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Russia's plan to cancel a meeting of top military officials next month over alliance war games in Georgia and will push ahead with the exercises, a NATO spokesman said Monday.
"It is their decision to attend or not," he said.
"If there will be no reaction (to a Russian complaint about the exercises) we will take certain measures," Ambassador Dmitry Rogozin said.
, many ingredients are cooking at once!
Hateful
Airis Rikveilis, the head of the Latvian defense minister's office, told BNS that Latvia does not plan to participate in this exercise and the issue has ben been discussed with Latvian officials.
"The situation is that we cannot send any additional people there. The military exercise plan has already been approved and this exercise is not in the plan,"
BISHKEK (AFP) — Moscow will increase the number of warplanes it has stationed in Kyrgyzstan, a Russian general said Monday, following the expulsion of a key US military base from the former Soviet republic.
"The Russian leadership plans to increase the number of individual warplanes at (the Russian airbase) at Kant," Nikolai Bordyuzha, head of the Russia-led CSTO security organization, told the Kyrgyz parliament.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
To add Russia has put pressure on Latvia now to who will not take part in the NATO exercises:
Airis Rikveilis, the head of the Latvian defense minister's office, told BNS that Latvia does not plan to participate in this exercise and the issue has ben been discussed with Latvian officials.
"The situation is that we cannot send any additional people there. The military exercise plan has already been approved and this exercise is not in the plan,"
Baltic Course
I find the last sentence very telling, what is happening re the exercises are they being stepped up?
Originally posted by MikeboydUS
The EU is playing some kind of bizarre game with Russia. This has nothing to do with Israel's interests. This same game is going on in Moldavia as well.
I would guess the ultimate goal of this is European energy independence from Russia.
The US is no longer taking an active leadership role in European affairs and doesn't exactly have Israel's best interests at heart right now. The lack of leadership and the naivity of the current US government is helping bring about this mess.
Project stakeholders -- Azerbajian, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine -- hope to build a conduit that would begin in Azerbaijan and travel via Georgia and across the Black Sea to link up with Ukraine’s Odessa-Brody pipeline. The quintet of states hopes to extend Odessa-Brody as far as the Polish port of Gdnask on the Baltic Sea coast and eventually, on the other end of the line, build a sub-sea pipeline across the Caspian Sea to get Central Asian oil powerhouse Kazakhstan onboard.
Khetaguri said at the memorandum signing ceremony that the document reflects the parties' will toward cooperation in building a southern gas corridor, which he said would be in Georgia's and the EU's interests.
The project is aimed at ensuring Europe's energy security through the diversification of routes and sources of energy, Khetaguri said.
Seeking to further Kazakhstan's influence along its hydrocarbon export routes and diversify its options away from the Russian-dominated Caspian Pipeline Consortium pipeline to Novorossiisk, in 2005 KMG began to build a tanker fleet for the Caspian as well as acquire useful real estate. KMG, along with Western energy firms, pumped $5 billion into developing Georgia's Batumi, Poti and Kulevi Black Sea ports over the last decade, and in February 2008 KMG bought Georgia's Batumi Oil Terminal from Greenoak Holdings and French bank BNP Paribas. While the cost to KMG was not revealed, Greenoak had already invested more than $200 million in the terminal, which has a capacity to export 15 million tons per year of crude oil and products and two years earlier had paid $92 million for a 49-year lease to manage the port.
Europe's hopes of securing natural gas from Azerbaijan via the Nabucco pipeline were further dampened on Saturday (18 April) when Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliev said he wanted Russia to serve as a transit route for selling gas to Europe.
