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The same applies to China, which is a co-founder, along with Russia, of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, a loose security club.
NATO, it was argued, was becoming more of an amorphous collective security club, rather than a tight collective defence alliance, with its forces now committed to leading peacekeeping coalitions in the Balkans rather than defence of its members' territory.
And on December 1st and 2nd it hosted a two-day summit of the OSCE, the world's largest regional security club, held in its purpose-built capital, Astana.
NATO's European members are taking certain sensible steps to improve their firepower, as the Americans have urged them to do; NATO will continue to be Europe's main security club; above all, it will (as America recently insisted) retain its position as the main agency for military planning, even for European-only operations.
But to judge by the word on the think-tank circuit, there is a strong feeling in Washington that the Black Sea region is ripe for transformation into a new sort of security club, whose members co-operate to keep ports and pipelines safe from terrorists and other undesirables.As steadily increasing amounts of energy flow into, and out of, the Black Sea, the stakes are certainly high.
It is seemingly difficult for a child to even get an autograph from their sporting heroes these days due to security, club policies and the dreaded "intellectual property rights".
But once beyond the walls of the high-security clubs, Timofeev was back on his own and encountering the same verbal violence that he did in Balvi.
Lawyers say that the potentially long sentence and the severity of the fraud to which he has confessed makes it unlikely he will go to the minimum-security "Club Fed" camps that some of his fellow white-collar criminals have inhabited.
RFU professional rugby director Rob Andrew says the funding provides security for clubs in the league.
These days, security in clubs are so much more professional.
Security forces clubbed and tear-gassed protesters, blocked their path and arrested hundreds.
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