Posted by seumasach on November 4, 2009
M.K.Bhadrakumar
5th November, 2009
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is virtually peerless. Only a handful of foreign ministers can match him in professionalism honed over decades in international diplomacy. He seldom leaves the ring empty-handed.
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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009
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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Posted by seumasach on October 21, 2009
21st October, 2009
President Abdullah Gül (L) spoke with his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, on the phone on Monday.
Turkey, which has already announced its intention to hold a joint cabinet meeting with Russia similar to those recently held with Iraq and Syria, hopes to hold such a meeting with its Black Sea neighbor in early December.
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Posted by seumasach on October 19, 2009
19th October, 2009
After Jundallah terrorist ring carried out a bloody attack in southeastern Iran, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev expressed readiness to help Iran fight “terrorism”.
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Posted by seumasach on October 18, 2009
Venezuela’s president has said that countries including Venezuela, Russia and Iran have proposed the US dollar should be replaced as the currency used for oil trade.
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Posted by seumasach on October 16, 2009
Pepe Escobar
17th October, 2009
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For the (Western) news cycle, what stood out from United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s visit to Russia this week was an “appeal for cooperation” and a “challenge” for Russia to open up its political system, embrace “diversity” and shelve Cold War thinking.
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Posted by seumasach on October 15, 2009
F.William Engdahl
15th October, 2009
The latest news report that Russia will sign an agreement with the Bolivian government to explore and produce natural gas is a significant setback for US domination of its traditional Latin American sphere of influence. Since it was declared in 1823 as the Monroe Doctrine, the United States, especially its banking elites have regarded South America as a de facto ‘American plantation.’ The move by Russia’s state-owned Gazprom into Bolivia must be seen as Moscow’s asymmetric geopolitical response to US expansion of NATO to the doorstep of Moscow in recent years. The US is ill-prepared to counter with any economic incentive.
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Posted by seumasach on October 8, 2009
KHARKOV (Ukraine), October 7 (RIA Novosti) – The new U.S. missile shield plans present no risks for Russia, and favorable conditions are now emerging for bilateral dialogue, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.
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Posted by seumasach on October 1, 2009
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Posted by seumasach on August 1, 2009
M K Bhadrakumar
31st July, 2009
Like the star gazers who last week watched the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century, diplomatic observers had a field day watching the penumbra of big power politics involving the United States, Russia and China, which constitutes one of the crucial phenomena of 21st-century world politics.
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Posted by seumasach on July 29, 2009
This is the logical outcome of Obama’s brilliant foreign policy of threatening both Russia and Iran
Kaveh L Afrasiabi
30th July, 2009
The United States may think of Russia as a strategic partner when it comes to Iran. In reality, the geostrategic tensions between Washington and Moscow are still powerful enough to warrant a common approach by Russia and its eastern neighbor Iran with respect to a deterrent strategy towards the intrusive Western superpower.
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