Russia has accepted NATO’s invitation to be an observer at the latter’s Trident Juncture exercise to be held in Norway from 25 October to 7 November, at a time when relations between the Alliance and Russia are particularly strained (see related item).
“Russia has been invited with all the other signatories of the Vienna document (...) and it has accepted and will be there as an observer under the OSCE regime”, a military source announced on the sidelines of the NATO defence...