Tag Archives : Medvedev

That Iran has become nuclear is no longer a matter of doubt. ‘The Iranians are in fact moving rapidly toward a weapon.’ It has also managed to deceive US intelligence during the Bush administration. It was only during the Obama administration that Iran was discovered to be on full speed at producing nuclear weapons. Dealing with Iran at this juncture, [...]

Russia and the United States might just battle once more, not over ideology and governance style this time but over the ‘massive mineral wealth hidden deep under the Arctic seabed – much of it made more accessible as the ice cap retreats.’ There just might be the possibility of war on the top of the world. This tension harks back to those [...]

Barack Obama in his characteristic way of trying to solve problems has offered to not build missile shields in Eastern Europe if Russia cooperates with the West to disarm Iran. The idea is interesting when Russia has continued to supply uranium to Iran while the whole world is worried about Iran’s nuclear capabilities. He wrote a secret letter [...]

The administrations of Vladimir Putin and Dmitri Medvedev seem to point to one and the same Kremlin principle: destroy political opponents and crush every vestige of opposition. In Russia, the opposition is maligned and persecuted. Media is censored. Critical journalists are killed or subjected to severe harassment as in the cases of Anna Politkovskaya [...]

Following the inauguration of the new US president, Russia suspended the deployment of missiles in Kaliningrad, Russia’s Western outpost that borders European Union members Poland and Lithuania. Preparations to install the “Iskander” short-range missiles were suspended because the new administration in Washington seems to likewise [...]

The Russian president, Dmitri Medvedev, is going tomorrow in his first Latin American tour, which aims to culminate with the “return” to the region that Russia boosts in recent months. Medvedev will arrive weekend in Lima, where he will participate the meeting of Heads of State and Government of APEC, will visit Brazil between 24 and 26, [...]

The war in Georgia makes Russia the US enemy once again. Russia will not take it sitting down, knowing that US and NATO troops are so close by. That, of course, will be an insult to Medvedev and Putin (the former being the best-looking leader Russia has ever produced, while the latter is the exact opposite). There might, just might, be something ominous [...]