The tiny Balkan nation of Montenegro, with 620,000 inhabitants, has formerly joined the NATO alliance in a ceremony in Washington Monday. The action has infuriated its long-term cultural partner, Russia, and threatened its tourism industry. “Russia reserves the right to take counter-measures on the basis of reciprocity amid the Montenegrin…
In Tit-For-Tat Measure, Moscow Expels Two Estonian Diplomats.
The Montenegrin Prime Minister, Dusko Markovic, reacted in parliament to the ban of a senior Montenegrin ruling party official, Miodrag Vukovic, from transiting Russia on the way to Belarus, calling the detention of the official ‘destructive and primitive.’ Vukovic was detained at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow while transiting the…
Image by Kremlin.ru The Serbian president-elect and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic declared today that the Balkan nation has no plans to join the NATO alliance, as many of its former Yugoslavian nations have. Serbia is a long-time ally of Russia and was not expected to join the Western defense bloc….
Image by King of Hearts A member of the Russian parliament, while speaking at a security conference in Slovakia, declared that Russia would use nuclear weapons if NATO entered East Ukraine or the Crimean Peninsula. The comments seem to highlight Russian concern over the encroachment of NATO on its western…
Russia is building a military research and testing center in the Arctic region, furthering its already strong hold to land claims in the region, at the expense of other world powers. Lt. Gen. Igor Makushev, head of the Military-Scientific Committee of the Russian Armed Forces, said the center will be…
Kozeta Cika contributed to this article Image by Helmandsare Montenegro is expected to be the next NATO member, bringing the total number of member countries to 29. “Montenegro will become a NATO member in June”, NATO General Secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, stated a few days ago. He specified that all Alliance…
The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite, while at a NATO summit in Brussels, declared she wanted a permanent U.S. troop presence in her country to counter perceived Russian aggression on Baltic borders. “We need the serious involvement of the US to not only deter but to defend…It is important to have…
Image by Alfredas Piladys Military sources said today the U.S. military may deploy the Patriot missile system in the Baltics as part of a temporary rotation of troops in Lithuania. The news would herald a serious commitment to continue to build capability to defend the Baltic nations against perceived Russian…