Image via Wikipedia As international special interest groups are vying for influence in the US government, the line between espionage and lobbying work is becoming dangerously vague. The US Justice Department announced on Monday that 10 individuals were arrested on charges of working as “agents of a foreign government [i.e. Russia] without notifying the US [...]
Archives: June 2010
June 30, 2010
June 28, 2010
Dmitry Medvedev and other leaders of the G-20 have convened in Toronto…
Image via Wikipedia TORONTO, June 27 (Itar-Tass) — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and other leaders of the G-20 have convened in Toronto to discuss financial and economic cooperation in the period of the world economy’s recovery from a profound crisis. Vice-Premier, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich and Deputy Finance Minister Dmitry Pankin [...]
June 25, 2010
Anti-Smoking Warnings On Pack in Russia…
Russian tobacco producers will introduce warning messages on cigarette packs on Saturday to enhance public awareness of smoking-related mortality threats. The tobacco companies will be allowed to sell the previously produced cigarette packs containing no warnings until next year, the Russian Health and Social Development Ministry said. The packs will be nothing but warnings… Russian [...]
June 24, 2010
Moscow Financial Center Should Speak English…
MOSCOW, June 24 (RIA Novosti) – Russian authorities should use English law and language at the international financial center, which is to be set up in Moscow, a Russian deputy finance minister said on Thursday. “This is essential in establishing a financial center. As far as the political decision is concerned, it is hard to [...]
June 21, 2010
Russian military base on the territory of Kyrgyzstan…
Russia’s drug chief proposed on Monday the building of a military base in Kyrgyzstan as part of global efforts to combat Afghan drug trafficking. “My proposal is to set up a Russian military base on the territory of Kyrgyzstan. In my opinion, this will allow effective work towards cutting of drug channels in this country,” [...]
June 18, 2010
Changing The Sanctions On Iran Bad News…
Russia is not happy: Unilateral sanctions against Iran might only aggravate the current situation and inflict damage upon the dialogue with Tehran, the Russian president said. The United States and European Union decided to impose new sanctions against Iran this week, in addition to those approved by the UN last week. “We didn’t agree to [...]
June 16, 2010
Irina Antonova Gets to Stay With Her Daughter…
This has been a big issue and it looks like the Finnish President Tarja Halonen had a few things to say also and that combined with the ladies health has changed the situation: Finland will not go through with plans to deport an elderly, disabled Russian woman after she was admitted to hospital in Helsinki, [...]
June 15, 2010
Looking Real Bad in Kyrgyzstan…
About 83,000 ethnic Uzbeks have fled to Uzbekistan from Kyrgyzstan, where ethnic violence has killed at least 170 people, an Uzbek emergencies ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. Only the injured, women and children were being allowed to cross the border. Neighboring Uzbekistan hastily set up camps to handle the flood of hungry, frightened refugees. (Read [...]
June 13, 2010
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan…
Ethnic violence in southern Kyrgyzstan have claimed the lives of at least 82 people, leaving over 1,076 injured, the Kyrgyz news agency AKIpress cited the latest report by the country’s health ministry on Sunday. Deadly ethnic riots swept through the country’s second-largest city of Osh and another southern city of Jalalabad on Friday and Saturday. [...]
June 11, 2010
Iran Most Likely Helped By The New Sanctions…
Looks like a watered down sanction that was so pushed by a impetus America most likely will have an different effect than expected… Russia’s support for the sanctions proposed by the U.S. won’t curry any favor with Iran. However, it will not affect Russia’s cooperation with Iran in the nuclear power industry, and Russia will [...]
June 10, 2010
Trade Between Russia and China Growing Big Time…
Looks like the trips by Putin and Medvedev have paid off with China: Russia-China trade reached $4.75 billion in May, showing an increase of 55.8% against the same month last year, the Chinese customs authorities said on Thursday. Russia’s exports to China demonstrated a 57.4% increase and reached $2.551 billion, while China’s exports increased by [...]
June 9, 2010
So What Now? Korea!
Looks like a lot of interference from America on this one… The current escalation on the Korean Peninsula is unprecedented. The post-war history of the relations between the two Korea’s abounds with painful incidents, but problems were invariably localized and never triggered broader escalations. At the moment the S. Korean administration backed by the US [...]
June 9, 2010
Why Sanctions Against Belarus?
Seems like America just has sanctions against half the world. What happens when that day comes and that half the world sanctions America. Time changes and time is usually the only real correction of issues. They have a saying, “Payback is hell!” Just a thought… Sanctions imposed by the U.S. against a number of Belarusian [...]
June 7, 2010
Russian Missile Cruiser Steaming Toward San Francisco…
A group of Russia’s Pacific Fleet warships led by the missile cruiser Varyag left Vladivostok on Friday for a visit to San Francisco, California.The group commanded by Rear Admiral Vladimir Kasatonov includes the missile cruiser Varyag, the rescue tugboat Foty Krylov and the tanker Boris Butoma. The voyage to California and back, held as part [...]