of devising solutions to the global challenges posed by the rise leveraged in the atlantic across the6 programs and centers. it's a true pleasure to kick off the conference on a topic that couldn't be more timely and which is controlled with two big questions around the state of the international order and its intensifying strategic competition as well as to the state of progress towards the goals across much of the world as countries look to rebound from the pandemic and address massive infrastructure financing gaps and harness the ben technologies. in recent years china has devoted significant resources to deepening engagement across much of the world or what is referred to as the global south. from the trillion dollar gold gold and brood initiative to the creation of new multilateral forums conferences and summits china is portraying itself as a champion of hand for the global south and in many ways these efforts are paying off. china is africa's largest trading partner in the second largest for latin america and the caribbean. fifty-three countries have joined the belt and wrote i

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putin has already managed to state that in the event of a conflict between russia and the north atlantic alliance, the world will be one step away. a step towards the third world war. let's listen to what said kremlin's grandfather. i think that everything is possible in modern times. i think anything is possible in today's world. i have already said, and it is clear to all, that this will be one step away from full-scale world war iii. hardly anyone is interested in this. threats of a third world war again, threats of nuclear weapons again, again. putin thunders with his statements about nuclear war, although just a week ago, when he gave an interview to propagandist dmytro kysilov, he said that we will not to use nuclear weapons, especially since we never even thought about it, because nuclear weapons are a deterrent weapon for us, and now it turns out that if you touch us, then we will get nuclear weapons and be these nuclear weapons... to kill you, because i, putin , was given the right to do so by 87% of russians, and this, by the way , is an example of how putin is already trying t

in the format of ramstein and in the format of the european union and in the format of the north atlanticlliance, but we are witnesses over the last few days , gentlemen, how this anti-putin coalition takes two steps back, because the russian federation should have released the recordings of the german military, where they are discussing the issue of a possible strike by tauras long-range missiles on the kerch bridge, when suddenly everyone starts. to make excuses, to say that this is not the case, that germany will never provide taurus, that germany will never allow itself to be drawn into this process, what, mr. maxim, in your opinion, prevents the world, well, to clearly articulate its position that such a russia is not the world needs it, well, in this form, it is not needed, it simply threatens everything, not only ukraine, the whole world, the whole. planet, because when obsessed people have a bunch of weapons, including nuclear weapons, it is dangerous for the world, and the sooner the world understands this, articulates... its position, perhaps the sooner this regime in russia wil

blackmail was ignored by the united states of america and the countries that are part of the north atlantic alliance. now , two years later, putin returns to talking about guarantees, although he understands very well that these... two years he simply lost, that he has already lost this war, and the only question is how this war will end for him and in which way i mean personally for him, that is why he is talking about guarantees, he wants guarantees for himself personally, obviously oleksandr lukashenko also wants guarantees for himself, who suddenly started talking about the fact that if he lost power in 2000... in the 20th year, then a nuclear war would start between russia and the west. let's listen to another self-proclaimed president of belarus. god help us in 2020. and if we didn't resist then, there would be a war here. they would drag nato troops here. imagine the reaction of russia, nato troops near smelensk. this is a nuclear war. and we persevered. and i'll tell you what today lukashenko bragged to his entourage about how he called putin and congratulated him on his election as

orbán now looks like such a trojan horse for the european union and for the north atlantic alliance,w how much hungary does, well, in quotes, does it so that ukraine does not receive aid from the european union, one can only imagine how many more claims there will be in hungary in the event that ukraine begins its journey regarding changes with the european union, regarding joining ... this alliance, and of course, of course, the hungarians will have a lot of questions , when the ukrainian state will go to the north atlantic alliance, this is a big question and a big problem, not only, a big challenge not only for ukraine, but for the european union and for the north atlantic alliance, because hungary is a subsidized country. european union, where european democracies do their best to ensure that hungarians live with dignity and are worthy members of the european union, but orbán always says that he has his own opinion, and he is ready to impose his rules in the european union, and this also causes , to be honest, absolutely so sincere. there is no sincere misunderstanding in the eur

