence of the eastern flank of Europe”, General Krzysztof Król, advisor to the Polish Army’s Chief of General Staff told euronews. Anxiety on Poland's northeastern borderOur journey...
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