title: VLADIMIR PUTIN PROPOSES ELIMINATING NATO
abstract: (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
journal: Current Digest of the Russian Press The