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Photo: Lenta.ru Amid growing tensions with Russia hundreds of thousands of NATO troops will be brought to a higher readiness. About it reports The Times, citing the Secretary General of the Alliance Jens Stoltenberg. According to him, the NATO leadership intends to prepare a substantial ground forces able to deter “Russian aggression”. As the newspaper notes, Stoltenberg did not name exact figures. However, sir Adam Thomson, the outgoing permanent representative of the UK in NATO, said that, as expected, the aim is to speed up the response time, 300 thousand soldiers to about two months. Currently, the deployment of this number of military personnel can take up to 180 days. Forces will act as a force next tier in relation to the maximum units of NATO’s rapid reaction, which can be deployed in order of battle within a few days. In early November, Stoltenberg said that threats to NATO countries

Carter began an operation to isolate and further liberation of Raqqa WASHINGTON, 6 Nov. /Offset. TASS Dmitry Kirsanov/. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced the beginning of military operations aimed at first isolating, and then at the liberation of Raqqa. The corresponding statement on behalf of the head of the Pentagon circulated on Sunday by the press service of the Ministry. “I welcome today’s announcement of SDS (“Forces of democratic Syria” — the armed forces, the backbone of whom are Kurds — approx. TASS) that started the operation to liberate Raqqa from the barbaric clutches of ISIS (formerly the banned terrorist group “Islamic state”, ISIS),” said Carter. Raqqa in recent years was the so-called capital of the extremists proclaimed a “Caliphate” in the occupied territories of Iraq and Syria. According to the head of the U.S. Department of defense, “efforts to isolate and ultimately to liberate Raqqa, marked the next step

MOSCOW, November 7. /TASS/. The decision on the resumption of hostilities of the aerospace defence forces of Russia in Aleppo will depend on the behavior of the militants, said the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov.

Photo: YTPO.ru The Minister of education and science of Russia Olga Vasilieva in an interview to “Interfax” expressed the opinion that history is a subjective science, and that considers justified, the mythologizing of Ivan the terrible and Alexander Nevsky. “I am deeply convinced that the teaching of history is a largely subjective thing, it heavily depends on which ideological position is the person who teaches history,” she said. Vasilyev added that the views of different episodes of the story differ, but because in the new history textbooks will be a special section, which will address the 20 most complex and controversial issues. According to her, the mythologizing of Ivan the terrible and Alexander Nevsky Soviet historians in the mid-1930s on the eve of the great Patriotic war is justified. “You see, no heroes, no heroic image of historical characters is impossible to do. Whether you’re a small person, whether you’re

Border service of Ukraine found in the sea of Azov a Russian drone Employees of Mariupol marine guard detachment of the Border service of Ukraine on 6 November, found in the sea of Azov unmanned aerial vehicle type of “Orlan-10”. The guards claim that the drone was made in Russia. In a message posted on the website, they say that the aircraft was drifting in the sea at a distance of about 3 km from the shoreline. According to preliminary information, the drone was in working condition. Now guards carry out a survey of drone and intend to shoot with available information. United instrument manufacturing Corporation in mid-September reported that she has begun to develop a drone the size of a dragonfly. They can be used in intelligence or counterterrorism operations. OPK announced that the drone fits in your palm, almost noiseless and maneuvers well.

Photo: globallookpress.com US air force struck in Mosul with heavy strategic long range missile-carrying bomber B-52H, said the official representative of Russian defense Ministry major General Igor Konashenkov. “The Russian and Syrian planes for 13 days did not make any flights over the city of Aleppo. For comparison, the US-led international coalition over the past day struck nine air strikes on residential neighborhoods of Iraqi cities – Mosul. And to be clear about the “selectivity” of such attacks and respect the coalition of international humanitarian law, I note that two of the nine strikes on city blocks fulfilled the American strategic bombers b-52N”, – said Konashenkov, quoted by RIA “Novosti”. The chief of the main operations Directorate of the General staff of the Russian armed forces, Lieutenant-General Sergey rudskoy has informed that the US air force on 24 October launched an airstrike on the school in the village of tell

In Iraq, we found materials on the lives of militants Liberated from the terrorist group “Islamic state” territories of Iraq the military discovered printed materials on the life of the militants, Reuters reports. Printed matter presents the rules in an easy to understand form — in the form of questions and detailed answers. In particular, in the materials explains how to pray the member of the group, what are the requirements to appearance, it must comply with. The militants, the Agency said, allowed short pants. And the beard that shaving is not supposed to be “decent length”. A small booklet with a picture of the jewelry and of wheat on the cover talks about how to do “donations”. Someone who does not make regular “donations” will be punished. Reuters said that separately in the instructions covers the issue of concubines. In particular, the action gets them after the capture of