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RFE/RL: Norway to allow U.S. to station 330 troops near Russian border

Published Oct. 25, 2016 at 7:17 am

US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter (R) talks to Norway defense minister Ine Marie Eriksen Soreide during a NATO Summit session on Ukraine during NATO Summit in Warsaw on July 9, 2016. The Polish capital hosts a two-day NATO summit, the first time ever that it hosts a top-level meeting of the Western military alliance which it joined in 1999. (AFP)

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The United States will deploy over 300 troops in Norway, the Norwegian government announced on October 24, in a move likely to upset neighboring Russia.

The 330 Marines will be stationed at the Vaernes military base around 1,000 kilometers from the Russian border, it said.