Henry Meyer
Stepan Kravchenko
Bloomberg
February 18, 2016 — 2:51 PM EET Updated on February 18, 2016 — 5:18 PM EET
Russia has promised to protect Kurdish fighters in Syria in case of a ground offensive by Turkey, a move that would lead to a “big war,” the Syrian group’s envoy to Moscow said in an interview on Wednesday.
“We take this threat very seriously because the ruling party in Turkey is a party of war,” Rodi Osman, head of the Syrian Kurds’ newly-opened representative office said in Kurdish via a Russian interpreter. “Russia will respond if there is an invasion. This isn’t only about the Kurds, they will defend the territorial sovereignty of Syria.”
"Ό,τι η ψυχή επιθυμεί, αυτό και πιστεύει." Δημοσθένης (Whatever the soul wishes, thats what it believes, Demosthenes)
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Friday, January 29, 2016
A Russian journalist explains why there is no corruption in Russia
The Washington Post
By Adam
Taylor January 28 at 2:33 PM
In the
West, many think of modern Russia
as near synonymous with corruption. We know all about the oligarchs, the mafia
and the "Wild East" capitalism of the 1990s. One recent poll found
that Russia
was considered one of the more corrupt countries in the world, placing 119 out
of 168 on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index (where a
lower ranking indicates a higher perceived level of corruption).
Monday, January 11, 2016
Putin: US and NATO want to 'sit on the throne in Europe alone'
Deutsche
Welle
11-1-2015
Russian
President Vladimir Putin has defended his policies in Ukraine and Crimea and slammed NATO expansion
and the United States .
He also said he trusts German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin slammed western sanctions against his country as
"geo-political" rather than aimed at solving the crisis in Ukraine and criticized NATO expansion and the United States
for trying to impose its will, in a wide-ranging interview published Monday in
the popular German daily newspaper "Bild."
Monday, December 21, 2015
Is Russia still a key world power?
By James
Nixey
BBC
Whether Russia , one of 15 successor states to the USSR , which
broke up in 1991, is still a genuine world power in 2015 is open to question.
It remains the
world's largest country and the largest oil producer
It retains
its permanent seat on the UN Security Council (one among five)
Its nuclear
arsenal (in Cold War times one of five countries, but now one of nine) has been
progressively modernised
Sustained
increases in defence spending have brought it close to its goal of escalation
dominance in local and regional war
Monday, December 7, 2015
Turkey says has duty to protect soldiers in Iraq after Baghdad ultimatum
Mon Dec 7,
2015 7:56am EST Related: WORLD, TURKEY ,
IRAQ
ISTANBUL/ERBIL
| BY DAREN BUTLER
AND ISABEL COLES
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Russia and Turkey Hurl Insults as Feud Deepens
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR
DEC. 3, 2015
DEC. 3, 2015
The New
York Times
The Kremlin
also said that the long-delayed transfer of the S-300 air defense system to Iran had started, a move that strengthens one of
Turkey ’s regional rivals
while raising concerns in Israel .
Friday, November 27, 2015
Memo to Putin: Syria Is Turkey's Ukraine
49 NOV 27,
2015 2:00 AM EST
By Marc
Champion
Bloomberg
Russian
leaders have evidently been shocked by Turkey 's
deliberate decision to shoot down one of their planes, which they say was
motivated by Turkey 's
alleged support for Islamic State and greed for the proceeds of smuggled
terrorist oil. A simpler explanation is that Russia would have done the same.
Here is the
hypothetical: What would President Vladimir Putin do if civil war broke out in
a neighboring country, which had been part of the Russian empire for centuries
before breaking away under circumstances, and with borders, that Russians still
found difficult to accept? What would he do if, in that war, some of the rebels
were ethnic Russians at risk of being brutally crushed by the armed forces of
the neighboring state?
Actually,
that's not so hypothetical; it pretty much describes eastern Ukraine . And we
know what Russia
did -- it became heavily involved in a poorly concealed invasion.
Russia to Target Syria Jihadists as Hollande Seeks Diplomacy
Andrey Biryukov Helene Fouquet Henry Meyer
November
26, 2015 — 10:48 PM EET Updated on November 27, 2015 — 9:02 AM EET
Bloomberg
Russia Plans Sanctions After Turkey Downs Warplane
Nataliya
Vasilyeva, James Ellingworth / Associated Press
Updated: Nov. 26, 2015 12:36 PM
ΤΙΜΕ
It's
further retaliation against Turkey
after its airforce shot down a Russian jet
(MOSCOW ) — Russia plans to retaliate against Turkey for the
downing of a warplane by imposing sanctions, cutting economic ties and
scrapping major investment projects.
Since the
plane was shot down Tuesday on the Syria-Turkey border, Russia has
already restricted tourism, left Turkish trucks stranded at the border and
confiscated large quantities of Turkish food imports.
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Range of Frustrations Reached Boil as Turkey Shot Down Russian Jet
By KEITH BRADSHERNOV. 25, 2015
The New
York Times
ANKARA,
Turkey — Turkey and Russia promised on Wednesday not to go to war over the
downing of a Russian military jet, leaving Turkey’s still-nervous NATO allies
and just about everyone else wondering why the country decided to risk such a
serious confrontation.
The reply
from the Turkish government so far has been consistent: Don’t say we didn’t
warn you.
