INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM MONITOR—PAPER NO. 637 Global Geopolitics Net Sites B.RAMAN The hasty return of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to Moscow from his tour of Siberia speaks of the seriousness with which he views the two suicide bombings in the Moscow Metro on the morning of March 29,2010, for which responsibility is reported to have [...]
Russia Goes Uranium Mining Around the World
March 31, 2010 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Alexandra Terentieva IDN-InDepth NewsInterview MOSCOW (IDN) – Russia’s hunger for uranium is apparently insatiable. In fact, Vadim Zhivov, the director general of ARMZ Uranium Holding Company (ARMZ), AKA Atomredmetzoloto – one of the leaders in the world uranium mining industry – fears that the country might be faced [...]
MIDDLE EAST: US, Russia To Iran ‘Send Your Uranium To Turkey, Otherwise . . .’
November 17, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN BY FAREED MAHDY* IDN-InDepthNews Service ISTANBUL (IDN) – No wonder that Middle East events always run at high speed, being as it is the most conflictive region on Earth — in just few days, a “Turkish” solution to Iranian nuclear stand has appeared on the horizon. U.S. and Russia [...]
RUSSIA: The Language of Influence Weakens
September 16, 2009 By
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Sep 16 (IPS) – Nearly all of the former Soviet republics have adopted native languages that were suppressed during the communist era at the expense of Russian. This is affecting Russia’s influence over the commonwealth of independent states. For more than seven decades, the [...]
START – A New and More Durable ‘Prague Spring’
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IDN By Jayantha Dhanapala* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint WASHINGTON DC (IDN) – The long awaited and successful conclusion of the nuclear arms control treaty negotiations between the U.S. and the Russian Federation – which together have 95 percent of the nuclear weapons in the world – must surely be welcomed. It is [...]