Canadian Press: Bulgaria Calls Attempts To Review Gas Contract 'Unacceptable
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posted by FerrasB on January, 2006 as Imperialism
Bulgaria calls attempts by Gazprom to review gas contract 'unacceptable' Mon Jan 9 18:03:00 PST 2006 SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - Bulgaria's national gas provider said Friday that a request by Russia's state-controlled gas monopoly OAO Gazprom to renegotiate its gas contract was "unacceptable." The head of Bulgaria's state-owned gas provider Bulgargaz, Valentin Ivanov, wrote in an official letter to Gazprom that there is no option in the contract for its review or cancellation before the end of its term in 2010. "The existing contracts for delivery and transit of Russian gas are signed after the transitions of the economies in both countries toward a market economy and are based on the principles of the (free) market," state news agency BTA quoted the letter as reading. On Thursday, Economy and Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov also rejected Gazprom's offer as "unacceptable." "We see no reasons and no conditions that could lead to a review," the minister said. Gazprom, which ... >> full
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Interfax: West Should Not Be Scared Of Russian Spies!!!
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Image by MosNews.com Image by MosNews.com West Should Not Be Scared of Russian Spies Created: 21.12.2005 13:37 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 13:37 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1135161479)); </SCRIPT> Interfax In the run-up to the 85th anniversary of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, marked on Dec. 20, its director Sergei Lebedev told Interfax about the service’s top priorities and threats to Russia’s security. Lebedev refuted Western media reports that his service’s activities in the United States and the EU, including its recently admitted members, have reached Cold War levels. “This is not so. In comparison with that period, the Russian intelligence service has curtailed its presence abroad and drastically reorganized its functioning,” he said. Lebedev said those media reports were probably paid for by those who do not want relations with Russia to continue to develop. “To my regret, it has become a rule to scare ordinary citizens abroad with Russian spies, who have allegedly made inroads into all of the agencies. ... >> full
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MosNews: Europe Has To Accept Russia’s Political Behavior!
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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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Civil Georgia: Russian Senior Peacekeeper Released After Paying Fine
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posted by FerrasB on as Imperialism
Russian Senior Peacekeeper Released After Paying Fine
Civil Georgia, Tbilisi / 2006-01-09 17:59:26
Col. Aleksandr Kazantsev, commander of the Gali district headquarters of the Russian peacekeeping troops in the Abkhaz conflict zone was released after paying fine on January 9.
Russian officer was taken to the police station in Zugdidi, town in Samegrelo region at the administrative border with breakaway Abkhazia, after Georgian police stopped his vehicle, which had two different number plates on its front and back.
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CNN NEWS: Russia-Ukraine 'Gas War' Escalates
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Russia-Ukraine 'gas war' escalates Russia accuses Ukraine of diverting gas intended for Europe language=JavaScript type=text/javascript> </SCRIPT> Monday, January 2, 2006; Posted: 12:07 p.m. EST (17:07 GMT) language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>var clickExpire = "-1";</SCRIPT> story.yushchenkosun.ap.jpg Yushchenko, right, talks at a meeting on the gas crisis in Ukraine's capital Kiev on Sunday. MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- A move by Russia's state-owned natural gas monopoly Gazprom to suspend supplies to Ukraine has sparked a war of words between the two countries and disrupted gas flows to other parts of Europe. Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has called the supply cut -- prompted by a pricing dispute -- "unacceptable" and the Foreign Ministry said it amounted to economic "blackmail." Russia has responded by accusing Ukraine of diverting about 100 million cubic meters of gas -- valued at $25 million -- intended for European customers, the Interfax news agency reported. Gazprom said Monday it would increase the amount of gas being shipped to European customers through Ukraine ... >> full
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