Farnborough 2016: UK given wake-up call over Russia
A higher calibre of Russian experts are needed for the UK to better understand the military challenges posed by Moscow, a UK House of Commons report has argued.
The UK Parliament's Defence Committee concluded that as Russia had not been a priority for the UK since the early 1990s, this had affected the intellectual knowledge of the country at a high governmental level.
‘Russia has not been a UK priority since the end of the Cold War and our expertise in this field has withered on the vine. The UK needs a vastly improved cadre of experts who can
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