{"id":628904,"date":"2018-05-16T04:12:02","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T04:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/16\/new-arms-purchases-from-russia-coming-soon\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T04:12:02","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T04:12:02","slug":"new-arms-purchases-from-russia-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/16\/new-arms-purchases-from-russia-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"New arms purchases from Russia coming soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

New arms purchases from Russia coming soon?<\/strong> Current events in the Middle East require the constant development and upgrade of Egypt\u2019s military, Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi said after returning from a visit to Moscow, according to an Armed Forces statement<\/a>. Sobhi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu had discussed military cooperation between Cairo and Moscow, and are expected to resume technical talks on said cooperation at an upcoming meeting of the joint Egyptian-Russian military committee. His statement strongly implies that we will see new new arms purchases from Russia in the offing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New arms purchases from Russia coming soon? Current events in the Middle East require the constant development and upgrade of Egypt\u2019s military, Defense Minister Sedki Sobhi said after returning from a visit to Moscow, according to an Armed Forces statement. Sobhi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Shoigu had discussed military cooperation between Cairo and Moscow, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9285],"tags":[2398,72],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-628904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy-foreign-trade","tag-diplomacy-foreign-trade","tag-enterpriseam","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"a02992e1-cc78-4d0a-a26c-db4076aaf0c0","order":"0","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[628875],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"\nNew arms purchases from Russia coming soon? - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2018\/05\/16\/new-arms-purchases-from-russia-coming-soon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New arms purchases from Russia coming soon?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New arms purchases from Russia coming soon? 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