http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/bhorussia/ en-us Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:41:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414527/posts Russia will work on a new generation of nuclear missiles to ensure its nuclear deterrent remains effective, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday. Medvedev said the new missiles would be developed in full accordance with arms agreements made with the United States. "Of course, we will develop new systems, including delivery systems, that is, missiles," Medvedev said in an end-of-year interview with state-controlled television channels. "This process will be continued, and our nuclear shield will always be efficient and sufficient to protect our national interests," Medvedev said. The Kremlin chief said Russia and the United States were close to a... reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414527/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:41:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414227/posts Russia will press ahead with its Bulava missile programme, the country's defence minister was quoted as saying on Wednesday, despite another failed test launch earlier this month. "We are certainly not going to cancel Bulava," Anatoly Serdyukov told the Rossiyskaya Gazeta in an interview to be published Thursday, parts of which were obtained by Interfax news agency. "There's a whole series of problems and unfortunately we can not resolve them as quickly as we would like," he added. "Nevertheless, I believe that the missile will fly." The latest test over Russia's White Sea on December 10 ended in failure, owing... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414227/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:08:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414224/posts Russia has signed a contract to deliver 20 MiG-29 fighter planes to military-run Myanmar, the daily Kommersant reported Wednesday. The contract was signed a few weeks ago and came to nearly 400 million euros (570 million dollars), according to a source close to Russian arms sales company Rosoboronexport quoted by the paper. The Southeast Asian country is under Western sanctions but human-rights campaigners complain that its ruling junta has received a steady supply of arms from neighbours China and India, as well as from Russia. A source close to Rosoboronexport said the Russian offer beat one by China which offered... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414224/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:01:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411189/posts As President Dmitry Medvedev prepares to join talks to save the planet in Copenhagen, only a minority of Russians will be worrying much about the outcome. Climate change and the environment are not big issues for most Russians - and most of the time the government seems equally unconcerned. "Global warming, the Kyoto Protocol, cutting emissions, nuclear waste, incinerators - it might be a topic of discussion among Moscow's business elite, but the masses are nowhere near these issues. No-one's talking about them," said former Russian deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, an outspoken critic of the current Russian government. "There... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2411189/posts#comment Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:46:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397817/posts The United States is about to lose a key arms-control tool from the closing days of the Cold War -- the right to station American observers in Russia to count the long-range missiles leaving its assembly line. The end of full-time, on-site access will likely ignite complaints in Congress, with insiders from both parties arguing over whether the George W. Bush or the Obama administration is responsible. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397817/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 19:55:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396759/posts Poles protest US Stalin memorial plan23.11.2009 11:06 The Polish community in the United States is outraged by a plan to honour Josef Stalin by placing his bust on a pedestal at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia.  According to William McIntosh, the director of the Bradford museum, which is coordinating the project, the Soviet dictator deserves to be acknowledged alongside Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt has he was an ally of the US after Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The plans have met with protests from Polish war veterans in New York.  President of the Kosciuszko Foundation,... POLISH RADIO-EXTERNAL SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396759/posts#comment Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:08:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386746/posts SINGAPORE: A major pact within tantalizing reach, President Barack Obama aims to nudge forward an arms-control deal in talks with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum brought Obama to Singapore, but he is focusing on individual meetings Sunday with Medvedev and with Indonesia's Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, president of the world's largest Muslim nation and Obama's home as a boy. The US-Russia meeting takes place as the nations seek a successor to a Cold War-era agreement. Obama planned another milestone: joining a larger meeting that includes the leader of military-ruled Myanmar. Obama is sure to face criticism... China Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2386746/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:20:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380435/posts Poland has demanded that US troops be based on Polish soil in the wake of Russian war games which simulated a nuclear attack and invasion. Radek Sikorski, Poland's foreign minister, said he was alarmed by recent military exercises conducted by the Russian army in Belarus, a country that borders Poland, and wanted the US military as a counterweight. "We would like to see US troops stationed in Poland to serve as a shield against Russian aggression," he said. "If you can still afford it, we need some strategic reassurance." Despite assurances given by US Vice President Joe Biden last month... