By Matthias Schepp in Moscow SPIEGEL.DE DPA President Vladimir Putin has been oddly quiet about the recent crash of a Russian jet in Egypt. A secret strategy paper suggests the Kremlin wants to find a political solution with the West on the issue of Syria. Pressure […]
SHAHAB JAFRY And a new confrontation in the Middle East Russia buying into American suspicion that ISIS bombed the Metro jet (“99.9pc sure”) will mean only one thing. Putin will green-light ground troops into Syria, further raising the stakes in the Levant. Russian pride will not take the affront lightly […]
EYAD ABU SHAKRA ARABNEWS.COM Published — Saturday 10 October 2015 Like many, I listened the other day to Barack Obama talking about the Russian military intervention in Syria. In his talk the American president criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to distinguish between the Daesh and Syria’s moderate opposition, […]
If Russia is able to help recapture the city it would be an epic symbol of their new ambitions in the Middle East Robert Fisk @indyvoices Sunday 27 September 2015 18:37 BST ” For Obama and Cameron, a Russian-assisted recapture of Palmyra would be a humiliating lesson” Photograph: A still from […]
Russia is vital in dealing with regional challenges in the Middle East and without Russia, the region “would be a lot worse off” King Abdullah II of Jordan underlined as he sat down for a one-on-one with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s Kremlin, on Thursday. King Abdullah attended the meeting […]
Continue reading the main story In an emotional speech in Kiev on Sunday, former Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky – recently released from 10 years in jail – told the Maidan “there is another Russia”, one opposed to military action in Ukraine. Russian writer and broadcaster Andrei Ostalski agrees […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT Share 182 85 4 For some reason, our last century’s two world wars started rather far from home. I bet that most people in January 1914 couldn’t find Sarajevo on a map. But then again, how many of us – really, I […]
January 13, 2014 12:48 AM By Nina L. Khrushcheva The Daily Star Story Summary For more than two decades, August has been the cruelest month for Russian leaders. The August 1998 debt default and ruble collapse laid waste to President Boris Yeltsin’s free market reforms and resulted in the sacking […]
By Christian Neef and Matthias Schepp SPIEGEL.DE In one of his many foreign-policy successes this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin has used power politics and blackmail to bring Ukraine back […]
The Muslim Times’ has added a question mark at the end of the title. Source: CNN There he goes again — Russian President Vladimir Putin, portraying himself as the world’s champion of peace and democracy. And, of course, doing it at America’s expense. This time, Putin’s PR machine managed to […]
Source: Reuters By Alexei Anishchuk MOSCOW | Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:42pm IST (Reuters) – Russia on Tuesday granted Bangladesh a $1 billion loan for weapons purchases and $500 million to help one of Asia’s poorest countries build its first nuclear power plant, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. Putin moved […]