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but in the format of the north atlantic alliance, we cannot be members of nato in the near future, while the war is going on, but in the format of a new european security structure, where we will play a significant role can we play a greater role than in the north atlantic alliance, is such a scenario possible? the scenario is definitely possible, but there are many prerequisites for it to... be realized, and frankly speaking, the end of the war with a positive result for us, i will say optically, for... victory in this war, is a necessary condition for that such alliances were formed and were stable, and were formalized and so on, because alliances are still formed and developed mainly in peacetime, during war few people risk, so to speak, interfering already in the fight after it started. er , i think that many european politicians crossed themselves when putin attacked ukraine, and they remembered that at one time they did not, did not accept ukraine into nato or did not start its movement even in nato, by and large, because this would require them to intervene in the fight, to enter

, stated that he does not rule out that the troops of individual countries, members of the north atlantic alliance, may be on the territory of ukraine, later he said that there is no need to be cowards in the current situation, and called on the allies to help ukraine as much as possible. because the future of europe depends on this help. boris pistorius, the minister of defense of germany, says that macron's call not to be cowards will not solve the problem with military support for ukraine, and the supreme representative eu foreign affairs and security policy minister josep borel said that it does not make sense to create an eu army yet, because there is also a lot of talk about it in europe now. simultaneously. the coordinator of strategic communications of the national security council of the white house , john kirby, says that the united states of america is not going to send its troops to participate in hostilities in ukraine . from the very beginning, president biden stated very clearly: there will be no american troops fighting on the battlefield within the borders of ukraine, and

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can confirm this, because atlant is in the kitchen. yes, recently competition from enterprises in russia and uzbekistan and beyond has increased significantly, but there is no hiding from this, so issues of quality and cost must be constantly monitored. innovation. and new approaches are just right here, by the way, besides , new methods of promotion are also needed, in order to keep up with the times, we need to look even more carefully from the point of view of effectiveness of these channels, of course, the main emphasis is on the most basic ones - these are network sales, it is necessary to look more actively at retail, well, unfortunately, we see that although our share is large in the national market of the republic of belarus, we still understand that here there is still something to work on, it is no less important to master new technologies in production, the company has already mastered the production of highly efficient compressors and electric motors, this allows a significant reduction in energy consumption, a significant

always appreciate your partnership and great to be with atlantic council.pretty new to wrc such a great way to get a kick off my tenure here. in terms of money for small yes, important wps has a a recognin that it has in nato and in the upcoming summit. i think what we really see some challenges are two areas and help with time to talk more about them. one is related to what you said about in the interest of protecting women, because the face of so many security threats, particularly women who were displaced by conflict and crisis, we kind of default and use it as an excuse to exclude them from leadership. because want to prioritize keeping people safe. so that's a real issue, and are some solutions, , women are doig amazing things run the world particularly forcibly displaced women, refugees, women who are displaced by conflict and crisis, but they need our help and support and we need to follow their lead because they r excellent recommendations and ideas of how to build peace. so again saying it is great and there been many strides over the last 25 25 ye

well, 20 years ago, lithuania joined the euro-atlantic community. on the other hand , he understands. that in case of changes on the american continent, there are many countries that are de facto our allies, in particular, it is about lithuania, and about latvia, and about estonia, and about the czech republic, and about... about poland and not only about them, so they may be under threat, about this, about other things, petra saušträvičius, member of the european parliament from lithuania, vice- the speaker of the lithuanian seimas, we congratulate you, dear mr. chairman, congratulations, well, we congratulate the lithuanian people with a wise, correct and timely decision, but on the other hand, we see that russia is preparing for what is called a really, possibly great war , the signals we hear from our european friends, from donald tuska, from various german circles, we understand that a lot of people in lithuania understand, yes, what the next phase of russian aggression can be, well, accordingly, we would like to ask you about the rethinking of

