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Victor Linnik - Czech Republic and U.S. sign radar base agreement

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Published 08 July, 2008, 15:07

Russia's spared no effort to avoid this unfortunate development, says political analyst Victor Linnik. In his opinion, the positioning of AMD bases in Eastern Europe is to detect what Russian strategic activities might be in the forseeable future, and this changes the security situation in the whole of Europe.

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