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Seventy-Six Hours: How a British Scorpio Saved Russian Submariners

Seventy-Six Hours: How a British Scorpio Saved Russian Submariners

August 2005, off Kamchatka: for the first time in history the navy of a NATO country saved the crew of a Russian Navy vehicle — at Moscow’s first call, in a restricted area, with seven lives on the clock.

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A Treaty on Two Pages: How Moscow and Washington Cut Their Arsenals in 2002

A Treaty on Two Pages: How Moscow and Washington Cut Their Arsenals in 2002

Five short articles instead of five hundred pages: the Moscow Treaty of 2002 cut the two largest nuclear arsenals of the planet by roughly two-thirds — and fit on two pages.

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The entrance sign of the Karshi-Khanabad air base — “Camp Stronghold Freedom” (photograph from 2003). Photo: U.S. Air Force. Licence: public domain. Source: Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welcome_To_K2_Sign.JPG

The Unthinkable Consent: How Russia Opened Central Asia to America

In the autumn of 2001, American bases appeared in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan — with Moscow’s direct approval. A summer earlier, this would have been called fantasy.

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