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Ukraine and Qatar: Bacon for Gas

Posted by seumasach on November 28, 2012

One of the reasons why the Emir of Qatar wants to destroy Syria

Syrian News

28th November, 2012

The news about the visit of the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to Qatar was quite predictable – already in May of this year, there were agreements on reciprocal trade between the two countries.

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‘No sense in NATO’ – Serbian president-elect in RT exclusive

Posted by seumasach on May 28, 2012

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Russia, Turkey and the Great Game: Changing teams

Posted by seumasach on January 26, 2010

Eric Walberg

Global Research

26th January, 2010

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev’s visit to Turkish last month shows that Turkey and Russia are rapidly developing close economic and political ties.

For all intents and purposes, Turkey has given up on the European Union, recognising it as a bastion of Islamophobia and captive to US diktat. As Switzerland bans minarets and France moves to outlaw the niqab, the popular Islamist government in Istanbul moves in the opposite direction — supporting the freedom to wear headscarfs, boldly criticising Israel and building bridges with Syria. This is nothing less than a fundamental realignment of Turkish politics towards Turkey’s natural allies — the Arabs … and the Russians.

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Bulgaria ousted from Russia’s South Stream pipe

Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009

euractiv.com

20th October, 2009

Russia has obtained all the permits necessary to build its ‘South Stream’ gas pipeline through Turkish territorial waters, discarding Bulgaria as one of the project’s transit countries, the Russian press writes today (20 October).
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New partners sign up for South Stream

Posted by seumasach on May 16, 2009

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