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Dep FM: Russia Views Negatively Sweden/Finland Plans To Join NATO-IFX

RUSSIA

Russia's state-run Interfax carrying comments from Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stating that Russia 'views negatively' Sweden and Finland's plans to join the NATO alliance.

  • With Finland set to joint the western alliance, Russia's physical border with NATO states will have another 800 miles added to its total, requiring a much greater security presence in the far north of the country.
  • The news from the NATO summit comes as President Vladimir Putin makes his first foreign trip since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, visiting the Tajik capital Dushanbe, followed by the Turkmen capital Ashgabat for the Caspian Summit of leaders of Caspian littoral states.
  • Given Russia's increasing isolation from global markets, reinforcing good relations with Central Asian neighbours seen as a crucial exercise for the Kremlin.

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