In June 1709, near the town of Poltava, Peter the Great famously destroyed the Swedish army in an epic battle, and Charles XII fled to Turkey. . 4. ... During the Russian campaign of 1812, over 600 thousand soldiers of the French army, led by Napoleon, invaded the Russian Empire by crossing..…
Turkey’s ongoing attempts to create its own “buffer zone” against the Syrian Kurds on his borders, his growing ties to Teheran, Moscow and Beijing, and the growing tensions with NATO partners over Turkish drilling ships offshore Cyprus are leading some commentators to predict that Erdogan plans to take..…
Recently, at confirmation hearing Mark Esper, President Trump's nominee to be the secretary of defense, faced questioning on all sorts of subjects, including on his past position as Washington for Raytheon and on Turkey's purchase of Russian missile system. ..…
unprecedented breach between United States and Turkey over its purchase of Russian weapons.. ..…
Russia recently announced the sale of sophisticated S-400 missiles to Turkey. . “The Russian leadership is extremely pragmatic and cynical,” Kagarlitsky says. ..…
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