The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

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Medvedev continues to make waves in America's backyard.

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Russian President Visits Cuba

Medvedev reaches Cuba: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jt5Hpm5MuQ

Medvedev and Chavez: long-haul partnership: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7nCIv9jn_U

Medvedev aims to boost trade with Brazil: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7i28LMgn-k

Medvedev visits Latin America: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI8RFmiyJ9o

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev is visiting Cuba to revive ties with the former Soviet Union's Cold War ally. President Medvedev arrived in the capital, Havana, Thursday on the last stop of a Latin America tour. He met with President Raul Castro and visited a new Russian Orthodox cathedral in Havana. It is not clear whether the Kremlin leader will also meet ailing former President Fidel Castro. Russian officials say Mr. Medvedev's tour, which also took him to Venezuela, Brazil and Peru, is meant to boost trade. They deny it is meant to provoke the United States in its traditional sphere of influence. This marks the first visit to Cuba by a Russian leader since 2000, when then-President Vladimir Putin traveled to the island. Russia had been Cuba's main benefactor during the Cold War, but the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 battered Cuba's economy. Mr. Medvedev traveled to Cuba from Venezuela. On Wednesday, Russia and Venezuela signed a series of agreements, including a deal to work together to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Russian warships that sailed into a Venezuelan port Tuesday are also scheduled to conduct joint exercises with the Venezuelan navy beginning December first. In Brazil, President Medvedev met with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Both leaders agreed that Russia should host a summit of the world's four leading emerging market nations, Brazil, Russia, India and China next year. The two presidents also agreed to boost military cooperation and diversify trade. Mr. Medvedev said he hopes to double trade with Brazil in the coming years. Mr. Medvedev was also in Peru during the recent summit of Pacific Rim countries.

Source: http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-11-27-voa71.cfm

Russia, Venezuela ink nuclear cooperation deal

Russia and Venezuela have signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement, the Russian state nuclear corporation said on Thursday. The deal was signed by Venezuelan Energy and Petroleum Minister Rafael Dario Ramirez Carreno and Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko on Wednesday in the presence of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez. The document provides a framework for cooperation in thermonuclear fusion, the safety of nuclear facilities and radiation sources, as well as the design, development, construction, operation and decommissioning of research reactors and nuclear power plants. It also deals with the use of radioisotopes in industry, medicine, and agriculture, the prospecting and development of uranium deposits, and the development of nuclear infrastructure. Dmitry Medvedev arrived in the Venezuelan capital late on Wednesday for a two-day visit, the first by a Russian head of state for 150 years. The two countries also signed a 25-year intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in oil, gas and power generation.

Source: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081127/118575001.html

Russia's Medvedev's Tough Guy Act

This story was written by CBS News reporter Alexsei Kuznetsov in Moscow. Appearances can be deceiving. Six months ago, when Dmitry Medvedev was inaugurated as Russia’s new president, many hoped there would be a thaw in U.S.-Russia relations. The soft-spoken lawyer has never worked for the KGB. His reputation as a liberal seemed to contrast sharply with his predecessor, Vladimir Putin. However, for the past six months it seems that President Medvedev has been working hard to dismantle his liberal image and revive memories of the Cold War. Putin had a reputation for being tough, but it was under Medvedev that Russia used excessive force against Georgia, occupying part of its territory and crushing its military. Medvedev then defied world opinion by accusing the United States of instigating the war and by recognizing the independence of Georgia's two separatist regions.

The Cold War rhetoric continued with the Kremlin blaming the United States for the global financial crisis. "Russia has warned many times of the potentially negative situation that had built up in the American financial system, and that has now transformed into a full-scale international financial crisis," Medvedev said. Moscow has pursued close ties with countries like Venezuela and has even sent warships to the Caribbean for joint naval exercises. The latest from President Medvedev is a threat to deploy missiles on the border with Poland as a response to the U.S. missile-defense program in eastern Europe. It is the first time in decades that Russia's leader has officially announced his readiness to target a NATO country with tactical weapons. "The Iskander missile system will be deployed in the Kaliningrad region in order to neutralize, if necessary, the missile defense system," he said. Medvedev's ultimatum was widely acclaimed, not only behind Kremlin walls, but also in the streets.

