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The St. Petersburg Times - News - Gorbachev, Bush, Kohl Remember Cold War

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Agence France Presse - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Helmut Kohl, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev hailed their excellent relations at a Berlin cabaret on Saturday, 20 years after the Cold War leaders watched over the Wall’s fall.

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UN Panel Criticizes Russia on Human Rights

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Russia fails to protect journalists, activists, prison inmates and others at odds with authorities from a wide range of abuses, including torture and murder, the UN Human Rights Committee said Friday.

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US Confronts the Russia-Iran Alliance

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By Pepe Escobar - Aug. 05 (News Analysis) - While the Bush and now Obama administrations have sought to pressure Iran on its nuclear program, Tehran has been building up a stronger relationship with its historic adversary, Russia, and with other countries outside the U.S. orbit, like Venezuela.

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In Russia, Obama's not a rock star

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Shaun Walker - Jul. 08 (News Analysis) - MOSCOW — Barack Obama came to the Russian capital this week with a very different message from the ones George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice gave the Russians over the last few years. So, how was this historic visit of the world’s most famous person greeted in Russia? Wall to wall media coverage? Russians lining the route of the Obama cortege? A buzz of excitement in the Moscow air?

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Obama-Medvedev Nuclear Stockpile Deal "Disappointing," Says Leading Disarmament Advocate

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Jonathan Schell, Amy Goodman - Jul. 07 (News Report) - President Obama met with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Moscow on Monday and agreed to cut American and Russian nuclear stockpiles by at least one quarter and as much as one third.

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Thick as a BRIC

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Michael Moran - Jul. 07 (News Analysis) - he global economic crisis has put the United States on the defensive, both economically and politically, and looming behind everything Washington does on the world stage these days is a historic question: Is this the beginning of the end of the American juggernaut? In Moscow, many hope the answer is “yes.”

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Russia Prepared to Invest $10Bln in IMF Bonds

Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

sptimes.ru - By Ira Iosebashvili - May. 28 (News Report) - Russia is prepared to invest up to $10 billion from its reserves into the International Monetary Fund’s first-ever bond issue, a move that some say could signal a bid to gain greater influence in IMF decisions.

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North Korean blast smaller than thought

Tue, 26 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

news.asiaone.com - May. 26 (News Report) - The yield is about four kilotonnes equivalent of TNT, with an uncertainty range from three to eight kilotonnes," Martin Kalinowski, a professor at the Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker Centre for Science and Peace Research (ZNF), at the University of Hamburg, told AFP.

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NATO Upsets Russia Over Georgia

Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Consortium News - By William F. Engdahl - May. 14 (News Report) - Economist and author William F. Engdahl says the military maneuvers inside Georgia underscore continued tensions between Russia and the NATO, which has expanded eastward to Russia’s borders since the end of the Cold War.

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Russia and the West have a very bad day

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Miriam Elder - May. 01 (News Report) - MOSCOW — It was meant to be a day of fresh starts, as officials from Russia and NATO sat down for their first formal talks since breaking off relations last summer in the midst of the Georgia war. Instead, NATO expelled two top Russian diplomats after accusing them of spying and Russia signed a treaty strengthening its ties with the separatist regions at the center of the controversial war. Are Russia’s relations with the West doomed to fail?

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Noam Chomsky on US Expansion of Afghan Occupation, the Uses of NATO, and What Obama Should Do in Israel-Palestine

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman - Apr. 03 (News Analysis) - We’re now approaching the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, unification of Germany, first steps in the collapse of the Soviet Union. Now, the alleged reason for NATO’s existence was to protect the West against a Russian assault. You can believe what you like about the reason, but that was the reason. By 1989, that reason was gone. So, why is there NATO?

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Welcome to Pipelineistan

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Tomdispatch.com - By Pepe Escobar - Mar. 26 (Special Report) - The SCO has expanded its aims and scope since 2001. Today, Iran, India, and Pakistan enjoy "observer status" in an organization that increasingly aims to control and protect not just regional energy supplies, but Pipelineistan in every direction. This is, of course, the role the Washington ruling elite would like NATO to play across Eurasia. Given that Russia and China expect the SCO to play a similar role across Asia, clashes of various sorts are inevitable.

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NATO and Russia perform an intricate dance

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Teri Schultz - Mar. 21 (News Analysis) - Perhaps nothing has evoked modern-day threats of a “new Cold War” like the testy relations between Moscow and NATO, the alliance set up in 1949 to counter threats from the Soviet Union and, after 1955, its Warsaw Pact satellites.

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Medvedev orders large-scale Russian rearmament

Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

spacewar.com - Mar. 17 (News Report) - President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday announced a "large-scale" rearmament and renewal of Russia's nuclear arsenal, accusing NATO of pushing ahead with expansion near Russian borders.

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Putin takes a chance

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

GlobalPost - By Kevin O'Flynn - Feb. 24 (News Analysis) - Vladimir Putin appears worried that a performance by an ABBA tribute band could be his Waterloo......Although it may sound like harmless gossip, there are serious questions about who paid for the concert and whether a prime minister should accept such largesse in a country where billions of dollars have been stolen, where the press is heavily controlled, and where it would be naive to think there would ever be much scandal over a private concert.

