Keeping an outpost: CSTO to maintain defense spending at current levels
- The CSTO currently sees no need to increase defense spending. The organization is coping with its tasks and even in conditions of external political pressure remains an effective structure, an ...
Baltic nations count final hours to ending electricity ties to Russia
Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia and ...