Obama’s smart strategic move on target

U.S. President Barack Obama’s decision to scrap a planned anti-missile system in Poland and the Czech Republic on Sept. 17 was a bold gesture that may help improve relations between the United States and Russia. It will also have positive repercussions for European peace and security. Many Western European governments, which had been cool from the outset to a unilateral U.S. project they regarded as gratuitiously provocative towards Russia, greeted the American decision with relief.

Nato allies divided over Ukraine and Georgia

Washington and several of its European allies were divided last night over how to respond to Georgia’s and Ukraine’s bids to join Nato and over whether to resume high-level Nato-Russia contacts frozen because of the Russian invasion of Georgia in August.

Moscow: Medvedev talks about Russia’s war with Georgia and US relations

They say, Russia was preparing for war – that’s a lie! The Defence Minister called me at 1 a.m. and said, the Georgians have told the Ossetians that they were starting a war.”… “The concept that the U.S. State Department embraced is pure ideology. We all need to take effort and drive ideology away from foreign policy. The current U.S. administration’s problem is that they have too many sovietologists.” – Medvedev

Putin says Russia to react to NATO Black Sea build-up

Russia will react to a build-up of NATO naval forces in the Black Sea, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin cautioned on Tuesday, quoted by Russian news agencies, according to AFP.

“The reaction will be calm without any hysteria. But there will…

Georgia crisis defined new Russian policy – Lavrov

Russia`s decision to send troops to Georgia has set a new standard for defending its national interests and the United States must learn to live with it, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday, according to Reuters.

Russia crushed its southern…

West speaks out against breakaway republics’ independence

A number of Western countries have voiced their opposition against Russia’s decision to recognise the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

A French Foreign Ministry spokesman said: “We consider this is a regrettable decision and…

Alex Jones: I am ashamed as an American

“I’m ashamed as an American. My country has been taken over by a private international military industrial complex, and they launched a sneaky attack on the Russian enclaves,” says Alex Jones, an investigative journalist from infowars.com.