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STATUL NON-NATO AL R. MOLDOVA

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Troubling Museum Dedicated to 1999 NATO Bombing of Serbia
This little museum is located in a building beside the big monument at Kadinjaca, a place 14km outside of Uzice. They had the place locked up for the season, but my friend talked the security...

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Gigi: PIU 2015 Prime [Yog Sothoth - Nato En Double Lv. 23 (1st Try) ^-^/]
It #39;s the 1st try in this song 🙂 - Thanks for watching my videos 😀 - There will be more records, just wait for them :3 By Gigi 😉

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Ukraine News Dec 16- NATO Aircraft Doubles Near Russia
1) DPR considers silence regime in E.Ukraine effective 2) Ukrainian PM appeals to EU for immediate financial aid 3) NATO tactical aircraft double flight intensity near Russia, Belarus borders...

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NATO Secretary General - NAC with past current non-NATO ISAF Contributing Nations, 17 DEC 2014
Opening remarks by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the meeting of the North Atlantic Council with past and current non-NATO ISAF Contributing Nations, 17 December 2014.

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Sweden should make wise use of NATO's benevolent attitude to establish closer relations, writes Anna Wieslander.

Anna Wieslander is Deputy Director of the Swedish Institute of International Affairs.

For the first time ever, Sweden and Finland will be meeting with NATO a few weeks from now to discuss security in the Baltic region. The discussion will be the opening shot for a new kind of strategic dialogue.

The ascendance of Jens Stoltenberg to the post of Secretary-General portends a greater focus on the region as one strategic playing field. NATOs involvement in the area has generally been limited to the crises that pop up every now and then. The new approach has the potential to greatly benefit Sweden and Finland, as well as the other Nordic and Baltic countries.

New preparedness plan is of the essence

Russias annexation of Crimea in March took NATO by surprise. All eyes are again on deterrence and military preparedness as NATO recalibrates to its primary taskcollective defence in view of more urgent security concerns on both its southern and eastern borders.

After several decades of focusing on international, out-of-area, initiatives, cobbling together the details of the Readiness Action Plan (RAP) adopted by the Cardiff Summit in September is an immediate priority ahead of the meeting of NATO defence ministers this coming February.

The summit also offered Sweden the chance to participate in an Enhanced Opportunities Program (EOP). However, the specific design of the program may be put on the back burner as NATO shifts its attention to setting up a new spearhead force, command structure and cost allocation scheme.

The organisation has a good deal of ground to make up in that respect. As a senior NATO official put it after the summit, This organization has muscle memory and we are back in the gym.

For a number of years, NATO members have been taking advantage of the opportunity to cut defence spending while it has restructured in favour of multilateral peacekeeping forces around the world.

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NATO turns its gaze to the Baltic region

BRUSSELS - Recent close shaves between Russian fighters and civilian aircraft highlight the dangers of the cat-and-mouse game being played out between Moscow and the West in European skies amid the crisis in Ukraine, analysts say.

In the latest incident, Sweden said Friday that a Russian military jet nearly collided with a passenger plane south of Malmoe shortly after take-off from Copenhagen International Airport.

Both countries called in their Russian ambassadors to protest, only to be told that a huge increase in Russian military activity in recent months was "a response to NATO's activities and escalation in the region."

Russia later accused Swedish authorities of being under the influence after smoking too much cannabis.

But such incidents are no joke for European authorities, with memories still fresh from the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine by a missile that the West alleges was fired by pro-Russian separatists.

The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has begun an investigation into a series of near-misses with Russian military aircraft not using the transponders which identify them and tell other planes of their position.

This practice is particularly dangerous, analysts said.

Transponders turned off

"While Russia claims that its military aircraft remain in international airspace, to do so while turning off transponders and swooping close to other aerial platforms is very dangerous," Brooks Tigner, chief editor and policy analyst at Security Europe, told AFP.

"That is disruptive to accepted international air safety rules and a risky game for Russia to play," Tigner said.

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Danger in the skies as Russia, NATO play cat-and-mouse

Military manoeuvres: A Russian soldier directs a tank onto a flat-bed truck near Simferopol. Photo: Reuters

Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday approved a series of joint military exercises with NATO countries that would put US troops in direct proximity to Russian forces in the annexed Crimea peninsula.

"This is a good opportunity to develop our armed forces," acting defence minister Mykhailo Koval told Verkhovna Rada lawmakers ahead of the 235-0 vote.

The decision came as NATO foreign ministers gathered in Brussels for a two-day meeting dominated by concern over the recent buildup of Russian forces near Crimea that US officials estimate had at one point reached about 40,000 troops.

NATO has sought to reinforce its eastern frontier after Russia's takeover of Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula and amid concerns about the Kremlin's emboldened foreign policy.

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Russia on Monday reported pulling back a battalion of about 500 to 700 soldiers from the border region in a move that German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier called "a small sign that the situation is becoming less tense".

Ukraine is not a NATO member and its new Western-backed leaders have vowed not to push for closer relations with the Brussels-based military alliance - a bloc that has been viewed with deep mistrust by Moscow since the Cold War.

But the former Soviet nation did form a "distinctive partnership" with the Alliance in 1997 and has been staging joint exercises with its state members ever since.

The exercises approved on Tuesday would see Ukraine conduct two sets of military exercises with the United States this summer - Rapid Trident and Sea Breeze - that have prompted disquiet in Russia in previous years.

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NATO Secretary General - 10th Anniversary Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, 11 DEC 2014
Keynote address by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the North Atlantic Council ICI seminar celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, Doha, Qatar,...

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Russian Bear Back: Is NATO Ready?
Russian Bear Back: Is NATO Ready?

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