Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Russia threatens to withdraw from treaty Vladimir Radyuhin MOSCOW: Russia’s Parliament on Wednesday has called for withdrawing from the friendship treaty with Ukraine if the latter begins the process to join NATO.The Duma — Lower House — on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution urging President Dmitry Medvedev to “consider withdrawing” from the 1997 Russian-Ukrainian...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
Cheap cigarettes: a bane of Russia Vladimir Radyuhin — PHOTO: AP Pay attention: Schoolgirls display the “No Smoking” sign to mark No Tobacco Day in Manila on Friday. MOSCOW: Russian smokers appear to have generally ignored the World No-Tobacco Day on May 31 even as the government moved in to crack down on smoking. A poll conducted in Moscow showed that smokers had no plans to kick the...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | 05/31/2008
News: | | | | | | | | | | | | | Advts: | | | | Cheap cigarettes: a bane of Russia Vladimir Radyuhin — PHOTO: AP Pay attention: Schoolgirls display the “No Smoking” sign to mark No Tobacco Day in Manila on Friday. MOSCOW: Russian smokers appear to have generally ignored the World No-Tobacco Day on May 31 even as the government moved in to crack down on smoking. A poll conducted in Moscow...
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
... the Taleban and Al-Qaeda, as well as criminal elements within Afghanistan.”According to Vladimir Radyuhin at globalresearch.ca, the US and NATO have stonewalled numerous offers of cooperation to deal with the problem from the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)and the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO). A Pentagon general told Nikolai Bordyuzha, CSTO Secretary-General,...
World Affairs Board (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
*Russia, India, China step up solidarity* Vladimir Radyuhin They have coordinated positions on Kosovo, Iran, Afghanistan YEKATERINBURG (Russia): Russia, India and China displayed enhanced solidarity on a range of key international issues at their meeting here on Thursday in a sign that their trilateral dialogue *may be *acquiring a strategic dimension. In a joint communiqué, adopted at...
