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NATO intercepts Russian jets near Estonian airspace
BRUSSELS: Spanish and Finnish fighter jets were sent to intercept three Russian planes flying near Estonian air space on Tuesday, the NATO military alliance said in a statement.The Russian airplanes were identified as two MiG-31 jets and one Antonov AN-26 transport aircraft, NATO said.”Two Spanish F-18 jets assigned to NATO’s Baltic...
U.S. VP Pence says Russia's stance must change before ties improve
TBILISI (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday that relations with Russia would not improve until Moscow changed its stance on Ukraine and withdrew support for “regimes like Iran and Syria and North Korea”. …read more Source: The...
Serzh Sargsyan: Visa-free regime with Iran gave a powerful stimulus to the growth of the number of Iranian tourists to Armenia
ArmInfo.The visa-free regime introduced between Armenia and Iran gave a powerful stimulus to the growth of the number of Iranian tourists in Armenia. This was stated by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan in an interview with the leading Iranian newspaper “Sharh”. According to the President of the Republic, the Armenian side attaches...
Legal status of foreign nationals
Visa and Registration Requirements Subject to the legislation of the Kyrgyz Republic,[1] foreign nationals and stateless persons may enter the Kyrgyz Republic for temporary or permanent residence on the basis of a visa, temporary or permanent residence permit. Visa Requirements and Visa-Free Travel Initial issuance of all categories of visas is...
A look from Moscow: It`s not a secret for anyone that for Armenia, cooperation with NATO is of a commercial nature
ArmInfo.It’s not a secret for anyone that for Armenia, cooperation with NATO is of a commercial nature. The director of the EurAsEC Institute Vladimir Lepekhin told ArmInfo about it.”Russia, of course, is dissatisfied with NATO’s activity on its borders, but this displeasure has nothing to do with the participation of the...
Pilot saves 127 passengers in 'blind' landing after hailstones shatter plane windscreen
A Ukrainian captain from AtlasGlobal, a Turkish airline, has been hailed as a hero for making a safe landing after an unexpected hail storm wrecked the aircraft’s windscreen last Friday (July 28). With low visibility, Captain Alexander Akopov was forced to execute a ‘blind’ landing. …read more Source:...
Ukraine finally battens down its leaky cyber hatches after attacks
When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko, he found that everyone in the office used the same login password. It wasn’t the only symptom of lax IT security in a country suffering crippling cyber attacks. …read more Source:...
Ukraine finally battens down its leaky cyber hatches after attacks
KIEV (Reuters) – When the chief of Microsoft Ukraine switched jobs to work for President Petro Poroshenko, he found that everyone in the office used the same login password. It wasn’t the only symptom of lax IT security in a country suffering crippling cyber attacks. …read more Source: The...
Language Diversity in Myanmar—A Blessing in Disguise?
My father told me a story that happened to two of his friends on a tram in Warsaw in the 1980s. Both men were from the Podlasie region in northeast Poland and were having a conversation in their local dialect, which is a mixture of Polish, Ukrainian and Belarusian. At some point one of the passengers nearby whispered loudly to his neighbor: “Can...
