Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Saturday strongly backed President Dmitry Medvedev's call for radical economic modernization, in an apparent bid to smother talk of differences between the leaders. Medvedev had in a state-of-the-nation address on November 12 made his strongest call yet for Russia to end its dependence on oil exports and modernize its economy, in a speech some analysts saw as...
As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to lock in long-term agreements, notably in the energy sector. At a global level, the transit routes of future oil & gas pipelines become the object of a power struggle involving not only the...
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's claims on the gas transit crisis were political blackmail, said a Kremlin aide on Thursday. "We are categorically against making Europe's energy security dependent on Ukrainian politicians' personal ambitions. Attempts to scare Russia and Europe by predicting a crisis in gas transit is something typical of political blackmail," said Sergei Prikhodko...
Global efforts should be coordinated to ensure road safety, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday. "We need to coordinate the international efforts in this area ... in the same way as we are now working on dealing with the consequences of the global financial crisis," Medvedev was quoted by local media as telling the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety held in...
&$ &$European Commison President Jose Manuel Barroso (L), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrick Reinfeldt attend a news conference after a one-day EU-Russia summit in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Nov. 18, 2009. EU-Russian cooperation in climate and energy fields will be further intensified, the leaders from the EU and Russia said after the summit on Wednesday....
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in further signs of distancing himself from Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, has called for a change to the country's "primitive raw materials economy" and to policies based on "nostalgic superstitions", even as a recovery based on higher energy and commodity prices gives him room to speak out. - Robert M Cutler
America is listening to Russia's call for new security arrangements in Europe IN THEORY, Russian diplomats accredited to NATO are welcome friends: the reality is murkier. For more than a decade now, Russian officials have been trusted to roam the alliance’s maze-like headquarters in Brussels just like envoys from other “partner countries” such as Sweden, Finland or Malta. In practice,...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Strategic Operations Excercise Centre, 2008 Russia's largest ever post-Cold War military games near the border with Poland, simulating a nuclear attack against its smaller neighbor, has put Warsaw on edge and sent it looking for new security assurances, Anna Dunin writes for ISN Security Watch. By Anna Dunin for ISN Security Watch Joint Russian-Belarusian war...
Barack Obama meets with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Singapore, Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) OBAMA TELLS RUSSIAN LEADER....'US CONSTITUTION DEAD' November 17, 2009 Fourwinds One of the saddest...
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has fired one of his top advisors for abuse of office in one of the biggest changes to his Kremlin administration since taking power, media reported on Thursday. Mikhail Lesin, media advisor to Medvedev, "was relieved of his duties at his own request", the Kremlin said in a statement posted in its website without giving further details. But a source in the...
&$ &$European Commison President Jose Manuel Barroso (L), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (C) and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrick Reinfeldt attend a news conference after a one-day EU-Russia summit in Stockholm, capital of Sweden, Nov. 18, 2009. EU-Russian cooperation in climate and energy fields will be further intensified, the leaders from the EU and Russia said after the summit on Wednesday....
At Iesus audiens ait: "Non est opus valentibus medico sed male habentibus". (Matthew 9:12) EU and Russian leaders met in Stockholm on Wednesday for a summit dominated by energy issues, according to The Swedish Wire . The EU-Russia summit began with informal meetings between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, and the Swedish King, Carl XVI Gustaf,...
As part of Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s trip to Munich, Germany this week, he will be expressing his support of Magna and Sberbank’s takeover of Opel/Vauxhall from GM. A Kremlin aide said that Medvedev will be speaking out in favor of this deal, which seems to be faltering.