Russian blasts NATO expansion

At the opening session of a Russian-French parliamentary commission in Paris, Duma Speaker Ivan Rybkin said that plans to expand NATO eastwards are a "violation of international disarmament accords," Russian and Western press agencies reported on October 24. Rybkin was outraged at over talk of deploying NATO nuclear weapons in Eastern Europe, especially since Russia has spent billions of dollars dismantling nuclear weapons as stipulated by arms control agreements.

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Slovakia marks 20 years since joining NATO.

Slovakia marks 20 years in the Alliance.


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Píšem or pišám?

"Do ľava," (to the left) I yelled, "Nie, do prava" (no, to the right), I gasped. "Dolšie," I screamed. "Nie, nie, horšie..." My Slovak girlfriend collapsed in laughter. Was it something I said?


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Czech biochemist Jan Konvalinka.

Jan Konvalinka was expecting a pandemic before Covid-19 came along.


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