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neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Sep 23, 2008
Hope you enjoy the weather: Russian warships have set off for Venezuela for joint exercises unprecedented since the Cold War. The fleet of ships, headed by the nuclear-powered Peter the Great cruiser, set off from …
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Sep 16, 2008
The Iranian government finds this moment congenial for ratcheting up tensions in the Arabian Gulf: Iran announced Tuesday that it has put the elite Revolutionary Guards in charge of defending the country’s territorial …
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Sep 8, 2008
It was always wicked for servicemen of a certain age - my age - to miss the Cold War. Sure, we had a certain clarity of vision, and yeah, deep inside we knew that “the Russians loved their children too.” And on top of …
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Sep 1, 2008
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has laid down five principles for his country’s future foreign relations: The recognition (*cough*) of international law. A rejection of a unipolar world order. Friendly relations …
Also tagged: russia
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Sep 1, 2008
Kremlin critic shot in Ingushetia The owner of an internet site critical of the Russian authorities in the volatile region of Ingushetia has been shot dead in police custody. Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the …
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neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Aug 27, 2008
Several intertwined strands led the precipitious drop in violence in Iraq: General Petraeus’s surge of forces and the neighborhood security strategy it enabled, a decision by Moqtada Sadr to rein in his goons in the …
Also tagged: afghanistan, pakistan, gwot
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Aug 27, 2008
Russia’s foreign policy and defense establishments really don’t care for the presence of US warships in their back yard: “Let’s hope we don’t see any direct confrontation,” said Dmitri Peskov, the spokesman for the …
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Aug 26, 2008
Michael Totten walks the dog back to the house. This didn’t start on August 8th, 2008. It’s a long game: “A key tool that the Soviet Union used to keep its empire together,” Worms said to me, “was pitting ethnic …
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Aug 24, 2008
Everybody just be careful, now: A US warship has arrived in the Georgian port of Batumi carrying the first delivery of aid supplies by sea. Russian forces are still in control of the military port of Poti, to the …
Also tagged: navy
neptunuslex.com » Neptunus Lex - Aug 20, 2008
In a WSJ Op-Ed entitled, “America Must Choose”, Russia’s foreign minister lays out an unrepentant case for his country’s attack on, and occupation of, her former satellite: We started moving our troops in support of …