Many Russians see this as an opportunity for the country to expand its military influence over Europe. "It gives Russia a perfect pretext to deploy its missiles in Kaliningrad, so that we could blanket Europe if need be," said one Russian. Russia’s parliament also fully supports the president on this issue. "You need two to dance a tango," said Konstantin Kosachyov, Chairman of the International Affairs Committee in the Russian Parliament. "And in case the other side continues to be assertive - we have no space to be more liberal, more cooperative. We have to protect our national interests." Iskander missiles have a declared range of only 175 miles, but Russian top brass insist that the range could be extended in order to strike the proposed radar installation in the Czech Republic. Medvedev’s message was delivered just hours after Barack Obama was elected - an unmistakable signal to the incoming U.S. administration. The two leaders are certain to discuss the possibility of a new arms race when they have their first meeting. Whether or not Obama decides to go ahead with missile defense in Europe, the outcome of the summit will set the tone for the next chapter in U.S.-Russian relations.

Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n4631526.shtml

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Russia-Venezuela exercises begin

Caribbean war games dubbed successful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp-PFP75hsQ

The Venezuelan and Russian navies have begun joint exercises in the Caribbean Sea, close to US territorial waters. The three-day operation marks the first time that the Russian fleet has been in the area since the end of the Cold War. The Russian navy says it will include anti-aircraft defence, and tactics to combat terrorism and drug-trafficking. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev recently completed a tour of Latin America that was intended to strengthen his country's influence in the region. Last week, he and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez signed a deal to promote the development of nuclear energy for civilian use.

Balance of power

About 1,600 Russian and 700 Venezuelan sailors on four Russian ships and 12 Venezuelan vessels are expected to participate in the VenRus 2008 joint exercise in neutral waters over the next three days. The Russian ships, led by the missile cruiser Peter the Great and three support vessels, left the port of La Guaira at dawn on Monday along with three Venezuelan frigates. Ahead of the operation, Venezuelan and Russian officials rejected suggestions that they were aimed at "third countries". "This series of exercises aims to evaluate the skills and capabilities of the fleets of both nations to fight against terrorism and drug-trafficking," said Russian Vice-Admiral Vladimir Korolev, deputy commander of the Northern Fleet. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has also dismissed the impact of the Russian naval deployment. "A few Russian ships [are] not going to change the balance of power," she said.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7759892.stm

Russian naval task force starts deployment in Caribbean

Russia's naval task force from the Northern Fleet has started deployment in the southern Caribbean in preparation for joint exercises with the Venezuelan navy, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Monday. The task force, led by the Pyotr Veliky missile cruiser, is on a planned visit that follows a two-month tour of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, which saw Russian ships visiting Libya, Turkey and France. "The Northern Fleet's task force left the Venezuelan port of La Guaira at 15:00 Moscow time [12:00 GMT] and began deployment in the southern part of the Caribbean," Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said. Russian and Venezuelan warships will start in a few hours a series of joint naval exercises, dubbed VenRus-2008, in the Caribbean, involving sea rescue operations, maneuvering, and live-ammunition artillery drills. The Russian naval group also includes the Udaloy class destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and two support vessels with a total of about 1,600 naval infantrymen on board. Three frigates, a transport amphibious vessel, four patrol boats, four coastal defense vessels, several naval aviation units, and a Su-30MK2 fighter squadron will take part in the exercise on the Venezuelan side. The two-day exercises will be conducted in line with bilateral agreements and in accordance with international maritime law. They will be held in an area beyond Venezuela's territorial waters, about 150 nautical miles from the South American country's coast. All shipping in the area will be halted for the duration of the exercises.

