Contents tagged with NATO
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US experts: Russia exerts covert pressure on eastern European countries
A report from US private research groups shows that the governments of five eastern and central European countries are under pressure from the Russian Federation, threatening their pro-Western orientation. The US experts have been conducting a 16-month long joint investigation with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), which is based in Washington, and the Centre for Democracy Studies (CDS), based in Bulgaria.
The researchers concluded that Russia has organized a campaign …
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Stoltenberg presents NATO’s position on Russia’s deployment of Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad
The Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, expressed the opinion that Russia has followed a habitual course of action by deploying Iskander-M missile systems to Kaliningrad.
“We saw that they deployed missile systems in the Kaliningrad region. This is all part of a mosaic that is being assembled over a certain period of time,” TASS quoted Stoltenberg as saying.
According to him, the military bloc has already conducted the strongest program of …
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NATO AWACS reconnaissance aircraft will arrive in Lithuania
A new NATO reconnaissance aircraft with long-range radar detection and AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) will land at the Lithuanian Air Force airbase in Šiauliai this week, the Lithuanian authorities reported.
“It will be a symbolic visit of the NATO E-3A reconnaissance aircraft to Lithuania, one of more than a thousand flights conducted by its crew members to ensure the security of NATO’s eastern borders since the beginning of the Russian Federation’s aggressive actions in Ukraine," …
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US reconnaissance aircraft approached Russian Navy ships in the Mediterranean
Interfax.ru reported that on Tuesday, the US Navy’s P-8A Poseidon anti-submarine aircraft conducted another reconnaissance flight in the area of the eastern Mediterranean Sea. According to websites that track the movement of military aircraft, this is presumably where the ships of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy are situated.
According to their information, the aircraft, which had the tail number of 168859, left the Sigonella airbase in Sicily on Tuesday morning. The aircraft then …
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NATO criticized transfer of Russian Iskanders to Kaliningrad
NATO has sharply criticized the transfer of Russian Iskander-M tactical missiles to a Kaliningrad region which borders both Poland and Lithuania.
“The placement of missiles, which are equipped with nuclear warheads, to an area bordering member countries of the Alliance does not promote a reduction of the level of tensions,” this was said by a spokesman for NATO during an interview with dpa on the 9th of October.
“We need an increase, and not a decrease, in the level of transparency. We also …
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Russia warns Montenegro and Bosnia not to join NATO
The expected accession of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina to NATO will damage the relations of these countries with Russia. Interfax reported that this was said by the Director of the Department of European Cooperation of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Andrey Kelin.
“NATO is currently adhering to an extremely unfriendly policy towards Russia. In addition, foreign troops are being placed on the territory of the Baltic states. An accession to NATO in this situation will not aid in stability, …
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During the 1970s, the Soviet KGB attempted to recruit Jens Stoltenberg
Soviet intelligence once tried to recruit the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Jens Stoltenberg, to the Committee for the State Security of the Soviet Union, or the KGB. Stoltenberg wrote this in his autobiography, NRK reported. Stoltenberg explained that he had been in contact with employees of the Soviet Embassy since the late 1970s and repeatedly talked with Soviet Cultural Attaché Boris Kirillov.
The Secretary General of NATO recalls how he met with the erudite …
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NATO will continue its policy of pressuring Moscow to implement agreements in Ukraine
The Deputy Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Alexander Vershbow, stated that NATO intends to keep pressure on Moscow until it begins to implement previously undertaken obligations on the Ukrainian issue, European Pravda reported. According to Vershbow, the security situation in the Euro-Atlantic region has significantly deteriorated due to annexation of the Crimea by Russia in 2014 and the subsequent participation of Russian servicemen in the Donbas.
Meanwhile, …
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General Hodges: The core of US tank brigade in Europe will be deployed to Poland
The Commander of the U.S. Army in Europe, Frederick Ben Hodges, stated that a U.S. heavy tank brigade, which will be deployed in Europe to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank, will be based in Romania and Bulgaria but the core part of this brigade will be in Poland.
According to Hodges, the brigade will arrive from Colorado in mid-January 2017 to Bremerhaven, Germany, then it will be rapidly deployed to Western Poland.
“Thus, the whole brigade will be in place and then the process, which we call …
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NATO acknowledged that it is losing the information war with Russia
The NATO Command called on its allies in Western countries to actively combat the spread of misinformation that accompanies Russian military adventures, the Voice of America reported. The Director of NATO’s Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, Jānis Sārts, stated that the West is trying to catch up to the Russian Federation in this area.
“The technology is ours. The powerhouses of the market are located in our countries. However, we are holding this discussion, feeling that players …