BRUSSELS, April 20 (Reuters) - Crises in Moldova and Georgia have complicated Europe's attempts to build closer ties with former Soviet republics without angering Moscow, but the European Union and NATO show no sign of changing course.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Russian's Black Sea fleet is not only in dispute with its Port in the Ukraine as a base, but seems to be mobilised with Commando carrying amphibious vehicles and en route to Georgia.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Many feel the last time the Conflict happened a cover was in place that in fact Georgia was to be used as an "Aircraft carrier" of sorts to allow a sorte and attacks on Iran's nuclear Facilities.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
As Turkey et al would not allow fly overs, and this explained the CIA presence and US military in the area above and beyond the normal Russian US face off's and CIA meddling.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Also Russia is now sending more planes to its base in Central Asia Kryzistan!
Again what is your source? What airbase in Kyrgystan are you talking about?
Moscow will increase the number of warplanes it has stationed in Kyrgyzstan, a Russian general said Monday, following the expulsion of a key US military base from the former Soviet republic.
"The Russian leadership plans to increase the number of individual warplanes at (the Russian airbase) at Kant," Nikolai Bordyuzha, head of the Russia-led CSTO security organization, told the Kyrgyz parliament.
MOSCOW, April 21 (AFP) Apr 21, 2009
A top Russian official on Tuesday accused the US administration of President Barack Obama of intensifying missile defence plans and said Russia saw no basis for big cuts in its nuclear arsenal.
In an interview with Interfax news agency, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov revived threats to site Iskander strategic missiles in the Kaliningrad exclave near Poland if Washington's missile shield plans in Europe went ahead.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Russia to send more warplanes to Kyrgyzstan: general
Originally posted by Vitchilo
DUH! Obama not following his promises to back down the threats about Russia... not a surprise, especially with his scummy advisors who HATE Russia and want it under NATO control one way or the other.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
If I would be Russia, I would go ahead and keep my nuclear arsenal, because that's the only thing that would stop those madmans from attacking Russia.
STOPOL, Ukraine -- Russian Black Sea fleet ships based in the Ukrainian port of Sevastopol are preparing for large-scale naval exercises, RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service reports. Russian officials have notified Ukraine that 22 of its Black Sea Fleet vessels will leave Sevastopol for military maneuvers. This notification has been issued every day since the beginning of last week, but the ships' departure has been delayed for unknown reasons.
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Black sea Fleet Deployed 1
Originally posted by MischeviousElf
Do you think the Israeli and American Commandos, special forces and military in Georgia just before the last skirmish were just on holiday then?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
So I have a question for all of you... especially Maloy who have family in Ukraine... is the deal ``Russian fleet in Sevastopol`` confirmed to be over?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Why there's no more talk about Ukraine president being thrown out?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Didn't Ukraine president called for Russia to be kicked out of Sevastopol earlier than the agreement allowed?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Do you think that fleet is going to Syria after that or somewhere else?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
If Ukraine kicks them out, will the Ukraine population accept it? Will they accept NATO fleet going in there?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
What will be the breaking point for Russia to really think this is very serious that NATO want to get them? Will they wait until Ukraine and Georgia are in NATO and Belarus overthrown before doing anything?
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Hopefully the crazy president in Georgia will be kicked out by the people...
Originally posted by Vitchilo
but NATO doesn't seems to want to let go, Georgia is too important for them to let freedom of the georgian people stand in the way.
Russia is concerned over Armenia’s participation in NATO military trainings in Georgia, especially, considering the anti-Russian nature of trainings planned, RF MP Semen Baghdasarov said at TV space bridge entitled “Armenia-Turkey: Progress in bilateral relations or geopolitical games of world powers?”. “As CSTO member, and military and strategic partner of Russia, Armenia has to refuse from participating in these trainings, like a number of other post soviet countries did,” RF MP noted.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused members of Nato of reverting to the "confrontational logic of the Cold War".
In an interview with the BBC Russian service, Mr Lavrov said the roots of the diplomatic hostility lay in the alliance's "unilateral position" on the war between Russia and Georgia last August.
NATO invited Russia Wednesday to send observers to alliance war games in Georgia next month in an effort to assuage Moscow's concerns about the manoeuvres.
"If Russia chooses to send observers, that is something that I think the alliance would look on quite positively, as a way of diminishing possible misunderstandings or concerns," NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.