Protesters rallying against North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, pictured with a firing target, in Seoul on Wednesday. The leaders of North Korea and Russia appeared on Wednesday to have canceled plans for a summit in the Far East when the Kremlin said President Dmitry Medvedev had no meetings scheduled with Kim Jong Il. Authorities in Vladivostok, 130 kilometers from the North Korean border, had [...]
Tag: North Korea
June 30, 2011
June 30, 2011
Russian Press at a Glance, Thursday, June 30, 2011
POLITICS The Yabloko opposition party proposed that all registered parties sign a memorandum on joint election monitoring. (Kommersant) Schools in Bashkortostan voiced plans to join Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s new movement, the All-Russia People’s Front; an entire street joined the association in Vladimir. All new members say they made the decision to join on their [...]
June 29, 2011
Main news of June 28
WORLD * The Fatah and Hamas movements reached an agreement on the candidacy of the reconciliation government’s prime minister, Egyptian Al Ahram daily reported * Georgia sent a note expressing readiness for dialog to Russia on Tuesday via mediator Switzerland, in accordance with the recommendation of the International Court of Justice in The Hague, a [...]
June 26, 2011
Russia Blocks Release of Iran Report
UNITED NATIONS — Russia has blocked the publication of a UN report detailing Iran’s alleged sanctions violations despite U.S., British and French calls for its release. The report, submitted to the Security Council’s Iran sanctions committee by an independent panel of experts, says Tehran has been breaking a UN arms embargo by shipping weapons to [...]
June 24, 2011
June 24, 2011
June 21, 2011
Russia blasts U.S. Navy maneuvers near Georgia
Russia is outraged at the maneuvers of American USS Monterey cruiser carrying the AEGIS air defense system near the Georgian coast on the Black Sea, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The U.S. warship arrived for joint exercises with Georgia as part of the Phased Adaptive Approach program designed to shape the European segment of [...]
June 18, 2011
S. Korea military fires at passenger jet by mistake
South Korean troops fired at a civilian airplane near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist country’s military planes, but no damage occurred, Yonhap said on Saturday. Two Marine Corps soldiers guarding the waters off the South’s western city of Incheon, fired their K-2 rifles for about [...]
June 18, 2011
Relationships between two Koreas
South Korean troops fired at a civilian airplane near the disputed Yellow Sea border with North Korea, misidentifying it as one of the communist country’s military planes, but no damage occurred, Yonhap said on Saturday.
June 16, 2011
Russia, China Postpone Major Gas Deal
Russia and China today postponed the signing of a major deal to supply Siberian natural gas to China after they failed to agree on a price. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announced the delay after his talks with China’s President Hu Jintao at the Kremlin. In 2010, Russia’s state-controlled Gazprom and China National Petroleum Company [...]
June 16, 2011
Russian Ultranationalists Jailed For Life For Hate Murders
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, — A major leader of ultranationalist groups in St. Petersburg and another member have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their roles in a series of murders of foreigners, RFE/RL’s Russian Service reports. A court said while reading its verdict on June 14 that Aleksei Voevodin and a second ultranationalist, Dmitry Borovikov, [...]
June 8, 2011
Russia may develop nuclear offensive, arms race
Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on Wednesday said that Russia would develop its own offensive nuclear force if NATO fails to come to agreement over the European defense shield. “We have no other way, otherwise we’ll just have to develop an arms race,” Serdyukov said after a Russia-NATO meeting in Brussels. The talks in Brussels, [...]
June 7, 2011
NATO and Russia: Vigilant in the skies, evasive on missile defense
The focus of the upcoming Russia-NATO Council meeting in Brussels will be U.S. missile defense in Europe, but the outcome is hard to predict. Some have suggested that the meeting will result in political principles for a common approach to missile defense. Moscow is not so much worried that the U.S. is currently working on [...]
June 2, 2011
Due West: Russia’s Balkans obsession seems to be finally over
The arrest of General Ratko Mladic and his extradition to the International Tribunal in The Hague have produced precious little reaction from Moscow. Apart from a Foreign Ministry statement expressing hope that the Bosnian Serb commander will be given a fair trial, there was hardly anything else. This stands as a huge contrast to the [...]