deputy defence minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov went to Niamey in December and Nigérien prime minister Lamine Zeine has just returned from a tour of Russia Iran Turkey and Serbia...
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Soon after December's visit by the Russian vice-minister of defence General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov Niamey unilaterally scrapped its security force training and support arrangements with the European Union...
Malian media report that while visiting Bamako on 16 September the Nigérien regime's number two Salifou Mody met Russian Deputy Defence Minister Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and a senior figure from Moscow's GRU intelligence agency...
The visit by Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov to Benghazi on 16-17 September is seen by local pundits as another attempt by a foreign power to use the flooding disaster at Derna to re-establish influence in Libya...