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Apr 9, 2010

Russian Warship En Route to Black Sea for Naval Drills

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: The Caesar Kunikov large amphibious landing ship from Russia’s Black Sea Fleet set out on Thursday to take part in Blackseafor naval drills, the fleet’s press service said. Blackseafor was formally established in 2001 on Turkey’s initiative and comprises Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Romania, Georgia and Russia. It conducts search and rescue operations […]

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Apr 9, 2010

Obama’s Dinner with Central European Leaders: Alternative Views

By the Economist

From the Economist: The president was in Prague to sign a new nuclear disarmament agreement with Russia. Even the twitchiest ex-communist countries don’t mind that. The choice of a key American ally as the signing location was meant to signal America’s continued commitment to the region’s security. Mr Obama could have simply headed home after […]

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Apr 9, 2010

Obama’s Dinner with Central European Leaders: A Positive View

By Reuters

From Reuters: President Barack Obama met leaders of NATO allies in central and eastern Europe on Thursday to soothe fears that better U.S. relations with Russia might mean weaker security links with the former Soviet satellites. … "This notion that somehow if we work with Russia that’s to the disadvantage of our allies, like the […]

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Apr 9, 2010

U.S. Russia Considering Cooperation on Kyrgyzstan

By the AP

From the AP: U.S. officials said Thursday they’re working closely with Russia to respond to the uprising in Kyrgyzstan despite previous conflict over a military base in the Central Asian nation. … Michael McFaul, Obama’s senior director for Russian affairs, emphasized that the U.S. did not view the conflict as any kind of proxy struggle […]

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Apr 9, 2010

NATO’s Response Force Conducts Maritime Excercise

By Allied Command Operations

From Allied Command Operations:  NATO’s Response Force (NRF) will conduct Exercise Brilliant Mariner between 12-22 April in the Northern and Baltic Sea to ensure they are fully prepared to respond as required to world-wide operations or crisis situations. The maritime exercise will include 6,500 military personnel from 11 NATO nations, including France as Maritime commander, […]

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Apr 9, 2010

Rasmussen: NATO’s Problems and Promise

By NATO

From NATO: Diplomats, defense ministries and development experts sit together, plan together and operate together, including in Provincial Reconstruction Teams all over Afghanistan. But at the international level, this lesson has simply not yet been learnt. Let me illustrate it by a concrete example. The European Union does both development and police training in Afghanistan. […]

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New Atlanticist

Apr 9, 2010

Kyrgyzstan’s New Chance for Democracy

By Borut Grgic

In 2005, Askar Akayev, the then-President of Kyrgyzstan, was deposed and fled from the capital, Bishkek, to Moscow to save his life and the millions of dollars he allegedly stole from the country during his presidency. The driver of change was none other than Kurmanbek Bakiev, riding into the capital on horseback from Osh, a […]

New Atlanticist

Apr 8, 2010

China and the World: Are We Approaching a Tipping Point?

By Robert Manning

Is the pendulum of history shifting? Has China moved from emerging power to emerged? It is difficult not to conclude that China seems to have eaten its Wheaties: whether it is their swagger at the Copenhagen Climate meeting last December, the recent  cyber-flap with Google, or its unusually vitriolic reaction to not unexpected recent U.S. […]

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Apr 8, 2010

Russia Sends Paratroopers to Its Airbase in Kyrgyzstan – General Staff

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russia has sent some 150 paratroopers to its Kant airbase in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan to ensure the safety of families of Russian military staff, the General Staff chief Nikolay Makarov said. "The president has decided to send two companies of paratroopers there and some 150 people have arrived […]

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Apr 8, 2010

Medvedev Proposes Global Missile Defense Cooperation with U.S.

By RIA Novosti

From RIA Novosti: Russia has proposed cooperation with the United States in creating a global missile defense system, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Thursday. "We are interested in cooperating with our American partners on this issue as close as possible," Medvedev told a press conference in Prague after the two presidents signed a new nuclear […]

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