Source: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081201/118634648.html

Some more pictures from the naval exercise VenRus 2008:

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Russia test launches ICBM from White Sea, hits Kamchatka target

US concept of uncontested nuclear strike not feasible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpBW3QIkFqM

The Dmitry Donskoi Typhoon-class strategic nuclear-powered submarine has carried out another test launch of a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, a Defense Ministry source said on Friday. "The Bulava was launched from a submerged position in the White Sea toward a target located at the Kura test site on the Kamchatka Peninsula," the source said. He later said it had successfully engaged its designated target on the Kamchatka Peninsula about 6,700 kilometers (4,200 miles) east of Moscow. The previous test of the Bulava missile was carried out on September 18. Russia is planning to adopt new Bulava missiles for service with the Navy and commission the first Borey-class strategic nuclear submarine in 2009. The Bulava (SS-NX-30), developed by the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology, is designed for deployment on Borey-class Project 955 nuclear-powered submarines. The first submarine in the series, the Yury Dolgoruky, was built at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Arkhangelsk Region and is currently undergoing sea trials. The submarine has a length of 170 meters (580 feet), a body diameter of around 13 meters (42 feet), and a submerged speed of about 29 knots. It will be equipped with 16 Bulava ballistic missiles, each carrying up to 10 nuclear warheads and having a range of 8,000 kilometers (5,000 miles).

Source: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081128/118602949.html

Bulava Missiles in Mass Production

One more launch of the Bulava intercontinental missile is planned for this year and mass production of the missile will begin in 2009, simultaneously with the end of trials, Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov told the government presidium, Interfax reports. The latest test of the Bulava occurred on November 28, when the sea-based intercontinental missile performed successfully from start to finish, the military states. Most of the previous launches were unsuccessful, calling the missile’s battle-readiness into question. The Russian military plans to make the Bulava the main weapon on board the new Project 955/995A Borei submarines that are now being built at the Sevmash plant. The first vessel was christened the Yury Dolgoruky. It successfully fired up its atomic engine on November 21. Now the submarine is making its first sea journey for tests before it comes on duty next year. More submarines of that model will begin to appear in the Russian arsenal in 2010.

Source: http://www.kommersant.com/p-13665/ar...ulava_missile/

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Russia Cements Relations with Bahrain

Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and H.M. Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, passed a joint statement about the intent to strengthen friendly relations of both countries. The recent negotiations were the first talks of Russia’s and Bahrain's leaders in history. H.M. Sheikh Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa backed up Russia’s initiative, whereby Moscow would host the Middle East conference early next year. The king also supported Russia in its resolve to sort out all problems through political and diplomatic methods exclusively. As to the potential cooperation of Russia and Bahrain, one of the fields could be the peaceful use of nuclear energy. The memorandum of Russia and Bahrain provides for setting up the respective bilateral working teams, said Sergei Kirienko, who heads Russia’s nuclear energy Rosatom. Those teams will deliberate on training the personal for the use of civil nuclear energy. “At the request of Bahrain’s party, we intend in future to held develop their nuclear plants of low power that will enable the kingdom to control the heat balance more accurately,” Kirienko said.

Source: http://www.kommersant.com/p-13676/Bahrain_friendly/

Russia discovers large gold deposit in East Siberia

Russia's National Geological Prospecting Company announced on Tuesday the discovery of a large gold deposit in the Republic of Buryatia in East Siberia. The gold field with estimated reserves of up to 100 metric tons of gold (3 million troy ounces) was discovered at the licensed Perevalny block owned by Geomin Management, the company said. Geomin Management plans to invest up to 500 million rubles ($18 million) in 2009 in additional prospecting and survey works at the field with NGPC to act as the general geological contractor, the statement said. NGPC, which was established in 2007 and carries out prospecting using venture capital funds, is also involved in prospecting for precious metals at other fields in Siberia, the statement said.

