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Opinion: Erdogan, Putin and the touchy Turkish Stream

August 8, 2016August 8, 2016 Deutsche Welle energy, Russia, South Stream, Turkey

The revival of the Turkish Stream pipeline project is expected to be the concrete outcome of the meeting between Russian

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Europe 

US, allies train over Estonia

August 5, 2016August 5, 2016 VOANews Estonia, Nato, Russia

As part of a major training exercise to hone the NATO forces’ ability to work together, the United States and

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Europe 

Ukrainians denounce Trump’s comments on Ukraine, Crimea

August 3, 2016 VOANews Russia, Ukraine

It is probably no surprise that the recent comments by U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate Donald Trump about the conflict

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Avionams aircraft repair plant back in state hands

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, CCB affair, Nato, Poland, Russia

The Avionams aircraft repair plant in the southern Bulgarian town of Graf Ignatievo, privatised in 2008, is back in state

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Europe 

Google bows to Russian pressure, reverses changes to names of Crimean towns

July 30, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Google on July 28 changed the names of towns, villages and districts in Russian-occupied Crimea on its Google Maps mapping

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Bulgaria 

Russia denies Bulgarian accusations of airspace intrusions

July 26, 2016July 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia

The spokesperson for Russia’s defence ministry denied the accusations made by Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev about alleged intrusions by

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Bulgaria 

Russian aircraft intruded in Bulgarian air space 10 times in past month – Defence Minister

July 24, 2016July 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia

Russian aircraft have intruded into Bulgarian air space 10 times in the past month, with Bulgaria’s Defence Minister describing the

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Europe 

Ukrainian-Belarusian journalist Pavel Sheremet killed in Kyiv

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed in a car explosion in Kyiv on the morning of July 20, reported Ukrainska Pravda.

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Europe 

Nato-Russia Council session does little to ease tension

July 14, 2016 Luis Ramirez of VOANews Nato, Russia

A meeting Wednesday of NATO and Russian ministers, billed as an opportunity to defuse tensions after the alliance’s recent declaration

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