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Tag Archives: Vladimir Putin

Judy Dempsey – Russia is Losing Germany

22 Friday Aug 2014

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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EU, European Union, Germany, Russia, sanctions, Vladimir Putin

By Judy Dempsey, Strategic Europe, August 21, 2014

A three-page letter that was sent to German parliamentarians on August 18 makes sober reading.

Ostensibly, the letter is about how Europe’s sanctions against Russia and vice versa might affect the German economy. But the real message that Sigmar Gabriel, Social Democrat leader and minister for economic affairs and energy, Wolfgang Schäuble, federal minister of finance, and Christian Schmidt, food and agriculture minister, want to get across is that Germany’s special relationship with Russia is all but over… (more)

 

 

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Is Putin this century’s Hitler?

02 Sunday Mar 2014

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Military and Defense, Russia, Ukraine

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Adolf Hitler, Crimea, Nazi Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin

Questionable constitutional changes to gain and retain power, using armed thugs to suppress opposition and critical press, using hate speech against a minority group to divert attention from national problems, and now invading a neighboring sovereign nation to “protect” citizens who claim ethnic ties to his country from their own government – Vladimir Putin has often been compared to Adolf Hitler.

With his current occupation of sovereign Ukraine territory in the Crimean and his likely expansion into the the rest of eastern Ukraine, Putin is inviting more comparisons. Will his own people begin to se him that way? Or will they continue to support him, or at least tolerate him, while he takes pages from the playbook of their most hated enemy of all time?

Is Putin this century’s Hitler?

Here are a couple of recent articles.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/461770/Expert-likens-possible-Putin-action-on-Ukraine-to-Hitler-s-1938-move-on-Czechoslovakia

http://www.kyivpost.com/opinion/op-ed/boris-danik-putins-sudetenland-338092.html

Putin orders surprise Black Sea military exercises

28 Thursday Mar 2013

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Black Sea Fleet, Black Sea Region, Dmitry Peskov, Russia, Sevastopol, Vladimir Putin

A map showing the location of the Black Sea an...

A map showing the location of the Black Sea and some of the large or prominent ports around it. The Sea of Azov and Sea of Marmara are also labelled. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Russian military honor guard welcomes U.S....

(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By Agence France-Presse (Published on Hurriyet Daily News), March 28, 2013Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday ordered surprise military exercises in the Black Sea region involving 7,000 troops and dozens of ships to test the army’s battle readiness, the Kremlin said.

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Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said 36 ships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet‘s base in the Ukrainian Crimean city of Sevastopol and the Russian port of Novorossiisk would be involved in the exercises… (more)

 

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RFERL: Does Russia-Georgia-War Film Signal A Rift Between Putin And Medvedev?

11 Saturday Aug 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in Caucasus, European News, Military and Defense, Russia

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2008 South Ossetia war, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Medvedev, Georgia, Russia, South Ossetia, Vladimir Putin, Yuri Baluyevsky

 

By Robert Coalson, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, August 10, 2012

 

English: Map of the South Ossetia war

Map of the South Ossetia war (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

A slickly produced film featuring some leading Russian military figures who accuse then-President Dmitry Medvedev of indecisiveness on the eve of Russia’s brief August 2008 war with Georgia continues to produce shockwaves among the country’s political elite… (more) ow.ly/1lUEEx 

 

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  • Was Putin in charge during Georgia war? Medvedev begs to differ. (csmonitor.com)
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  • Putin Says Russia Had Plans For Georgian ‘Aggression’ In Late 2006 (rferl.org)
  • Georgia and Russia mark anniversary of South Ossetia War (euronews.com)

 

Focus on Europe: Russia (April 11, 2012)

11 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Bruce K. Anderson in European News, Foreign Policy, Military and Defense, Russia

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Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Israel, NATO, Russia, Syria, Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin

Ten articles today on Russia, ranging from the mundane to the bizarre.

I’ll start with the bizarre, or at least surprising, story from Business Insider. It says that Russian troops are massing near the border to the Republic of Georgia, ready to move to Armenia to respond to any Israeli and/or U.S. attack on Iran. I say the article is bizarre because this is the only article (picked up by a number of sites, I must admit) I’ve seen about this. Maybe it’s a huge scoop.

I also found an interesting Christian Science Monitor story about Russian President-elect Vladimir Putin and the challenges he’ll face at home and abroad as soon as he takes office on may 7.

Here is article on Russia’s “willingness” to talk with Syrian opposition groups and here is an opinion piece on Russia’s (and China’s) “victory” on the Syrian issue and how that signals America’s decline.

Russia is apparently busy on the rocket and missile front, as suggested by three DefenceTalk articles on various Russian weapons systems: S-400 Missiles deployed in Russia’s Baltic Fleet, a new thermobaric rocket, and the S-500, a new generation surface-to-air missile system.

Atlantic Sentinel, via Wikistrat, has an interesting story on a Baltic port to be built for shipping oil from the Urals.

Moscow Times has a report on ongoing unrest, at least among Russia’s communists and other opposition groups, about the Russian government’s plan to let NATO use a Russian airport to help move people and equipment out of Afghanistan.

And for the mundane, but also a bit odd – the German sports clothing company Adidas has been fined for late delivery of sports uniforms and shoes to the Russian Army, according to this report by Europe Online.

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