The West should take strong action, possibly including sending NATO forces to Ukraine, if Russia tries to annex the eastern part of the country, Czech President Milos Zeman said on Sunday.

• Date: 07.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 07.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

NATO suspended all practical cooperation with Russia on Tuesday in protest at its annexation of Crimea, and ordered military planners to draft measures to strengthen its defenses and reassure nervous Eastern European countries.

• Date: 02.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Russia has massed all the forces it needs on Ukraine's border if it were to decide to carry out an "incursion" into the country and it could achieve its objective in three to five days, NATO's top military commander said on Wednesday.

• Date: 02.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 02.04.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

A quarter-century after the fall of the Soviet Union, authoritarian rulers such as Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad are showing they can and will defy international norms, suppress dissent and use military force. American policymakers are struggling with how to respond.

• Date: 01.04.2014  |  Published on EGF: 01.04.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

North Korea fired more than 100 artillery rounds into South Korean waters as part of a drill on Monday, prompting the South to fire back, officials in Seoul said, but the exercise appeared to be more saber rattling from Pyongyang rather than the start of a military standoff.

• Date: 31.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 31.03.2014  |  Security  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks on Sunday about ways to defuse the crisis over Ukraine, with Kerry telling Moscow that progress depended on a Russian troop pullback from Ukraine's borders.

• Date: 31.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 31.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

China denounced Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday for drawing an analogy between Russia's behaviour in Crimea and China's actions in the disputed East and South China Seas, accusing Abe of hypocrisy.

• Date: 28.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 28.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday denounced as "villainous" the leaking of a recording of top security officials discussing possible military action in Syria to the video-sharing site YouTube.

• Date: 27.03.2014  |  Published on EGF: 27.03.2014  |  External Relations  |  from http://www.reuters.com/