VLADIMIR PUTIN PROPOSES ELIMINATING NATO
Journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The
Year: 2016

(By Oleg Odnokolenko. Nezavisimaya gazeta, June 23, 2016,
 p. 1. Complete text:) Speaking Wednesday [June 22] in the State
 Duma at session timed to coincide with the anniversary of the
 start of [Russia’s entry into] World War II, [Russian President]
 Vladimir Putin all but explicitly said that the historical time of
 the last remaining military-political bloc (i.e., NATO) had
 expired. In his opinion, must create modern collective
 security system without blocs and with all countries on an equ