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If the New York businessman Donald Trump, who tonight is to accept the Republican nomination for president, would be elected in November, he wouldn’t automatically rush to NATO allies’ aid, he said in an interview. In an interview with the New York Times, published on Wednesday, Trump questioned whether he, as president, would automatically extend […]
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The United States Air Force may deploy the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter stealth aircraft to the Baltics later this year when the aircraft becomes operational. General Herbert Carlisle, the commander of Air Combat Command, said he’d like the F-35s “do some Baltic air policing”, according to the National Interest, an American online magazine. “As
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The NATO summit held in Warsaw, Poland, officially approved the deployment of four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to help deter any potential Russian threat to the region. According to the alliance’s plan, the United Kingdom is to send security enforcement to Estonia, the United States to Poland, Germany to Lithuania and
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Having discussed the results of the UK referendum at the cabinet’s unscheduled session, convened in the wake of British people’s majority decision to leave the EU, the Estonian government has agreed on the country’s standpoint, saying that the European Union has to act in a coordinated manner at the exit talks, and that these talks
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Estonia and the United States signed an agreement last week, reinforcing cooperation in research, development, testing and evaluation activities between the US defence department and the Estonian ministry of defence. The agreement was signed by the deputy assistant secretary of defence for Europe and NATO, Jim Townsend, and the Estonian ambassador to the United States,
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Britain will decide its future to either remain within, or separate from, the EU through a referendum to take place on 23 June 2016. A British exit (Brexit) from the EU might trigger some serious foreign and security policy implications for other EU member states. Should Britain leave, this is likely to be pertinently the case
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Victory Day, celebrated annually on 23 June, marks the anniversary of a crucial military victory against foreign forces in 1919; the Midsummer Eve celebration on the same night will see thousands of bonfires lighting up the sky across Estonia. Victory Day (Võidupüha) marks the decisive battle during the Estonian War of Independence in which the
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NATO allies are to deploy four multinational battalions to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland to help deter any potential Russian threat to the region. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the UK, the US and Germany agreed to send a battalion each, “to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by Moscow in
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According to a poll by the Levada Centre, Estonia has scored ninth on Russia’s top enemies list; in 2007, Estonia was regarded as number one enemy of its eastern neighbour. Levada Center, an independent think tank in Russia, has compiled a list of the countries Russians regard as the main enemies of their country. The
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The alarm sounded just after 1 pm last Thursday at Ämari Air Base where the Royal Air Force is stationed to deter Russian aggression in the Baltic States. 900 miles away inside a control room in the German city of Uedem, the staff at NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre was tracking three unidentified aircraft. The aircraft
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