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“Yushchenko – Tymoshenko: A family affair”

by Piotr Simonenko

19 October 2005
Berezovski said he had contributed 15 million dollars to aid Yushchenko’s electoral campaign. If this is confirmed in London to be true, the electoral commission should declare the results of Yushchenko’s election null and void. The Ukrainian law officially forbids any funding coming from abroad. A puppet president in our country is completely out of the question.
Berezovski dedicates his time to make up transnational clans. His interests like those of Tymoshenko’s and businessman Igor (...)

“The UN is the guinea pig of the U.S.”

by Nikolaï Zlobin

23 September 2005
I do not expect that the meeting between Bush and Putin in Washington brings about changes. They are not obliged to make decisions. If we follow up on the meeting, we would realize that they are addressing the same issues analysed when the USSR still existed: security (now transformed in the war against terrorism), nuclear weapons, and the possibilities of discussions on energy matters. During the Cold War period, relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were the axis for (...)

“Revolution 9/11”

by Semen Novoprudsky

19 September 2005
It can be said that the world has entered the fifth year of the new era that began with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States. More terrible events happened before and after September 11 but that date is definitely a turning point in the history of mankind. For the first time in the history of civilization, all the bases that support the social existence of humanity were instantly erased in a barbaric act. First, it was a masterstroke against the notion of State (...)

“Ukraine and Russia should overcome their mutual recriminations”

by Evgueni Chervonenko

25 June 2005
I would like to see Ukraine and Russia with a common position in the Conference of Transportation Ministers of the European Union. In the framework of the rebirth of the silk route and the transportation of products from the Far East to the Union, passing through Ukraine, it is indispensable to harmonize the traffic tariffs. Sea transport from Vladivostok to Budapest takes 40 days while it takes only 14 by train. Ukraine and Russia can make billions. The Caucasus-Crimea link has been (...)

“SINOPEC Waits for the Pipeline of the East”

by Mu Shuling

21 June 2005
We intend to establish an association with Gazprom and Rosneft and we signed a mutual memorandum of understanding regarding the common exploitation of four oilfields located in Russia and China. Over the last six years we have received deliveries from Yukos and, in the last two years, from Lukoil. Transportation difficulties have significantly affected this source of supply and we hope the Russian and Chinese governments can soon solve the issue of the construction of the pipeline between (...)

“France’s Decision Is Bad for Russia"

by Olga Butorina

13 June 2005
France’s decision is bad for Russia, because if had accepted the Constitution, the number of negotiators with which Russia would have to deal with would have been reduced to the minimum. The European Union would have had a unified and consolidated policy about a great number of internal and external matters. To come to an agreement with the European Union, our minister of foreign relations would have been able to dial a single telephone number and meet with a single person: the person (...)

“Some Say that the ‘No’ Result of the Referendum in France is Positive for Russia”

by Nadejda Arbatova

13 June 2005
Some say that the ‘no’ result of the referendum in France is positive for Russia, since they consider that while continued disagreement exists within the heart of Europe, Moscow’s margin of maneuver is greater. I don’t agree with that. A strong European Union has strategic interest for us, and to fulfill those interests, it is necessary to have a constitution. This it is based on Russian principles that are advantageous. In our country, for example, the principle of protecting national (...)

“The Middle East Is Becoming Burdensome in its Relations With the United Status”

by Hassan bin Talal

9 June 2005
Although it might seem paradoxical, I am a prince who is in favor of strengthening civil society. I do not believe in paternalistic relations. All societies go through that phase, which is no more than a stage of their development. I believe in progress, in the revolution of understanding; but it is not indispensable to change the structure of the state. A democratic state can be constructed with the aid of government, and I am not speaking of a lay government, because conservatives would (...)

“I had to defend Russia’s honor before the court of The Hague”

by General Leonid Ivashov

19 May 2005
I had to testify during 10 hours in the case of Milosevic. I still have to defend the former head of the General Staff of the Yugoslavian armies, General Dragoljub Oidanic. I was shocked by the record of my hearing; it was full of mistakes, omissions and incomplete phrases. With the military language and the simultaneous translation, there is almost nothing left (of my statement); I should have spoken in a more methodic way. However, I am satisfied with the video of my declaration. Using (...)

"Israel turns into a Bolshevik country"

by Abraham Shmulevitch

19 May 2005
The Temple Mount is the heart of the Jewish people. As the old wise men used to say, he who controls the Temple Mount, controls Jerusalem; he who controls Jerusalem, controls Israel. The creation of the world began there; Adam was created there and it was there where Abraham prepared the sacrifice of Isaac. Until the Third Temple is built, there will not be harmony in this site where the earth and the sky come together. Any Israeli Prime Minister may turn into the Messiah if he builds the (...)

«The guarantees with respect to the nuclear arsenal must be tangible »

by Graham Allison

10 May 2005
It is not the first time that the United States and Russia organize reciprocal visits of experts in relation to their nuclear arsenals. The purpose is to strengthen mutual trust and to exchange opinions about the methods to preserve these weapons. For example, Russian experts visited a base in Texas where US weapons are destroyed. They studied the place, consulted with specialists and made recommendations. It is not about Washington or Moscow controlling the other’s arsenal.
Nothing has (...)

"Israel only is authorized to provide helicopters to Palestine"

by Taïeb Abdel-Rahim

9 May 2005
The US television network CNN described as “formal” the role of Russia in the heart of the Quartet of negotiations. If that is the case, I don’t see why the United States would be part of it. When the United States speak about implementing the “road map”, they repeat that this plan has to be carried out by the Quartet for whose direction James D. Wolfensohn has just been appointed. The name of Quartet clearly expresses that the solution of the conflict has to be found by its four members: (...)

"Underground Extremist Jewish Movements are not a Myth"

by Ilan Zohar

9 May 2005
Although their actions are not that significant as those of Hamas or the "Islamic Jihad", the existence extremist organizations in Israel is not a myth and the danger they pose should not underestimated, further more when reports tell of cases of not motivated shootings by radical Jews against Palestinians. The Mount of the Temple is the apple of discord between Jews and Muslems. Our agency has infiltrated all renown extremist groups and any attempt is such a place is almost out of the (...)

“Just Once Was Enough To Get a Medal”

by Anatoly Khiupenen

8 May 2005
The Russian involvement in the war of Viet Nam is exaggerated. There was only a total of 6 000 Soviet military specialists there. Thirteen died there, out of which 3 or 4 died in combat. At the beginning, soldiers of two antiaircraft missile-launcher battalions departed to train the Vietnamese on how to use the C-75. Our men fought at least at the beginning. The pilots only delivered lessons. As of 1966, the Soviet specialists were only in charge of the material.
We went there (...)

“The Vietnamese Made Sure We Did Not Take Control”

by Evgueni Antonov

8 May 2005
At the beginning of the war, complete units of «Zenith» missile-launchers departed from the USSR to Viet Nam. The 2nd Briansk battalion, for example, left with all its members. There we tested the new material, improved it to escape from the missiles and learned how to shoot against small targets. We only used surface-to-air C-75 launching devises, because the first C-125 appeared in Egypt. The Vietnamese wanted the C-125, but that implied that the material had to go through China and we (...)

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