The Rise of the Russian Empire: Russo-Armenian Relations

[KarotheGreat]

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Karo, thank you for keeping us updated in this thread.

No problem Lucin jan, to bad I don't have time to keep it updated every day but summer is coming up and I'll have more time than to keep this thread alive.

[jgk3]

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No problem Lucin jan, to bad I don't have time to keep it updated every day but summer is coming up and I'll have more time than to keep this thread alive.

Thank you Karo, it is well appreciated.

[Pazooki]

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Yea, Karo

I would Love to keep it updated just tell me the website where you get the news from so I can.

[Lucin]

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No problem Lucin jan, to bad I don't have time to keep it updated every day but summer is coming up and I'll have more time than to keep this thread alive.

Karo, I sincerely wish our friend, Armenian, will come back as we all really miss him.

[KarotheGreat]

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Karo, I sincerely wish our friend, Armenian, will come back as we all really miss him.

I wish he would come back too, the place isn't the same without him?

Yea, Karo

I would Love to keep it updated just tell me the website where you get the news from so I can.

Different Russian news sites

[KarotheGreat]

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Top businessmen not immune to Putin’s wrath

Prime Minister’s personal handling of the business conflict in the town of Pikalevo has set a precedent in the public dressing-down of the country’s top businessmen for neglecting their social responsibility.
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Vladimir Putin is well known for his heavy temper and the ability to lash out with his angry words. However, previously his involvement in conflicts between business-owners hasn’t become public news, with all the hard talking done behind closed doors.

Lately this has changed. Among the latest examples of the economic stand-offs solved by the prime minister – in the style of Alexander the Great dissecting the Gordian knot, and with painful consequences to the people involved – are the price-fixing scandal with aircraft fuel and the case of Mechel last year.

But even among such episodes as these, Thursday’s trip to Pikalevo stands out. Pikalevo is a small town with one big employer, a typical situation hanging over from the Soviet economy. Some time ago, the production line was split into three separate businesses with different owners. This eventually led to a pricing conflict, raw material supply interruptions, production halts, the sacking of workers and a mounting wages debt. The situation spilled over this week, with people denied both jobs and payment for their previous work blocking a major road in protest.

On Thursday, Putin arrived on the scene and gave a really hard time to all involved. He alleged that the blocking of the road may have been paid for in order to disrupt his visit. He said the new owners have turned the factory into “a junk heap”. He accused the governor of the region of failing to do everything he could to solve the situation. And he put the blame on the businessmen for holding thousands of workers as hostages to their “ambitions, lack of professionalism and probable greed”.
After Putin stepped in, the indebted company managed to get a bank loan to pay the salaries in almost no time, and the parties resolved their points of disagreement and put the production line back in action. This all in one day, after months of stalemate.

More interesting is the fact that one of the people receiving the dressing-down was one of Russia’s most famous businessmen, Oleg Deripaska, who used to be the richest man in the country until the global financial crisis left him heavily in debt. The high-point of the show was Putin virtually arm-twisting him into signing a contract, which was needed for the factory to start working again. During the meeting, chaired by Putin, Deripaska was obviously unnerved, with cameras catching his every move and facial expression. Never before has a person of his caliber been publicly humiliated this way in modern Russia.

The experts are now confused over what this may mean. Was it the government’s signal to big business that they are not allowed to put their economic interests before social considerations? Will workers of the many troubled companies throughout Russia now be encouraged to take to the streets, expecting Putin to personally micromanage every labor conflict in the country? The situation resembles that of Dmitry Medvedev’s personal blog, which people now use, with a moderate degree of success, to report on injustices and the faults of local authorities.

[KarotheGreat]

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Russian NATO envoy says Georgia continues militarization

MOSCOW, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - Georgia is continuing to militarize even though it clearly has not ruled out using force in regard to its former republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, Russia's NATO envoy said on Friday.

"We have all the necessary information, including classified, about those who continue to deliver weapons to Georgia and at what volumes," Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio station. "This information is dispiriting."

Although he did not identify the countries involved he said that Russia is making bilateral contact to tell them that Moscow knew of the weapons deliveries.

Russia recognized Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states after last August's five-day war with Georgia, which attacked South Ossetia in an attempt to bring it back under central control. Most residents of both Abkhazia and South Ossetia have held Russian citizenship for several years.

The chief of the Russian General Staff, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, said on Friday that Georgia is now armed far better than it was when it attacked South Ossetia.

"The events in Georgia have seriously changed the situation in the south of our country and many aspects of world politics. Today, the Georgian Armed Forces have far more military hardware and weapons than they had at the moment of the beginning of their aggression last August," Makarov said.

Under mutual assistance treaties signed last November, Russia pledged to help Abkhazia and South Ossetia protect their borders, and the signatories granted each other the right to set up military bases in their respective territories.

At the time, Makarov said the Russian military bases in each republic would be fully staffed with 3,700 personnel by the end of 2009.

[KarotheGreat]

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Ukraine accuses Russia of monopolizing nuclear fuel market

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KIEV, June 5 (RIA Novosti) - The Ukrainian president on Friday accused Russia of seeking to monopolize the international nuclear fuel market.

"Our partners... are currently working actively to monopolize the uranium enrichment services market. This approach toward nuclear issues is in effect a repetition of the natural gas blackmail scenario that we saw in January," Viktor Yushchenko said.

Ukraine's four nuclear power plants generated over 90,000 GWh in 2008. The country mines uranium, but has no industrial capacity for its enrichment.

All of Ukraine's nuclear fuel is imported from Russia under an agreement that expires in 2010.

Yushchenko criticized the Ukrainian government for failing to draw lessons from the recent gas crisis and for "repeating their mistakes now in the nuclear power sector."

He stressed that the main guideline on nuclear fuel supplies to Ukraine should be "the principle of diversification."

The president accused his own government of engaging in blackmail and "backstage negotiations" in favor of Russia.

Yushchenko said the issue of diversification would be considered at a closed-door session of the National Security and Defense Council.

[Eddo211]

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Karo, I sincerely wish our friend, Armenian, will come back as we all really miss him.

This is none of my business but yea, I have read some of his post, what happened to him.................this Mullah loving Russian trusting self proclaimed King who insults Armenians in an instant who do not agree with him and he considers his brothers in US all bunch of self hating idiots.

Besides that I like to see him back too. He knows his xxxx in politics and history and he does say a lot of other things that I do happen to agree with.

[Serbian]

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Much love from Serbia, Belgrade.
We are under occupation by west fascist countrys e.u. & usa, but with every day russian power is greater, and our days of freedom are near than ever.

Peace