Daniel Flitton AUSTRALIAhas delivered a broadside toRussiaover ”cheque-book diplomacy” in the South Pacific, accusingMoscowof using foreign aid to buy support for puppet states on the other side of the world. Australiahas lodged a formal complaint with the superpower over a push to have tiny Pacific island countries accept the independence of the disputed territories South […]
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Australia Lashes Russia Over Aid
6/02/2012
Опубликовано в Australia, November-December 2011, Press Review, The South Pacific 
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