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Russia Calls For Closing UN Office In Bosnia

Russia called Tuesday for closing the office of the UN High Representative in Bosnia, claiming the senior UN official there is biased.The remarks by Moscow's UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia came after the Security Council unanimously approved a further one-year extension of the European Union's military force (Eufor-Althea) to implement the 1995 Dayton Accords in Bosnia.Some analysts see Bosnia as a proxy for power struggles between Washington and Moscow, with western powers frequently accusing Moscow of meddling in the region to prevent Balkan states from joining NATO.
The Russian government plans to allocate nearly 1.7 billion rubles ($26.7 million) towards a Russian online reference resource similar to Wikipedia in the next three years, according to government documents published in September 2019

Putin Calls For Russian Alternative To Wikipedia

The Russian government plans to allocate nearly 1.7 billion rubles ($26.7 million) towards a Russian online reference resource similar to Wikipedia in the next three years, according to government documents published in September 2019
A convoy of Russian and Turkish military vehicles snakes its way along the Syrian side of border in the first joint patrol of a buffer zone set up under an agreement struck by Ankara and Moscow last week

Turkey, Russia Launch Joint Patrols In Northern Syria

Turkey started joint patrols with Russia in northern Syria Friday to verify whether Kurdish forces have withdrawn from a key border zone in compliance with a deal reached between Ankara and Moscow.It follows an agreement they signed in the Black Sea resort of Sochi last week which gave Kurdish forces 150 hours to withdraw from a band of territory along Syria's border with Turkey, in a process that Russia said was now complete.

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