Category: NATO
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Italy To Lead Construction of New NATO Base in Bulgaria
Internet news site, bourgas.ru, situated in the Bulgarian Black Sea coast city of Burgas, and catering to speakers of Russian as their native language, on August 13, 2025, reported that in the near future Bulgaria and Italy would begin construction of a new NATO military base in Bulgaria’s Yambol Province. Bulgaria’s Minister of Defense, in…
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Putin Ally Medvedev Issues Retaliatory Threat After Assassination of Russian General, mid-December, 2024
In a December 18, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitri Medvedev, reacted to the assassination of General Igor Anatoliyevich Kirillov, Chief of Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces of the Russian Armed Forces. Medvedev’s message contained a threat of retaliation not only against the…
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Putin Ally Dmitri Medvedev Makes Ukraine-Centric Observations From Three Recent Events, Early December 2024
In his December 1, 2024 Telegram post, former President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev, who now serves as the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, addressed “three events at the very beginning of winter” that had caught his attention, which, from his perspective, related to the situation in Ukraine. Medvedev’s post begins below [translated from…
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Former Russian President, Now Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, Dmitri Medvedev, Faults Current U.S. President for Deaths Resulting from Ukraine’s Use of ATACMS To Launch Attacks “Deep into the Territory of Russia,” Late November 2024
During the week of November 19-26, 2024, using his favorite platform, Telegram, as well as making an appearance on Al Arabia TV, former President of Russia and current deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitri Medvedev, addressed the right of Russia to respond with nuclear weapons to a missile attack on Russia by…
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Dmitri Medvedev, Former Russian President/Current Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Claims: Ukrainian Defeat Assured Despite Germany Sending Taurus Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine
Following is a November 12, 2024 post by Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and currently Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, to Telegram. In this post, Medvedev is reacting to statements by the Chairman of Germany’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, vowing, if elected, to supply Ukraine with long-range cruise missiles.…
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Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Questions A Trump Presidency’s Ability To Overcome “The System”
Dmitri Medvedev, former President of Russia and current Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, on November 6, 2024, posted a short, succinct message on Telegram, his communication conduit of choice, briefly commenting on expectations under a Trump presidency regarding the situation in Ukraine as well as relations with allies. The language in which he…
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What Many Westerners Don’t Get About The Gaza War
The Blogs Efraim Inbar Efraim Inbar is president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS) and head of the program on Strategy, Diplomacy, and National Security at the Shalem Academic Center. This is a re-posting of a post written for the The Blogs of the internet news site, The Times of Israel, by…
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Putin Portrays SMO as a Spiritual Endeavor in Victory Day Speech, Early May 2024
President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on May 9, 2024, once again used the occasion of the country’s Victory Day celebration as a bully pulpit to denounce the “Western elite” (i.e., the countries of the U.S.-led NATO alliance) for encouraging the former Soviet bloc countries to seek independence, in the wake of which monuments, memorials, and…
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The Arrest of WSJ Reporter Evan Gershkovich in Russia and Reaction to It. Chronology
Voice of America’s Russian language service correspondent Masha Morton has filed a detailed report documenting the chronology of the arrest of The Wall Street Journal reporter in Russia, Evan Gershkovich. Morton’s April 3 account will probably be the most factually-based version of the incident that Russian-only speakers will receive, given the anti-free speech climate in…
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Turkish Internet News Site Reports U.S. Senators’ Intention To Link F-16 Sale to Ankara to Approval of Finland’s, Sweden’s NATO Accession Applications; February 3, 2023
Turkish internet news site Medyascope‘s Foreign News Service on February 3, 2023, issued the following report based on a partial translation of a letter Congress sent to U.S. President Joe Biden requesting that he, along with U.S. Ambassador to Ankara Jeff Flake, urge Türkiye to act quickly regarding Ankara’s decision to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s…
The Dragon is Slain 