Russia 100203 Basic Political Developments



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Russia 100203

Basic Political Developments


  • Prime-Tass: Feb 3: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to chair government commission meeting for foreign investments

  • Prime-Tass: Feb 5–6: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to take part in Munich Security Conference

  • Prime-Tass: Feb 10: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to take part in summit on Baltic Sea environmental protection in Finland

  • Itar-Tass: RF, Norway FMs to discuss economic partnership issues

  • BarentsObserver: Putin: -Norwegians are very reliable partners

  • Itar-Tass: US says membership of SCO not ruled out in future - .S. is not seeking membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization at the moment but it does not rule out an opportunity of this kind in the future, Robert Blake, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia said Tuesday in an interview with Itar-Tass.

  • RIA: Russia, U.S. lawmakers to coordinate new arms reduction deal - Mikhail Margelov, the chairman of the international affairs committee in Russia's upper house of parliament, expressed hope on the eve of his trip to Washington that the document would be signed in the first quarter of this year, and said the sides planned to discuss various aspects of the ratification process.

  • Itar-Tass: Russia, USA may sign nuclear reductions treaty in first half of 2010 – Margelov

  • Xinhua: START Talks First Stage in Global Disarmament: U.S. Expert - Former Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs in the Clinton administration Thomas Pickering said in an interview with Xinhua that the two countries possess some 6,000 to 7,000 nuclear warheads each, some 95 percent of all nuclear weapons on the planet.

  • The Moscow Times: Obama’s Pro-Russia Policy - The balance that the two countries would strike as they uphold their respective interests is likely to make them partners and not adversaries. That, in turn, would increase Russia’s influence in the world, and in particular, in the former Soviet republics.

  • Barentsobserver: Carl Bildt: - Withdraw tactical nukes from Kola

  • Russia Today: Nuclear arsenal on the EU border will remain – Russia

  • RFE/RL: Russian Activists Protest Import Of French Nuclear Waste

  • Bellona.og: Environmentalists urge Russian parliament to revise controversial bill on radioactive waste management

  • The Moscow Times: Solidarity Will Oppose Nuclear Power Plants

  • Itar-Tass: Chavez praises setting up of Venezuelan-Russian oil JV

  • Interfax: Russia proposes continuing talks on U.S. poultry imports – Onishchenko

  • AP: Chinese, Russian activists nominated for Nobel - Erna Solberg, the head of Norway's Conservative Party, put forth Russian human rights activist Svetlana Gannushkina and her group Memorial. The organization, which is a frequent critic of the Kremlin, says the high-profile murder of Memorial rights activist Natalya Estemirova in July 2009 and the December 2008 raid of its St. Petersburg office by Russian authorities are among the many injustices it's faced because of its dogged activism.

  • Reuters: March 4, 2010: The European Court of Human Rights is due to hear a case brought against Russia by shareholders in collapsed oil firm YUKOS

  • RIA: Russian lawmakers to monitor runoff vote in Ukraine

  • RIA: Moscow-Kiev spy row breaks out ahead of Ukrainian polls - The FSB also expressed "surprise that the SBU decided to make the incident public, as such situations are usually resolved between special services."

  • Saakashvili slams opposition leaders for cosying up to Russia

  • Expertclub.ge: 4th Military Base of the Defense Ministry will be fully deployed in the Tskhinvali separatist region

  • BBC: Putin appears in Georgia's Simpsons-like cartoon show

  • The Georgian Times: Russian Patriarch wants Georgia-Russia churches to improve relations between two states

  • News.az: Russia provides little information about Azerbaijan

  • Panorama.am: New Armenian TV in Russia

  • Businessneweurope: Abkhazia's long road to recovery starts in Moscow - Russia was quick to recognize the breakaway subtropical territory, whose lush coastline and warm climate once made it the "Soviet Riviera", after the end of the war in August 2008. Only Nicaragua, Venezuela and the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru have followed in recognizing Abkhazia as a separate state from Georgia.
    Washington Post: Critics say proposed sale of French Mistral ship to Russia will harm region

  • Interfax: Russian Church to appoint 400 priests as military chaplains

  • RIA: Russia sends space freighter to International Space Station

  • Reuters: Cargo ship carries supplies to space station

  • AFP: Russian space cargo vessel heads for ISS

  • Times of india: Kremlin think-tank proposes radical Russia changes: Report

  • RIA: Russian presidential think tank to present liberal vision of future - The Institute of Contemporary Development (INSOR), whose board of trustees is chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev, will outline in the report its vision of 21st century Russia, Vedomosti said. A number of its proposals go against certain key elements of a similar plan approved by the dominant United Russia party, led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

  • Interfax: Parliament of St. Petersburg has no right to withdraw Mironov of the Federation Council - the leader of the faction "United Russia"

  • Itar-Tass: United Russia threatens to oust FC speaker for anti-Putin remarks

  • Apa.az: Sergei Mironov denies his removal from speaker’s post

  • Itar-Tass: No one hurt in grenade launcher shooting at Nazran railroad station

  • RIA: Railway station in south Russia comes under fire, no casualties

  • RFE/RL: Kadyrov's Libel Case Against Paper Opens

  • Straits Times: 7 businessmen slain in Siberia

  • Interfax: Seven dead businessmen found in car in Buryatia

  • Pravda: Russia to Adopt International Time Zone System - According to the proposal of the State Duma presidential legislation, on the last Sunday of March, the clocks may be set back one hour, and not forward, as it used to be in the last 29 years.

  • The Jamestown Foundation: Vietnam is Russia’s Biggest Arms Customer

  • The Faster Times: Russian Arms Exports: Camouflage for an ailing Defense Industry?

  • Russia's UAC delivers 14 commercial aircraft in 2009

  • Reuters: Finmeccanica, Russia refers to first deliveries sem2 2010 Superjet

  • Telegraph: 'Serious questions' over Alexander Lebedev's ambitions, says MP John Whittingdale - Alexander Lebedev, the Russian billionaire, still has "serious questions" to answer about why and how he is trying to buy the Independent newspapers, according to the chairman of the culture, media and sport select committee.

  • The FirstPost: Lebedev ropes in Egyptian tycoon to help buy Indy

  • Russia Profile: The Russians Are Buying - Despite the Crisis, Russians Still Show Huge Interest in Buying Property Abroad

  • Russia Profile: Policing the Peace - Is the Authorities’ Approach to Crowd Control Completely Irrational?

  • RIA: Saving Russia's cedar forests 'key to Amur tiger conservation'

  • Barentsnova: Teriberka gets 50% budget raise - Governor of the Murmansk region increased the municipal budget of Teriberka by 50%. The idea behind the regional authorities is that the financial support is done regardless of political views.

  • RIA: What the Russian papers say

    • Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Conflicting threat assessments hinder Russian-U.S. missile defense cooperation

    • Gazeta.ru: Protests in Moscow, Kaliningrad make authorities listen

    • Kommersant, Vedomosti: Russian oil companies join a risky venture across the globe

    • Kommersant: Gazprom posts first profit from Sakhalin-2 project


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