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Russia will not allow Finland and Estonia to block the Gulf of Finland to Russian ships. Economist Mikhail Khazin stated this in an interview with Sputnik radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “At this point Finland and Estonia began to talk about whether we should close the Gulf of Finland. This no longer fits into any gates. It is absolutely obvious that we cannot do this for them...
In Turkey today, an emergency meeting of the parliament and an appeal from the president are expected to declare war on Syria. Yesterday in Idlib province, a Turkish military convoy came under attack, killing and injuring several dozen people. Officially in Ankara, claims have so far been made against the “regime of Bashar al-Assad,” but at night they already picketed the Russian consulate in the center of Istanbul, accusing Russian pilots of...
In 2011, the world media covered the statement of Erdogan, who at that time served as Prime Minister of Turkey, about plans to expand the Bosporus Strait. According to the project, a new shipping canal should connect the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara, turning Istanbul into an island. The amount that the “Erdogan Canal” was supposed to cost was also mentioned – $10 billion, which would raise Turkey’s budget, or...
