Russia 111005 Basic Political Developments



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Russia 111005

Basic Political Developments


  • Russian, Laotian presidents to negotiate in Moscow - On October 13, talks are scheduled between the heads of states.

  • RF denies claims its veto is linked with arms sales to Damascus - Russia has flatly denied allegations that its veto on the UN Security Council resolution on Syria that threatens with the imposition of sanctions is linked with the sale of arms to Damascus.

    • Russia offers compromise on UN resolution against Syria - "Our draft remains on the table. We are ready to develop an authentically collective constructive position of the international community rather than legitimizing already adopted unilateral sanctions and attempts to forcefully overthrow regimes," Vitaly Churkin said.

    • UN draft resolution on Syria is based on confrontation - Churkin

  • U.S. economy to benefit from Russia's accession to WTO - diplomat: "The simple fact is that Russia's accession matters to the U.S. economy. It will create new markets for American exporters in one of the world's fastest growing markets," Burns said at the 19th annual meeting of the U.S.-Russia Business Council in Chicago.

  • Russia to hand over n-sub to India mid-November

    • 50/50 - This is the scheme by which a new fighter aircraft will be developed Yury Gavrilov

    • India, Russia agree to further expand defence cooperation - Listing some of the projects where both sides had put in years of effort to bring success, Mr Antony said, "The project for joint development and production of the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft, BrahMos missile system, licensed production in India of T-90 tanks and SU-30 MKI aircraft are proud examples of our strong relationship. We are sure that the success of these projects would be models for the implementation of several other projects of mutual interest."

  • Tbilisi blames Moscow for disrupting Geneva talks on Caucasus security - Moscow is "trying to change" the format of the Geneva talks, Kapanadze said. "Contrary to the agreements to discuss security and stability issues in Geneva, Russia evaded debates on these issues at yesterday's meeting and demanded that the status of the occupied Georgian territories, Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region, be discussed," he said.

  • RA President S. Sargsyan awarded D. Medvedev with Order of Glory

    • Dmitry Medvedev is first holder of Armenia’s new state order

  • Official: “Russia will not participate in any war action” - Sergey Mikheyev, head of the Russian Political Conjuncture Center answered to the question by Armenian daily “Zhamanak” (“Times”) concerning Russian peacekeepers possible settlement in Artsakh. According to the Russian official, Russia does not want its peacekeepers to be sent to Artsakh.

  • Russia seeks extension of Azerbaijan radar lease - Russia is negotiating the extension of the lease of the Gabala missile early-warning radar in Azerbaijan, Commander of the Russian Space Forces Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said.

  • Azerbaijani, North Caucasus leaders discuss cooperation - The delegation was led by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Khloponin, who is also the president's envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, and included the president of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, of Kabardino-Balkaria, Arsen Kanokov, North Ossetia-Alania, Taymuraz Mamsurov, and Dagestan, Magomedsalam Magomedov.

    • AZERBAIJANI PRESIDENT ILHAM ALIYEV RECEIVES RUSSIAN DELEGATION LED BY DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND PRESIDENTIAL ENVOY TO NORTH CAUCASUS FEDERAL DISTRICT ALEXANDER KHLOPONIN

  • Russia to grant 1.6 mln rbl humanitarian aid to Kyrgyzstan

  • Lithuania and Russia to build bridge across Nemunas River - The 8th session of the bilateral Lithuanian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical, Humanitarian and Cultural Cooperation took place on 3-4 October in Klaipeda. The plenary session was chaired by Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Audronius Azubalis, reported BC the MFA. At the session, the Commission signed an agreement on the construction of a new bridge across the River Nemunas (Neman).

  • Atomstroyexport opens office in Turkey - The office was opened at the Yeshilovajik Village of the Mersin Province. It is the 12th office of Atomstroyexport in ten states. The office was opened to help the general contractor of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant to optimize construction and expand participation in the project

  • Russia to create Air and Space Defence Force - According to the commander of the Space Force, Lieutenant-General Oleg Ostapenko, the first phase of the move will be devoted to the development of the first space echelon that warns of a missile attack. As a whole, the new forces will be an integrated system of space surveillance and missile, space and air defence aimed at averting external threats.

