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Turkish and Russian Media Boiling About Approaching War « The Mideastwire Blog

Turkish and Russian Media Boiling About Approaching War

Reading translations of the Turkish and Russian media lately, and the crescendo of war is increasingly apparent. A few selections:

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Gazprom-owned, editorially independent Russian radio station Ekho Moskvy on 26 July

[Presenter] The parents of conscripts from St Petersburg are concerned that soldiers conscripted last autumn have been sent onboard Russian ships to the Syrian coast. From the legal point of view, there are no violations here but the families are anxious for their children’s safety, the head of the Soldiers’ Mothers of St Petersburg organization, Ella Polyakova, has told us.

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