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Planes with Russian troops take off from Almaty on Saturday. Their withdrawal comes after President Vladimir Putin said their mission to quell protests that turned into unprecedented violence in the Central Asian country has ended. IMAGES
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono amid increasing tensions around the disputed Kuril islands. A decades-long row over the islands lingers as Moscow and Tokyo never signed a peace treaty after World War II due to the territorial dispute over the islands invaded by the Soviet Union in the final days of the war. IMAGES
One Ladoga lake seal pup named Kroshik has developed a real fondness for humans after being rescued when he was young. In fact, he loved the time he spent with humans so much, that he returned back to his tall, fur-less friends for the second time after being released back to the wild. Kroshik was filmed at the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Centre, an organization run by the Friends of the Baltic Seal Fund, near Saint Petersburg last weekend.
More than five thousand air, sea and ground troops take part in a multinational NATO maritime exercise in the Baltic Sea. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
The NATO flag is hoisted at a military base in the Swedish capital Stockholm, symbolising the Nordic country's accession into the military alliance. On 7 March 2024, Sweden became the 32nd member of NATO in the shadow of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, turning the page on two centuries of non-alignment. IMAGES
Sweden joining NATO shows Russian President Vladimir Putin "failed" in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening the alliance, its chief Jens Stoltenberg says. The Kremlin's invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under NATO's defence umbrella, but now "Ukraine is closer to NATO membership than ever before," Stoltenberg adds. SOUNDBITE
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