RUSSIA, NATO AND AFGHANISTAN: International operation in Afghanistan:...
RUSSIAN AVIATION WILL BRING NATO’S NON-LETHAL CONSIGNMENTS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN – Izvestia – August 30, 2012 – Aleksei Mikhailov [no direct link available to English translation of article] Izvestia...
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Paul Rogers – www.opendemocracy.net – October 4, 2012 Paul Rogers is professor in the department of peace studies at Bradford University, northern England. He is openDemocracy’s international-security...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: US Senate forbids Pentagon to cooperate with Rosoboronexport
[U.S. Senate forbids Pentagon to cooperate with Rosoboronexport – ITAR-TASS – RUSSIAN PRESS REVIEW – Dec. 3, 2012 – http://www.itar-tass.com/en/c142/587557.html] Itar-Tass reports on U.S. Senate...
View ArticleNATO’s Volga Airport Hits Snarl
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Nikolaus von Twickel – Dec. 12, 2012) Five months after Moscow finalized an agreement with NATO to use Ulyanovsk’s airport for transporting military equipment from...
View ArticleNEWSLINK: Dialogue with the Taliban unavoidable: New approaches are needed to...
[Dialogue with the Taliban unavoidable: New approaches are needed to regulate Afghanistan post-2014 – Russia Beyond the Headlines/VPK Daily – Anatoly Kulikov – Anatoly Kulikov is an army general and...
View ArticleGeneral: NATO Air Hub Being Tested
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Nikolaus von Twickel – Dec. 17, 2012) A planned air cargo route for NATO countries’ military equipment from Afghanistan via Ulyanovsk is being tested and should be...
View ArticleWashington Attempts to Put Relations with Moscow ‘Back on Track’
(Eurasia Daily Monitor: Volume 10, Issue 23 – Jamestown Foundation – jamestown.org – Pavel Felgenhauer – February 7, 2013) According to Russian diplomatic sources, during a meeting last weekend in...
View ArticleReflecting on 2012: A year in Moscow as the U.S. Ambassador
(Ambassador Michael McFaul – Russia Beyond the Headlines – www.rbth.ru – February 8, 2013 – Michael Mcfaul is the U.S. Ambassador in Russia) A year ago, I arrived in Moscow to represent my country as...
View ArticleNATO pullout from Afghanistan to change Central Asian strategic configuration...
(February 12, 2013 – Interfax) The terrorist activity level on the space around CIS member states is the highest in Afghanistan, CIS Anti-Terrorist Center Head Andrei Novikov said at the sixth meeting...
View ArticleAfghanistan may be threat to Russia’s security after 2014 – analyst
(Russia Beyond the Headlines – rbth.ru – Interfax – interfax.ru – February 14, 2013) After the planned withdrawal of U.S. forces and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) from Afghanistan,...
View ArticleNo Plans to End US Cargo Transit via Russia – Deputy FM
MOSCOW, February 19 (RIA Novosti) – Russia has no plans to end US cargo traffic to Afghanistan via its territory despite differences in relations between the two states, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister...
View ArticleUlyanovsk Hub Not Getting Much Use by NATO
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Nikolaus von Twickel – February 21, 2013) NATO and Russia pride themselves on cooperation over Afghanistan and the fight against terrorists and pirates, but a...
View ArticleCoalition force in Afghanistan has not carried out its tasks – Russian...
(Interfax – April 1, 2013 – Brussels) – One cannot speak of the fulfillment of the mandate issued by the UN Security Council to the coalition force in Afghanistan, Russian ambassador to Afghanistan...
View ArticleAfghan heroin claims over 1 mln lives since NATO operation began in 2001 –...
(Interfax – MOSCOW. April 3, 2013) Over one million people have died from Afghan heroin in the world since 2001 and the NATO operation against drug production in Afghanistan is ineffective, Russian...
View ArticleRussian ambassador to Afghanistan addresses security
(Russia Beyond the Headlines/Interfax – www.rbth.ru – Viktor Onuchko, Interfax – April 11, 2013) Ahead of the Russia-NATO Council meeting scheduled to take place in late April, Russia’s ambassador to...
View ArticleRussian Afghan veterans warn NATO against mistakes in pullout from Afghanistan
(Interfax – April 25, 2013) The Russian Union of Afghan War Veterans that unites many generals and officers who took part in the pullout of the Soviet limited contingent from Afghanistan are ready to...
View ArticleSenior Russian military official highlights positive cooperation with NATO
(Interfax – May 17, 2013) Russia and NATO are boosting their cooperation in a number of areas, however Russia still has concerns about US and NATO European missile defence plans, Russian Deputy Chief...
View ArticleInterfax: Russia needs ‘clear and reliable’ missile defence guarantees
(Interfax – May 24, 2013) Russia needs “clear and reliable” guarantees that US missile defences will not be aimed against it and will take “military-technical” measures in response to their deployment,...
View ArticleRussia Aims to Boost Security Alliance in Central Asia
(Moscow Times – themoscowtimes.com – Ivan Nechepurenko – May 29, 2013) Ahead of NATO’s planned withdrawal from Afghanistan next year, leaders of the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization...
View ArticleAfghanistan Focus For Better Ties with U.S. – Moscow
(RIA Novosti – MOSCOW, June 3, 2013) Russia-US relations could be improved through collaboration in Afghanistan, despite having suffered a difficult phase recently, a senior Russian MP and foreign...
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