today's event kicks off atlantic n's of a weeklong programming. as we reflect on several critical milestones including nearly 25 years ofhe resolution 1325 on women's peace and security as well as nato 75th anniversary, the discussion will csider a challenges should be addressed and prioritize through a general lens to strengthen collective security and defense alliances. this event is part of the cane that it's a good initiative 2024 native washington summit campaign. from information and updates for future events publications follow usy's conversation with l be moderated by sahana dharmapuri, vice president of our secure future and vice president of -- before return to our panel discussion however, i pleased to introduce our keynote remarks provided by special re and security at nato, irene fellin. >> allow me to expresso address you today. on the occasion of this discussion organized atlantic coci alongside our secure future of women's business security initiative security landscape. while i regret i cannot be there in person, i am keen to shar

i am the executive here at the atlantic council.n of the atlantic council as well as our forward defense program within our center for strategy and security, i am really delighted to welcome all of you to what the latest event under our future of dhs project titled "building resilience in u.s. our esteemed speakers, thank you so much for joining us today. the future of dhsnvenes leaderss recommendations to assist u.s. national security officials as they transform the department of homeland security to protect the u.s.eland from threats such as natural disasters, pandemics, terrorism, and other future threats. and t event is the final installment of that future of dhs project series and over the course of the project, we have had the honor of hosting a series of really impor convenience, all which you can find online. some of these include a hosting dhs for a conversation exploring how the agency should realign his priorities to meet today's pressing threats to the homeland. we hosted former chairman of the u.s. house of representati

prime minister accompanied by prime minister will deposit sweden instrument of succession of north atlantic treaty with secretary of state blinken representing the united states of america as the depository of the treaty. [applause] dopositary of the treaty. [inaudible] >> thank you. [applause] >> good things come to those who wait. no better example. but with receipt of this of accession, let me be the very first to welcome sweden as a party to the washington treaty and the 32 the north -- and he 32nd member of the north atlantic treaty organization. [applause] prime minister, to you, my friend the foreign minister, a personal note of thanks. for your extraordinary leadership. your extraordinary vision, and resilience. this has been a little bit of a road but i think we've known from day one that we would be here today. and now we are. this is a historic moment for sweden. it's historic for our alliance. the transatlantic relationship. our nato alliance our defensive alliance is now stronger and larger than it's ever been. but, i think if you step back and think of where we were three year

first i would like to introduce the executive vice president the atlantic council. has p president and chief executive officer of the treatment national security project and the truman center for national policy. we are also joined by melody, vice president for advocacy and external relations at the women's refugee commission. she and her team share commission research and recommendation policy makers media and supporters to the wider public inli the u.s. and a global level. are also joined director for democracy and technology at the national democratic institute here in washington d.c. and her role she helps bridge the gap between technology, policy and democracy is a regular contributor to the global conversati fostering a digital ecosystem that supports democracy worldwide. thank you it's really a pleasure to show the stage with you. when we appreciate your thought leadership in this area. we heard remarks of the upcoming summitit i would like to start with t you to maybe give us some reflections and contextualize the 75th anniversary summit that's going to be h

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can confirm this, because atlant is in the kitchen. increased significantly. and not only, but there is no hiding from it, so issues of quality and cost must be constantly monitored. innovation and new approaches are a must here; by the way, new methods of promotion are also needed. to keep up with the times requires even more attention look from the point of view of the effectiveness of these channels, of course, the main emphasis is on the most basic ones - these are network sales, it is necessary to look more actively at retail, well, unfortunately, we see that although our share is large in the national market of the republic of belarus, that’s all we also understand that there is still work to be done here, and it is no less important to master new technologies. in production at the enterprise have already mastered the production of highly efficient compressors and electric motors, this makes it possible to significantly to reduce energy consumption, a significant part of atlanta compressors is exported, computer three-dimensional

