The tag 'Russia' is associated with 28 posts.

FTR #659 Heatin’ It Up for Obama

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ January 18, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Mul­ti­ple and esca­lat­ing crises with which the incom­ing U.S. Pres­i­dent must deal.


FTR Russia-Ukraine gas dispute ripples westward

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ January 4, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

by Megan K. Stack­Los Ange­les Times Fuel deliv­ery to four Euro­pean coun­tries fell below nor­mal Sat­ur­day as Russia’s state gas monop­oly with­held nat­ural gas from neigh­bor­ing Ukraine for the third con­sec­u­tive day. Ukraine warned that its gas pipeline sys­tem could expe­ri­ence “seri­ous dis­rup­tions” if a wors­en­ing price dis­pute isn’t set­tled in 10 to 15 days, threat­en­ing shortfalls [...]


Russia-Ukraine gas dispute ripples westward

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ January 4, 2009 ⋅ One comment

by Megan K. Stack Los Ange­les Times Fuel deliv­ery to four Euro­pean coun­tries fell below nor­mal Sat­ur­day as Russia’s state gas monop­oly with­held nat­ural gas from neigh­bor­ing Ukraine for the third con­sec­u­tive day. Ukraine warned that its gas pipeline sys­tem could expe­ri­ence “seri­ous dis­rup­tions” if a wors­en­ing price dis­pute isn’t set­tled in 10 to 15 days, [...]


US concedes Kremlin’s first military response in Georgia was “legitimate”

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 28, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

DEBKAfile Spe­cial Report The US ambas­sador to Moscow, endors­ing Russia’s ini­tial moves in Geor­gia, described the Kremlin’s first mil­i­tary response as legit­i­mate after Russ­ian troops came under attack. This was the first pos­i­tive state­ment by an Amer­i­can offi­cial about Moscow’s first response to the Geor­gian inva­sion of South Osse­tia, after a string of con­dem­na­tions from [...]


Georgia war is a neocon election ploy

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ August 14, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

by Robert ScheerCre­ators Syn­di­cate, Inc. Is it pos­si­ble that this time the Octo­ber sur­prise was tried in August, and that the garbage issue of brave lit­tle Geor­gia strug­gling for its sur­vival from the grasp of the Russ­ian bear was stoked to influ­ence the U.S. pres­i­den­tial elec­tion? Before you dis­miss that pos­si­bil­ity, con­sider the role of one [...]


FTR #637 Catching Up with Daniel Hopsicker

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 8, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Avi­a­tion and its unreg­u­lated use in CIA drug traf­fick­ing; Saudi 9/11 evac plane used by McCain cam­paign; plane crash killed Venezue­lan exec­u­tive of Smart­matic, par­ent com­pany of Sequoia Vot­ing Sys­tems; links to Hugo Chavez; Guyanese pilot linked to Mohamed Atta and the 9/11 hijackers.


Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 10, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­tory. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the coffers [...]


Putin warns of outside forces that wish to split Russia and take over its natural resources

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ November 4, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

APMOSCOW: Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin said Sun­day that there are peo­ple in the world who wish to split up Rus­sia and take over its vast nat­ural resources, and oth­ers who would like to “rule over all mankind,” a veiled ref­er­ence to the United States. Speak­ing in front of Moscow’s iconic St. Basil’s Cathe­dral on Red Square, [...]


Godfather of the Kremlin

Posted by ftrreading ⋅ November 7, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

The Decline of Rus­sia in the Age of Gang­ster Cap­i­tal­ism, by Paul Klebnikov


FTR #381 Al-Taqwa the Muslim Brotherhood & Chechnya

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 15, 2002 ⋅ One comment

Exam­in­ing the oper­a­tions of the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood in Chech­nya and the United States.


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