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2380435/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 23:33:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378755/posts Cold War: The White House has announced our absence at ceremonies marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Meanwhile, Russia has been practicing a nuclear invasion of an abandoned Poland. The Berlin Wall has been a famous backdrop for American presidents sounding the battle cry of liberty in the struggle against tyranny. It was there that John F. Kennedy expressed our solidarity with the encircled residents of that outpost of freedom with his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner." And it was there that Ronald Reagan, with a defiant "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall," voiced our... Investors Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2378755/posts#comment Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:18:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377118/posts Capitalism and democracy have lost popularity in the former Soviet republics of Eastern and Central Europe, where many people felt better off economically under communism, a poll showed Monday. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, research by the Pew Research Center showed the percentage of people approving of democracy was markedly lower in the former Soviet bloc compared to a similar 1991 poll. Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377118/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 03:41:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370772/posts As the United States and its allies haggle with Iran over its nuclear program, Moscow has fueled Western unease about its military links to Tehran by pledging to continue selling arms to the Islamic republic. This has raised speculation that it may brush aside the strident objections of the United States and Israel and supply Iran with advanced S-300PMU surface-to-air missiles that would greatly enhance its defenses against airstrikes. The Russians, who have rejected the proposed imposition of economic sanctions on Iran as "counterproductive," are keeping the waters muddied with contradictory and ambiguous statements regarding the S-300s. On Wednesday, Russia's... Space War http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370772/posts#comment Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370614/posts US army bases will appear on the Black Sea Coast – in Bulgaria and Romania. About $50 million will be assigned to build the base in Romania, and the Pentagon plans to spend $60 million more for the same purpose in Bulgaria. The Romanian base is expected to be put in operation in 2010, whereas the second one will most likely be launched in 2011 or 2012. Over 4,000 US military men are expected to serve at the two bases: 1,600 in Romania and 2,500 in Bulgaria. The authorities of the two nations expect that the US military men will... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370614/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368434/posts START 'cheating' Republicans in the Senate are gearing up to battle the Obama administration over the high-priority plan to finish a new arms-control treaty with Russia before the end of the year. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368434/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:36:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365017/posts If only the world matched President Obama’s rosy image of it. Perhaps then pre-emptive concessions to other nations, in the hope of prompting reciprocation, might make sense. Alas, the world doesn’t work that way. And nothing demonstrates this more than Moscow’s increasingly problematic position on Iran, despite the White House’s “goodwill.” This sorry lesson began last month, when the president unilaterally scrapped plans to deploy an Eastern European missile-defense shield meant to take out incoming Iranian missiles. The decision broke a Bush administration pledge to US allies in Poland and the Czech Republic. But Obama officials spun it as a... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365017/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 11:02:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362753/posts Washington is "concerned" afp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362753/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 03:16:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363306/posts Vladimir Putin, No Sanctions on Iran: Obama Sold Out Poland for Nothing By Beth Shaw It appears that Barack Obama sold out Poland for nothing. In spite of his preemptively giving in to Russia and promising to not use a missile shield to protect Poland and the Czech Republic, Vladimir Putin is saying no to sanctions on Iran. After all, how can we be absolutely 100% certain they are going to nuke us! Let’s just wait and see before we do anything. It seems the only preventative measures the United States can take against our enemies anymore is to give... Right Pundits http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363306/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:47:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363770/posts --snip--The Russian leadership, hardly believing its luck, needs no interpreter to understand that when the Obama team clownishly rushes in bearing gifts and "reset" buttons, there is nothing ulterior, diabolical, clever or even serious behind it. It is amateurishness, wrapped in naivete, inside credulity. In short, the very stuff of Nobels. The Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363770/posts#comment Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:45:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363394/posts HILLARY CLINTON’S words of support for Georgia during her visit this week to