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President Obama and President Medvedev agreed to meet in Prague, the Czech Republic, on Thursday, April 8, to sign the Treaty on Measures to Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the “New START Treaty”). Statement

Дмитрий Медведев и Барак Обама встретятся в Праге для подписания нового договора о сокращении и ограничении стратегических наступательных вооружений 8 апреля 2010 года. статья

 The Arctic belongs also to Russia. Restrictions on Moscow’s access to the development of hydrocarbon fields in the Arctic, which accounts for over 25% of global oil and gas reserves, is unacceptable, President Dmitry Medvedev said at a session of the presidential Security Council. “We have seen attempts to limit Russia’s access to the exploration [...]

Trattato Start e Scudi non strategici regionali. In queste settimane la comunità internazionale sta scegliendo la nuova architettura militare per il 21esimo secolo. I contatti ufficiali ed informali sono febbrili e segreti. Sta nascendo il nuovo mondo post Guerra Fredda.  A Ginevra i negoziatori delle due superpotenze del Ventesimo secolo sono vicini a chiudere il [...]

I rapporti franco-russi sono tornati normali dopo la crisi georgiana dell’estate 2008. Parigi e Mosca stringono affari commerciali vantaggiosi ed accordi militari di un’importanza inusuale, guardando ad un futuro prossimo con una minore influenza Usa nel Vecchio Continente. La società GDF Suez è entrata nel consorzio per la costruzione del gasdotto a conduzione tedesca North [...]

Совместное региональное ПРО с участием России и НАТО может стать одним из главных элементов новой общеевропейской системы безопасности. Сергей Михайлович Рогов – Независимая Газета 19.02.2010 статья   Подпись соглашения по СНВ состоится в марте в восточноевропейской стране.  Битва в американском сенате за ее ратификацию будет тяжелой. Михаил Ростовский – МК статья

 Iran is Israel’s arch foe and the Jewish state accuses Tehran of trying to develop a nuclear weapon. By contrast, Russia has the strongest ties with Iran of any major power and has repeatedly urged restraint in the nuclear standoff.   Israel, like the U.S. and much of the international community, believes ayatollahs’ program is aimed [...]

 5 dicembre 2009. Come era nell’attesa della vigilia russi ed americani non hanno purtroppo fatto in tempo. Lo Start, firmato nel lontano ’91, è scaduto senza che sia stato definito un trattato in sua sostituzione.  Mosca e Washington conserveranno per ora “lo spirito dell’accordo” che ha garantito il disarmo internazionale negli ultimi 2 decenni, hanno [...]

 One of the symbols of its land, a myth and a legend. Mikhail Kalashnikov has been a hero for generations of Soviets and Russians. For a long period the world thought that this man didn’t even exist and it was an invention of communist propaganda. “It was the Germans who turned me into an arms [...]

Решения по ПРО будут отложены как минимум до будущей весны, когда в Чехии должны пройти парламентские выборы. Виктор Прусаков – Время новостей – 26.10.2009 статья

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