MosNews: Tymoshenko Wants To Cancel Russia-Ukraine Gas Agreement
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posted by FerrasB on March, 2006 as Imperialism
Yulia Tymoshenko / Photo: AP Yulia Tymoshenko / Photo: AP Tymoshenko Wants to Cancel Russia-Ukraine Gas Agreement 27.03.2006 MosNews Yulia Tymoshenko announced on Sunday, March 27, that if she becomes Ukraine’s new Prime Minister, following parliamentary elections, she will do everything she can to reconsider and cancel the gas agreement between Russia’s natural gas monopoly Gazprom and Ukraine’s national gas operator Naftogaz Ukraine. “The abolishment of gas agreement is obvious. The unfairness of this agreement is obvious for Ukraine and for the rest of the world. If my [political] movement joins the government, its abolishment will be logical and will demand only technical implementation,” Tymoshenko said, quoted by RIA Novosti, following the end of voting. As MosNews has reported, Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukraine negotiated conditions of their cooperation in the gas sphere on January 4. Before 2006 Ukraine used to buy Russian gas for $50 per 1,000 cubic meters, but Gazprom wanted to increase the price to ... >> full
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RIA Novosti: Council Of Europe Sets Priority Issues For Russian Presidency
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
RIA Novosti Council of Europe sets priority issues for Russian presidency 27/03/2006 16:34 MOSCOW, March 27 (RIA Novosti) - The Council of Europe's president Monday outlined the issues that Russia will highlight when it holds the rotating presidency of the organization. Russia intends to use its first-ever presidency of the 46-nation Council of Europe to consider issues including alleged secret CIA jails in Europe, the post-election situation in Belarus and Ukraine, and Chechnya, Rene van der Linden told a news conference in Moscow. He said the secret prisons allegedly being run by the CIA across Europe would be in focus at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) session in June. Van der Linden also said that post-election Belarus and Ukraine, as well as the troubled North Caucasus republic of Chechnya, were sensitive issues for both the Council of Europe and Russia, which will hold the presidency of the Council of Europe's Committee ... >> full
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Al-Hayat: Thinking About Military Occupations
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Thinking About Military Occupations Roger Owen Al-Hayat - 14/03/06// One of the most significant features of the contemporary world is the institution of military occupations by powerful industrialized countries over much weaker nations such as Chechnya, Palestine and Iraq. Some of the issues this raises, including the central characteristics of such occupations themselves, was the subject of a recent workshop organized at Harvard by a group of programmes and centres including the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. The use of a comparative perspective greatly facilitated discussion of the structure and processes involved in occupation beginning with how they differ from those imagined by the drafters of the Hague Convention of 1907. As far as the latter were concerned, occupations were supposed to be temporary, and so distinct from acts of annexation or colonialisation, no were they supposed to disturb or restructure what the Convention terms the local 'vie publique'. The Convention also insisted on ... >> full
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AP: Russia’s Putin Reclaiming Dominant Role In Former Soviet Union
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Image by MosNews.com Image by MosNews.com Russia’s Putin Reclaiming Dominant Role in Former Soviet Union 21.03.2006 Henry Meyer Associated Press The Kremlin may be reclaiming a dominant role in its former Soviet backyard. In Belarus, Moscow-allied strongman Alexander Lukashenko just won re-election by a landslide — at least by the official count. And President Vladimir Putin’s allies could return to government in Sunday’s Ukrainian parliamentary election, just over a year after the Orange Revolution. Such developments set back Western hopes of a democratic tidal wave in the former Soviet sphere and could further tarnish Putin’s democratic credentials as he tries to cast himself as a statesman capable of brokering deals with Iran and Hamas. For Putin, however, asserting dominance over Belarus and Ukraine appears to be part of his strategy to re-establish Moscow as a global player during his year of the G-8 presidency. "Russia wants to restore its superpower status, and that includes putting these countries back into its ... >> full
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MosNews: Tymoshenko Wants To Cancel Russia-Ukraine Gas Agreement
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Yulia Tymoshenko / Photo: AP Yulia Tymoshenko / Photo: AP Tymoshenko Wants to Cancel Russia-Ukraine Gas Agreement 27.03.2006 MosNews Yulia Tymoshenko announced on Sunday, March 27, that if she becomes Ukraine’s new Prime Minister, following parliamentary elections, she will do everything she can to reconsider and cancel the gas agreement between Russia’s natural gas monopoly Gazprom and Ukraine’s national gas operator Naftogaz Ukraine. “The abolishment of gas agreement is obvious. The unfairness of this agreement is obvious for Ukraine and for the rest of the world. If my [political] movement joins the government, its abolishment will be logical and will demand only technical implementation,” Tymoshenko said, quoted by RIA Novosti, following the end of voting. As MosNews has reported, Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukraine negotiated conditions of their cooperation in the gas sphere on January 4. Before 2006 Ukraine used to buy Russian gas for $50 per 1,000 cubic meters, but Gazprom wanted to increase the price to ... >> full
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