Hillary Clinton, Russians clash publicly over Iran reactor
19/03/201011:41With Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at her side, the secretary of State reproaches Moscow for building and fueling the plant without assurances on weaponry. Lavrov stands his ground.
Iran Dispute Becomes Focus of Clinton’s Russia Trip
19/03/201011:40Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Russia’s foreign minister clashed publicly Thursday over an announcement that Russia would complete a nuclear power plant in Iran this summer.
Value judgment
19/03/201011:38The EU still lacks a policy toward Russia, and history shows when core beliefs are compromised, disaster follows. While Russia has always played a significant role in Europe, relations took a new dimension after European Union expansion.
In EU, Frustration With Georgia Now Evident
19/03/201011:36EU officials have long been quietly frustrated with the increasingly authoritarian and erratic leadership of President Mikheil Saakashvili since the Rose Revolution of 2003.
The EU and Abkhazia: between a rock and a hard place
18/03/201012:04The EU’s outreach to Abkhazia is welcome – it demonstrates that it can formulate a unified policy towards a very complex problem. But unified does not mean coherent, and it remains torn between neutral economic engagement and Georgia’s sovereignty.
Clinton's agenda for Russia trip reflects improving but fragile relationship
18/03/201012:01A year after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presented a mock "reset" button to Russia's foreign minister, the two nuclear giants have significantly improved their tattered relationship, making progress on U.S. priorities such as Iran and Afghanistan and closing in on a major arms-control agreement, officials from both countries say.
Obama and Medvedev: psychological peas in a pod
18/03/201011:59The accession to power of both Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev led to hopes among “liberals” that they would make some significant changes to their respective country’s foreign and domestic policies.
Strategies of cooperation: Russia and India’s common interests yield differing responses
18/03/201011:52For India, Russia’s resurgence will create a greater balance in global affairs. Russia’s decline has facilitated China’s rise, which is against India’s strategic interests.
U.S.-Russia Relations: In Need of a New Reset
17/03/201011:22In Russian political circles, Barack Obama's election tended to evoke two different reactions. Many officials were curious to see what new deals he would offer, but others, in the tradition of the Cold War, dismissed him as just the latest mouthpiece of the old American élites.
Nord Stream project may ensure energy security for Europe
17/03/201011:20Nord Stream has divided opinion in Europe, as politicians search for solutions to the continent's dwindling ability to meet its ever growing energy demands.
Russian analyst: Armenians may start to behave poorly with respect to Russia
17/03/201011:19Turkey is rapidly moving closer to Russia. Turkey's is against Iraq adventure of the United States which threatens to ruin Turkey itself, because Americans do not hide their sympathy for Kurdish separatism. Thus, Turkey, in fact, comes from the zone of U.S. influence on all fronts.
Nino Burjanadze on meeting Vladimir Putin
17/03/201011:17In an interview with Gazeta.ru, Georgian opposition leader (a former ally of President Mikhail Saakashvili) Nino Burjanadze explained why she met Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Fake Georgia TV Report About Russian Invasion Stranger Than Fiction
17/03/201011:14A media controversy in Georgia involving a fake report about a Russian invasion is threatening to turn into a political incident. Western diplomats have assailed the broadcast as "irresponsible," while the Russian Foreign Ministry has branded it "immoral."
The Ties That Bind
16/03/201012:57Why Russia won't help on Iran. Just how durable are the ties between Russia and Iran?
Russia anxious to position itself in the vanguard of climate change solutions
16/03/201012:00A round-table discussion held in earlier this month by the Russian foreign ministry’s Diplomatic Academy on the current status and future of the global climate debate has apparently forged new goals and guideposts for the Russian climate policy.
The Kremlin Temptation
16/03/201011:59Even if some American officials are irritated by French sales of sophisticated military equipment to Russia, no one has dared to complain openly. After all, isn't the US in the process of pushing the "reset button" with Russia?
Rusetsky: Using the terms "traitor” and “agent of Russia” is a totalitarian action
16/03/201011:57The Georgian Government which constantly declares that it will not have any relations with Russia reopened Larsi border checkpoint between the two countries on 1 March. Still however those who try to restore relations with Russia through negotiations are called traitors and agents of the KGB.
Russia’s outsourcing of arms production
15/03/201011:28Russia has been, and will continue to be, known as one of the major arms producers. Lately Russia has however shown a shift in its policy towards indigenous production of arms destined for its own armed forces.
Azerbaijan should not admit Russian-US cooperation against Iran in its territory
15/03/201011:23News.Az interviews Vafa Guluzade, former state adviser on foreign policy issues and president of the Fund of political studies of Caspian states.
Rediscovering Russia
15/03/201011:18India's relations with Russia over the two decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union have alternated between indifference and neglect, on the one hand, and active cooperation and intense friendship, on the other. Both states of the relationship have sprung from the kind of situation Indian and Russian policymakers have found themselves in at different times.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday that relations between Russia and the United States have become warmer, but urged fundamental changes.
A Proton-M carrier rocket with the U.S. telecommunications satellite Echostar 14 will be launched on Saturday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
The people of the town of Cobquecura in Chile leave their destroyed houses, take their families and go to live in the mountains. An earthquake took place there on March 16: four strong quakes measuring 6.6 and 6.7 were registered.
OPEC, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, id an international organization uniting most of the world's petroleum exporting countries
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