Chisinau waiting for go-ahead from West to resume talks with Transnistria — ex-president
According to Igor Dodon, certain circles in the West would like to have another hotbed of tension in Moldova to drag Russia into it
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According to Igor Dodon, certain circles in the West would like to have another hotbed of tension in Moldova to drag Russia into it
"Moldova is a neutral state, and this is our main geopolitical advantage in the face of any military risk," Igor Dodon stressed
EU-Russia. In a joint position paper, Germany and France have rejected a blanket ban on Russian citizens entering the European Union, as proposed by several member states, notes the dpa news agency. While accepting that visa applications from Russian citizens should be carefully examined for potential security risks, the paper warns against underestimating the transformative power of experiencing life in democratic systems at first-hand. The French-German paper added that a blanket ban could lead to a rise in nationalist and anti-European sentiments in Russia. Romania said it will back the sus...
William Burns, director of the CIA, estimates that Russian casualties in Ukraine have reached around 15,000 killed and perhaps 45,000 wounded. Russia has suffered the same number of military fatalities in a few months of war in Ukraine as the USSR in the decade it fought in Afghanistan.
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