Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2012
Just as we had Norway earmarked as a front line state in our new cold war against Russia in the “High N orth”, the Russians have smoothed their way in their with a commercial agreement. Is commerce and cooperation beginning to trump the Wests’ bankrupt security agenda on all fronts.
Pricey ice: Russia, Norway sign megabuck Arctic agreement
5th May, 2012
A multi-billion-dollar agreement on Arctic shelf development has been signed by Russian oil company Rosneft and Norway’s Statoil.
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Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2012
Russia’s key partners for cooperation will be countries and organizations in the CIS. With this in mind, Putin wants to boost the efficacy of the Union State with Belarus, integration between Europe and Asia through the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space, and hopes to establish the Eurasian Economic Community by January 1, 2015.
The Eleven Orders of Putin: Earmarks for Russia’s development in the next six years
8th May, 2012
President Vladimir Putin has announced 11 Executive Orders within hours of his inauguration. These orders set Russia’s strategic aims in foreign, domestic, social and military policy.
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Posted by seumasach on May 8, 2012
Not so long ago Ukraine was one of the main focuses of US foreign policy. But the empire is ebbing away and overstretch leads them to neglect crucial frontier outposts.
Taras Kuzio
9th May, 2012
The Ukrainian government is negotiating the issue of rouble-denominated government bonds, making the country no longer reliant on International Monetary Fund assistance. Ukraine’s 2010 IMF assistance package of US$15.6 billion was suspended in March 2011 because of the country’s refusal to continue with IMF reforms, in particular raising household utility prices to reduce subsidies to the state gas company Naftohaz Ukrainy. This confirms what the Nikolai Azarov government has been discussing since summer 2011.
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Posted by seumasach on April 28, 2012
28th April, 2012
“I think that the banking system situation breaches the IMF Charter, which demands that all of IMF member states ensure uninterrupted bank services to trade and economic contacts,” Lavrov said in an interview with the Russia 24 on Friday.
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Posted by seumasach on April 11, 2012
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Posted by seumasach on April 2, 2012
2nd April, 2012
Russia today said the “Friends of the Syrian People” meeting held this weekend in Istanbul contradicted the objective of reaching a peaceful settlement that could end more than a year of bloodshed.
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Posted by seumasach on March 22, 2012
22nd March, 2012
BEIJING, March 21 (Xinhua) — China said here on Wednesday that equal, patient, andadequate consultations could yield consensus within the United Nations (UN) SecurityCouncil to address the Syria issue.
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Posted by seumasach on March 19, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
20 th March, 2012
Despite the insistence by Washington that the Kandahar killings a week ago were a “rampage” by an “apparently deranged” or “probably deranged” American sergeant, Afghan people believe in the finding by their parliamentarians that up to 15 to 20 US troops were involved. The Afghan president Hamid Karzai also agreed the US version is “not convincing.”
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Posted by seumasach on March 14, 2012
12th March, 2012
UNITED NATIONS:Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday slammed attempts to change Syria and Libya by “misleading” international opinion and “manipulating” the UN Security Council.
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Posted by seumasach on March 8, 2012
Pepe escobar
9th March, 2012
Forget the past (Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi) and the present (Assad, Ahmadinejad). A bet can be made over a bottle of Petrus 1989 (the problem is waiting the next six years to collect); for the foreseeable future, Washington’s top bogeyman – and also for its rogue North Atlantic Treaty Organization partners and assorted media shills – will be none other than back-to-the-future Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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Posted by seumasach on March 4, 2012
Vladimir Putin
29th February, 2012
In the run-up to Russia’s presidential elections, prime minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has to date published a total of seven program statements in which he defines Russia’s niche in a “changing world.” The sixth article on defense policy and army reforms was published by Voltaire Network yesterday. Today we bring to the attention of our readers the latest statement, published Monday in theMoskovskiya Novosti, devoted to international affairs.
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