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atlant did not allow any serious drops in share.e entered, cheaper, unknown ones. therefore, here we need to look from the point of view of reducing the possible cost of manufactured products, of course, and more actively bring to the market those products that provide greater margins for the enterprise, the volume that we sell on the territory of the republic of belarus, we see that it is a share high about 50%, but nevertheless we see that there is still room to really work. the business plan for the twenty-fourth was approved here at the end of the twenty-third year and , according to the general director, it is optimal, but if they can do more, then the figures for... volume and sales will increase, they are definitely not going to stand still in order to be in the trend, the range of products is wide and includes any dimensions and functionality. this year has been declared the year of quality, so i plan to pay special attention in all areas, not only in quality, in the sense of the product itself, but in the quality of busines

so, on thursday-friday the flow of atlantic air will fully warm the north and center of european russiaen the well-warmed air masses will cross the urals and the breath of the atlantic will begin to spread across the territory of siberia. early next week in the zone. the entire region, right up to the shores of the yenisei and lake baikal, will thaw. due to the influence of cyclones, cloudiness in the north of russia will thicken and there will be precipitation. therefore, during the day the sun will warm the air, for example, in sektafkar, only to +4-5, but also this is 2-3° above the norm at the end of march. and only at the beginning of next week the flow of atlantic air will weaken and the temperature will weaken. the regime will return to the climate, but in central russia an anticyclone will dominate the atmosphere until saturday, so sunny, calm weather is expected, and during the day after night frosts the thermometers will easily reach +6-8. on sunday-monday , light rains are not excluded in the region, and the warming will even intensify, at about plus nine at midday. victory i

spring strengthens its position in the european part of russia due to atlantic cyclones.it rain all weekend, should muscovites get umbrellas? current weather analytics on the russia-24 channel. hello, the next few days on the russian plain will be the warmest since the beginning of the year. all week region remained in the flow of atlantic air, thermometer readings increased by thursday in almost all of european russia, reaching april levels. in the urals in yekaterinburg it was almost +8, in moscow +9. the temperature even in northern murmansk dropped into a slight plus, in the flourishing south in tuapse it was generally above +16, spring processes are actively developing everywhere, rescuers are preparing for the flood. however, in a number of areas of the russian plain, spring suddenly paused on thursday, if not to say, it went back. these shots are from the leningrad region from... st. petersburg, the streets of the northern capital suddenly turned white again, but not for long. during the day the fresh snow melted. march 21st, some have spring, some have a return. e

uh for the international fight against uh against terrorists, bearing in mind of course that the atlantic world for some reason has tried to characterize hamas and other palestinian resistance groups as... as terrorists, so and and of course it's no, i don't mean to cut you off, barry, we only have about, we only have about few minutes left, i want to try to get two questions each of you, so let me if i if i can uh, welcome f to the program, journalists, author and activist a belfast el fraud and sorry to cut you off their berry, fraud, so uh, to to to berry's point uh, the fact that we know who who made this claim, but the fact that all 11 suspects were pretty much uh fleeing toward the ukrainian border does not help. case that it was a soul dyish operation here, your initial thoughts fraud, yes, thank you for uh helping me uh, i think timing is everything and "if we look at the context, apparently the american embassy was already warning of a potential attack and credit places in russia uh and was advising their citizens to leave uh, therefore they appear to have prior knowledge of this

thank you. sir colonel, in warsaw it was announced that there are 300,000 soldiers in the north atlantic alliance who are in a state of high readiness to redeploy to poland in case of armed aggression against the country. this was announced by the deputy chief of the general staff of poland, karol. dymanowski, at the same time, the president of the united states of america stated that there is no need for additional troops of the united states of america in poland, and there is no need to expand this contingent, at least this was the information even before the visit of the president of poland andrzej duda to washington. in your opinion, is there now a need to increase the military of nato countries in poland, taking into account to those threats that are assessed by representatives of european states from the side of russia? no, we have enough troops on high alert and we have to remember that if we continue to move soldiers, it will mean that people will be far from their homes, it will mean that they will not come through. we understand that america and the united states, they have hug

