On 8 May 2018, the Finnish and Swedish Ministers of Defense, Jussi Niinistö and Peter Hultqvist, met with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the Pentagon.
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Last week, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited the White House. While President Macron was greeted with a lavish state visit, then Chancellor Merkel’s visit was a modest working visit.
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President Donald Trump appointed John Bolton, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, as his National Security Advisor (NSA) effective as of April 9th, 2018.
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On December 11th 2017, five days after he announced his expected intention to run for the fourth time for Russia’s presidency, Vladimir Putin visited Hmeimim air base, met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, and declared that Russia’s military mission in Syria had been “accomplished.”
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Cyber capabilities display attractive features for nation-states’ covert influence activities in the grey zone between war and peace. They can be used to support objectives of information warfare in several ways: collecting intelligence, doxing, infecting devices and webpages to spread propaganda, social media bots, and Distributed Denial of Service attacks.
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On Tuesday, December 12, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump signed the FY18 National Defence Authorisation Act (NDAA) into law.
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On 22 May 2017, Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to set foot in the Old City of Jerusalem.
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On 7 and 8 December, Fellow Researcher Kalev Stoicescu gave comments to two Estonian TV channels on President Donald Trump’s decision on Jerusalem.
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An alliance with the Unites States continues to be important to Estonia
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