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Anti-Putin, But Pro-What?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - By Michael Idov - Jan. 08 (News Analysis) - The instant rev-up from a local grievance to nationwide calls for the leader's head has a cathartic momentum all its own--and little to do with cars. If nothing else, the last few weeks suggest that the same millions who unquestioningly credit Putin with their prosperity will just as easily blame him for any pinch. (That, in a nutshell, is the operational risk for any autocracy). The government force trotted out in response--at one Moscow rally, the OMON, at 1,200 men, outnumbered the protesters--also betrays a far more profound unease than the issue warrants. Taken together, the action and the reaction suggest an unspoken mutual understanding that, with oil prices down and the economy tanking, the rules of the game are beginning to change.

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Foreign Affairs - The Myth of the Autocratic Revival - Daniel Deudney and G. John Ikenberry

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Foreign Affairs - By Daniel Deudney, G. John Ikenberry - Jan. 01 (News Analysis) - Autocracies such as China and Russia do not represent a sustainable alternative to liberal democracy. In fact, the pull of liberal democracy is stronger than ever.

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Obama and US-Russia Tensions

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By (Names witheld) - Dec. 15 (News Analysis) - Obama’s tapping of Robert Gates as Defense Secretary it is hard to imagine any major shift on the issue of missile defense. This is also the case when it comes to Hillary Clinton regarding U.S. support for rapid NATO membership for former Soviet states. As Konstantin Kosachyov, head of the foreign relations committee of Russia’s lower house of parliament, recently said, “These nominations inspire no optimism whatsoever.” Combined with Medvedev’s threats to deploy missiles close to the Polish border, it is clear that Russia’s patience on these issues is wearing thin.

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Transitions Online: Pain from the Top Down

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

tol.cz - By Ostap Karmodi - Nov. 25 (News Analysis) - Other drags on Russian stock prices have been the war in Georgia, which spooked investors, and oil and metal prices that have slumped by 60 percent since July. “Russian markets are falling with record velocity, mainly because of huge dollar loans taken out by Russian banks and companies, and falling prices for raw materials – the principal Russian export commodity,” said Ovanes Oganisian

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The Axis of Oil: Iran, Venezuela, Russia

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Global Pulse - Oct. 31 (News Analysis) - Riding high this summer, three oil-producing nations sharing a disdain for the U.S. used their petro-dollars to fund policies not in the super-power's playbook. However, with the abrupt change of worldwide, economic fortunes, oil states now have headaches of their own. Venezuela's Chavez, who blustered and spread the wealth, has become more contrite as oil income shrinks; Iran spent alot on crowd pleasing measures that did not manage to throw off the dead weight of sanctions. For now, only Russia seems able to have it both ways, pushing against the U.S. when oil was expensive, and now that it is cheap, cutting a deal with China that could change the game for everyone. SOURCES: Russia Today, Russia; Caracol, Colombia; Televisa, Mexico; Globovision, Venezuela; TV5, France; BBC, U.K.; Press TV, Iran

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Strained relations between Russians, EU monitors in Georgia

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

euobserver.com - By Valentina Pop - Oct. 24 (News Report) - Russia is not informing the EU mission of their deployment of troops, nor is it allowing observers to enter Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Hansjorg Haber, the head of EU's civilian monitoring mission to Georgia (EUMM) has said.

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War of words ends Russia-Georgia talks

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

neurope.eu - Oct. 19 (News Report) - The first round in Geneva broke down, but the EU’s Special Representative for Georgia, Pierre Morel, told journalists that discussions would resume on November 18. Russia and Georgia accused each other of walking out of the UNbrokered talks. “De facto the discussion was broken off by Georgia, which refused to participate in the plenary session,” Interfax quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin, who headed the Russian delegation to the Geneva talks, as saying.

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Georgia peace talks collapse

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

europeanvoice.com - By Toby Vogel, Rikard Jozwia - Oct. 15 (News Report) - Speaking from Brussels, where he held meetings with EU officials ahead of a summit of EU leaders, Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili blamed Russia for the breakdown, saying: "Russia has just walked out of the Geneva talks ... which basically means that Russia has no interest whatsoever at this stage in any diplomatic process". Georgia has insisted that Russia must withdraw all their troops to military lines held before the war, while Moscow has called on the Georgians to sign a “concrete and legally binding” security pact with South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

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United States Lost Russia and Everything Else

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

moscowtimes.ru - By Fyodor Lukyanov - Oct. 14 (News Analysis) - Both U.S. presidential candidates have spoken of their intention to seriously reconsider Bush's failed foreign policy model. They have promised to restore good relations with U.S. allies and to work with them on an equal basis in solving global problems. In addition, they vowed to treat international institutions more seriously, although this is somewhat problematic since few of them work effectively. Nonetheless, the candidates' good intentions are encouraging.

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Georgia says Russia not respecting ceasefire agreement

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

eubusiness.com - Oct. 10 (News Report) - Under an EU-brokered peace plan, Russian forces had until October 10 to pull back from buffer zones around Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia to positions held before the August war. On Wednesday, the Georgian Interior Ministry confirmed that Russian forces had already withdrawn from the buffer zones. But Russian forces were still controlling access to the Akhalgori district, which lies in South Ossetia as determined by the region's Soviet-era borders. The district, home to both ethnic Georgians and Ossetians, was controlled by Tbilisi prior to the August war, but it is now mostly held by Russia's separatist allies. Moscow has recognised South Ossetia as an independent state and plans to keep 3,800 soldiers there.

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