how likely is it that ukraine can receive an invitation to the north atlantic alliance and become the 33rd member of nato. well, you know, i think it should be. ours it is a national task for ukraine to truly become the 33rd member of the alliance without any pros, cons, etc., that is, all of this must finally reach the finish line and become the unalternative direction of both our and the nato mainstream, but in this context , you know, you quoted and quoted... but stoltenberg, in my opinion, is a very weak statement, this talk that putin can end the war, that he, that if he wants to, he will do it even in one day , well, it's either a misunderstanding that he... is happening, or unwillingness to understand it, well, no, under no circumstances will putin do this, and the question should not be asked about whether it is necessary to wait until he withdraws his troops, but the question should be asked about the fact that nato is the largest military political bloc, the strongest military-political bloc, which exceeds russia by many times, except for nuclear weapons, it is this bloc tha

the region remained in the flow of atlantic air throughout the week, with thermometer readings risingerinburg it was almost +8, in russia they reached april levels, in moscow +9, a slight plus. spring processes are actively developing everywhere; rescuers are preparing for floods, but in a number of areas spring on the russian plain on thursday suddenly paused, if not to say, went back, these shots from the leningrad region and st. petersburg. the streets of the northern capital suddenly turned white again, but not for long; during the day the fresh snow melted. march 21st, for some it’s spring, for some it’s the return of winter. let me immediately reassure residents of north-west russia : snowfall is not a harbinger of cold weather, quite the opposite. as i already said, the weather in the european part of our country is now determined by atlantic cyclones. warm air enters the region from the west. and even more warm air from the balkans. as a result, the temperature remains abnormally high. today, the thaw boundary will rise north, up to the murmansk region and the polar urals. in

absolutely critical to the defense of the trans-atlantic. and we are determined to work with the administration to make the 75th summit a success and 20 continue -- to continue our efforts to help ukraine. i wish this panel well. thank you very much for inviting me. it's such an important subject. look forward to what the panel has to say. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you so much, ambassador, for being here, for sharing that with us. thank you all for joining us. it is such an honor to be talking about the importance of enheansing northern european security. to talk a little about the geopolitical changes and how it's important that we have a fresh approach to the region. i am joined here with three amazing scholars. i want to start with our guest, andrew michta, who is director and senior fellow at the scowcroft strategy initiative. he is also the former dean of the college of international and security studies at the george c. marshall european center for security studies. he holds a ph.d. in international relations from johns

the involvement of these countries in the euro-atlantic alliance will not only strengthen security.ant to talk about the situation in society, in particular in estonian society, how to prevent destabilization the situation that russia will take care of. you and i, by the way, are talking in the historic days when the center party lost power in tallinn, where it was considered a voice. including the russian-speaking population for many years, how will the relations between the estonian communities in estonia and the russian-speaking community develop, are you afraid of the radicalization of certain sections of the population, or are you worried about the results that pro-russian politicians showed in the last elections in navarre , how estonia will cope with all these challenges? working to achieve this goal, realizing the benefits for all parties involved. first of all, i want to emphasize the positive results of the latest integration monitoring, which indicate that the russian minority has integrated much better into estonian society. these data are quite encouraging. i consider t

start a conflict, i don't mean a war, a conflict with... some country that is part of the north atlantic alliance solely for the sake of one thing: to sit down at the negotiating table with nato and prove that vladimir putin is not negotiating with ukraine, but putin is negotiating with nato about some kind of coexistence on the european continent? you mentioned so many things here. firstly, there is no such thing as an attack on one of the member countries, if he attacks such a country and a nato member, it means that he is launching an attack against the entire alliance, that is, we understand that nato is on the ground, in the sea, in the sky , after all, there is a huge quantitative advantage, this is, firstly, secondly, there is no such chance, in general, an opportunity to disconnect, that is to say, shift the focus from europe, or somehow disconnect europe, the european union and sho, of course, putin must withdraw his troops from ukraine, this is the only way, in connection with which nato will go to negotiations? the administration of the president of the united states of americ

