MOSCOW – Russia accused the West on Sept. 14 of “whipping up hysteria” over large-scale military exercises currently underway in eastern Europe and denied charges that they were being conducted with a lack of transparency.
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Russian deputy Defence minister Alexander Fomin attends the briefing prior the military exercises Zapad-2017 in the Russian Defence Ministry headquarter in Moscow on August 29.