Russia emerges as unlikely energy safe haven
AFP – Turning the page on former disappointments, the world’s energy giants are flocking to Russia, whose vast resource riches look even more tempting at a time of turbulence in the Middle East. In...
View ArticleVladimir Putin offers to relocate 100 Million Japanese
Vladimir Putin has offered up a plan to relocate 100 Million Japanese to Russia’s far east in advent of a worst case nuclear scenario. In the advent that central Japan would become a uninhabitable...
View ArticleIn Rare Split, Two Leaders in Russia Differ on Libya
www.nytimes.com MOSCOW — The conflict in Libya caused an unusual rift on Monday between Russia’s two leaders, Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin and his protégé, President Dmitri A. Medvedev, who...
View ArticleConcern about mission creep grows as more bombs fall on Libya
theglobeandmail.com Barely 48 hours into the Libyan war, the American general running the air strikes came under fire about mission creep even while insisting that allied warplanes won’t hunt Moammar...
View ArticleChina-Russia relations and the United States: At a turning point?
rian By Dr. Richard Weitz Since the end of the Cold War, the improved political and economic relationship between Beijing and Moscow has affected a range of international security issues. China and...
View ArticlePutin Delivers Big, Mocking Speech Of US Debt, Trade Balance, And Out Of...
businessinsider Russian Prime minister Vladimir Putin has called U.S. monetary policy “hooliganism” in a speech before his country’s parliament. Putin also criticized the U.S. debt situation, and said...
View ArticleVladimir Putin Calls Bernanke A Hooligan, Angry At American Money Printing
zerohedge Who would have thought that Ron Paul’s ideological ally in his quest to take down the Chairsatan would be none other than the Russian dictator-in-waiting (or rather, in actuality), Vladimir...
View ArticleVladimir Putin: U.S. global economy ‘parasite’
rian The U.S. spends beyond its means and “lives like a parasite off the global economy,” Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday, 1 August 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama said earlier...
View ArticlePutin: Russia Must Re-Arm Because of United States Aggression
economicpolicyjournal That’s the only way to interpret a new article by Vladimir Putin in the new issue of Foreign Policy. He writes: We will, under no circumstances, surrender our strategic deterrent...
View ArticleWhy is Putin stockpiling gold?
Russia is bulking up its gold reserve By Brett Arends I can’t imagine it means anything cheerful that Vladimir Putin, the Russian czar, is stockpiling gold as fast as he can get his hands on it....
View ArticlePutin stockpiles gold as Russia prepares for economic war
telegraph Russia has taken advantage of lower gold prices to pack the vaults of its central bank with bullion as it prepares for the possibility of a long, drawn-out economic war with the West. The...
View ArticleThe Assassination of Boris Nemtsov: More a Shock Than a Surprise
theatlantic.com People gather at the site where Boris Nemtsov was recently murdered, with St. Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin walls in the background, in central Moscow. (Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters)...
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