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December 18, 2012

Russia and Libya: will they restore military and technical cooperation?
Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 18, 2012
Moscow will resume cooperation with Tripoli on training military specialists for the Libyan army, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters on Thursday. Such a cooperation, which was in place in the former Soviet Union, was scrapped in the wake of a civil war in Libya and the subsequent ouster of Muammar Gaddafi. Bogdanov, who is also the Russian President's special envoy to the Middle East, declined to elaborate. Oriental expert Gumer Isayev says that the resumption of milit ... read more

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