Source: http://en.rian.ru/business/20081202/118649146.html

Russian PM Putin signs order to build Baltic Pipeline System

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed an instruction on the design and construction of the second stage of the Baltic Pipeline System, the government said on Monday. The Baltic Pipeline System-2 with an estimated cost of 120-130 billion rubles ($4.3-4.7 billion) will run from western Russia's Bryansk Region to the Leningrad Region port of Ust-Luga with a branch going to the Kirishi oil refinery. According to the document, the project will be funded through a long-term ruble-denominated bond issue by pipeline monopoly Transneft. The bonds will be placed through a private offering among state-controlled financial organizations. The Energy Ministry along with the Ministry of Economic Development, the Regional Development Ministry, the Finance Ministry, the Federal Tariff Service and state-run VEB bank are to develop a model to fund the project within three months after Transneft has submitted a feasibility study. Construction on BPS-2 is to be launched in 2009 and completed two years later. Oil will start to be transported in late 2012 with an initial pumping capacity of up to 30 million metric tons (220 million bbl), which will subsequently be raised to 50 million tons a year (367 million bbl). The Russian premier earlier proposed that foreign partners use BPS-2 and that they buy shares in BPS-2's terminal at Ust-Luga. The first stage of the Baltic Pipeline System, with a capacity of 12 million tons of oil annually and designed to transport oil from both Russia's oil-rich regions and Kazakhstan, was commissioned in 2001. Its current capacity is 75 million tons. The BPS-2 project emerged during an oil dispute between Russia and Belarus in January 2007, when Russia cut off supplies to Europe for four days via the Druzhba pipeline after Belarus refused to let Russian oil pass through the country without payment of a transit duty.

Source: http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081201/118633533.html

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Nato 'to resume ties with Russia'

Nato has agreed to a "conditional and graduated re-engagement" with Russia, the alliance's secretary general says. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said talks with Moscow, which were frozen over its war with Georgia in August, would resume. The Nato-Russian Council is not being restored, but the Nato chief said lower level talks would take place. Foreign ministers meeting in Brussels also reiterated their support for eventual Nato membership for Georgia and Ukraine. But Nato is deeply divided on the subject, and did not offer the countries their desired membership action plan (MAP). Moscow strongly opposes their ambitions to join the alliance, and some countries, like Germany, France and Italy, fear offering them MAPs would provoke Russia, correspondents say. Instead, ministers encouraged Tbilisi and Kiev to pursue reforms needed to join the alliance, without any timetable for entry. Mr de Hoop Scheffer said that all previous decisions made by Nato heads of state regarding Georgia and Ukraine still stood. "That includes very much that they will one day be members, if they so wish of course, and important to add, when they meet Nato standards," he said. The BBC's Caroline Wyatt in Brussels says it is clear that neither country will become a Nato member any time soon, and that assistance is all Nato can offer for now.

'Problematic'

Nato ministers have not revived the Nato-Russian Council, but Mr De Hoop Scheffer said they had agreed to a resumption of lower-level dialogue with Moscow. "The Nato-Russia Council will meet on an informal basis to re-engage and to have discussions on the issues on which we will agree and, I would also like to add, on the issues on which we disagree," he said. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insisted that "this is not business as usual" and that she still considered Russia's action in Georgia in the summer to be "unacceptable". Before the meeting, Ms Rice had said she broadly backed efforts to improve Nato's contacts with Russia but that some areas remained "problematic". "We should be very attentive to what the Russians are doing and are they living up to their obligations," she said. "There are certain types of activities, like military-to-military contacts, that seem to me to be problematic, when the Russian ministry is sitting in Georgian territory, in the separatist regions." Thousands of Russian troops are still stationed in Georgia's rebel regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. On Tuesday, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili warned the West of "grave risks of returning to business as usual" with Russia without holding it to account for its actions in Georgia. "If the international response is not firm, Moscow will make other moves to redraw the region's map by intimidation or force," Mr Saakashvili wrote in an article in the Wall Street Journal. In a separate development, the EU launched its mission to investigate the causes of the Georgian-Russian conflict, a spokesman for the EU's French presidency was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency.

