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Russia through Western-colored glasses RUSSIA UNDER WESTERN EYES From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin...University Press, 514 pp., $35 For centuries, observers of Russia have fallen into two grand camps: those who view the vast...to the West. Observers from the first camp subdivide on Russia's Soviet experiment. Moscow's seven decades of ...
April 26, 1999; The Boston Globe
Russia sees EU talks as ray of hope for economy Russia's president and top business leaders looked Thursday to warming relations with the European Union as a ray of hope for Russia's tottering markets and at-risk economy. Yet critics say...back into Moscow's embrace after a war that soured ties. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev joined Russian and ...
November 13, 2008; AP Online
Berlin's Russia challenge. RUSSIA HAS found an innovative way to ring in the New Year with...with an unwelcome start to Germany's EU presidency. The Russians insisted that they were only moving to world prices and a subsequent meeting in Sochi produced assurances from Russia that it would reduce its dependence on transit countries...
March 1, 2007; The National Interest
Russia reaches out. (foreign policy) RUSSIA'S intervention in Bosnia dramatises a wider shift in its...their weapons came from NATO's ultimatum to bomb them, Russia's involvement sent new signals to the outside world. NATO threatened air strikes; Russia opposed them; there were none. The West was prepared to...
February 26, 1994; The Economist (US)
Russia's Relations with the EU after WTO Accession Russia's accession to the WTO next year will set the stage for...necessary, but not a sufficient condition for engaging Russia into an active dialogue on a broad range of political and...delays in drawing up a new comprehensive framework of EU-Russia cooperation come at a time when the need for a renewed...
December 1, 2006; Aussenwirtschaft
RUSSIA TO SELL INDIA 2 REACTORS DEAL REBUFFS U.S. EFFORTS TO PUNISH NUCLEAR TESTING.(News) Russia has agreed to sell two nuclear power stations to India...punish New Delhi because of its nuclear testing. The head of Russia's Atomic Energy Ministry concluded the deal on Sunday. It is worth $3 billion or more to Russia's cash-starved nuclear energy industry. The sale has became...
June 23, 1998; Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
Russia Suspends CFE Treaty Implementation Russia followed through on its earlier threat to suspend implementation of a treaty limiting...required year-end accounting of its forces. Yet, Moscow did not sever all ties to the pact as Russia continued to participate in the treaty's governing body. Russian President Vladimir Putin last July 14 initiated ...
January 1, 2008; Arms Control Today
Taking on the bear; Charlemagne.(Looking to next week's EU-Russia summit) Russia's awkward position in Europe's jigsaw FOR anyone growing up in western Europe during the cold war, Russians were only marginally more accessible than Martians. A...member of the Politburo. There were no casual contacts with Russians, as the country had walled itself off. Now, however, the...
May 7, 2005; The Economist (US)
Russia seizes Georgia base, opens second front Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday...Saakashvili signed a cease-fire pledge _ appeared to show Russian determination to subdue the small, U.S.-backed country...NATO membership. The latest developments indicate that Russian troops have invaded Georgia proper from the separatist...
August 11, 2008; AP Online
Russia warns West against Georgia support Russia warned the West on Monday against supporting Georgia's...authorities turn Georgia a normal state, he said in an address at Russia's top foreign policy graduate school. Hours later, the...rearmament of Georgia. He said such suspicions were behind Russia's call for an arms embargo. Neither the U.S. ...
September 1, 2008; AP Worldstream
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