Intelligence reports suggesting one of Russia’s European allies perpetrated last week’s hacking of Ukrainian government websites are creating a new dilemma for the Biden administration — how to respond if other countries launch cyberattacks on...
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Kiev "Now In The Crosshairs" As Russia Moves Fighter Jets & S-400 Missiles Into Belarus: Pentagon
The Pentagon and US intelligence is said to be watching Ukraine's northern neighbor Belarus very closely, given Moscow's recent statements...
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Justice department alleges fake bomb threat was used to divert plane to Minsk to arrest opposition activist
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NEW YORK — U.S. prosecutors charged four Belarusian government officials on Thursday with aircraft piracy for diverting a Ryanair flight last year to arrest an opposition journalist, using a ruse that there was a bomb threat.
The charges,...
MINSK (Sputnik) Recent statements from the US State Department regarding Russia's alleged invasion of Ukraine from Belarus and deployment of nuclear arms in the neighboring country are nothing more than "horror stories", the Belarusian Foreign...
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* US Sec. of State Blinken visits Ukraine; will meet Russian counterpart on Friday
* US raises military aid to Ukraine amid rising tensions with Russia
* Russia moving troops to Belarus for war games
* UK inflation rate soared to a 30-year high in...
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Russia’s latest troop deployment to Belarus represents a hostile development in the ongoing dispute over the future of Ukraine, a senior State Department official said Tuesday, as U.S. and European officials ramped up diplomatic and economic...
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MINSK (Sputnik) - The secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), a security bloc of post-Soviet countries, blamed "well-organized" terrorist groups for week-long unrest in Kazakhstan.
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Senior U.N. refugee agency and European Union officials are accusing Latvia, Lithuania and Poland of using questionable methods to keep out migrants trying to enter from Belarus
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In November, information emerged that Belarus dictator Alexander Lukashenko demanded that former German Chancellor Angela Merkel take in Muslim migrants in the face of his hybrid war against the EU. 2000 is nothing he said! In total, Germany ended...
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Mark Episkopos
S-400, Europe
Belarus is set to join the growing ranks of S-400 importers.
Here's What You Need to Remember: In sum, the Kremlin is giving Minsk the money to buy its S-400 systems at a subsidized rate reserved for Russia’s...
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Mark Episkopos
Russian Military, Belarus
The exercise is another sign of the strong relationship between Belarus and Russia. Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko recently said he intends to purchase S-400 air defense systems from Russia at a...
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Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania try to balance economic opportunities with geopolitical rhetoric
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The amendments to the Belarusian constitution published on Monday suggest that a person cannot be elected president more than for two terms.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia fears that the West may stage a provocation in Belarus during a referendum on the republic's basic law, Aleksey Polishchuk, the head of the Russian foreign ministry's second CIS department, said.
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MINSK (Sputnik) - Belarus's interior ministry said on Thursday it had labeled the Belarusian-language website and social media accounts of US state-funded Radio Liberty (registered in Russia as a foreign agent) as extremist.
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Migrants on the Belarus-Polish border are becoming increasingly violent in their efforts to break through Poland’s border defenses. “The Polish government says migrants are attacking their border patrol with ‘full aggression’...
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Earlier in the month, Russia rolled out a set of security proposals to the West in order to de-escalate the situation near the Ukrainian border. Among these proposals are guarantees from NATO not to deploy offensive weapons in Eastern Europe and...
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Minsk has expressed concerns about escalating tensions between Moscow and the West amid claims by officials in the US and NATO that Russia may be preparing to 'invade Ukraine'. Russia has dismissed these allegations as a false attempt to further...
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