Putin visits Slovenia amid tensions with EU and NATO

‘Russian President Vladimir Putin has traveled to Slovenia, a member of the European Union (EU) and NATO, amid tensions between Moscow and the two blocs.
Putin traveled to Slovenia on Saturday to attend a World War I memorial and a ceremony to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the death of some 300 Russian prisoners of war in an avalanche in the Julian Alps in 1916.
“We will continue our efforts to educate and present history to people, in particular to the youth with the objective of not only remembering the sufferings and trouble caused by wars, but also to raise awareness about the need to strengthen reason, confidence and security in Europe and the world,” Putin said.’
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