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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 6, 2011

  Uncertain World: Russia’s WTO entry as the end of the post-Soviet era

By Fyodor Lukyanov:   Russia may join the World Trade Organization this year, bringing to a close an 18 year accession process. With each new year, the claim that “we will join the WTO by year-end” came to sound more and more like that famous Jewish...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 25, 2010

  NATO, world gendarme

Reflections of Fidel (Taken from CubaDebate) Many people feel sickened on hearing the name of that organization. On Friday, November 19, 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal, the 28 members of that bellicose institution engendered by the United States, decided to create what they cynically...... [view]

Posted By:  Ralitsa
Posted On:  Nov 18, 2010

  Sawing off the branch you are sitting on

I suppose I could say I am waiting for Medvedev's address to the Federal Assembly with a sort of cool detachment. This was supposed to take place this week but for reason(s) still not entirely clear, it seems to have been postponed at least until the 22nd of the current month. Just to be...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 18, 2010

  A late lesson for an old revolutionary

BY KEEBLE McFARLANE In the bad old days of the now defunct Soviet Union, exasperated citizens described their dilemma with a hoary old phrase: "We pretend to work and the state pretends to pay us". Well, the grand communist experiment imploded and collapsed just over two decades ago, and...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 10, 2008

  After Bush, Obama must catch up with Russia

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - George Bush Jr. has managed to cultivate such a strong feeling against his White House in the world and has dented US reputation so badly that any change on Pennsylvania Avenue is like a breath of fresh air. The new US...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 5, 2008

  Lame ducks are planting mines

MOSCOW. (Military analyst Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - The United States has elected its first Afro-American president, Barack Obama. President-elect Obama will have little time to celebrate as he prepares to select his cabinet and further layout the country's policies for the next four...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 23, 2008

  Russian Navy deploys ships to Venezuela

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - A Russian Navy squadron set off for Venezuela Monday in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the...... [view]

Posted By:  maseral
Posted On:  Sep 5, 2008

  489. Kremlin star

Moscow, Russia ... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 22, 2008

  A limp iron fist in a velvet glove: Czechoslovakia 40 years ago

MOSCOW. (Anatoly Korolev for RIA Novosti) - Forty years on, the world is remembering the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops. This is what the Pravda, the most influential Soviet newspaper, wrote at the time: "They have come to do their internationalist duty to the fraternal...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Aug 20, 2008

  NATO's 'Caucasus Council'

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political observer Andrei Fedyashin) - The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels on August 19 at America's request to give Russia its "comeuppance" did not go smoothly. It took the ministers several hours to hammer out the final communique. In the end it turned...... [view]

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