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Harper foreign policy: All gesture, no action
Canadian troop deployment in Ukraine is to secure votes for Harper’s Conservatives in next election. …read more Source: AL...
Harper foreign policy: All gesture, no action
Nobody should be surprised that Canada is getting directly involved in Ukraine on the side of Kiev. On Tuesday, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that he was deploying “significant additional military resources to help train and build the capacity of Ukrainian forces personnel”. These will be in the form of...
EU dreams of Iranian gas to break dependence on Moscow
The EU is hoping future gas imports from Iran can break its dependence on Russia as prospects grow for a nuclear deal that would include lifting sanctions on Tehran. The European Union is betting on so-called Southern Corridor pipelines to supply gas to southern Europe via Turkey from fields in Azerbaijan and nearby countries, including Iran....
Putin warns Israel not to sell Ukraine arms in response to Iran arms deal
Israel slams Russia’s sale of advanced missile defense system S-300 to Iran; Russian president warns Israel not to arm Ukraine in retribution: ‘It will be counterproductive.’ …read more Source: Yedioth...
Putin Warns Israel: Do Not Send Arms to Ukraine
Moscow threatens that sending arms to Kiev in retaliation for S-300 missile agreement with Iran will raise the death toll. …read more Source: Arutz...
Putin warns Israel against selling arms to Ukraine
Russian leader said that any Israeli deal with Ukraine would be “counterproductive.” …read more Source: The Jerusalem...
TV: Russia’s Putin says ready to work with United States
Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the state-run Rossiya channel, Putin appeared to soften his anti-American rhetoric after being highly critical. Relations between Moscow and...
Putin ‘Ready to Work with US’
MOSCOW—Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday in a television interview. In his comments to the state-run Rossiya channel, Putin appeared to soften his anti-American rhetoric after being highly critical. Relations between Moscow and...
Opinion: Iran’s first acquisition after the deal
Iran’s first acquisition after signing the draft nuclear deal, amid promises to lift sanctions, were not cars, airplanes, refrigerators, or women’s purses–but rather long-range missiles! Iran was overjoyed after acquiring S300 missiles that the Kremlin has agreed to send this summer. But the Russian statement angered countries in the...
Lenin statues toppled in government-held east Ukraine
Masked men have toppled several statues of the Soviet leader Lenin in eastern Ukraine, authorities said Saturday, in a fresh show of anti-Russian sentiment as Kiev battles pro-Moscow separatists. …read more Source: The Daily...
