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Syria intends to develop relations with Russia - Assad
MOSCOW, December 19 (Itar-Tass) - Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said at talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday that Syria intends to develop relations with Russia, implement agreements in concrete projects, the more so that the Russian role in the world has substantially grown.
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Agents "Spying on Russia with NATO help"
Moscow, Associated Press,December 16, 2006.Russia's security chief said foreign intelligence agents are actively spying on Russia with the help of new NATO members, according to an interview published yesterday.
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Russia to re-equip its new mobile ICBMs with multiple warheads
The Russian Strategic Missile Troops are set to start re-equipping its single-warhead mobile Topol-M (SS-27) intercontinental ballistic missile systems with multiple re-entry vehicles, its commander told press on Friday.
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Lebanese Opposition to Putin: US-Israeli policies putting Lebanon on knife edge of "New Middle East"
The Lebanese National Opposition sent a memo to Russian President Vladimir Putin reminding of the war that ravaged Lebanon and of the suffering of the Lebanese people cause by the Israeli occupation.
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Russian military deploys new intercontinental ballistic missile
Russia's military has commissioned its first unit of new intercontinental ballistic missiles mounted on mobile launchers, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported Sunday.
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South Ossetia accuses Georgia of plotting provocations against Russian peacekeepers
TSKHINVALI. Nov 28 (Interfax) - The security services of the breakaway province of South Ossetia have warned that Georgia's special services are plotting provocative acts against Russian peacekeepers deployed in the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict zone.
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Russia and China create their own orbit
While interacting with a select gathering of "Russia hands" from Western academia, media and think tanks recently, President Vladimir Putin ventured onto the topic of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in terms, as he put it, that would be a "revelation ...
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Russia, U.S. clear way to WTO deal
Moscow and Washington have cleared the way to a deal on Russia's entry to the World Trade Organization and plan to sign it at an economic forum in Vietnam next week, Russia's economics ministry said Friday.
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More War Games: Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) & Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Join Hands
Responding to US threats: First theater-level joint military exercise
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Russia rules the world's arms bazaar
At a time when US-Russia ties are undergoing palpable tensions, the United States dropped behind Russia and France last year in sales of arms to the developing world. The US share dropped from 35.4% to 20.5% between 2004 and 2005. In monetary terms, the value of these deals fell from US$9.
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Israel blames Russian rocket launchers for its setbacks in Lebanon
Hizbullah has, reportedly, already destroyed at least one armor division out of a total of seven that the IDF relies upon. These losses have jeopardized Israel’s blitzkrieg strategy and have lead the latter to limit its ground campaign to the pace of infantrymen.
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Russia Rejects Plans to Expand Chevron-Led Caspian Sea Pipeline — Paper
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Russia’s Energy Ministry has rejected a plan to expand the capacity of a Chevron-led oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea, Kommersant daily reported on Monday, Nov. 13.
The paper said shareholders in the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) had proposed adding $2.5 to the current pipeline transit fee of $27.38 per ton of oil to get Russia’s agreement on a long-awaited expansion of the link.
The consortium wants to almost double capacity from 700,000 barrels per day to 1.3 million barrels per day, but has faced opposition from Russia, which fears the pipeline —- the only private crude oil link on its territory —- could increase tanker traffic at the already congested Bosphorus straits in Turkey.
Russia complains that low transit fees are delaying repayment of $5.3 billion in loans which CPC raised from its private shareholders. That in turn delays the moment when Russia starts receiving its profits as a shareholder.
But raising transit fees could also make the pipeline a less attractive option for oil exporters, which would give Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft a greater say in the growing Caspian export market.
The paper quoted sources close to Russia’s state property agency as saying the Energy Ministry wanted the fee to be raised by nearly 40 percent.
It quoted a letter from Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko to Chevron as saying that Russia was going to stick to its tough position towards the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC).
An Energy Ministry spokesman could not confirm the information. Chevron’s Moscow office said the company had not received the letter officially, although it was aware that it was being prepared.
“Chevron is currently working very actively with all CPC shareholders on agreeing the basis for CPC expansion,” a spokeswoman said, quoted by Reuters. “The work is going well and we expect it to conclude in the near future,” she added.
Analysts say Russia’s tough line on CPC —- the venture has also received back-tax claims —- is part of a broader Kremlin strategy to limit foreign involvement in the strategic energy sector.
Russia has slapped the group with a 4.7 billion ruble ($176.6 million) back-tax claim for 2002-2003 and is currently checking its accounts for 2004-2005.
CPC handles most of the oil exports from Kazakh oil fields to Novorossiisk, Russia’s largest Black Sea port, for re-export to world markets.
Chevron is a 15 percent shareholder in CPC while Russia is a 24 percent shareholder in the consortium. Shareholders also include Kazakhstan and Oman as state shareholders as well as oil companies BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell, Lukoil and Rosneft. |
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