In recent years, NATO has made good progress in strengthening deterrence and defence postures on its eastern flank, including establishing a rotational Allied land component presence in the Baltic states and Poland.
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NATO is in the middle of the active phase of its largest military exercise for some years.
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Piret Pernik, a Research Fellow, ICDS, moderated on 27 September 2018 a discussion panel entitled “Cyber security and NATO’s cooperation with the EU” at the Baltic-Russia Youth Forum in Jurmala.
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On 27 September, ICDS research fellows Tony Lawrence and Tomas Jermalavičius participated in the Baltic Sea Security Forum 2018.
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On September 18th ICDS hosted a seminar which looked back at the Russian aggression against Georgia 10 years ago.
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In some ways, the 2018 Swedish general parliamentary elections defied expectations. Despite intensive polling, few pollsters made even roughly correct predictions about the outcome. At the time of writing, though, the actual results are not quite all in.
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Recently declassified documents from Bill Clinton’s presidential library show how the then Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, tried to convince Clinton not to expand NATO to former Soviet republics.
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Kristi Raik commented NATO Summit to VICE News.
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There is every indication that burden sharing will be a contentious issue at NATO’s Brussels Summit, which begins today. Donald Trump has been consistent in attacking Germany’s contribution to the Alliance, which he claims is unfair to the US.
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