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The 70th anniversary of the end of World War II was commemorated throughout the Baltic countries today. In Estonia, the largest events will take place in the capital, Tallinn, where wreaths will be placed on behalf of the government at the Defence Forces Cemetery and at the memorial to the victims of Nazism at Rahumäe Jewish cemetery. Traditionally, wreaths are placed in the name of the government at the Maarjamäe Memorial Square at the monument for participants of the 1944 Estonian defence battles, graves of German soldiers and the Red Army memorial. [....] As previously reported, this year Lithuania will...

Advocates of the Obama Administration’s nuclear deal with Iran need look no further than Ukraine to see what the consequences of a bad deal with a rogue state can be. Back in February, the leaders of France, Germany and Russia pressured a desperate Ukrainian president into signing an agreement that made no mention of Russia’s annexation of the Crimea, guaranteed a “special status” (read: Russian-controlled) eastern Ukraine, and froze in place the current front lines. This meant that all Russia’s ill-gotten gains would be held by President Putin. In return, Ukraine’s President Poroshenko got a sorely-needed $17.5 billion aid package...

BING TRANSLATION: Summary of command InformNapalm as of April 13, 2015 The last couple of weeks we are getting reports from insiders of the accumulation of technology in Elenovke and Dokuchayevsk. At first glance it would seem that it is preparing for an offensive to Mariupol. But as the talk of withdrawal to the boundaries of administrative areas, the blow to the West is inevitable. In addition, they need to cover the flanks of the southwestern kick. Most likely, the technique there is accumulated for the strike-through Paraskovievku Andreevka Yelenovka village and Uspenovku. According to our estimates, there is up...

Where is he? Where did he disappear to? Where? At week’s end, we still do not know more about the whereabouts of President Vladimir Putin than we did at the start of the week, when it first began to be noticed that he had not been seen in public since March 5. The last two weeks since the murder of opposition Boris Nemtsov on February 27 have brought not only widely disparate theories of the case, rapid arrest of the suspects, and reversals in their testimony under claims of torture, confirmed by some human rights activists although disputed by others...

First part of the interview found here(translated from Russian by I.M.) War in Ukraine- How many of you crossed the border?- There are 31 tanks in the battalion. We crossed company at a time. Ten tanks in each company. For every 10 tanks there were three BMPs added, armored medical carrier and five "Ural" trucks with ammunition. That's the size of the company tactical task force. Tank battalion is made of about 120 people - three tank companies, support platoon, communications platoon. Plus infantry, of course. Approximately 300 people have crossed. All from Ulan-Ude (Russian city in Siberia). Basically, most...