'No shortcuts'

Nato was deeply divided on how to proceed, following the conflict over South Ossetia in the summer, correspondents say. While the US and newer Nato members, from the former Warsaw Pact, are keen to draw Georgia and Ukraine closer, others like Germany and France are wary of antagonising Russia, a key energy supplier. The war also raised doubts among many members over whether Georgia, with its disputed territories, was ready to join the bloc or remained too volatile. Ukraine has been beset by political turbulence, with the country split on Nato membership. But Nato does not want Russia to think it has a veto over who joins the alliance, our correspondent says. Ms Rice had previously said she believed in Nato's "open door policy" but that there should be "no short cuts to membership of Nato", and that both Ukraine and Georgia must first meet the organisation's admission standards. "No one wants to see a circumstance in which Ukraine and Georgia are shut out," she said. Correspondents says it will be a struggle for the alliance to prevent divisions on the issue hardening into permanent fault lines.

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7759833.stm

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Georgia, Ukraine 'not ready for NATO'

There is agreement between the Netherlands and Germany that Georgia and Ukraine must restore order in their own countries before they are considered for membership of NATO, reports the Volkskrant. According to foreign affairs minister Maxime Verhagen and Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier, candidate members must first be democratic, have no internal conflicts and have their own defence in order, says the paper. For Georgia and Ukraine this means they must first introduce reforms, such as bringing in press freedom and an independent judiciary, Verhagen told the paper. The ministers were speaking in The Hague before travelling to Brussels for a NATO meeting where the candidacy of the two countries will be discussed. America has already said Georgia and Ukraine should become NATO members as soon as possible.

Source: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archive..._ready_for.php

NATO Makes Everybody Happy

The summit of NATO foreign ministers ended yesterday in Brussels. For Russia, the main result of the meeting was that Ukraine and Georgia did not receive membership action plans and the decision was made to renew relations with Russia. NATO General Secretary Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called Russia a key player in the international arena and said the Russia-NATO Council made it possible to work together on common problems, such as Afghanistan. Scheffer added that the renewal of contacts does not mean that NATO approves of Russia’s actions in the August war in the Caucasus or that it discounts Russia’s threats to point missiles at NATO member countries. Scheffer also repeated assurances made in Bucharest to the Ukrainian delegation that that country would become a member of the alliance. “I think the level of cooperation between Ukraine and NATO will be higher than before,” Ukrainian Minister Petr Krupko told Kommersant. Party of the Regions leader Viktor Yanukovich thanked NATO for its “respect for the choice of the Ukrainian People.” Olga Gerasimyuk, a member of the Our Ukraine – People’s Self-Defense faction, stated that “fulfilling the yearlong action plan is the same as fulfilling the membership action plan, and we are doing it.” Georgian Prime Minister Grigol Mgaloblishvili told a session of the government in Tbilisi yesterday that “the irreversible process of Georgian NATO membership” has started, calling the yearlong action plan a mechanism for joining the organization. Lasha Zhvania, chairman of the Georgian parliament’s international affairs committee, explained that “A yearlong action plan will be provided every year and its results reviewed at the annual NATO summit. We see the possibility that, after one of those reviews, the alliance will make the decision to invite Georgia into NATO without a membership action plan.”

Source: http://www.kommersant.com/p1088558/R...ATO_relations/

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Obama’s teammate with shady Russian past

Members of Obama’s economic task force are already rolling up their sleeves to fight the recession. Among those due to guide America through the financial crisis is Larry Summers, who will be the president's senior financial advisor, and who, as RT found out, comes with quite a controversial past. There may be some big international stars on Obama’s new dream team, but Larry Summers is no plain professional. Not only has he run the World Bank but he served in the Clinton administration and was president of Harvard. But despite the impressive CV he’s also been a controversial figure both at home and abroad throughout his career.

“I have to say that for someone protecting the interests of the US, he was very efficient. He tried to force a model on us, which turned out to be suicidal for the Russian economy,” says economic expert Sergey Glazyev.

Summers will head the National Economic Council as Obama’s senior financial advisor. He’s known for being a keen advocate of deregulation, a policy he exported to Russia with disastrous results in the late nineties. Some who worked with him conceded he knew what he was doing, but could be blinded by his own convictions.

