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Line 133: − ===Baltic states join NATO=== − In 2004 the Baltic states - [[Latvia]], [[Lithuania]], and [[Estonia]] joined NATO, setting up another common border between the Russian Federation and a NATO state. Three years later, at the Munich Security Conference, Putin declared, “We have the right to ask: against whom is this [NATO] expansion intended? And what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact? Where are those declarations today? No one even remembers them.”<ref>https://aldeilis.net/english/putins-historical-speech-munich-conference-security-policy-2007/</ref> In 2008 NATO said Ukraine and Georgia would become members. Four other [[Eastern Europe]]an states joined NATO in 2009. −
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Today we must say once and for all: the Cold War is done with! We have entered a new stage of development. We understand that without a modern, sound and sustainable security architecture we will never be able to create an atmosphere of trust on the continent, and without that atmosphere of trust there can be no united Greater Europe! Today we must say that we renounce our stereotypes and ambitions and from now on will jointly work for the security of the people of Europe and the world as a whole.}}
Today we must say once and for all: the Cold War is done with! We have entered a new stage of development. We understand that without a modern, sound and sustainable security architecture we will never be able to create an atmosphere of trust on the continent, and without that atmosphere of trust there can be no united Greater Europe! Today we must say that we renounce our stereotypes and ambitions and from now on will jointly work for the security of the people of Europe and the world as a whole.}}
===Beslan massacre===
===Beslan massacre===
The [[Beslan massacre]] occurred when a group of Chechen [[jihad]]is took over 1200 pupils and their teachers hostage in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, on September 1, 2004. The people of Beslan are mostly [[Christian]] and this is why they were targeted.<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/november/1.19.html ''Praying for Terrorists''] November 2004 [[Christianity Today]]. Accessed 5 March 2008</ref> The terrorists began by executing male teachers; female teachers were raped, tortured and taunted for being Christian. Pupils, both female and male, were forced to strip to their underwear; many of the children were raped by fanatical [[jihad]]ists who recorded the rapes on video. An 18 Month old baby was knifed to death by one of the Muslim terrorists.<ref>[http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/tm_objectid=14605550&method=full&siteid=106694&headline=they-knifed-babies--they-raped-girls-name_page.html ''Beslan: They knifed babies, they raped girls''] 5 September 2004 Sunday Mirror. Accessed 5 March 2008</ref>
The [[Beslan massacre]] occurred when a group of Chechen [[jihad]]is took over 1200 pupils and their teachers hostage in Beslan, North Ossetia, Russia, on September 1, 2004. The people of Beslan are mostly [[Christian]] and this is why they were targeted.<ref>[http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/november/1.19.html ''Praying for Terrorists''] November 2004 [[Christianity Today]]. Accessed 5 March 2008</ref> The terrorists began by executing male teachers; female teachers were raped, tortured and taunted for being Christian. Pupils, both female and male, were forced to strip to their underwear; many of the children were raped by fanatical [[jihad]]ists who recorded the rapes on video. An 18 Month old baby was knifed to death by one of the Muslim terrorists.<ref>[http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/tm_objectid=14605550&method=full&siteid=106694&headline=they-knifed-babies--they-raped-girls-name_page.html ''Beslan: They knifed babies, they raped girls''] 5 September 2004 Sunday Mirror. Accessed 5 March 2008</ref>