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Posted on August 20, 2009 - by Venik
The limits of US influence | Stanley Kober
With rising debt and a stretched military, America is no longer a superpower. Its promises to aid allies overseas ring hollow During his recent trip to Georgia and Ukraine, vice-president Joe Biden assured them the United States would not recognise any spheres of influence. Countries can “choose their own partnerships and their own alliances“. In [...]
Posted on August 20, 2009 - by Venik
Russia’s South Ravaged by Terrorist Attacks
Site of a downtown police precinct in Nazran, Ingushetia, where a suicide bomber detonated a truck with over 2,000 pounds of explosives at 9 am on Monday, August 17 2009. Monday August 17, two days before the explosions in Baghdad, a suicide bomber drove a truck loaded with a ton of explosives into a local [...]
Posted on August 19, 2009 - by Venik
History is much too important to be left to politicians | Jonathan Steele
The EU must not give succour to self-interested revisionists who equate Stalinism and Nazism in an effort to smear the left On the dot of 7pm families and strangers took each other’s hands and stepped into the main road, some carrying flags, others with lapel badges showing the swastika beside the hammer and sickle. Organisers [...]
Posted on August 19, 2009 - by Venik
Arctic Sea hijackers demanded £1.5m ransom, Russian defence ministry says
Russian defence ministry says crew confirmed ultimatum to blow ship up if demand not met The armed group that seized the Arctic Sea cargo ship demanded a ransom and threatened to scuttle the vessel if the money was not handed over, it emerged today. “The crew members have already confirmed that the captors demanded a [...]
Posted on August 19, 2009 - by Venik
David Osler discusses the mystery surrounding cargo ship the Arctic Sea
David Osler discusses the mystery surrounding cargo ship the Arctic Sea Original article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post
Posted on August 18, 2009 - by Venik
Eight held but mystery grows over hijacked ship Arctic Sea
Four Estonians, two Latvians and two Russian nationals were under armed guard aboard a Russian navy warship tonight accused of having hijacked the Arctic Sea cargo ship and forcing it 2,000 miles off course towards west Africa. But the mystery surrounding the odyssey of the 4,000-tonne vessel, which vanished from radar three weeks ago after [...]
Posted on August 18, 2009 - by Venik
Russian power plant disaster death toll could reach 70
Rescue workers hold out little hope for 64 workers missing after accident at Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric plant in Siberia The death toll from an accident at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant was expected to jump to more than 70 today, as fears mounted over the fate of 64 people missing after water obliterated an engine room at [...]
Posted on August 18, 2009 - by Venik
Video:Russian dam disaster toll could exceed 70
Rescue workers at the vast Siberian plant hold out little hope for the 64 workers still missing after an engine room explosion. Twelve people have been confirmed dead Original article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via Reddit Share with [...]
Posted on August 18, 2009 - by Venik
Russia holds eight after recovering missing ship Arctic Sea
Mystery deepens as Russian defence minister says ship was ‘hijacked’, although crew was not under ‘armed control’ Russian troops who located a cargo ship that vanished for more than a fortnight, arrested eight suspected pirates when they boarded the vessel off the coast of west Africa, the country’s defence minister said today. The armed hijackers [...]
Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Venik
Muddied waters: Russia finds ‘piracy’ cargo ship but what really happened?
• 15 crew rescued unharmed and ‘answering questions’• Moscow envoy reveals few details of ‘brilliant’ capture Three weeks after it vanished at sea, the cargo ship Arctic Sea was found off the Cape Verde islands today with its Russian crew alive, well and “answering questions”. All 15 sailors were aboard a Russian anti-submarine warship , [...]
Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Venik
Eight dead, 54 missing, as turbine hall caves in at Russia’s largest hydroelectricity station
Minister insists Sayano-Shunshenkaya dam will not burst as local residents flee At least eight people were killed and 54 missing after a turbine hall caved in and flooded at Russia’s largest hydropower station today. The accident caused some of the country’s biggest steel and aluminium producers to switch to emergency power as officials sought to [...]
Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Venik
‘Pirated’ cargo ship Arctic Sea found off Cape Verde
Russia says crew of 15 are being questioned on board navy ship after being found alive and well with vessel A cargo ship that went missing in European waters in what was feared to be a pirate hijacking has been found 300 miles off the Cape Verde islands, the Russian defence minister said. The 15 [...]
Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Venik
Suicide truck bomb in Russia’s Ingushetia republic
Terrorist rams gates of police headquarters, killing and injuring officers on parade and civilians Russia’s restive North Caucasus suffered its deadliest attack in months this morning when at least 20 people were killed and dozens injured in a suicide truck bombing at a police station in the city of Nazran today. The attacker rammed the [...]
Posted on August 17, 2009 - by Venik
Ukraine and Russia’s war of words | David Hearst
Historically charged nationalistic animosity between the two nations is rising to the surface once again In the weeks before the fighting erupted in the wars that were to spell the end of Yugoslavia, no one locally could give an adequate explanation of why the roadblocks were going up – at least not one rooted in [...]
