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Polish Navy to acquire surveillance aircraft for use in the Baltic Sea
The Ministry of Defense of Poland has begun discussing plans to acquire new surveillance and maritime patrol aircraft for use in the Baltic Sea, Evropeyskaya Pravda reported with reference to Defense News.
The Ministry plans to purchase three surveillance aircraft by 2023, and three maritime patrol aircraft by 2030.
Meanwhile, it is unclear whether the current government will continue the plan of the previous Cabinet of Ministers to allocate additional funds for the overhaul and modernization …
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Crimea hopes to attract Chinese tourists
Authorities of the occupied peninsula are waiting for tourists from China for the 2016 holiday season.
The occupational authorities of the Crimea hope that they will be able to surprise tourists from China during the holiday season and compensate for the shortage of vacationers, according to the head of the Crimean Parliament Committee for Health Resorts and Tourism, Alexey Chernyak.
"The first group of more than 20 people visited Sevastopol on May 9th. We are already receiving pre-orders for …
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German Athletic Associaion calls for banning Russia from participating in summer Olympics
German sports functionaries have called for Russia be barred from participating in the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in connection with the expanding scandal around the use of doping in Russian sports, DW reports.
"This is a very serious accusation. If stimulants are used in Russia so systematically, then the Russian team shouldn't go to the summer games in Rio,” said Clemens Prokop, the president of the German Athletics Association.
The CEO of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, …
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American reconnaissance plane approached the Russian-Baltic border
A strategic reconnaissance plane RC-135V of the US Air force approached the coastal line of the Russian Kaliningrad region on Sunday, as reported by the Western aviation portals monitoring the routes of military aircraft.
The reconnaissance jet with tail number 64-14844 and call sign ELGIN33 departed from the RAF Mildenhall airbase in the UK and is now on a NATO mission flight in the southern Baltic.
According to Swedish aviation sites, a Russian Su-27 was scrambled from the Kaliningrad …
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Polish Foreign Minister: We need to return to traditional methods to deal with Russia
The Polish Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, stated that while addressing of international challenges it is necessary to refuse to cooperate with Russia and return to traditional methods of protecting NATO member countries, TASS reports.
Waszczykowski believes that Russia’s actions raise the question of "no longer believing that it is possible to address international challenges with Russia.”
Instead, he suggested a return to “strategic, geopolitical thinking; to normal, traditional …