Posts Tagged ‘Moscow’
Posted on June 14, 2009 - by Venik
Russia welcomes new U.S. Afghan policy -Kremlin aide (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) – Russia welcomes “increasingly transparent” U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan and sees new areas of cooperation with the West in settling the Afghan conflict … (full text retrieval failed) Read full article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on [...]
Posted on June 14, 2009 - by Venik
Russia welcomes new U.S. Afghan policy (AlertNet)
Source: Reuters * Sees new areas of cooperation * Afghanistan major topic By Oleg Shchedrov MOSCOW, June 14 (Reuters) – Russia welcomes “increasingly transparent” U.S. policy on Afghanistan and … (full text retrieval failed) Read full article Share on bebo Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share [...]
Posted on June 14, 2009 - by Venik
Belarus-Russia rift widens as Minsk snubs Moscow meet (Reuters) (Yahoo!7 World News)
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus on Sunday signalled a growing rift with ally Russia, saying President Alexander Lukashenko would not attend a security summit in Moscow in protest at a Russian ban on dairy imports from Belarus. Ties between former Soviet republics Russia and Belarus have been strained since 2007, with Minsk upset at steadily rising [...]
Posted on June 14, 2009 - by Venik
Summit meeting of Brazil, Russia, India and China watched for signals on the dollar …
MOSCOW – When the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India and China gather for their first full-fledged summit, they will be closely watched for signs of policy shifts that could affect the global role and strength of the U.S. dollar. During the summit Tuesday in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is [...]
Posted on June 14, 2009 - by Venik
Belarus-Russia rift widens, Minsk snubs Moscow meet (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus on Sunday signaled a growing rift with Russia, saying President Alexander Lukashenko did not attend a security summit in Moscow in protest against a Russian ban on dairy imports from Belarus. Ties between the former Soviet republics have been strained since 2007. Minsk is angry at rising prices for Russian gas [...]
Posted on June 14, 2009 - by Venik
Belarus-Russia rift widens as Minsk snubs Moscow meet (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus on Sunday signaled a growing rift with ally Russia, saying President Alexander Lukashenko would not attend a security summit in Moscow in protest at a Russian ban on dairy imports from Belarus. Ties between former Soviet republics Russia and Belarus have been strained since 2007, with Minsk upset at steadily rising [...]
Posted on March 15, 2009 - by Venik
Russian Military Reform
Putin and his cabinet have embarked on the most dangerous journey of their political careers: the 2009-2012 military reform. And by “dangerous” I don’t mean just unpopular but life-threatening. The decision to cut nearly 200,000 senior officers, special forces, and intelligence operatives will have serious consequences for Russia’s internal stability. Essentially, over a relatively short [...]
Posted on November 15, 2008 - by Venik
Russian Missiles: the Minsk Option
A number of times over the past months and even years various Russian government officials mentioned a possibility of a ballistic missile deployment in Belarus. The independent-minded Lukashenko kept Putin at an arm’s length, while managing to achieve a seemingly impossible task: to annoy Moscow, Brussels, and Washington all at the same time. Lately, however, [...]
Posted on September 29, 2008 - by Venik
Why Bailout Will Not Work
People who believe that America’s economic problems will be cured by the “cash-for-trash” bailout bill right now stuck in the Congress are in for a huge disappointment. There is little doubt that the size of this bailout will grow well beyond the initial $700 billion and in the end all this money will help very [...]
Posted on September 6, 2008 - by Venik
Pentagon-Hired Contractor Trained Georgian Army
In the late 1800s, one American poet wrote: “When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.” Since the first day of the war in the Caucasus, people familiar with history started noticing peculiar similarities between Georgia’s attack [...]
Posted on September 4, 2008 - by Venik
Photos: Georgian Army Before the War
As the Georgian Defense Ministry sacked its Army chief and the Deputy Chief of General Staff, lets take a look at what the Georgian army once was, with the help of some American tax dollars. Watching these ridiculous displays of crispy US-made uniforms and Israeli multiple-launch rocket systems atop shiny Mercedes-Benz trucks, Saakashvili couldn’t wait [...]
Posted on August 31, 2008 - by Venik
Operation Coverass
On Monday the EU is expected to announce countermeasures to Russia’s recognition of independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russian diplomatic sources hinted that any practical economic sanctions against Russia may lead to reduced oil supplies to the European Union. And so the question is: does the Brussels have the balls to take on Moscow [...]
Posted on August 28, 2008 - by Venik
The War in Georgia
For the past two weeks I’ve been trying to collect as much information as possible about the situation in Georgia. I talked to more than a dozen Russian and US military experts, got in touch with my contacts in Tbilisi and North Ossetia, and exchanged information with dozens of journalists in Moscow and here in [...]
Posted on August 23, 2008 - by Venik
Old Dogs, Old Tricks.
Just finished reading “How to Deter Russia”, by William Courtney and Kenneth Yalowitz (The Washington Post, August 23, 2008, p. A15). Courtney is the former US Ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. Yalowitz is the former US Ambassador to Belarus and Georgia. It is absolutely astonishing how two diplomats with so much relevant experience can misinterpret [...]