absolutely critical to the defense of the trans-atlantic. determined to work with to make the 75th summit a success and 20 continue -- to continue our efforts to help ukraine. i wish this panel well. thank you very much for inviting me. it's such an important subject. look forward to what the panel has to say. thank you very much. [applause] >> here, for sharing that with us. thank you all for joining us. it is such an honor to be talking about the importance of enheansing northern european security. to talk a little about the geopolitical changes and how it's important that we have a fresh approach to the region. i am joined here with three amazing scholars. i want to start with our guest, andrew michta, who is director e scowcroft strategy initiative. he is also the former dean of the college of international and security studies at the george c. marshall european center for security studies. he holds a ph.d. in te relations from johns hopkins university, his areas of expertise are national security, nato, european politics and security wi

the real military development of albania by the north atlantic bloc is taking place. now.ania nato warplanes, officials and a parade military band flocked in for the television film. we have a separate report about this ahead, but for now a little instructive history. stalin would have turned over in his grave if he had found out that it was the same albania in which he doted. today, figuratively speaking. then she became a member of the general defense alliance of the warsaw pact, everything seemed to be going well, the ussr supplied albania with everything, including hay and straw, there were two ships that sailed to albania every month, they were landing forces, and what they brought, tanks, artillery, everything. all. and here we have a hard lesson. sublime ideological feelings turn out to be changeable. it happened. not among the albanians, but among us. the albanian leader enver hoxha did not accept stalin’s debunking in the ussr. in order to explain his line, nikita sergeevich khrushchev flew to albania at the end of may 1959. khrushchev clearly underestimated the t

the traffic across the north atlantic was incredible. the immigration rush was on. about 2 million people a year were crossing ocean and there was an enormous duel going, a mortal duel because shipbuilding is a very fragile industry. they build ships when they when businesses good and then they build too many ships and business goes bad. kind of like what? just happened in our own economy. anyway, peary negotiated a deal with jp morgan to sell the white star line, of which he was a shareholder and convinces bruce ismay, who was the president of the white star line, that this was a good idea. ismay is the reprehensible character who we all know got in the lifeboat and left titanic. he was the one with the mustache and looking very furtive as he got into the last lifeboat leaving the ship. bruce's may was the son, the founder of white star. he was often mistaken for arrogance, but he was really very shy. he was timid. he wasn't forceful. imperial was able to control him. so in 1907, they realized they have to build bigger ships to compete with cunard. and they decided

that jet stream steering areas of low pressure in from the atlantic.ne moves away on saturday, leaving us with a northerly wind. saturday night could be quite cold and frosty before we see further, bands of rain coming in from the atlantic, mainly affecting more northern areas of the uk. it looks like longer term higher pressure will be more dominant in the south. so for cardiff in london there won't be too much rain for much of the time. it will be dry with some sunshine good by. it will be dry with some sunshine. good bye. welcome to newsday. i'm steve lai reporting live from singapore. the headlines. president putin says his victory in russia's presidential election will make the country stronger — despite protests and international backlash. it will make whoever might want to suppress us, our will, our conscience, they have never been able to do it. germany's leader, 0laf scholz, warns israel's prime minister about the �*terribly high costs�* of the war in gaza. we cannot stand by and watch palestinians risk starvation. that's not us. that is not w

three anonymous sources referred to them, after that deputy prime minister for european and euro-atlanticegration. olha stefanishyna stated that oil refineries on the territory of russia are legitimate targets of ukraine from a military point of view, in particular according to nato standards. well, there is the statement of oleksiy danilov, secretary of the national security council, during the kyiv security forum, who stated that ukraine has the right to independently choose targets for attacks on russian territory. let's listen to what danilo said. this is quite such an unexpected thing, but i don't know who did it and why in... but america is a big country, but it's not can afford such things, well, logically , what concerns our war, the key word connecting our war, we are not going to ask anyone that we will attack on the territory of russia, we will destroy the russians where we find them, everything that concerns the military-industrial complex, the russian federation, we will not ask permission from anyone. mr. valery, is it possible to assume that such conversations could have ta

