Posts Tagged ‘European Union’
Posted on June 15, 2009 - by Venik
Dispute Over Dairy Products Strains Russia-Belarus Ties (New York Times)
Dispute Over Dairy Products Strains Russia-Belarus Ties Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints By ELLEN BARRY Published: June 14, 2009 MOSCOW — Furious over a Russian ban on imported Belarussian milk products, the president of Belarus on Sunday boycotted a planned summit meeting of post-Soviet states whose centerpiece was the start of a joint military [...]
Posted on September 4, 2008 - by Venik
Ukraine’s Political Turmoil
The constitutional crisis in Ukraine is a direct result of the threats made by the US and the EU against Russia’s WTO membership bid. In case Ukraine’s political life is not at the top of your list of interests, here is a very brief summary of events from the past week of Ukraine’s turbulent political [...]
Posted on September 1, 2008 - by Venik
The EU Gets the Pipe
As expected, the EU resolution on Russia was all gasconade and bravado. Russia’s unspoken threat to restrict energy supplies to the European Union did the trick. Gordon Brown found out that a “root-and-branch” review of relations with Russia may be difficult when you are covered head to toe in Russian oil. Today Russia is supplying [...]
Posted on August 31, 2008 - by Venik
Operation Coverass
On Monday the EU is expected to announce countermeasures to Russia’s recognition of independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Russian diplomatic sources hinted that any practical economic sanctions against Russia may lead to reduced oil supplies to the European Union. And so the question is: does the Brussels have the balls to take on Moscow [...]
Posted on August 14, 2008 - by Venik
Russians in Georgia: Goals and Consequences
The Christian Science Monitor – of all newspapers – published perhaps the most relevant and concise description of what Moscow has achieved so far with its blitzkrieg response to Georgia’s sneak-attack on South Ossetia. “If the Russians stop hostilities now, they will have redrawn the whole strategic situation in the Caucasus, to the detriment of [...]
Posted on August 12, 2008 - by Venik
Georgia’s Blunder
Saakashvili’s hysterical propaganda aside, it is now evident that Russia’s operation in Georgia was strictly limited to defending the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia against Georgian aggression. Consider the facts: Russia deployed just 6,000 troops in South Ossetia and 9,000 troops in Abkhazia (and even these modest numbers are probably overstated by the [...]
Posted on July 22, 2008 - by Venik
Tadic Selling Out… Again
Serbia’s pro-NATO puppet government of Boris Tadic arrested Radovan Karadžić, the leader of Republika Srpska and a Bosnian Serb national hero who in the early 1990s led popular resistance to NATO-backed Muslim extremists in Yugoslavia. In 1992-1996 Karadžić led the heroic defense of Sarajevo against Muslim fundamentalists. The city’s Serbian defenders were finally forced to [...]
