Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Russia News Review - 12.4.12

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AFP

Obama Calls on Russia to Renew Weapons Pact
New York Times
WASHINGTON — President Obama called on Russia on Monday to renew a two-decade-old nuclear disarmament program that Moscow has threatened to cancel as the two sides try to figure out the future of a rocky relationship now that elections in both ...
Obama seeks renewal of nuclear arms control deal with RussiaLos Angeles Times
Obama urges Russia to work with US to extend arms pactReuters
Obama calls on Russia to update nuclear dealAFP
Pittsburgh Post Gazette -Journal of Turkish Weekly -Kansas City infoZine
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via NYT > Europe by By PETER BAKER on 12/4/12
Moscow has threatened to cancel the two-decade-old nuclear disarmament program, which has helped rid the former Soviet Union of thousands of nuclear weapon.

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Business Recorder (blog)

Obama urges Russia to work with US to extend arms pact
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama urged Russia on Tuesday to work with the United States to "update" a decades-old agreement on dismantling nuclear and chemicals weapons that is set to expire in mid-2013. Russian Deputy Foreign ...
Obama Calls on Russia to Renew Weapons PactNew York Times
Obama Says U.S. Must Maintain Arms-Reduction Effort With RussiaBloomberg
Obama calls on Russia to update nuclear dealBusiness Recorder (blog)
APA
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San Francisco Chronicle

Obama Says US Must Maintain Arms-Reduction Effort With Russia
Businessweek
President Barack Obama appealed to Russian leaders to maintain joint efforts aimed at ensuring that nuclear material doesn't fall into the hands of terrorists. At an event to mark the 20th anniversary of a program set up with the goal of securing and ...
Obama Hails Disarmament Pact With RussiaRIA Novosti

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TIME

Clinton in Prague to lobby for Westinghouse nuclear bid
Pakistan Daily Times
US officials traveling with Clinton, who will also meet Prime Minister Petr Necas, said the Temelin nuclear project could create up to 9,000 US jobs and would help ease the former Soviet-bloc nation's energy reliance on Russia. Majority state-owned ...
Clinton pushes US bid for Czech nuclear projectKansas City Star

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO foreign ministers will agree on Tuesday to send Patriot missiles to beef up Turkey's air defenses and calm Turkey's fears that it could come under missile attack, possibly with chemical weapons, from Syria, diplomats said. Turkey last month asked NATO for Patriots, which can be used to intercept missiles and planes, after weeks of talks with allies about how to shore up security on its 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria, which is immersed in civil war. ...

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Human Rights Watch

Russia: Stop Efforts to Ban Human Rights Book
Human Rights Watch
On December 6, 2012, the Dzerzhinsk City Court in the Nizhny Novgorod region of Russia will hold a hearing on a petition filed by the local prosecutor's office to ban a book by Stanislav Dmitrievsky, et. al., International Tribunal for Chechnya ...

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BBC News

Russia's anti-Putin detainees fight for justice
BBC News
The fate of 18 people arrested in Russia after anti-Putin protests in May has received little of the publicity given to the Pussy Riot trial. The plight of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, who dared to sing a crude anti-Putin song in Moscow's main ...

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Science Recorder

Russians Fear Mayan Doomsday, Government Assures World Will Not End
Huffington Post
According to the Times' report, Russia's minister of emergency situations Vladimir Puchkov reassured the country's citizens on Friday he is sure the world will not end in December and that "he had access to methods of monitoring what is occurring on ...
Mayan Doomsday Frightens RussiaFox News
Russia takes 2012 apocalypse seriously: Citizens clamor for goods before the ...Science Recorder
Russia acts as countdown to doomsday prophecy sparks unrestSydney Morning Herald

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