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  • 2018-10-20 (xsd:date)
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  • said Anders Aslund, a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and former Swedish diplomat who served as an economic advisor to Russia and Ukraine in the 1990sBELGIUM -- U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison accused Russia of violating the intermediate nuclear missile treaty at a NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels, October 2, 2018.Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine said Russian actions just during the past five years have created major tensions in East-West relations."He listed Russian actions that have heightened international tensions:Seizure and illegal annexation of Crimea; support -- including with units of the Russian army -- for the continuing conflict in Donbas;Violation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty by developing and deploying a prohibited land-based cruise missile of intermediate range;Large military exercises (some with no notice); Aggressive buzzing of NATO ships and aircraft; Attempted assassination of Sergey Skripal;Interference in U.S. and other Western elections. Pifer added that the West also bears responsibility (en)
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  • During the annual Valdai Club meeting in Sochi on October 18, Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a question about international tensions -- specifically, about whether his meeting with the U.S. President Donald Trump exacerbated tensions between the two nations rather than fixed them.FINLAND -- US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive for a meeting in Helsinki, on July 16, 2018.Putin responded with a joke and claimed Russia’s foreign policy was flawless. We don’t create tensions for anybody; we do not create any problems (en)
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