Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
17 January 2022 - Russia Special Weapons News
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- Moscow: Russia Never Took Part, Will Not Partake in Arming of Warring Parties in Afghanistan Sputnik 17 Jan 2022 -- Russia has never taken part and will not participate in the arming of the warring parties in Afghanistan, the Russian foreign ministry said on Monday.
- A Year After Arrest, Russia's Navalny Says He Has No Regret RFE/RL 17 Jan 2022 -- Aleksei Navalny says he has no regrets and has called on his supporters not to be "afraid," a year to the day the opposition politician was detained after returning to Russia from Germany where he was recovering from a near-fatal poisoning.
- One Year After His Arrest, Russia's Opposition Asks: Was Navalny's Return A Mistake? RFE/RL 17 Jan 2022 -- When Aleksei Navalny shocked his supporters and announced his return to Russia last January after recovering in Germany from a poisoning he blamed on the Kremlin, the opposition politician did so with a post to Instagram.
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia Gordan Grlic-Radman, Moscow, January 17, 2022 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 17 Jan 2022
- Russia Rejects Claim That Security Proposals are Attempt to Restore 'Spheres of Influence' Sputnik 17 Jan 2022 -- On Friday, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters that Brussels rejects alleged Russian attempts to "build spheres of influence" in Europe, and said that dialogue would never come "at the expense of our freedom, sovereignty, independence and the respect of fundamental values."
- Russia Warns Against Politicization of Nord Stream 2 as Germany Links Project to Ukraine Crisis Sputnik 17 Jan 2022 -- Nord Stream 2, the joint Russian-European gas- and hydrogen-carrying pipeline running from Russia to northeastern Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, was completed and made ready for operation late last year. The pipeline's certification is now being held up by German regulators, with Gazprom saying this process may drag on until spring.
- Belarus To Hold Military Drills With Russia In February Amid Tensions With West RFE/RL 17 Jan 2022 -- Belarusian strongman Alyaksandr Lukashenka has said that joint military maneuvers will be held with Russia in February close to the borders with Ukraine as well as eastern NATO member states.
- Russian troops to stay near Ukrainian border amid NATO pressure: Kremlin People's Daily 17 Jan 2022 -- Russia will station troops on its own territory near the Ukrainian border due to tensions with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Sunday.
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