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The Northern Alliance

... the gift to their inheritors. On October 30 of last year, Norwegian ex-foreign minister Thorvald Stoltenberg, father of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, addressed the 66th session of the Northern Council, which unites legislators of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden, and proposed establishing a Nordic Defense and Security Commission. And in past decades, the eastern track has been Oslo’s biggest success. Sweden has evaded conflict for 200 years and has been known for its demonstratively peaceful ...

17.04.2015

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Security Issues Are Not Resolved by Nervousness

... peacekeeping battalion ( BALTBAT ), and the joint air space surveillance and control system ( BALTNET ), the joint Baltic naval squadron ( BALTRON ) and the Baltic countries’ defence college ( BALTDEFCOL ) in Tartu continue to operate. Sweden, Finland and Norway, together with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and also Ireland, are part of the Nordic Battlegroup, which was created under the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, and cooperate within it in fulfilling the “Petersberg tasks”....

04.03.2015

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Poll conducted

In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)