Yesterday, on July 28, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, began a working trip to Karelia with a visit to the new command and control center of the Petrozavodsk airport. He listened to reports on the organization of regional air traffic and visited the control room. As specified, fom Petrozavodsk, Medvedev will
Yesterday, on July 28, the EU Commission banned Finland from refusing to issue visas to Russians. However, now the customs has tightened the rules for the carriage of foreign currency and goods. From Finland, it is now impossible to export goods more expensive than 300 euros per piece, equipment over 750 euros, and food over
On Monday, July 11, Lithuania extended limits on trade through its territory to Russia’s Baltic enclaves of Kaliningrad, following an earlier EU announcement of anti-Russian sanctions. Kaliningrad borders on NATO and the EU states, Lithuania and Poland, and relies on railways and roads through Lithuania for most goods. As reminded, the coastal territory has
In mid-May, Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO, explaining the decision by growing tenses around the Europe due to the difficult situation in Ukraine and Russia’s special military operation there. The Head of the Finnish intelligence service Supo, Antti Pelttari, expressed his surprise of the fact Russia has not responded to Helsinki’s initiative
The governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, expressed his opinion on Finland’s accession to NATO to Daily Storm. He believes that Finland will suffer greatly from joining NATO, because the Finnish economy is too closely connected with the Russian one. “The decisions [on joining NATO] that they have made today — they may not
Former US President, George W. Bush, in a telephone conversation with renowned Russian pranksters Vladimir Kuznetsov (Vovan) and Alexey Stolyarov (Lexus), confessed that the US administration together with his father, George Bush, had really promised the Soviet Union’s former president, Mikhail Gorbachev, that NATO would not expand. He also confirmed, the promise is not relevant
Russia will be obliged to respond to the threat from NATO in the event of an expansion of the alliance’s infrastructure in Finland and Sweden, Russian Security Council Secretary, Nikolai Patrushev, said. “In the event of the expansion of the alliance’s military infrastructure on the territory of Finland and Sweden, Russia will perceive this as
Finnish Prime Minister, Sanna Marin, said on Thursday, May 19, that Helsinki is opposed to NATO deploying nuclear weapons or establishing bases inside Finland if it joins the military alliance. Swedish Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, has also said Sweden doesn’t plan on hosting NATO nuclear weapons or bases. Finland and Sweden formally applied to join
Large-scale NATO military drills has started in Estonia on Monday, May 16. The exercise called “Hedgehog 2022” is one of the largest in the Baltic nation’s history, according to the military bloc, and will involve about 15,000 troops from 14 nations. It is noted that soldiers from Finland, Sweden, Georgia, and Ukraine will also take
Sweden and Finland, which previously adhered to the policy of military neutrality, officially announced their intention to become members of NATO on May 15, 2022, explaining that they see a threat from Russia. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, speaking on the air of the “Solovyov Live” programme, said that the
The expansion of NATO at the expense of Finland and Sweden does not pose an immediate threat to Russia, since Moscow has no problems with these countries, as Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the today’s summit of the CSTO, timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Collective Security Treaty.
The West has launched a “total hybrid war” against Russia, and Moscow is ready to respond, the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has stated in his address to the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy. “The collective West has declared a total hybrid war on us, and it is difficult to predict how long this
Joining NATO will not contribute to strengthening the security of Sweden and Finland, and Moscow will not accept the current situation as it is, according to the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ryabkov, on Monday, May 16, 2022. Recently, it became known that the Social Democratic Party in power in Sweden spoke in favor of