  • Radar outside Kaliningrad to enter trial run in 2011 - commander

  • NATO cannot use obsolete Ukrainian radars against Russia - Space Troops (Part 2)

  • U.S. shows interest in Russia's joint missile defense proposals - Gen. Ostapenko (Part 2)

  • Development of S-500 air defense systems behind schedule - paper: "The production cycle of this system is about two years. Therefore, even if the prototypes are ready by 2015, the military will not receive production models earlier than in 2017," the source said.

  • Russian Space Forces to conduct 14 rocket launches by yearend - Russia's Space Forces will carry out 14 launches of various carrier rockets until the end of 2011, SF commander Lt. Gen. Oleg Ostapenko said.

  • No privatization of nuclear icebreakers before 2017 – Atomic Fleet

    • Russia to sell off its nuclear ice-breaker fleet - The presidential order is expected to allow the fleet to be put up for auction, while still keeping 100 per cent of it as state property under the supervision of RosAtom.

  • "Eurasian Union - priority for Putin" – official: The creation of 'the Eurasian Union' will be one the priorities for Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is to run for the presidency in March, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday. 

    • No one knew in advance about decision announced at URP congress

    • Kudrin refusal to work in future govt no affront -- Peskov

    • Putin aide woos Russia's middle-class voters - Twice within a week Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov has appeared on television stations favored by intellectuals and Russia's burgeoning middle class in an effort to persuade them that their views will be heard, should Putin win March polls.

  • United Russia election list checked - The Russian Central Elections Commission on Wednesday approved the election list of the ruling United Russia party, a decision preceding registration. The list is headed by President Dmitry Medvedev and includes 599 people in 80 regional groups.

  • ‘OSCE biased in assessing elections’ - The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) has no universal method for evaluating elections, believes the president of the All-Russia Public Institute for Election Law,Igor Borisov.

  • Russian Union of Journalists to expose crimes against reporters

  • Patriarch Kirill to chair Holy Synod session Wednesday

  • Cache with 40 kilos of TNT found in Chechnya - “The police and servicemen of the military commandant’s office have found a cache with 40 kilograms of TNT on Tuesday in the forest near Beshal-Irzu in the Nozhai-Yurt district,” the source said.

  • Investigator in Magnitsky case arrested for taking bribe - Maj. Nelly Dmitriyeva accepted part of the pay-off through a third party in August, a spokesman for the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor-General's Office told reporters on Wednesday.

  • Moscow to spend $76m on stray dogs and cats

  • 62 people detained, 13 criminal cases opened over forest fires in Bratsk

  • PRESS DIGEST - Russia - Oct 5

    • www.vedomosti.ru

    • Russian tycoon Vladimir Kogan, a close ally of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, is in talks to buy Vozrozhdenie Bank , a top-30 lender by assets, the paper writes, citing sources.

    • Russia has exported 10 million tonnes of grain in the last three months, some 33 percent more than in 2008, when Russia recorded a record high harvest.

    • www.kommersant.ru

    • Russia's state-controlled oil producer Rosneft may attract a manager from British oil major BP to run the company's strategic policy, the daily says.

    • The outflow of capital this year reached $50 billion by October, far outweighing an expected $36 billion, according to a central bank report.

    • www.izvestia.ru

    • Russia will be able to deploy its new anti-missile S-500 systems , successor to the S-300 and S-400, only after 2017 at the earliest, the daily reports.

    • www.rg.ru

    • Nearly a third -- 42 million hectares out of 115 million hectares -- of Russia's ploughed fields have become abandoned or misused in the last ten years.

    • www.mk.ru

    • Scientists in Ukraine's Crimea region warn of a possible ecological disaster if even one of the hundreds of chemical containers, discovered on the Black Sea floor around the peninsular, start leaking.

  • Russian Press at a Glance, Wednesday, October 5, 2011

  • The peacekeeping Slavic shield - The warming of relations between Moscow and Kiev is also being manifested in the military sphere Sergey Konovalov

  • Hugo Chavez is being snatched out of Moscow’s hands - Belarus deepens its expansion into Venezuela Pavel Tarasenko, Movsun Gadzhiev (Minsk)

  • Twilight of a Seat-Warmer - Medvedev's worst week ever just keeps on going. BY JULIA IOFFE

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