Georgia’s move to cancel visas for North Caucasus residents ‘provocation’ – Foreign Ministry 14:42 14/10/2010 Russia has described as a provocation a decision by the Georgian authorities to scrap visas for residents of Russia’s North Caucasus republics.>> Other news of the day This is getting quite a bit of press from Georgian news also and [...]
Archives: October 2010
October 14, 2010
October 6, 2010
Soft Power is not so Soft After All…
“We can’t allow ourselves to be out-communicated by our enemies,” Walter Isaacson said. “You’ve got Russia Today, Iran‘s Press TV, Venezuela‘s TeleSUR, and of course, China is launching an international broadcasting 24-hour news channel with correspondents around the world.” “This has nothing to do with journalism. It’s about soft power and pushing the American policy [...]
October 4, 2010
Presidents Medvedev and Lukashenko Having a Spat…
Presidents Medvedev and Lukashenko… Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has commented on the relations between Russia and its neighbor Belarus in his video blog, saying that “this senseless period of tension in relations is certain to come to an end”. The Russian president said that the Belarusian leadership has recently adopted an anti-Russian rhetoric.The Russian leader [...]
