Posted by seumasach on September 7, 2014
22nd May, 2014
It’s been a long time coming but, on May 9, 2014, 19 British veterans who served on the Arctic Convoys finally received their prestigious Ushakov medals from a grateful Russia. The Victory Day ceremony, on former convoy escort HMS Belfast in London, marked another step in the campaign to recognise the heroism and sacrifice of British sailors who manned 78 convoys that took millions of tons of supplies and munitions to Russia from 1941 to 1945.
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Posted by smeddum on October 13, 2009
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13/10/2009
Russia’s prime minister, Vladimir Putin, has begun a three-day visit to China overseeing the signing of deals worth $3.5bn between Russian and Chinese companies.
Putin is in the Chinese capital for talks with top officials aimed at strengthening economic and political ties between the two countries.
Officials are still working on the details of a joint energy agreement, worth another $2bn, which they hope will also be signed during Putin’s visit.
The Russian prime minister is due to meet his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao, and hold talks with President Hu Jintao later. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on September 3, 2009
Caracas, September 1st 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said that the tour he is carrying out in various countries in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe is aimed at strengthening Venezuela’s “strategic alliances” that have been built throughout ten years of his government.
Speaking from Tripoli, Libya, where he arrived on August 31 to participate in a special summit of the African Union and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the revolution in the African country, Chavez also said that Venezuela had played a “modest but important” role in contributing to the construction of a multi-polar world.
In 1999, “We had a clear understanding of the international map and began to seek solid, firm and serious allies,” he said, referring to the early stages of his government. Ten years later Venezuela has built strong alliances, not only with nations but with strategic regions, from northern Africa to the Eurasian region, the head of state pointed out in a telephone conversation broadcast on state owned VTV. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on May 13, 2009
‘BRIC countries’ role in global economy can only increase’
14 May 2009, Timesofindia
NEW DELHI: As India prepares for the BRIC summit in Russia next month, foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon said on Wednesday that the four countries — Brazil, Russia, India and China — together are a factor of stability and growth as the global economy discerns its way through the complexities of the international financial crisis and as the world moves towards flatter distribution of power. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 25, 2008
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Posted by smeddum on November 10, 2008
After Bush, Obama must catch up with Russia
10/ 11/ 2008
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) – George Bush Jr. has managed to cultivate such a strong feeling against his White House in the world and has dented US reputation so badly that any change on Pennsylvania Avenue is like a breath of fresh air. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 5, 2008
Medvedev Confronts U.S. on Missile Shield After Obama Victory
By Sebastian Alison and Lyubov Pronina
Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev said he would deploy new missiles in Europe, confronting the U.S. on the day Barack Obama was declared the winner in America’s presidential election. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 4, 2008
China, Russia, Belarus renounce the US Dollar?
by Anatoly Gorev
Global Research, November 3, 2008
RIA Novosti – 2008-10-30
The recent meeting between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart, Wen Jiabao, created a financial sensation. Wen said that the two nations could withstand the global financial crisis if they joined forces; Putin urged him to go farther and stop using U.S. dollars in Russian-Chinese settlements. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on November 2, 2008
Venezuela, Russia Forge Strategic Alliance
Caracas, Nov 1 (Prensa Latina) Venezuela and Russia are preparing a meeting of their top leaders, with implications likely to have more than a binational nature by forging an oil alliance for joint operation in third countries. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 31, 2008
Latin America’s New Consensus
Foreign Policy In Focus
www.fpif.org
When the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz said the great tragedy of Mexico was that it was so far from God and so close to the United States, the comment summed up the long and tortured relationship between the Colossus of the North and Latin America. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by smeddum on October 29, 2008
Rise of the Rest
Pankaj Mishra London review of books
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria
The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order by Parag Khanna
In 1946, George Kennan, then the deputy head of the US mission in Moscow, sent a 5300-word telegram to Washington, hoping to alert his superiors to the threat of Soviet expansionism. Kennan had complained repeatedly and fruitlessly about what he saw as America’s indulgent attitude towards the Soviet Union, but for a crucial moment in 1946 his idea that the US should strike an alliance with Western Europe in order to contain Soviet Communism found listeners in Washington. The so-called Long Telegram, subsequently turned into an article in Foreign Affairs, became the basis of the Truman Doctrine, which proclaimed America’s willingness to fight the spread of Communism, militarily as well as economically. Read the rest of this entry »
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