Russia
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Russia’s U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia's U-Turn on Libya By M K Bhadrakumar
Russia went to the Group of Eight (G-8) summit meeting at Deauville as an inveterate critic of the “unilateralist” Western intervention in Libya, but came away from the seaside French resort as a mediator between the West and Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The United States scored a big diplomatic victory in getting Moscow to work… Continue reading
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Russia’s turnabout on Libya arouses doubts, welcome
Russia’s change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition. Continue reading
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Russia's turnabout on Libya arouses doubts, welcome
Russia’s change of its stance on the chronic Libyan crisis raised doubts from the Libyan government, but was applauded by the Libyan opposition. Continue reading
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Russian politics: Nostalgia or a new political direction? By Eric Walberg
As Russia gears up for its election season this winter, Putin’s Popular Front and Rogozin’s nationalist front are playing an old Soviet melody and even borrowing a tune from revolutionaries in Cairo. Eric Walberg recognises the refrain Continue reading
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The Sheikh who shook two Superpowers By Satya Sagar
Long after he is gone, in the mythology of the Western world, Osama Bin Laden will always remain the fanatical architect of 9/11, the evil man who brought down the World Trade Center, a long standing symbol of US power. On the Arab and other streets of the Third World he will pass into fable… Continue reading
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Andrei Volodin – Forces Regrouped in World Politics?
The BRICS summit will convene in China’s Sanya beach resort on April 14. For the first time in the alliance’s relatively short history, South Africa will participate in the forum as a member along with Brazil, Russia, India, and China, while the disquieting political settings of the early 2011 reinforce the world’s interest in the… Continue reading
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First Flight by Belisarius
8 April 2011 — MRZine A tribute to Yuri Gagarin and his first human spaceflight, 12 April 1961. . . . Music by Zemlyane ("The Grass at Home"). Cf. <www.roscosmos.ru/main.php?id=87>, <english.ruvr.ru/tag_45875342/>, <ciudad-futura.net/2011/04/05/soyuz-gagarin-2/>, <www.yuriesfera.net>. Continue reading
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Open Letter From Russian Doctors In Libya To The President Of The Russian Federation
Bombs and rockets struck residential houses and fell near the hospital. The glass of the Cardiac Center building was broken, and in the building of the maternity ward for pregnant women with heart disease a wall collapsed and part of the roof. This resulted in ten miscarriages whereby babies died, the women are in intensive… Continue reading
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Western countries advocating intervention as pretext for oil grab – Russian envoy
As the international community continues to debate the role it should take in the Libyan unrest, Russia’s Envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin expresses concern over NATO’s plans for military intervention in the country. Continue reading
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Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals?
Part of the “Global Crisis and Hegemonic Dilemmas” conference. Continue reading
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Moscow demands explanations from NATO over WikiLeaks report — RT
Russia has urged NATO to make ‘political comments’ about recent reports on the alliance’s alleged defense plans against Moscow. According to secret documents handed to the British newspaper the Guardian by the whistleblower’s website WikiLeaks, NATO is planning to defend the Baltic States and Poland from a possible ‘Russian threat.’ Continue reading
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US embassy knew Georgians “moved forces” to South Ossetian border – WikiLeaks
US diplomats in Georgia knew Tbilisi concentrated military force prior to the war over South Ossetia in 2008, the classified documents exposed by WikiLeaks show. Continue reading
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The Cost Russia Will Pay for NATO Rapprochement Victor Kovalev
The NATO summit which will convene in Lisbon on November 19-20 will adopt the alliance’s new strategic concept switching NATO from regional defense to global-scale missions. In practice, the reform will institutionalize the West’s victory in the Cold World War III. The already visible results of the victory include the ongoing departure from the Yalta-Potsdam… Continue reading
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WikiLeaks has announced release of State Department Secret Correspondence
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks, which has published hundreds of U.S. war logs, has announced a pending release of the U.S. Department of State’s secret correspondence, a Russian business daily said on Friday. The documents contain the U.S. evaluation of the political situation in Russia and the unflattering characteristics of some Russian leaders, Kommersant cited a WikiLeaks… Continue reading
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Russia and NATO: ‘Not a piece of furniture’ By Eric Walberg
Medvedev’s presence in Lisbon was more a show of Russia’s importance than of subservience to the Euro-Atlantic alliance, says Eric Walberg Continue reading
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Turkey and Russia: Cleaning up the mess in the Middle East By Eric Walberg
The neocon plan to transform the Middle East and Central Asia into a pliant client of the US empire and its only-democracy-in-the-Middle-East is now facing a very different playing field. Not only are the wars against the Palestinians, Afghans and Iraqis floundering, but they have set in motion unforeseen moves by all the regional players. Continue reading
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“No threats can stop Bushehr nuclear plant launch”
‘Russia did not build the station in Bushehr so that somebody could bomb it,’ Rogozin stressed. ‘It is part of civilian infrastructure and has nothing to do with the military. It was built in accordance with all IAEA guidelines, all agreements and international laws. An attack against this civilian facility should be considered exactly as… Continue reading
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“Russia & China cooperate much better than ever before” – RT Top Stories
Vice Chancellor of research and international relations at the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Diplomatic Academy, Evgeny Bazhanov, spoke with RT about China’s overwhelming growth and the challenges it faces. Continue reading
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Memories of war still fresh in South Ossetian minds – RT Top Stories
Doctor Georgiy Gogichaev works at a clinic in the center of the South Ossetian capital Tskhinval, which two years ago was the only medical facility in the city. Gogichaev still balks at the idea of coming down to the cellar, where he spent several sleepless nights operating on those injured during the Georgian aggression, though… Continue reading
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