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Russian Troop Strength In North Caucasus Still Comparable To That At Peak Of Russo-Circassian War

Today, more than 150 years after the end of the Russian-Circassian War ended, and despite all the twists and turns of Russian policy, there are almost exactly the same number of Russian troops in the North Caucasus as there were at the peak of the war there in the nineteenth …

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British Intelligence Shines Light On Chinese Spy ‘Hiding In Plain Sight’

Britain’s domestic intelligence agency, MI5, is coming under political pressure to explain why it did not alert lawmakers sooner about the activities of a suspected Chinese spy, who the security service now say was “knowingly engaged in political interference in the U.K.” The British security agencies have been warning in …

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Pentagon Says Russia Trying To Develop Pretext For Ukraine Invasion

Russia has deployed “a group of operatives” into Ukraine to foment a pretext for another invasion of that country, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said during a news conference Friday. Kirby hastened to say that the U.S. government still believes there is room to solve the problem of the …

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