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Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milo Djukanovic and Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, March 25, 2014

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Jul 7, 2014

NATO Signals No New Members for the Present

By John-Thor Dahlburg, AP

Faced with a newly aggressive Russia, NATO has been mulling how to react, but it is ruling out one option: rapid expansion.

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Armed men outside Sloviansk city council, April 14, 2014

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Jun 9, 2014

‘Masterly’ Russian Operations in Ukraine Leave NATO One Step Behind

By Sam Jones, Financial Times

In more than a dozen interviews, planners, security officials and members of the intelligence community have spoken of Moscow with universal, if grudging, praise.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin at GRU headquarters, March 13, 2008

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Apr 8, 2014

Swedish Intelligence Worried about Russian ‘War Preparations’

By Local (Sweden)

Russia has intensified its espionage efforts in Sweden to include war preparations, Swedish security service Säpo warned on Monday.

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Turkish F-16 jet

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Mar 4, 2014

Turkey Scrambles Jets After Russian Plane Flies Near its Black Sea Coast

By Reuters and Anadolu Agency

From Reuters:  The Turkish Air Force scrambled eight F-16 fighter jets after a Russian surveillance plane flew parallel along its Black Sea coast

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Yanukovich security forces in Kiev, Dec. 14, 2013

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Feb 25, 2014

Papers Reveal Yanukovich Plans to Turn Army Against Protesters

By Roman Olearchyk and Neil Buckley, Financial Times

The Yanukovich regime had drawn up plans for a massive crackdown on protesters in Kiev using thousands of police and troops – and the chief of Ukraine’s armed forces on Thursday last week ordered 2,500 army troops into the capital for an “antiterrorist” operation.

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Russia’s team at the Opening Ceremony for the Sochi Olympics

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Feb 11, 2014

Sochi Olympics is a Cyber War Zone, Experts Warn

By Hannah Kuchler, Financial Times

Foreign visitors to the Winter Olympics in Sochi are unknowingly wading into a cyber battlefield, the US government and security experts have warned.

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70th anniversary of the lifting of the siege of Leningrad

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Jan 30, 2014

US Intelligence Community’s Threat Assessment of Russia

By Office of the Director of National Intelligence

The following excerpt is from the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, delivered by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2014.

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper

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Jan 29, 2014

Intelligence Community’s Assessment of Cyber Threats to the US

By Office of the Director of National Intelligence

The following excerpt is from the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community, delivered by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, January 29, 2014.

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French National Assembly

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Dec 11, 2013

Legislation Will Soon Expand Cyber Power of French Government

By Wall Street Journal

The pending French measures would require Internet providers, telecom operators and content companies to give up “communications, information or documents processed or preserved by their networks or electronic communications services” when demanded by law enforcement.

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel

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Nov 25, 2013

Report: NSA Bugged Merkel’s Phone at Request of State Department

By Siobhan Gorman, Wall Street Journal

Shortly after former government contractor Edward Snowden revealed himself in June as the source of leaked National Security Agency documents, the agency’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, offered to resign, according to a senior U.S. official.

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