Tag: vladimir putin

Don’t buy into the hype of a “march” this weekend.

This is pretty amazing and a show of how incompetent Sarah Palin really is: The campaign of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin said the Alaska governor was unaware of a visit by Russian energy officials to Anchorage on Monday. Eight high-level officials from Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled energy conglomerate, traveled to Anchorage earlier this week to […]

That’s not what I am saying, but rather what Putin is saying: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused the United States of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia to benefit one of its presidential election candidates. In an exclusive interview with CNN’s Matthew Chance in the Black Sea city of Sochi Thursday, Putin said the […]

I guess now is the time for Dana Perino to learn history and find out exactly what the Cuban missile crisis was: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said it was time for Russia to rebuild links with former Cold War ally Cuba, news agencies reported. The Kremlin is angry at U.S. plans for […]

Looks like a picture from decades past, but instead it is from yesterday: Russia showcased its military might and youthful new president to the world Friday, as heavy tanks and missile launchers rumbled across Red Square in a Victory Day parade for the first time since the Soviet era. In a nationally broadcast speech two […]

Democracy on the march: Russian police have detained opposition leader and former world chess champion Garry Kasparov. He and other critics of President Vladimir Putin were arrested as police broke up a rally in Moscow organised by Mr Kasparov’s Other Russia coalition. Police moved in when protesters tried to march to the election commission, which […]

If we are tritely facing “world war 3”, then this should indicate the battle lines that are being drawn. All of this has occurred over the last week. 1. Putin plan to shut out US oil giants President Vladimir Putin is set to keep US oil companies out of a lucrative gas field in the […]

Well they pick the perfect person to lecture Russia: Vice President Dick Cheney, in remarks that caused a stir in neighboring Russia, accused President Vladimir Putin Thursday of restricting the rights of citizens and said that “no legitimate interest is served” by turning energy resources into implements of blackmail. “In Russia today, opponents of reform […]

Via Information Clearinghouse Putin calls for Iraq troop pullout timetable By AFP 08/18/05 “AFP” — — Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a timetable for the withdrawal of foreign military forces from Iraq. “We deem it necessary to work out a schedule for the staged withdrawal of foreign troops” in Iraq, Putin told reporters following […]