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082102
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IN NOVEMBER 2007, the State Duma and the Federation Council voted for a bill suspending the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). The measure, proposed by Russian President V. V. Putin "in connection with exceptional circumstances, affecting the security of the Russian Federation and requiring urgent measures," was unanimously supported by all MPs. ... Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed his satisfaction with such unanimity and compared Russia's temporary withdrawal from the CFE Treaty with the renunciation of "the discriminatory provisions of the Treaty of Paris, which was imposed on the country as a result of the Crimean War," in 1870
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082101
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THOSE WHO SAY that 9/11 changed the world are not quite right. The world had changed before that, it is changing in front of our eyes, and it will go on changing. The 9/11 events were caused by a lack of response to the changes and the enemy was not born on that day - it just showed its true height and we are all, to varying degrees, are responsible for this. Indeed, by September 2001 we had seen Algeria, Chechnya, the Balkans, and Afghanistan. For ten years the world community had been getting signals about new, still unknown, developments
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082107
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IN THE EARLY 1970S, Moscow's relations with the United States and Western Europe were developing successfully amidst a policy of dfitente, followed by both parties to the Cold War conflict. But in the Far East, the situation was far from favorable for the USSR, posing a threat of destabilization, which could wipe out all the successes achieved in its relations with the West. The relationship between the United States and China was given a boost by US President Richard Nixon's visit to Beijing in February 1972. ...
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082105
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ONE WANTS TO KNOW how did mutual intolerance of the ruling circles and so-called public opinion of Russia and the United States begin? When and how did rivalry and even enmity of two countries replace their fairly close relations of the past? ... Who is to Blame? ... IT IS COMMONLY BELIEVED that Winston Churchill (an Anglo-Sax but not an American at all) started the cold period of world rivalry in Fulton. His speech, however, did not mean that what had begun as a "cold period" would develop into 40-year-long confrontation between two nuclear powers
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082103
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NICOLAS SARKOZY who won the presidential elections in France on 22 April and 6 May 2007 and the victory of its right-wing UMP party at the National Assembly elections opened a new page in the Fifth Republic's domestic and foreign policies. ... The change of leaders in the Elyse? Palace perfectly fitted the already going process of generation change in the EU leaders - Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, and Poland. Once on the world's political scene the postwar generation that plunged into politics in the post-bipolar world assumed a style very different from its predecessors, Chirac and also Schroeder, Berlusconi, Aznar, and Blair
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082104
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2008.
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FOLLOWING THE SOVIET UNION'S DISINTEGRATION, the market-oriented Russia stepped up its Asian operations. These were coupled with its course for invigorating bilateral trade and economic ties with APR countries, joining some existing regional economic organizations, and developing regions in Siberia and the Far East. ... Russia had a number of motives for doing so. ... Being an inalienable part of the Asia-Pacific Region (Asian Russia is where this country's main strategic natural resources are concentrated and where over 20% of its population lives), the Russian Federation has its own trade and economic interests there
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082106
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2008.
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IN THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, Russian-US energy cooperation has been going through a systemic crisis. None of the expectations or forecasts for the invigoration of this cooperation have been fulfilled. ... Virtually all major investment projects in the oil and natural gas sector in Russia in the 1990s (Sakhalin I, Sakhalin II, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, and others) were implemented by US companies, with their funding and their advanced technology. The US administration provided complete political backing, treating them as priority projects
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