Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday defended the arms shipment from Russia to Syria, rebuffing growing American and European calls for Russia to comply with the U.S. and European Union arms embargo on Damascus.
The European Union is pressuring Russia to apply EU rules to the European operations of gas giant Gazprom, just as Russia is struggling to maintain its dominance of Europe's gas market.
It starts with explaining to Russia and our European friends and allies, that Russia is not the enemy of the United States ... that the attitude of mutually assured destruction is a relic of the cold war and that we must address the new threats of the 21st century if we are to have a peaceful continent and a peaceful world.
Will Russia feel threatened by a European Union that encompasses almost all of the European continent, but not Russia?
UN, the European Union and Russia map out such borders for them, and set a deadline for Palestinian independence?
In any case, it is hard to see how such a discussion can get far without exposing deep European divisions over Russia.
Eastern European countries (Russia, Ukraine, Romania, etc.) have fantastic untapped talent pools.
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"Yugoslavia accepts the document for peace brought by the highest representatives of the European Union and Russia, " the official Tanjug news agency said Thursday.
Yet the European Union and Russia are certainly interested in them.
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Mike, the U.S., major European powers, Russia, and China are meeting, and I understand they are not all in agreement with what to do about Iran.
Mr Blair is not being paid for his work as a Middle East envoy for the "Quartet" of the United Nations, United States, European Union and Russia.
She said political settlements will be based on the road map for Middle East peace backed by the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations.
Erakat pointed to the Israeli-Palestinian interim agreement, covering the West Bank and Gaza, that was signed by the United States, Israel, Palestinian Authority, European Union, Russia, Jordan, Egypt and Norway.
Last April the EU's trade commissioner, Peter Mandelson, had said that trust between the European Union and Russia has reached its lowest level since the end of the Cold War.
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And it is dragging its feet over a next date for wider talks with America, three European governments, Russia and China, who are trying to divine its real nuclear intent.
While Iran regularly holds nuclear talks with the European Union, Russia and China, Tuesday was the first time in nearly three years it has held bilateral discussions with Britain at nuclear talks.
The road map, put together by the Mideast Quartet -- composed of the European Union, Russia, the United Nations and the United States -- calls on Israel to stop settlement building and Palestinians to stop terrorism.
The senior aide said the administration would be focused on making sure the "international quartet" -- the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, as well as Arab states -- support the president's plan.
And on key international issues such as UN sanctions on Iran, a "strategic partnership" with Europe, Georgia's future as an independent conduit for central Asian oil and gas, and a final settlement in Kosovo and the Balkans, European diplomats say Russia's positive cooperation is essential.
One U.S. military adviser said Chinese military strategists see China becoming the dominant power in Asia by midcentury, by which time they believe the world will be divided into spheres of influence dominated by at least four great powers: China, the U.S., the European Union and Russia.
The world powers that underwrote the road map (America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations) seem to have decided to take a back seat and leave this renewed bout of peacemaking to the Israeli and Palestinian leaders and their neighbours the summit's hosts President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah of Jordan.
In April this year, under international pressure, Mr Arafat appointed the more moderate Mr Abbas as prime minister and, in June, President George Bush got Mr Sharon and Mr Abbas to shake hands on the road map, a peace plan drawn up by America, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which envisages an independent Palestinian state by 2005.
Ella Paneyakh, a sociologist and legal expert at Russia's European University in St Petersburg, said the case illustrated how in President Vladimir Putin's Russia "they are getting very creative, interpreting the law very literally, in a way which does not correspond to the spirit of the law".
The 19th-century idealists who first dreamed of a united Europe assumed that Russia would be part of the new system: Victor Hugo's appeal in 1849 for European unity was addressed to Russia, as well as to France and Germany.
In the 20th century, European nations (including Russia) managed 16 defaults between them.
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The EU correctly points out that Russia needs European energy consumers just as much as Europe needs Russian energy suppliers.
At the same time, the U.S. was even slower than its European allies to condemn Russia for its brutal aggression against Chechnya.
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And that's the United Nations, the U.S., European Union, and Russia.
And so we see, in fact, American relations with its Asian allies and increasingly even with its European allies improving as Russia and China grow more powerful.
This marked a 30% increase from 2009 levels, even though net sales revenues decreased by 5% overall for the entire European region (including Russia and Turkey) during the same period.
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