Though
minor airspace violations are fairly common and usually tolerated, Turkey had repeatedly called in Russia ’s ambassador to complain about aircraft
intrusions and about bombing raids in Syria near the border. President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday evening — and a Pentagon spokesman later
confirmed — that before a Turkish F-16 shot down the Russian Su-24 jet, Turkish
forces had warned the Russian plane 10 times in five minutes to steer away.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Turkey downs Russian warplane near Syria border, Putin warns of 'serious consequences'
Wed Nov 25,
2015 3:03am EST
Related: WORLD , RUSSIA , TURKEY , AEROSPACE & DEFENSE
Reuters
ANKARA/MOSCOW
| BY TULAY KARADENIZ AND MARIA KISELYOVA
Russian
President Vladimir Putin said the plane had been attacked when it was 1 km
(0.62 mile) inside Syria
and warned of "serious consequences" for what he termed a stab in the
back administered by "the accomplices of terrorists".
Will this Russia-Turkey business get out of control?
The Washington Post
By Daniel
W. Drezner November 24 at 9:20 AM
Daniel W.
Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law
and Diplomacy at Tufts
University and a regular
contributor to PostEverything
When former
senator and actor Fred Thompson passed away earlier this month, it was
impossible to forget the best line he ever delivered on a film.
This line
seems particularly trenchant now, as something I worried about last month
pretty much just happened:
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Putin Says Turkish 'Stab in Back' Caused Russian Warplane Crash
By Andrey Biryukov
November
24, 2015 — 3:01 PM EET Updated on November 24, 2015 — 3:54 PM EET
Bloomberg
President
Vladimir Putin accused Turkey
of being an accomplice of terrorism for shooting down a Russian warplane in Syria and
warned of “very serious consequences” for their relations.
“We
understand that everyone has their own interests but we won’t allow such crimes
to take place,” Putin said at talks Tuesday with Jordanian King Abdullah II in Sochi . “We received a
stab in the back from accomplices of terrorism.”
Putin Has Misjudged Turkey's Erdogan
105 NOV 24,
2015 8:09 AM EST
By Marc Champion
Bloomberg
The details
of how and why a Russian jet was shot down near the Turkish-Syrian border
remain unclear, but one thing can already be said: Russian President Vladimir
Putin has misjudged his Turkish counterpart and former friend, Recep Tayyip
Erdogan.
According
to Turkey 's
military, one of its F-16s fired on a jet over Turkish territory, after the
plane's pilots ignored 10 warnings to leave. So the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization's second-largest military is claiming to have shot down an
aircraft in anger that was probably Russian, and is now "consulting"
with its NATO allies.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Tsipras Tells Russia Greece Helped Prevent Broader EU Sanctions
Greek prime
minister is on a two-day visit to Moscow
The Wall
Street Journal
By LAURA
MILLS
Updated
April 9, 2015 1:57 p.m. ET
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Greek leader courts Russia but seeks no direct aid
(Reuters) -
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won pledges of closer cooperation from Russia at talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday but
President Vladimir Putin said Athens
had not asked for money to ease its debt crisis.
The visit,
as Athens seeks funds to make debt repayments, caused concern in some European
Union states that Greece could break ranks over economic sanctions on Russia to
secure aid or use the trip to pressure its EU allies to release financing.
Greece Should Be Wary of Mr. Putin
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
APRIL 7, 2015
The New
York Times
The Greek
government is facing a series of daunting challenges. It has to come up with
money to pay off maturing debts, revive its devastated economy and renegotiate
its loan agreements with other countries in the eurozone. Given those
difficulties, it might be tempting — though misguided — for Prime Minister
Alexis Tsipras to seek financial or other support from President Vladimir Putin
of Russia , whom he is
scheduled to meet in Moscow
on Wednesday.
Mr Tsipras goes to Moscow
The
Economist
Playing the
Russia card cannot solve Greece 's euro
zone woes
Apr 7th
2015 | Europe
ALEXIS
TSIPRAS, Greece 's prime
minister (pictured), heads to Moscow
this week with his country's future in the euro zone hanging in the balance. Greece 's
negotiations with its creditors over the release of €7.2 billion ($7.8 billion)
of bail-out money are still going nowhere, even as its coffers run dry. The
government is raiding state kitties and delaying payments to suppliers in order
to meet its obligations to creditors, most urgently a €458m payment due to the
IMF on April 9th and €700m in treasury bills held by foreign investors, which
are unlikely to be rolled over at maturity next week. But before long it will
need a proper financing strategy.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Could Greece Pivot To Russia And China?
Raoul
Ruparel Contributor
Forbes
Greek Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras heads to Moscow tomorrow
amongst significant noise around a potential Greek pivot towards Russia and China . But how realistic a
proposition is this? The short answer is, not very. Most of the noise is
precisely that, just noise. But it is worth exploring in more detail just why
this is the case and what it means for the current negotiations around Greece ’s
position in the Eurozone and EU-Russia relations.
Friday, March 20, 2015
Opinion: Greece ready to play the Russian card
Market
Watch
Published: Mar 20, 2015 3:01 a.m. ET
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/greece-ready-to-play-the-russian-card-2015-03-20
EU
intransigence may force Tsipras to seek aid from Putin
By
DARRELL DELAMAIDE,
POLITICS COLUMNIST
WASHINGTON
(MarketWatch) — Greece
is ready to play the Russian card, bringing a new geostrategic dimension to the
euro crisis.
Greek Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras moved up his planned visit to talk to Russian President
Vladimir Putin in Moscow
to early next month instead of in May.
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