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U.S., Russia reach agreement on nuclear arms reduction treaty
U.S., Russia reach agreement on nuclear arms reduction treaty
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sealed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty during a phone call Friday morning, committing the two nations to a significant new reduction of…
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Russia Looks East and Sees Storm Clouds
Russia Looks East and Sees Storm Clouds
(Part Two) Attention to both combat capabilities and combat-readiness by senior officers in Russian military forces echoes comments made by retired Army-General Makhmut Gareev in early March during a conference…
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Russia Looks East and Sees Storm Clouds
Russia Looks East and Sees Storm Clouds
(Part One) As Roger McDermott has already noted (EDM, March 16), Army-General Makhmut Gareev, the President of the Russian Academy of Military Sciences, recently addressed what he called the "eastern…
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Russian Strategic Interests Shifting Eastward
Russian Strategic Interests Shifting Eastward
On March 8, an open letter by a group of German politicians and military officers, including the former German Defense Minister, Volker Ruehe, recommending that NATO should offer membership to…
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Mistral Procurement Disguises Weak Condition of the Black Sea Fleet
Mistral Procurement Disguises Weak Condition of the Black Sea Fleet
Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev's, recent trip to Paris for bilateral talks with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy, followed by receiving the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in Moscow on March 5,…
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Russian Military Doctrine Looks East
Russian Military Doctrine Looks East
Statements by senior Russian defense officials raise many questions concerning Moscow's defense posture. The Chief of the General Staff Army-General Nikolai Makarov and the First Deputy Defense Minister Army-General Nikolai…
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The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation 2010
The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation 2010
Russia's new Military Doctrine highlights NATO as a military danger to the Russian Federation. NATO is listed explicitly in first place among these dangeres - specifically the "striving to ascribe…
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New Russian Military Doctrine Opposes NATO Enlargement
New Russian Military Doctrine Opposes NATO Enlargement
After several delays, the long-awaited new Russian military doctrine was finally approved by President Dmitry Medvedev on February 5. The document did not include the rumored lowering of the nuclear…
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