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Finding The Hard Limits To Soft Power: Part One Washington (UPI) May 7, 2009 
The way the 27-nation European Union handled the Russian invasion of Georgia last year invites some reflections about the merits of so-called soft diplomatic, cultural and economic power versus hard military power as the primary tools of international relations in the 21st century. The Russian Federation led by President Dmitry Medvedev and his predecessor, current Prime Minister Vladim ... read more
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Georgia row won't torpedo arms control talks: US, Russia
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009The United States and Russia vowed Thursday that tension over the former Soviet state of Georgia will not torpedo negotiations to replace a Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov insisted plans for a follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) trumped their concerns over Georgia, with which Russia fought ... more Georgia flares again amid NATO exercises 
Tbilisi (AFP) May 7, 2009Domestic political tensions flared again in ex-Soviet Georgia Thursday after police and protesters clashed in Tbilisi at the start of controversial NATO military exercises that have infuriated Russia. The clashes late Wednesday - the first major outbreak of violence since opposition protests against President Mikheil Saakashvili began a month ago - came only a day after Georgia said it had ... more Bulgaria seeks financing for new nuclear plant 
Sofia (AFP) May 7, 2009Bulgaria is counting on loans from Russia, Germany and France to build a new four-billion-euro nuclear power plant on the Danube, Deputy Economy and Energy Minister Yavor Kuyumdjiev said Thursday. Funding for the plant, which was due to come from the Bulgarian state and German power giant RWE, was proving difficult, Kuyumdjiev said in an interview with the daily Klassa published Thursday. ... more Russia tensions spike as NATO starts Georgia war games 
Tbilisi (AFP) May 6, 2009NATO kicked off controversial military exercises in ex-Soviet Georgia on Wednesday as tensions spiked in relations with neighbouring Russia over Moscow's expulsion of two alliance diplomats. Launched a day after Georgia accused Russia of backing a brief military mutiny that allegedly included a plot to assassinate President Mikheil Saakashvili, the exercises have strained ties between the Co ... more Russia expels NATO envoys, blasts 'unpredictable' alliance 
Moscow (AFP) May 6, 2009Russia on Wednesday expelled two Canadian diplomats working as representatives of the NATO alliance, officials said, in a further deterioration of relations between the alliance and Moscow. Canada's ambassador was summoned to Russia's foreign ministry and handed a note informing him of the expulsion of the head and deputy head of the NATO representative office in Moscow "in response to an un ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 4, 2009 The Kremlin doesn't expect the global economic crisis to damp down international demand for its weapons exports. Alexander Brindikov, who chairs an advisory panel for the giant Russian arms-exporting monopoly and coordinating corporation Rosoboronexport, said last month that the company projected arms sales in 2009 to remain at their 2008 levels of around $7 billion, RIA Nov ... more Japan to give 40 mln dlrs to dismantle Russian submarines: report 
Tokyo (AFP) May 1, 2009Japan will give another four billion yen (40 million dollars) towards an international project to dismantle decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines in the Far East, a report said Friday. The decision will be announced when Prime Minister Taro Aso meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on May 12 in Tokyo, Kyodo News said, citing unnamed government sources. Japan has already provid ... more Climate Change Threatens Lake Baikal's Unique Biota 
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2009Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint US-Russian team in the May issue of BioScience. The lake is considered a treasure trove for biologists and was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because a high proportion of its rich fau ... more EU, Japan team up to fight climate change 
Prague (AFP) May 4, 2009The European Union and Japan decided to join forces in the battle against climate change and invited large countries to follow suit at a summit meeting in Prague on Monday. "Japan and the EU are aiming at building a low-carbon society. We believe that it is necessary for the United States, China, Russia to participate in a responsible manner," Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters. ... more |
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Washington, April 29, 2009 Russia's foreign minister denied Wednesday that the Kremlin wants to boost its armed forces in the arctic or launch any arms race at the top of the world. Russia is "not planning to increase our military presence in the arctic and to deploy armed forces there," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced after attending a ministerial-level meeting of the Arctic Council in the N ... more Analysis: China ups Kazakh energy holdings 
Washington, April 28, 2009 The dramatic downturn in energy prices has heavily impacted oil-producing nations, few more than Kazakhstan, which had a marginal oil industry prior to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. Having attracted more than $40 billion in foreign investment since then, Astana is now caught between a fiscal rock and a hard place as foreign investors seek to retrieve their funds. In its search for fore ... more Areva seeks to block Siemens-Rosatom nuclear deal 
Paris (AFP) April 30, 2009French nuclear power group Areva said Thursday it had filed a request for arbitration to try to stop Germany's Siemens creating a rival venture with Russian group Rosatom. A spokeswoman for the French state-controlled group confirmed a press report that her company had taken the case to the International Chamber of Commerce, but declined to provide further details. A Siemens spokesman sa ... more Analysis: Turkish-Armenian thaw and energy 
Washington, April 27, 2009 During the past year, at a time of record-high energy prices, many European officials have decried what they see as Russia's state-owned Gazprom natural gas company being used as a tool to promote the Kremlin's policies by indulging in hardball "pipeline politics." Gazprom's favored tool is variable prices being used to send political signals to recalcitrant former Soviet republics such as Ukr ... more
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