Moscow did little to calm fears in Tbilisi about Russia’s intentions in the turbulent Caucasus mountains. Two of Russia’s most powerful men sent shivers through Tbilisi during the US secretary of state’s stay in Moscow, with statements that fuelled worries the Kremlin’s fight with rebels in its own restive Caucasus republics could spill into neighbouring Georgia. The struggle between Moscow’s security forces and militants, once confined to Chechnya, is equally intense in two other Russian regions, Dagestan and Ingushetia, where police and soldiers come under daily attack... irishtimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363394/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:42:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363362/posts KAZAN, Russia — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday visited Kazan, the capital of Russia's predominantly Muslim Tatarstan region, lauding it as an example of multi-ethnic tolerance and peace. .... Over half of the region's population are Tatars, a Muslim Turkic people who live alongside a large ethnic Russian Orthodox Christian population and other minorities. Clinton, donning a yellow headscarf and taking off her shoes in line with Islamic custom, visited the gigantic Kul Sharif mosque in the Kazan Kremlin alongside the regional leader Mintimer Shaimiyev. "You are well known as someone who has fostered religious tolerance. It's... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2363362/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:06:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362470/posts Yes, I wish that this was a satire piece, but unfortunately it appears that this is real. President Obama's Administration is going to allow Russia to inspect our nuclear facilities-- within the United States. This is an unprecedented move that damages US national security. Not only does it lift the veil of secrecy, but if Russia decided to sell the secret information to terrorists or rogue states, attacks could follow. This is a disgrace. Right Handed Pitcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2362470/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:41:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362402/posts MOSCOW (AP) - A top Russian security official says Moscow reserves the right to conduct pre-emptive nuclear strikes to safeguard the country against aggression on both a large and a local scale, according to a newspaper interview published Wednesday. Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the U.S. and NATO, saying Moscow's Cold War foes still pose potential threats to Russia despite what he called a global trend toward local conflicts. The interview appeared in the daily Izvestia during a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, as U.S. and Russian negotiators try to hammer out... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362402/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:48:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362293/posts Washington will tone down its criticism of Russia's human rights record in order to win Kremlin backing for possible sanctions against Iran, it has been claimed. It is the latest in a number of concessions the US has made to Moscow in order to improve relations and encourage co-operation on international issues. The plan emerged as Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, visited Russia to discuss a range of issues including Iran's rogue nuclear programme. Mrs Clinton's trip was part of what Washington is calling a "reset" with Moscow, a new more constructive relationship with the Kremlin that President... Telegraph (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2362293/posts#comment Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359718/posts His Arrogance, Hussein Obama WASHINGTON — While Russia's president congratulated President Barack Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Republicans see the award as so outrageous that they're using it to raise campaign money. Obama won the prize "for awesomeness," says the mocking GOP fundraising letter. Obama's honor shows "how meaningless a once honorable and respected award has become," says the letter, signed by Michael S. Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had a different view. He said the award will encourage further U.S.-Russian cooperation. "I hope this decision would serve as an additional incentive... San Diego Union-Tribune (AP) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2359718/posts#comment Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:17:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354722/posts There is nothing new under the sun: and I mean, nothing. It is a point brought home to us with increasing force by the expansion of the Internet. Conceive of an "original idea." Now, select two or more keywords suggested by it. Use them as search terms, and you will soon find that, say, 438,000 other people have entertained said "original idea," and a dozen are currently blogging on it. Before beginning today's column, my search terms were "Gorbachev" and "Obama." Yes: a lot of people have entertained the idea, that Mikhail Gorbachev was to the late great Soviet Union,... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2354722/posts#comment Sun, 4 Oct 2009 19:03:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352695/posts After Russia invaded the Nation of Georgia last year, Senator John McCain quickly condemned the action by the Russians, and declared that we are all "Georgians" today. Considering we have had at least two freedom movements in the past eight months which have been ignored by Obama, that should have been reason enough to support McCain in the Presidential election. Obama at first blamed both the Russians and the Georgians in an utter disregard for the Nation of Georgia, a small yet staunch ally of the United States, after several days of being called out by John McCain, Obama quickly... Right Handed Pitcher http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352695/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:44:32 GMT