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Lavrov Threatens a ‘Very Short’ War

In Minsk, Russia’s foreign minister paired his warning to Europe with an invitation to negotiate a new security order across Eurasia.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 3

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the fourth Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security in Belarus on November 3 that Russia was prepared if Europe started a war. Such a conflict would be “different and very short,” he said, according to Russian news agency Interfax.

He accompanied the warning with an assurance that Moscow neither want…

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