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NATO - The Paper Alliance
Paris, France (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008As the dust settles on the conflict in South Ossetia - and as it vanishes progressively from the headlines in the Western press - one thing has become overwhelmingly clear. It is that Georgia will now never join NATO and that the balance of power in the world has therefore shifted radically as a result of this little six-day war. During the conflict, many people in the Russian media ... more Russian official warns NATO transit to Afghanistan at risk 
London (AFP) Aug 26, 2008NATO should not be able to use Russian routes to transit supplies and equipment to Afghanistan because Russia has suspended military co-operation with the Western alliance, the country's ambassador to Kabul argued in an interview published Tuesday. Speaking to The Times from the Afghan capital, Zamir Kabulov said increased tensions between Russia and West over the former's recent assault on ... more Russia To Boost Foreign Military Trade 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008Russia plans to increase foreign weapon sales by 8-10% annually over the next three to four years, the country's defense cooperation service said on Monday. "Military-technical cooperation will see a steady increase in arms sales of 8-10% annually over the next three to four years. This is the potential set out in the defense contracts portfolio, and the industry potential," said Vladimir ... more Russia Says Ready To Supply Syria With Defensive Weapons 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008Russia is ready to supply Syria with defensive weapons, the Russian foreign minister said on Thursday following a meeting between the two countries leaders in Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived in Russia Wednesday on a two-day visit to discuss bilateral relations and regional developments, in particular the situation in the Middle East and Iraq. ... more Outside View: NATO's Russia communique 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 The emergency NATO Council session held in Brussels last week 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 out to be utterly predictable: The bloc's 26 members decided that they would, after all, live with Russia, but they should talk to it in a tactful but tough ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Aug 25, 2008NATO insisted Monday that its ties with Russia hinge on Moscow's compliance with a Georgian peace plan, after Russian President Dmitry Medvedev warned of a possible break in relations. "Our relationship will be judged by the Russian compliance with the peace plan," said Carmen Romero, spokeswoman for the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. "We will continue to assess regularly the status ... more Analysis: EU-Russia crisis intensifies 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 25, 2008 After days of cautious warnings, the European Union over the weekend upped the pressure on Russia to withdraw all its troops from Georgian territory. The French government, currently holder of the rotating EU presidency, over the weekend called for an EU summit in Brussels on Sept. 1 to address the conflict in Georgia -- a sign that Europe is growing increasingly frustrated with Russia ... more Analysis: Shifting Middle East alliances 
Washington (UPI) Aug 25, 2008 Alliances in the Greater Middle East are written in sand, not stone, and as the winds blow and the sands shift, so do alliances. Today the prevailing wind appears to be blowing from Moscow. Russia's aggressive response in Georgia has unleashed what Joshua Landis, co-director of the Center for Middle East Studies and a specialist on Syrian affairs at the University of Oklahoma, calls ... more US-Russia chill threatens NASA space program 
Washington (AFP) Aug 24, 2008The chill left on US-Russian relations by Moscow's military incursion into Georgia could spell problems for future US access to the International Space Station, US experts said. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration will become dependent on flights to the ISS by Russia's Soyuz spacecraft when it retires the shuttle fleet that has long ferried US astronauts into space in 2010. ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 The Georgian-Ossetian war, which began overnight Aug. 8, is being conducted not only with tanks, cannons and aircraft, and not only with diplomacy and information attacks, but in cyberspace as well. Reflecting today's technology, the war instantly spread into cyberspace. Since the war's first day, the leading information and state agency Web sites in Russia and Georgia became the target ... more India Set To Ramp Up Air Force Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 22, 2008 Within the next four months, a first batch of eight Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI multirole fighters will be positioned at India's Tezpur Air Base in the state of Assam, near the border with China, an Indian navy source has revealed. This is almost six months ahead of the timeline reported some time ago in the Indian media. This will be the first time for Su-30MKI fighters to be ... more Russian military cooperation with NATO 'frozen' 
Brussels (AFP) Aug 21, 2008Russia informed NATO Thursday that it is halting military cooperation, an Alliance spokeswoman said, announcing the latest twist in deteriorating relations between Moscow and the West. "We have received the notification from the Russians though military channels and they say that they have decided to halt international military cooperation events between Russia and NATO countries until further ... more No assurances from Moscow on return of Humvees: Pentagon 
Washington (AFP) Aug 21, 2008The United States has received no assurances from Russia that it will return US military vehicles seized in Georgia, a Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. Russian forces seized "a handful" of Humvees, four-wheeled all-purpose military vehicles, in the Black Sea port of Poti, where they were awaiting shipment out of Georgia after an exercise, spokesman Bryan Whitman said. Whitman said the ... more
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