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04.08.2006 BAZ 10 Das ukrainische Parlament hat Viktor Janukowitsch als neuen
Ministerpräsidenten bestätigt ... Voraussetzung .. war die Unterzeichnung
eines Paktes der Nationalen Einheit, die die prowestliche Politik des
Präsidenten festschreiben soll
29.08.2006 Pravda 10 The USA is ready to consider the issue of imposing sanctions against
Russian defense enterprises. Russia in its turn is not ready to support USA‘s
suggestion to use non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles against
terrorists
06.09.2006 Yahoo 10 Russia, the only major world economy not in the WTO, said its negotiations
with the US on joining the body were deadlocked and threatened to pull out of
the talks
12.09.2006 Independent 10 Russia has broken what it regarded as an unfriendly European Union
blockade of Kaliningrad by opening a sea route to connect the heavily
militarised Russian enclave with "the motherland" for the first time
14.09.2006 BAZ 10 Janukowitsch [Ukraine] hat in Brüssel die Nähe der Europäischen Union
gesucht und ist auf Distanz zur NATO gegangen
26.09.2006 Moscow News 10 A plan to give Europe access to a substantial amount of natural gas from the
giant Shtokman field originally earmarked for the US market is a direct
consequence of US policy toward Russia on WTO membership and
sanctions on Russian defense exports
29.09.2006 Independent 10 Georgia arrested 4 Russian army officers and an NCO and accused them of
forming a spy ring bent on undermining the country's pro-Western gov.
29.09.2006 Pravda 10 Georgian authorities have detained five Russian military officers and 12
others on spying charges, and Interior Ministry forces continued surrounding
Russian military headquarters in Tbilisi Wednesday to demand the handover
of another Russian
29.09.2006 Times 10 Russia told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council last night that
the arrest in Georgia of five Russian officers and other actions were
unacceptable and dangerous provocations, and asked members to demand
that the country exercise restraint and refrain from actions that could threaten
peace in the region
30.09.2006 X 10 Russia took measures against Georgia yesterday that usually precede
military action. The Russian ambassador was recalled, and today the
evacuation military and embassy personnel begins
30.09.2006 Times 10 A court in Tbilisi ordered the four Russian army officers to be detained for 2 mo. on
spying charges last night, along with 7 Georgians accused of treason
30.09.2006 LA Times 10 Bush Hails 'Free' Kazakhstan - Nazarbayev, who first visited the Oval Office
as Kazakhstan's chief executive when Bush's father was president, has
become one of the current administration's favored allies in a troubled region -
Kazakhstan is just about a s free as Iran under the Shah, Germany under
02.10.2006 Int Herald
Tribune
Hitler etc
10 Putin has denounced Georgia's arrest of Russian officers as "state terrorism,"
but ordered the withdrawal of Russian troops from the neighboring country to
continue as planned ... the commander of Russian military forces in Georgia
said his troops had been put on high alert and ordered to shoot to kill to
defend their bases
03.10.2006 Moscow 10 Georgia sought to defuse diplomatic tensions with Russia by allowing four
Times
military officers arrested on suspicion of espionage to return to Russia
03.10.2006 Moscow Times 10 Moscow real estate prices broke through the symbolic ceiling of $4,000/m²
04.10.2006 Hindu 10 Russia has imposed a total economic blockade on Georgia even as the latter
decided to release the four Russian military officers whose arrest on spy
charges last week triggered the worst crisis between the two countries ...
Putin said he held the US responsible for encouraging Georgia's anti-Russian
policies
13.10.2006 Asian Times 10 Gazprom announcement said that Shtokman gas would now be sent mostly through
the North European Gas Pipeline that is being constructed under the Baltic Sea with
German collaboration, rather than shipped as liquefied gas to the US as originally
planned. This decision, the statement said, was "proof that the European market is
the most important for the company"
21.10.2006 Independent 10 Putin, gave no ground to EU leaders as he used a summit to defend
Moscow's treatment of foreign oil firms and warned Georgia that its actions
could prompt "bloodshed"
25.10.2006 Reuters 10 Putin told he would retain political influence after he steps down in 2008, but
stopped short of defining what role he might take on