South Korea returns the Varyag`s flag to Russia
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Nov 11, 2010 09:29 Moscow Time
South Korea has handed over the flag of the legendary Varyag cruiser to Russia during a ceremony at the Russian embassy in Seoul on Thursday morning.
The ceremony was attended by the Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, who described the event as ‘historical’ and marking a fresh start in bilateral relations.
The flag has been kept in the South Korean town of Incheon for over 100 years. It was near that sea port that the Russian cruiser entered a battle with a squadron of Japanese ships in 1904.
Varyag cruiser flag transfer symbol of RF-SKorea good relations
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11.11.2010, 10.03
SEOUL, November 11 (Itar-Tass) - The ceremony of handover to the Russian side of the jack-flag (naval ensign) of the legendary cruiser Varyag (Varangian) was held in the RF embassy in Seoul in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The authorities of the South Korean city of Incheon handed over the flag to the Russian side.
The Russian head of state said that it is a significant event both in Russian history and history of Russian-Korean relations.
“The transfer of the jack from the Varyag cruiser is of special symbolic importance for us, because it is the memory of the unprecedented feat of navy men of the Varyag cruiser, on the one hand, and on the other – it is a symbol of new very good relations that bind Russia and the Republic Korea,” said Medvedev.
He expressed gratitude to the Mayor of Incheon for the decision, noting that the fact that it happens during the visit of the Russian president makes the transfer of the flag especially symbolic.
“Accepting today the jack from the Varyag cruiser we pay tribute to the heroism of our sailors and, on the other hand, try to show that there is a place of heroism in every life, and we hope that the appropriate deposit, which will be with us, will allow young generations of Russians to also be oriented towards what has been done by their ancestors many years ago,” Medvedev said.
SKorea HHI to build electrical eqt plant near Vladivostok
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11.11.2010, 08.13
VLADIVOSTOK, November 11 (Itar-Tass) - The South Korean Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) Company will build a plant for the manufacture of electrical engineering equipment near Vladivostok.
A document to this effect has been signed in Seoul by Sergei Darkin, Governor of the Primorsky (maritime) Territory (PT), Oleg Budargin, Chairman of the Board of the OAO FSK UES Federal power network company, and HHI CEO Keo Sik-ming, an official at the press center of the PT administration told Itar-Tass on Thursday.
Eighteen months are assigned for the implementation of the project. The plant will be turning out factory-assembled switch gear of the 500-kilovolt class at the first stage and transformers subsequently. The HHI will act as the main investor.
APEC not to take new protectionist measures until the end of 2013
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11.11.2010, 09.12
YOKOHAMA, November 11 (Itar-Tass) - The ministerial meeting of the leading Pacific Rim countries, including Russia, declared Thursday in favour of avoiding fresh protectionist measures to uphold their economies until the end of 2013, said a joint statement adopted by the Foreign and Economics ministers of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum at the meeting that came to a close here earlier in the day.
The statement said the Ministers had agreed to recommend the leaders of Pacific Rim countries to extend until the end of 2013 the suspension of measures aimed at putting new barriers in the cause of investments and trade in goods and services, as well as at imposing new export restrictions or taking other measures incompatible with the rules of the World Trade Organization, in all fields, including the stimulation of export.
The Ministers also declared in favour of pushing ahead with measures aimed at establishing a Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific. APEC comprises 21 Pacific Rim countries and territories, among them Russia, the United States, China, Japan, Australia, Mexico, and Southeast Asian nations.
Aust signs off on Russia nuclear deal
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18:26 AEST Thu Nov 11 2010
Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev have signed off on an agreement to resume uranium sales to Russia.
Ms Gillard and Mr Medvedev met on the sidelines of the G20 leaders meeting in Seoul on Thursday and exchanged an agreement on co-operation in the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
The deal will mean Australian miners will be able to supply uranium to Russia for use in the civil nuclear power industry.
It updates a 1990 deal that enabled Australia to sell uranium to be processed in Russia on behalf of third countries.
NOVEMBER 11, 2010, 3:16 A.M. ET
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101111-704362.html
SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Thursday the country has entered an agreement to supply uranium to Russia's power industry.
Gillard and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev witnessed the official agreement in Seoul, where they are attending the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations summit.
"The agreement allows for the supply of Australian uranium to Russia for use in its civil nuclear power industry, updating the existing nuclear agreement between our countries. That agreement, concluded in 1990, permitted Australian uranium to be processed in Russia on behalf of third countries but did not allow it to be used for power generation within Russia," Gillard said in a statement.
"This brings Australia's bilateral nuclear relationship with Russia into line with the agreements we have in place with other countries, including the U.S., China, Japan and the Republic of Korea."
-By Graham Morgan, Dow Jones Newswires; 61-2-8272-4682; graham.morgan@dowjones.com
Cameron to visit Russia next year as sign of thaw
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Today at 08:46 | Reuters
SEOUL, Nov 11 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday he would visit Russia next year, signalling an improvement in ties after a freeze caused by the murder of a Kremlin critic in London in 2006.
"I'm very pleased to take up the invitation of a visit to Russia next year," Cameron told reporters after a meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the G20 summit in South Korea.
Diplomatic ties between the two countries fell to a post-Cold War low after Moscow refused to extradite the man Britain wants to put on trial for the 2006 murder of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko using the highly toxic polonium-210 isotope.
The killing was not mentioned by Medvedev and Cameron who said they focused on G20, North Korea, Iran, the upcoming NATO summit and economic cooperation.
"It has been a very positive meeting. I think we will have many more like this as we see a strengthening of the British-Russian relationship which I am keen to see," Cameron said in a statement.
Cameron took office in May at the head of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government. His Foreign Secretary William Hague visited Moscow last month as part of efforts to rebuild relations and met Medvedev.
"We have recently managed to advance on a number of issues, cooperating very closely," Medvedev said.
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Russia, UK's positions 'similar in many respects,' Medvedev says
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RBC, 11.11.2010, Seoul 10:51:05.Russia and the UK are "ready for cooperation, and our positions are similar in many respects," Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stated today after a meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron. The Russian leader indicated that the two countries had been actively and efficiently cooperating on all unresolved issues, and Moscow and London had made significant progress in bilateral relations in 2010. "We agreed to continue shifting towards the expansion of high-level contacts," Medvedev said. He also noted, "Russian companies are happy to float shares on the London Stock Exchange, and this trend should certainly be encouraged."
According to Medvedev, he and Cameron discussed international security, specifically Iran's nuclear program, and agreed to "coordinate efforts." The president also announced that he invited Cameron to visit Russia in 2011. The British PM, in turn, expressed hope that he would able to make the trip.
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