Update: The Formula One racing in Moscow today was a great success, with over a 100,000 people attending,450 journalists, and 4.5 kilometers of track in this iconic setting.See yesterday's story. ...
Amidst serious post-election turmoil in Iran, President Barack Obama has been quoted during the last 24 hours as saying that the United States respects that country’s sovereignty. It’s too bad he...
High level Kremlin officials close to Prime Minister Putin have expressed deep concerns with regard to the delays to law enforcement actions being sanctioned by Scotland Yard in London UK and the FBI in the...
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Eastern Europe is changing.In the near future there willbe many changes and it willbe interesting to watch."Ukraine is becoming one of Belarus’ foreign priorities because of the recent energy problems with...
" A MUST READ report. Reporting by Tariq Saeedi in Ashgabat, With Sergi Pyatakov in Moscow, Ali Nasimzadeh in Zahidan, Qasim Jan in Kandahar and S M Kasi in Quetta. Additional reporting by Rupa Kival in New Delhi and Mark Davidson in Washington An...
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"Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit this week with Venezuela's leftist leader Hugo Chávez is the first ever for a Kremlin leader to this oil-rich nation. And the meeting – part of a Latin...
The dumbest thing you can do in a period of economic uncertainty is to give people (a) no information or (b) bad information. The Russian government seems inclined to do the former."MOSCOW – Russian...
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Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said he will call of his threat to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad region, a Russian excave within the EU, if Barack Obama calls off the Bush Administration's plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. An...
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Blame game is started now everybody is blaming US for the global finencial termoil .It was Europians who started and now Russian also shoughting on USA for sheading the poison in the system." MOSCOW - Russia's president says the United States is to blame for the global...
As we watch the continued developments in Georgia and hear the accusations about who did what to whom and in what order, you can guarantee that another ex-Soviet state is paying close attention. The US and the EU...
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Who is Michael Lee White? blog/comment links lost passport 2005? China ? " GUANGZHOU, China -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he suspects that U.S. agents provoked last month's brief war in Georgia. The Kremlin's Exhibit A? Russian soldiers say they found a...
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Despite being severely chastised, the Russian government is upbeat after hearing from the EU that there would be no sanctions against their country for their attack on south Ossetia. Quite coincidentally, I'm sure, the question was asked of the Russian government whether they...
An unidentified source said Russia would be putting pressure on at least one oil company, causing more shortages in the West. However, the oil company, LUKOIL, Russia's 2nd-largest oil company, denied the report.Meanwhile, Russian diplomats and politicians were asking the...
After a fierce but brief firefight between Georgian and Russian forces, an uneasy truce has developed. One that could be threatened by today's announcement from Russia, supporting the 'rebel' regions in Georgia as independent states. Washington is calling this...
"Viktor Yushchenko, the Ukrainian President, was in a fierce and defiant mood yesterday as he urged Nato to respond to the Russian invasion of Georgia by moving quickly to expand the frontiers of the alliance eastwards. In an exclusive interview with The Times Mr Yushchenko...