Russian Anti-Americanism: A Priority Target for U.S. Public Diplomacy

Posted by Matt in February 25th, 2010 | no comment

Published in Anti-Americanism, Russia, Anti-Americanism, Central Europe, Cold-War, Decline, democracy, Foreign Policy, Freedom, Information Warfare, kremlin, Partial Success, Policy Goals, Priority Target, Propaganda, Public Diplomacy, Radio Broadcasting, Russia, Russian Government, Soviet Satellites, Soviet States, Traditional Tv

The Kremlin is using anti-Americanism as a strategic tool for pursuing domestic and foreign policy goals. Through media controlled or owned by the state, the Russian government is deliberately spreading poisonous anti-U.S. propaganda at home and abroad, blaming many of Russia’s problems on the West, particularly the United States. The partial success of this policy [...]

Russian military calls US missile defense a threat – washingtonpost.com

Posted by Matt in February 9th, 2010 | no comment

Published in general, Central Europe, Military Officer, Missile Defense Plans, Missiles, Nikolai Makarov, Russia, Russian Military, Russian National Security

U.S. missile defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms control treaty with Washington, Russia’s top military officer said Tuesday.
Gen. Nikolai Makarov said that a revised U.S. plan to place missiles in Central Europe undermines Russia’s national defense, rejecting Obama administration promises that the plan [...]

Loan Crisis Looming in Eastern Europe?

Posted by Matt in June 9th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Europe, Asia Crisis, Banking Crisis, Brink, Central And Eastern Europe, Central Europe, Currency Reserves, Eastern Europe, Ebrd, Economists, Emerging Europe, European Bank For Reconstruction And Development, Fallout 2, Financial Crisis, Forbes, Foreign Currency, Global Financial Crisis, guardian, Neighbors, Npls, Peg, Reconstruction, Risk Loans, Western Banks

Some €180 billion in loans are ‘at risk’ in Central and Eastern Europe. If they went bad, could Western banks afford it? Should the West intervene now?
Nobody knows just how fast these “at-risk” loans are turning into NPLs, just that they are. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), which warned of a potential [...]

Global Trend: The Russian Resurgence

Posted by Matt in February 5th, 2009 | no comment

Published in Russia, Adversarial Relationship, Baltics, Buffer Zone, Central Asia, Central Europe, Commodity Production, Currency Reserves, Debt Default, Economic Capability, Economic Challenges, Financial Edge, Global Recession, Global Trend, Myriad Tools, Population One, Relative Terms, Reserve Funds, Ruble Crash, Russian Power, Term Prognosis

Russian power is in long-term decline. Compared to the Soviet Union in 1989, the Russian Federation has less than half the population, one-third the economic bulk, lower commodity production and vastly decreased industrial output. Demographically, Russia is both shrinking and aging at rates that have not been seen outside of wartime since the time of [...]

Russia welcomes Barack Obama with deployment of nuclear-capable missiles

Posted by Matt in November 6th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, U.S., American Speech, Baltic, Barack Obama, Borders, Central Europe, Deliberate Attempt, Deployment, Exclave, Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Medvedev, Missile Defence Shield, Obama, Poland, President Elect, Retaliation, Russia, Surface Missiles

In what appeared to be a deliberate attempt to rattle the president-elect, Mr Medvedev said that short-range Iskander surface-to-surface missiles would be stationed in Russia’s baltic exclave of Kaliningrad, which borders EU states Poland and Lithuania.
Delivering his most aggressively anti-American speech yet, Mr Medvedev said he was ordering the deployment in retaliation to a missile [...]

Will Russia Force Rebirth of Realism?

Posted by Matt in August 23rd, 2008 | no comment

Published in Russia, American Foreign Policy, Aspirations, Central Europe, invasion, Missile Defense Systems, NATO, Radio Free Europe, Realism, Rebirth, Russia, Russian Support, Scheunemann, Senator Mccain, Ukraine

To understand just how unsettling Russia’s invasion of Georgia is to American foreign policy, it’s useful to highlight a short exchange that Senator McCain’s leading foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann had with a reporter from Radio Free Europe in April.
Scheunemann was asked whether the U.S. should be willing to “trade off” Georgia and Ukraine’s NATO [...]

Russia to double ICBM tests in 2008

Posted by Matt in May 5th, 2008 | no comment

Published in Military, Russia, Central Europe, Central Russia, Designation, Direct Hit, Electromagnetic Pulse, Icbm, Laser Weapons, M Series, Missile Defense System, NATO, Nuclear Blast, Ss, Topol, Topol-M

The Topol-M series, which has the NATO reporting designation of SS-27, has a range of around 7,000 miles and the ability to evade any future U.S. missile defense system deployed in central Europe.
The system is reportedly capable of withstanding a direct hit from laser weapons, electromagnetic pulse and a nuclear blast, the report said.
Solovtsov said [...]