- 17 Jun 2004 20:37
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The Final Phase - Update: June 17, 2004.
Russia and NATO to stage military exercises in Kaliningrad - June 16, 2004:
N.K. Leader Likely to Visit Russia in late June: Beijing Source - June 17, 2004:
"We are going to do something terrible to you - you will no longer have an enemy" - Georgiy Arbatov, senior adviser to Mikhail Gorbachëv, International Herald Tribune, March 26, 1990, page 4.
Above: Some photographs of "starving" Russian soldiers - complete with Communist paraphernalia.;)
Recent Russian military tests.
6.9 quake hits Kamchatka Peninsula - June 10, 2004.
Earthquake strikes northeastern Russia - June 15, 2004:
Russia and NATO to stage military exercises in Kaliningrad - June 16, 2004:
MOSCOW (AFP) Jun 16, 2004
Russia and NATO next week are to stage military exercises next week in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, which to Moscow's chagrin is now completely surrounded by European Union member states, officials said Wednesday.
The field exercises will be joined by troops from Poland and Lithuania, the two new EU states encircling Kaliningrad, which has been at the heart of trouble in Russia's recent relations with Europe, in part because of free travel concerns.
NATO said in a statement that 1,000 soldiers would take part in the four day program that begins Tuesday. It is aimed at coordinating a joint response to potential terror strikes.
"The global threat of terrorism demands coordinated actions from all nations of the world," the NATO statement said.
The exercises will simulate a strike on an oil platform in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Kaliningrad -- one that would lead to great casualties and a massive flow of oil into the sea, the NATO statement said.
Russia, which has ruled out joining NATO and has watched the alliance's expansion up to its border with unease, is a member of the Partnership for Peace program between the US-led alliance and eastern and southern European states.
The program envisages regular military exercises between its member states, and the Kaliningrad wargames will include troops from 22 nations
N.K. Leader Likely to Visit Russia in late June: Beijing Source - June 17, 2004:
(ATTN: UPDATES with Kim Jong-il's possible summit with Putin in Vladivostok)
BEIJING, June 17 (Yonhap) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is likely to visit Russia later this month to hold a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, sources in Beijing said Thursday.
One source familiar with North Korea said Kim's trip is expected to take place around June 28 but declined to give other details, including where exactly in Russia he would visit.
In Moscow, Russian officials would neither confirm nor deny the report about Kim's Russian visit.
Perilous Times from the Final Phase Forum community wrote:Perhaps Kimmy will receive his orders to attack SK during his meeting with Pooty-Poot.
"We are going to do something terrible to you - you will no longer have an enemy" - Georgiy Arbatov, senior adviser to Mikhail Gorbachëv, International Herald Tribune, March 26, 1990, page 4.
Above: Some photographs of "starving" Russian soldiers - complete with Communist paraphernalia.;)
Recent Russian military tests.
6.9 quake hits Kamchatka Peninsula - June 10, 2004.
Earthquake strikes northeastern Russia - June 15, 2004:
PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKIY, Russia, June 12 (UPI) -- A strong earthquake has struck a remote area of northeastern Russia, the United States Geological Survey reported Saturday.
The earthquake, which struck Friday morning, local time, measured 7.0 on the Richter scale.
The tremor's epicenter was on the Kamchatka Peninsula, about 4,100 miles northeast of Moscow.
There were no reported deaths or injuries, nor was there any damage report from Russian officials.
OS1100 from the Final Phase Forum community wrote:The seismologists are giving the estimated depth of the quake at 114.5 miles which is very deep for most earthquakes. Underground tests show very shallow depths.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/ ... usjnbd.htm
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