on behalf of my colleagues from the north atlantic council, i would like to congratulate the presidentsme ministers of bulgaria, estonia, latvia, lithuania, romania, slovakia t'. the communist bloc is invited to join the alliance. and already on march 29, 2004 , the prime ministers of these countries handed over letters of ratification to the president of the united states. immediately... after the ceremony , the warplanes of the alliance began patrol flights on the territory of the new member states. when nato was founded, the peoples of these seven countries were captives of the empire. they survived bitter tyranny, fought for independence, won freedom with courage and perseverance. and today they stand with us as full and equal partners in this great alliance at that time i will squeeze. the nato investigation did not excite the kremlin either. experts from moscow were worried about whether the alliance had any intentions to build new military bases in the baltic region. although nature. it turns out that nato advances its advanced forces to our state borders, and we strictly fulfill

regarding the future support, regarding the future of ukraine in the north atlantic alliance, this is question that concerns the leaders of the countries that are part of the north atlantic alliance, but what do you think rob bauer's words mean that that ukraine should be given more support and that nato can give more of this support, what kind of support can ukraine receive more? well, i think that ... after all, everything that is expressed, you say, there is an official, well , not exactly, admiral bauer, he has a prepared position, it is agreed, it is a political position, he stated it, by the way, nato secretary general jen stoltenberg spoke online at the kyiv security forum, he said even more, so confidently, so what statements. good, i talked to by admiral bauer, he, well , in his own right, you know, they are always military, he successfully commanded ships, he went through a lot on his own path of such simple real involvement in military operations, that's why these military people, they are more specific, but it's all politics , in politics we need to implement what they say

russia will stay a serious threat to the euro-atlantic security for the foreseeable future.o join the nato defense alliance. to gain security, but also to provide security. we have■6 capabilities to contribute, on land, in the air, at sea. our support of ukraine is a fundamental part of that. ukraine is fighting bravely for its freedom. but they are also defending fre. at the same time we are strengthening our defense and doubling the defense budget right now. from this year onwards, sweden meets nato standard of 2% of g.d.p. to defense spendings. this is important for nato to burden sharing. we are increasing the numbers of conscripts, strengthening civil reintroducing civilian service in sweden. we have been prepared for this task for quite a while. and i'm very pleased to take this very final step. sweden is joining nato, it's in e the end of something, it's the beginning of something new. i look forward to making the world safer and freer, together with the united and all other nato allies. and allow me finally a very short summary in swedish. [speaking swedish] aking sw

atlant did not allow any serious drops in its share, we see, we note that many new brands have enteredere we need to look from the point of view of decline possible cost of manufactured products, of course, and to more actively bring to market those products that provide greater margins for the enterprise, the volume that we sell on the territory of the republic of belarus, we see that its share is high, about 50%, but still less we see that there is still room for real work. the general director of atlant was asked about competition in the market and new types of equipment on his first working day at the enterprise. details on the main broadcast today. road services continue to clean up highways after winter. there are 21 holes on the country's roads that need to be eliminated. 1 km of roadway of republican significance costs.

alliance, this is a matter that concerns the leaders. which are part of the north atlantic alliance,hat do you think rob bauer's words mean, that ukraine should be given more support and that nato can give more of this support, what kind of support can ukraine receive more? well, i think that after all, everything that is expressed, you say, there is an official, well, not quite like that, admiral. he has prepared this position for him, it is agreed, it is a political position, he declared it, by the way, at the kyiv security forum nato secretary general ying stoltenberg spoke online, he said even more so confidently, so the statements are good, i spoke with admiral bauer, he is, well, he himself, you know, he is not always a military man, he successfully commanded ships, he... a lot has gone through his own way of such a simple real involvement in a military operation, that's why these military people, they are more specific, but it's all politics, in politics we need to implement what they say and turn it into real things, what can nato do? nato can not much actually, er nato is, e