{"id":1680,"date":"2015-04-03T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:55:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T12:55:30","slug":"russia-criticizes-nato-military-buildup-in-eastern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/russia-criticizes-nato-military-buildup-in-eastern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia criticizes NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Russia has strongly criticized as \u201cunprecedentedly dangerous\u201d NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, saying it violates a treaty between Moscow and the alliance.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;NATO buildup on the eastern flank, or in the so-called &#8216;front-line countries,&#8217; is an unprecedentedly dangerous step that violates all agreements, including the Russia-NATO Founding Act, which is still in force,&#8221; the Russian Foreign Ministry&#8217;s spokesman, Alexander Lukashevich, said at a news conference on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He\u00a0said that NATO&#8217;s eastward expansion\u00a0clearly violates a Russia-NATO treaty signed in May 1997, which forbids the trans-Atlantic alliance from permanently stationing troops in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">NATO says the move is temporary. But it has not clarified when it will withdraw troops from the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia\u2019s strong criticism of NATO comes as the military alliance&#8217;s\u00a0chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday that the bloc was undergoing its largest troop increase since\u00a0the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nato-Naval-drill.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1420\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nato-Naval-drill.jpg?resize=670%2C340\" alt=\"Nato-Naval-drill\" width=\"670\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nato-Naval-drill.jpg?w=670&amp;ssl=1 670w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Nato-Naval-drill.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In February, the defense ministers of NATO\u2019s 28 member states also agreed that the organization would enhance its Response Force in Eastern European to include around 30,000 troops to \u201censure that we have the right forces, in the right place, at the right time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Romania has expressed readiness to host NATO\u2019s heavy military equipment as Prime Minister Victor Ponta said this week that Bucharest is willing to get involved in hosting &#8220;any kind of capabilities decided within NATO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia has repeatedly condemned NATO\u2019s military buildup toward its borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AR\/HMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has strongly criticized as \u201cunprecedentedly dangerous\u201d NATO military buildup in Eastern Europe, saying it violates a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[62,1],"tags":[56,6,24,5,59,20],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","tag-baltic-states","tag-defense","tag-eu","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-russia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/US-Tanks-EU.jpg?fit=630%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-r6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}