Conflicts / Tags / Russia

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Putin vows 'arms race' response

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri Feb 8, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform
BBC News -- Russia's President Vladimir Putin says the world is engaged in a new arms race and Nato is failing to accommodate Russia's concerns. In an address to parliament, Mr Putin condemned Nato's expansion and the US plan to include Poland and the Czech Republ.. Read More
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Russia warns against military action in Iran

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Sep 18, 2007 @ 11:24am neoform
Guardian Unlimited -- Russia today joined the chorus of concern at the possibility of war in Iran while conflicts continued in Iraq and Afghanistan. At a news briefing in Moscow, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said: "We are worried by reports that there is ser.. Read More
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Jets intercept Russian bombers

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 6, 2007 @ 3:39pm neoform
Al Jazeera -- Russia's defence ministry published a statement on Thursday which said 14 Russian strategic bombers had started routine patrol operations on Wednesday evening over the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Arctic. "The planes flew only over neutral water and did.. Read More
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US to ignore Russia missile fears

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue May 15, 2007 @ 4:50pm neoform
BBC News -- The US will not allow Russia to stop it from deploying anti-missile defences in Europe, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said in Moscow. "I don't think anyone expects the United States to permit a veto on American security interests," she sai.. Read More
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Americans believed poisoned in Moscow

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 8:25am neoform
CNN -- Two American women have been released from a Moscow clinic after they were hospitalized with possible thallium poisoning, a hospital official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Marina Kovalevsky, 42, and her daughter Yana, 26.. Read More
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Russia Could Go Ballistic on American Missile Defense

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sat Feb 24, 2007 @ 2:21pm neoform
Alter Net -- We’re all in trouble if Russia follows up on its threat to withdraw from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in reaction to America's attempt to construct missile defense bases in Eastern Europe. In October 1986 what was supposed to be merely a pr.. Read More
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Russia warns U.S. on Iran moves

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Feb 22, 2007 @ 10:36pm neoform
United Press International -- Russia's foreign minister Wednesday warned the United States not to take military action against Iran. "The Russian foreign minister said Wednesday U.S.-led multinational foreign forces in Iraq must not conduct military operations outside the country,.. Read More
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Gates dismisses Putin remarks as blunt spy talk

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Feb 11, 2007 @ 11:42am neoform
Yahoo News -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Sunday dismissed an attack on U.S. foreign policy by Russian President Vladimir Putin as the blunt talk of an old spy and said it was vital to keep working with Moscow. In a speech which one U.S. senator said smacked.. Read More
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Why are Vladimir Putin’s opponents dying?

CONFLICTS / OPINION Sat Feb 3, 2007 @ 2:53pm neoform
New Yorker -- Saturday, October 7th, was a marathon of disheartening tasks for Anna Politkovskaya. Two weeks earlier, her father, a retired diplomat, had died of a heart attack as he emerged from the Moscow Metro while on his way to visit Politkovskaya’s mother, Rais.. Read More
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China, Russia attack US shield plan

CONFLICTS / NEWS Fri May 23, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform
BBC News -- Russia and China have condemned a US plan for a missile defence shield, saying it will set back international disarmament efforts. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed the joint statement with Chinese President Hu Jintao while in Beijing on his fir.. Read More
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Georgia-Russia tensions ramped up

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Apr 30, 2008 @ 8:25am neoform
BBC News -- Russia has warned it will retaliate if Georgia uses force against its breakaway regions. Moscow has accused Georgia of preparing to invade Abkhazia, and says it is boosting Russian forces there and in the South Ossetia region. Georgia has reacted an.. Read More
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Russia warns US over Kosovo move

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Feb 19, 2008 @ 8:28am neoform
BBC News -- Russia has warned the US that Kosovo's declaration of independence from Serbia endangers international stability. Moscow said the comments were made by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Condo.. Read More
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Russia warned over 'intimidation'

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform
BBC News -- Foreign Secretary David Miliband has warned Russia that "intimidation" of British Council officials is "completely unacceptable". The council is "deeply concerned" about its staff's safety after its employees were interviewed by security services and a.. Read More
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Physicists challenge U.S. missile claims

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu Sep 27, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform
USA Today -- A number of top U.S-based physicists have concluded that the Bush administration used inaccurate claims to reassure NATO allies about U.S. missile defense plans in Eastern Europe. They say the planned Polish-based interceptors and a radar system in the.. Read More
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Georgia in Russian attack claim

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform
BBC News -- Russia has committed an "act of aggression" against Georgia by firing a guided missile at its territory, officials in Tbilisi say. They say the missile landed outside the village of Tsitelubani on Monday, some 60km (37 miles) north-west of the capital.. Read More
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Georgia: Russia dropped bomb on village

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Aug 7, 2007 @ 1:00am neoform
CNN -- The former Soviet republic of Georgia said on Tuesday that two Russian fighter jets had overflown its territory and dropped a 700 kilo bomb but this had not exploded. Shota Utiashvili, the head of Georgia's interior ministry's public relations departme.. Read More
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Russia issues new missile threat

CONFLICTS / NEWS Wed Jul 4, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform
BBC News -- Russia has raised the idea of basing new missile forces in Kaliningrad, close to Poland and Lithuania. Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov linked the possible move to US plans to locate parts of a new missile defence system in Poland and the Czech Republic... Read More
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Russia presses Nato over shield

CONFLICTS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform
BBC News -- Russia has urged Nato to avoid any steps that could undermine Russia's security, at the start of discussions on several thorny issues in Moscow. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said issues such as missile defence and the Conventional Forces in E.. Read More
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Report: Russia Backs U.S. Plan to Transfer N. Korean Funds

CONFLICTS / NEWS Sun Jun 10, 2007 @ 10:10am neoform
FOX News -- Russia has accepted a U.S. request that a Russian bank help end a stalemate over frozen North Korean funds that has halted progress in the North's nuclear disarmament, a news report said Sunday. Moscow agreed to a U.S. request that a Russian bank accep.. Read More
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Estonia hit by 'cyber attacks'

CONFLICTS / NEWS Thu May 17, 2007 @ 9:23am neoform
BBC News -- Estonia says the country's websites have been under heavy attack for the past three weeks, blaming Russia for playing a part in the cyber warfare. Many of the attacks have come from Russia and are being hosted by Russian state computer servers, Tallinn.. Read More
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