The Vietnamese Minister of Defense emphasized that the people and the Vietnam People’s Army will always remember and appreciate the significant support provided by the former Soviet Union, including ...

The Parliament in ex-Soviet Moldova, controlled by pro-Western lawmakers, approved a 10-year defence strategy on Thursday calling for increased defence spending as part of a plan to join the European ...

Margus Tsahkna, Estonia’s foreign minister ... of the Soviet Union, the Baltic state joined both Nato and the European Union in 2004, becoming part of the first line of defence against a ...

In 1987, the audacious flight of a West German teenager, Matthias Rust, exposed critical vulnerabilities in the Soviet Union’s air ... including the Defense Minister and Air Defense Commander.

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Within the defense ministry's secured compound ... air base are Russia's only military outposts outside the former Soviet Union and have been key to the Kremlin's activities in Africa and the ...

The one-party state's damning criticism of its southern neighbour comes as the defence minister who claimed ... formed as a satellite state of the Soviet Union in 1948. It is been widely ...

That is, except Sweden, Lithuania and the Czech Republic - the only European Union (EU) nations not on the list ... as Europe's support for the former Soviet state clashes with Beijing's continued ...

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Comrades, Today, at an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board ... You all remember well that the Soviet Union decided to liquidate ground-based medium-range ...

The U.S. State Department stated at the time: “Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States has been working ... his death was orchestrated by the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s ...

In what is a significant development, Estonia's Defence minister Hanno Pevkur has said Indian companies ... because 1991 was the time when the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukrainian state was formed, ...