While we support diplomacy to explain our plans to Russian officials and to assure them that such defenses reflect no intention whatever to threaten Russia or Russian interests, we have compelling incentives to deploy such defenses based on the growing missile threat from rogue nations.
In the case of project financing, a credible Western agent bank (not the International Moscow Bank or Moscow Narodny) located outside of Russia and Russian control should be utilized for deposit of newly generated income streams.
" Just months prior, while referring to Chavez's late July visit to Russia, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin expressed similar sentiments emanating from the Kremlin as he told the Moscow-based news agency Interfax that the "two countries' positions on most international issues are similar or identical.
Successful existing Russian brands such as Kaspersky Lab and Nitol Solar suggest that the spirit of entrepreneurialism exists in Russia and that Russian brands have the potential to go global.
But they are citizens of Russia, and Russian is the lingua franca among the various republics along the country's southern border.
There is no political pluralism in Russia because the Russian regime has worked systematically to eliminate all independent sources of power.
The plan to tax bigger deposits at a higher rate has angered Russia, as Russian nationals hold many of those larger deposits.
If Gerard really wants to have either a residency permit in Russia or a Russian passport, we will assume that this matter is settled and settled positively.
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We supply our troops in Afghanistan significantly through the Northern Distribution Network that passes through Russia, so Russian cooperation in Afghanistan is essential to, again, supplying our troops.
But there is growing resistance in Congress to spending on anti-proliferation measures in Russia, when Russian firms profit from helping a country that is near the top of the proliferation worry-list.
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When the group decided against coming to Russia, saying Russian authorities were preventing it from properly monitoring the elections, Putin accused Washington of influencing the group's decision to discredit the elections.
The plight of the Fenskes and the other waiting families, while far more prolonged, shares some similarities with the circumstances of dozens of American families who were trying to adopt children from Russia when the Russian government banned such adoptions in December amid a rise in tensions with Washington.
With the new site, eBay is pooling listings from sellers around the world that are available for shipping to Russia and inviting Russian shoppers to search the site either in English or Cyrillic, with payments processed through PayPal. eBay Russia had registered 54% growth in user spend in 2012 even as the number of active users grew almost 75%.
There can be no stability and prosperity in the Russian empire, now called the Russian Federation, until Russia's government honestly and unequivocally decides finally to decolonise and allows plebiscites to determine which autonomous republics or regions want to remain part of the Russian Federation, and which would rather say goodbye.
NAZRAN, Russia -- The Russian intelligence service has blamed Chechen rebels for an explosion that killed a high-ranking official.
The data also was being sent to an Internet server in Russia hosted by a Russian hosting company called FirstVDS, according to the investigation.
Greenpeace Russia has criticised the Russian authorities for poor handling of the catastrophe, and mainly for abolishing a centralised woodland fire control system several months ago.
But most of the other countries' interest in Russia is primarily a matter of oil and gas: either getting them cheap from Russia, or using Russian pipelines for export.
Cheney is the highest-level U.S. official to visit Georgia since the crisis with Russia, which saw Russian troops take strategic positions in the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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"Tsar Nicholas II said that it's Russia, but not Russian, and what he meant is that this is a city that was intentionally built to embrace and look to the West of Europe, " Reid said.
The United States is concerned by the detention on July 31 of Russian citizens who were participating in rallies throughout Russia to demonstrate their support for Article 31 of the Russian Constitution, which guarantees to Russian citizens the right of assembly.
Also Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Russia has no plans to offer al-Assad asylum, state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
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While the Russian economy is doing better that it ever has under United Russia, voters were peeved by the fact that Russian president Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladmir Putin announced in September that they were essentially changing roles next year.
But then, in order to secure the now weakened Russian support for his sanctions resolution, Obama exempted Russia from the sanctions and turned a blind eye to continued Russian and Chinese nuclear proliferation activities in Syria, Turkey and Pakistan.
In May George Bush visited Tbilisi to give public support to Mikhail Saakashvili, the pro-western president of Georgia, who is trying to close down Russian military bases on his soil Russia says it will leave by 2008 and regain control over Russian-backed separatist enclaves.
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My firm started out representing U.S. companies doing business in Russia or Korea, as well as Russian and Korean companies doing business in the U.S. Fairly soon after that, we were representing Korean-American and Russian-American businesses as well, mostly relating to their transactions with Russia and Korea.
The Abkhaz realise the dangers of assimilation into Russia and are wary of Russian nationalism.
Russia banned Americans from adopting Russian children soon after the US Congress passed the legislation in December.
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Yandex says it accounts for 64% of all search traffic in Russia and is the largest Russian-based internet company by revenue.
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