By Natasha Robinson AUSTRALIA is urging Russia to take a leading role in forcing regime change in Syria as Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced overnight a widening of sanctions against the Mid-East nation. Russia was uniquely placed to engineer a “transition road map” for Syria based on the Yemen model of political change and was […]
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Russia reaches ancient Antarctic lake
18/07/2012Russian scientists in Antarctica have drilled through nearly four kilometres of ice to reach a vast freshwater lake that has lain untouched for at least 14 million years. Sealed deep under the ice sheet, Lake Vostok is one of the world’s last unexplored frontiers, and scientists suspect it may reveal new life forms. It is […]
Russian Economic Reform
18/07/2012Some Russian economic policy makers and commentators seem to want to look to the Chinese economy for ideas and guidance about how to “modernize” the Russian economy. Too much concentration on China is a mistake when considering Russian economic reform. The Chinese economy is structurally quite different to the Russian economy because its small agriculture holdings […]
Australia urges Russia to support removal of Assad
18/07/2012By Hoang Dinh Nam Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr on Sunday called on Russia to support the removal of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from office, following the latest massacre which rebels blame on regime troops. “President Assad must go, and the way of getting rid of him is for Russia to exert its influence in […]
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Комментариев нет »How Australia paid $100,000 for a pole vaulter to compete for Russia
18/07/2012AUSTRALIAN sports authorities have spent thousands of dollars preparing a pole vaulter who will represent Russia against our own defending champion Steve Hooker at the London Olympics. None of the bodies involved in bringing Sergey Kucheryanu, his wife and child to Australia and supporting them for seven months at the West Australian Institute of Sport […]
Australia-Russia Relations: A Developing Partnership
18/07/2012Speech at New Economic School Moscow (check against delivery) Thank you, Dr Sergei Guriev, for your welcome. I am delighted to be at the New Economic School on my first visit to Russia as Foreign Minister. The school has served Russia’s private and government sectors since its formation in 1992 and has a reputation as […]
In the shade of a spreading cranberry
29/06/2012Author – Fedor Velyakin The circumstances of the death of Polish officers buried in sadly famous Katyn forest, has never been a secret for the residents of Smolensk. But these people never kept silence at all, they never had any reasons or motives for this. Simply nobody ever asked them and, even more do not […]
Territorial dispute between Japan and China is still going on
29/06/2012Tokyo is counting on U.S. support Beijing, September 16 (new region, Igor Scherbakov) – Japanese news portal MBS has distributed the information according to which, a few days ago near the Senkaku Islands (which the Chinese call the Diaoyu) the Chinese fishing vessel clashed with the Japanese patrol boat. According to the Japanese news agency […]
Old-growth intact problems of Russian forest policy
14/06/2012by D.F. Efremov Recently, the draft of Russian Forest Policy has been published on the website of the Federal Forestry Agency – a very urgent and expected document. Based upon its status, it is not yet final version and that, what its final editorial would be, depends on extensive participation of the professional forestry community […]
Russia – Asia-Pacific region: Dialogue of MPs
10/06/2012MOSCOW. (Sergei Mironov, the speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federal Assembly) In the beginning of every year after Christmas holidays, MPs of Asian and Pacific countries meet at an international forum to sum up the results of the previous year, exchange opinions on trends in global and regional development and outline cooperation […]