“There was a little bit of this attitude of ‘we know everything, and you guys don’t know anything’,” recalls Viktor Geraschenko, former Head of Russia’s Central Bank.

A number of his actions as president of Harvard caused controversy, including sexist remarks and a US$ 26-million lawsuit, again involving Russia. The university and a close friend of Summers’s settled a claim by the US government of a conflict of interest in Russia’s privatisation programme in 1990s, which allowed many to get rich quick. Sergey Glazyev says Summers’s new appointment could mean more trouble. “This is an attempt to further maintain an ineffecient financial system that is completely unbalanced, in which the US prints money and finances their spending and the rest of the world pays,” he says. When news of his appointment became known, the media began remembering the economic policies of the past, but also the scandals that have dogged Summers over the years. His record could prove to be a burden to the new administration, whose central promise was one of change and renewal.

Source: http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/34093

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Good article about the Mumbai attacks.

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Iran-Armenia gas pipeline inaugurated

Armenia officially completed on Monday the construction of a natural gas pipeline from neighboring Iran which could reduce its heavy dependence on Russian energy resources and significantly boost its electricity exports. It remained unclear, however, when Iranian gas could start flowing into the country. The pipeline’s second and final Armenian section was inaugurated in the presence of President Serzh Sarkisian and Alexei Miller, chairman of Russia’s Gazprom giant. The two men, joined by other Armenian, Russian and Iranian officials, watched as workers welded together its last pipes. Miller’s presence at the high-profile ceremony underscored the fact that the pipeline will be controlled by the ArmRosGazprom (ARG) national gas distribution company in which Gazprom holds a controlling stake. ARG has financed and carried out work on the 197-kilometer stretch running through the country’s mountainous Syunik region. In a speech during the ceremony, Miller welcomed the completion of the “very important project.” He said its implementation testifies to a “high level of political cooperation between Russia and Armenia.” Former President Robert Kocharian was also in attendance. Kocharian had inaugurated the pipeline’s first, 41-kilometer section together with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in March 2007. Speaking to the journalists, Energy Minister Armen Movsisian said the pipeline will undergo technical testing and be ready to pump Iranian gas within weeks. But he again avoided setting any dates for the start of Iranian gas supplies. The new pipeline’s operational capacity of approximately 2.3 billion cubic meters of gas per annum essentially matches the annual volume of Armenian gas imports from Russia that are carried out via Georgia. With Russian supplies meeting Armenia’s needs, the bulk of Iranian gas is expected to be converted into electricity that will then be exported to the Islamic Republic. As Movsisian pointed out, the pipeline would be vital for Armenia’s energy security in case of “force majeure situations.” The minister clearly referred to a possible disruption or termination of Russian gas deliveries to Georgia that would almost certainly affect Armenia as well. The prospect of a cut-off in Russian supplies has become even more real since the August war between Georgia and Russia. A senior Georgian official predicted last month that the Russians will at least cut back on those supplies this winter.

Source: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=183993

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It seems as if Alex Jones and Ron Paul are becoming quite popular with Russia Today... Needless to say, I see why. Alex Jones and Ron Paul are two of the increasingly rare (and endangered) voices of sanity, decency and true patriotism in America today. Listen closely to the message of these men and then pay attention to the conveyor belt bullshit that is spewed upon us all by mainstream political pundits and elected politicians... A world of difference. I wish more Americans had the decency, the common sense and the concern for this nation to listen to men like this talk about the serious ills plaguing America.

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Alex Jones on Russia Today

Our leaders have hijacked our nations: Alex Jones - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbT_3cI_pwk

Alex Jones - "What Have We Become"

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Alex Jones' website Infowars.com: http://www.infowars.com/

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Ron Paul on Russia Today

World Central Bank is on its way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnsfZwwswZE

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The only thing I dont like about Ron Paul was that he voted against a recognition of the Armenian Genocide.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYwtPbKPnn4