Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Book Review: 'Red Fortress' by Catherine Merridale: Citadel of Tyranny - Wall Street Journal

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Book Review: 'Red Fortress' by Catherine MerridaleCitadel of Tyranny
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Were icons really plastered over in the Stalin era, only to be miraculously uncovered in the heyday of Putinism? Such "discoveries" are as phony as the "amnesties" of the innocent or the Winter Olympics held in one of the least suitable places in ...
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Global Terrorism and Saudi Arabia: Bandarís Terror Network - Al-Manar TV - ‎Jan 20, 2014‎

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Global Terrorism and Saudi Arabia: Bandarís Terror Network

Al-Manar TV - ‎Jan 20, 2014‎
Saudi Arabia has all the vices and none of the virtues of an oil rich state like Venezuela. The country is governed by a family dictatorship which tolerates no opposition and severely punishes human rights advocates and political dissidents. Bandar. Hundreds ...

Russia draws up plans to destroy Saudi Arabia over latest Terror Attacks in ...
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Russian intelligence has now reportedly obtained solid proof that Saudi Arabia was directly involved in the twin terror attacks on the city of Volgograd. The attacks killed more than 32 people and injured over 100 others. Most of the victims were ...
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Russian intelligence has now reportedly obtained solid proof that Saudi Arabia was directly involved in the twin terror attacks on the city of Volgograd. The attacks killed more than 32 people and injured over 100 others. Most of the victims were ...
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Putin’s Olympic Fever Dream - 1/22/2014 - By STEVEN LEE MYERS - NYT


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The story of the exile of Leon Trotsky by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura - NYT

“The Man Who Loved Dogs,” published in Spanish in 2009 and now appearing in an English translation by Anna Kushner, tells the story of the exile of Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and the Soviet people’s commissar for foreign affairs, who was assassinated in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940. Its Russian quality comes not only from its length — almost 600 pages — and the fact that it returns constantly to Moscow, but also from its Tolstoyan passion for historical trifles and Dostoyevskyan pleasure in examining the moral life of its characters.

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U.S. Offers Russia High-Tech Aid to Thwart Sochi Terror

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U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks with his Russian counterpart during a NATO meeting for defense chiefs in Brussels, Jan. 21, 2014. Dempsey is on a three-day trip where he is slated to meet with his NATO and Russian counterparts. DOD photo by U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Daniel Hinton  
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U.S., Russian Leaders Discuss Afghanistan, Sochi, History

By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service
BRUSSELS, Jan. 21, 2014 – Two tankers who as young men could have squared off against each other on the East German border sat in the Russian Embassy here today and talked about ways their two nations could cooperate.

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mikenova shared this story from NYT > World. Military officials from both countries are discussing the use of sophisticated American equipment designed to counter improvised explosive devices. 

U.S. and Russia Discuss Olympic Security

By THOM SHANKERJAN. 21, 2014

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Начальники генштабов России и США обсудили проблемы безопасности Зимней Олимпиады - Московский комсомолец
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Начальники генштабов России и США обсудили проблемы безопасности Зимней Олимпиады
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«Я думаю, у нас есть возможность для развития наших отношений в областях, где наши интересы сходятся», — сказал генерал Демпси. Он подчеркнул, что Москва является важным партнером, предоставляющим коммуникационные линии для миссии НАТО в Афганистане. Россия ...
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Глава российского Генштаба генерал Валерий Герасимов встретился в Брюсселе со своим американским коллегой Мартином Дэмпси. Оба политика приняли участие в заседании совместной рабочей группы по военному сотрудничеству России и США, сообщает телеканал "Россия 24".
Участники заседания говорили о проблемах глобальной безопасности, в частности, о ситуации в Сирии, Афганистане и о противоракетной обороне. Кроме того, по предложению Демпси стороны обсудили, как отпраздновать 70-летие встречи союзников на Эльбе, которое его будут отмечать в будущем году. По итогам встречи был подписан меморандум об утверждении рабочего плана двустороннего военного сотрудничества России и США на 2014 год. По оценке Валерия Герасимова, оно развивается позитивно. 
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ООН: урегулирование в Афганистане требует сотрудничества ОДКБ и НАТО - РИА Новости
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ООН: урегулирование в Афганистане требует сотрудничества ОДКБ и НАТО
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МОСКВА, 22 янв — РИА Новости. Проблемы мирного урегулирования в Афганистане требуют более тесного международного содействия, поэтому ОДКБ и НАТО в перспективе могут найти возможности для сотрудничества, заявил в интервью РИА Новости спецпредставитель...
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Начальники генштабов НАТО обсудят операции в Афганистане и Косово, партнерство с Россией
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БРЮССЕЛЬ, 22 января. /Корр. ИТАР-ТАСС Александр Шишло/. Начальники генеральных штабов 28 стран-членов НАТО, собирающиеся на двухдневную встречу в Брюсселе, обсудят будущее операций в Афганистане и Косово, партнерство с российскими военными, а также... 
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from www.kremlin.ru
January 21, 2014, 21:30
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Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with President of the United States Barack Obama on the American side’s initiative. The two presidents had a substantive discussion concerning the international conference on Syria, opening on January 22 in Montreux.
In addition, Mr Putin and Mr Obama touched on several other current issues, including the implementation of the agreements reached in November 2013 on settling the Iranian nuclear problem.
The two leaders exchanged views on further developing Russian-US relations with a focus on trade and economic cooperation.
The conversation was business-minded and constructive in nature.
January 21, 2014, 21:30

Obama and Putin talk Sochi security, Syria

 By Carrie Dann, NBC News

 President Barack Obama spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday amid safety concerns about the upcoming Olympic games in Sochi. 
The White House said the two men "discussed how best to advance shared U.S.-Russian interests, including a safe and secure Sochi Olympics, for which the United States has offered its full assistance." 
Russian security officials are working to thwart what they believe to be planned terror attacks on the Olympic torch relay by "black widows" -- would-be suicide bombers who are the wives of militants killed by police. 
Obama and Putin also spoke about the situation in Syria and efforts to roll back Iran's nuclear program, the White House said. 

 They discussed the situation in Syria, including preparations for the Geneva II conference and the ongoing international program to remove and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.  They discussed U.S.-Russian cooperation in the P5+1 process on Iran and the start this week of implementation of the Joint Plan of Action, which will halt progress on Iran’s nuclear program and roll it back in key respects.

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Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talking to U.S. military personnel in Tokyo last April.
Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talking to U.S. military personnel in Tokyo last April.

Gen. Dempsey: Better To Get Others To Solve Their Own Problems

by TOM BOWMAN
January 17, 2014 2:27 PM

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Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov - From Wikipedia

(Russian: Вале́рий Васи́льевич Гера́симов; born 8 September 1955) is the current Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia, and first Deputy Defence Minister, replacing Nikolay Makarov. He was appointed by President Vladimir Putin on 9 November 2012

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Gerasimov was appointed Chief of General Staff following the dismissal of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov on 6 November 2012.[5] The previous Chief of General Staff, Army General Nikolay Makarov, was seen as close to Serduykov and was seen by commentators as likely to be replaced by new Defence Minister Sergey Shoygu. It has been reported that Makarov resigned, but he was formally dismissed by President Vladimir Putin. 

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