BBC NEWS: Moscow And Kiev In Lighthouse Row
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posted by FerrasB on January, 2006 as Imperialism
Saturday, 14 January 2006, 16:43 GMT Moscow and Kiev in lighthouse row By Helen Fawkes BBC News, Kiev Russia has demanded access to a lighthouse in the Crimean city of Yalta which it claims was occupied by Ukrainian officials on Friday. Moscow says the lighthouse, claimed by Kiev as its property, is crucial for the safety of its Black Sea fleet. The two countries struck a deal in 1997 on the division of the Soviet Black Sea fleet and the lease of Ukrainian facilities by the Russian Navy. Kiev officials have suggested charging Russia more rent for Black Sea bases. The latest row comes barely two weeks after Moscow and Kiev resolved a bitter dispute over gas prices after Ukraine was forced to accept higher prices for Russian gas. Simmering row The dispute over the Black Sea fleet appears to be escalating. The Russian navy claims to have foiled an attempt on Saturday to occupy another lighthouse in the Crimea. It comes ... >> full
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Interfax: Black Sea Fleet Ordered To Seek Lighthouse Return
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Jan 14 2006 12:20PM Black Sea Fleet ordered to seek lighthouse return MOSCOW. Jan 14 (Interfax) - Russian Navy Commander Adm. Vladimir Masorin has ordered Black See Fleet Commander Adm. Alexander Tatarinov to take measures to reincorporate the Yalta lighthouse into the fleet's hydrographic service. "The Russian Navy command's position is firm: the Yalta lighthouse must be reincorporated into the Black Sea Fleet's hydrographic service and function properly to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea region," Masorin told Interfax. "I have instructed the Black Sea Fleet commander to seek the lighthouse's return using civilized negotiations and based on the 1997 Russian-Ukrainian founding interstate agreement on the Black Sea Fleet," he said. Navy spokesman Cap. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo told Interfax on Saturday that the Yalta lighthouse belonging to the Black Sea Fleet is still "in the hands of the Ukrainian authorities." The Russian Navy command qualifies these steps "as a seizure of Black Sea ... >> full
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RIA Novosti: Russia Says Ukraine Lighthouse Incident Will Harm Relations
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
RIA Novosti Russia says Ukraine lighthouse incident will harm bilateral relations 13/01/2006 19:33 MOSCOW, January 13 (RIA Novosti) - The seizure by Ukrainian officials of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's lighthouse in Yalta, in Ukraine's Crimea, cannot fail to harm Russian-Ukrainian relations, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday. The incident is "all the more disappointing in the light of the constructive meetings in Astana between the Russian and Ukrainian presidents," ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said. The head of the Yalta lighthouse and two of its workers were prevented from working Friday morning on the grounds that the staff's documents enabling them to enter the port had allegedly expired, Russian officials said. Ukraine has responded to Russia's complaints by saying that it has the right to use the facility, and that talk of a "seizure" constitutes deliberate disinformation on Russia's part. Kamynin said the lighthouse ensured navigation security for both civil and military ships in the Black Sea. "This ... >> full
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MosNews: Europe Has To Accept Russia’s Political Behavior!
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Image by MosNews Image by MosNews Need for Russian Gas Means Europe Has to Accept Russia’s Political Behavior — Experts Created: 08.01.2006 13:34 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:24 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1136805872)); </SCRIPT> , 12 hours 30 minutes ago MosNews Europe needs to draw some lessons from the Russian-Ukrainian gas row, experts say. European countries must learn to live with Russia’s peculiar habits as a political and commercial partner, since there is still no alternative to the Russian gas. “Europe has to recalibrate itself, not to the idea of a growing, democratic Russia, but to a Russia that is behaving according to its sense of its national interests,” New York Times quoted John C. Kornblum, a former American ambassador to Germany who is now a banker in Berlin, as saying. “It is not concerned about winning prizes in the West.” There is plenty of evidence that Russia overplayed its hand and was humiliated when Europe forced it to ... >> full
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Muslim Isaev/IA DAYMOHK: The Imperial Ambitions Of Russia
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
January, 07, 2006 The imperial ambitions of Russia Muslim Isaev, IA DAYMOHK, 07.01.06 Let us allow to the minute that Chechnya did not proclaim independence and did not restore its statehood. Let us gratify the rumor of Russian historians, and let us allow even that it voluntarily became part of Russia not 200 years, as Soviet propaganda loved to say about this, but 400 years back. Now, since to the minute we agreed with the assertions of Kremlin office about the "age-long friendship of peoples", let us be presented the question, why for four hundred and the more years of these "friendly" relations it is possible to recount on the fingers the international marriages between the Russians and the Chechens, and is it possible to hold them by a number with each other by force? We are not any to each other, not any, perhaps that to pair of hundreds of mankurt. They are ... >> full
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