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With Argentina and Brazil opposing the Venezuelan Mercosur presidency, as well as severe economic problems facing the region, hope for a genuinely progressive Mercosur looks increasingly threatened. Marcelo Montes , professor of international relations at the National ...
... entered into historic strategic alliance, which continued to grow under presidents Dilma Rousseff and Dmitry Medvedev and led to commerce in oil extraction, the exploration of outer space, aerospace cooperation and the sale of Russian military hardware to Brazil. Moreover, Brazil is now a major exporter of meat and other agricultural products to Russia. However, the relationship could obtain greater status if it were given a higher media profile like the Brazil-China alliance has been. After all, Russian ...
The official motto of the Brazilian Navy is “Protegendo nossas riquezas, cuidando da nossa gente” (Protecting our riches and taking care of our people). Whereas the latter part is almost philosophical, the former emphasizes the important role of the navy for the country ...
At the 2014 BRICS summit in Brasília, which was attended by Russian president Vladimir Putin, there was a lot of buzz in the Brazilian media that Argentina was next in line to join the organization. None of it was directly attributed to president Dilma Rousseff. Dilma, still in her first term leading the nation as the hand-picked successor of former president Luiz Inacio ...
... UNSC members was increased from 11 to 15. We support the idea of a further expansion and believe that the developing countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America are underrepresented in the UNSC. Therefore, we support the applications from India and Brazil for permanent representation in the UNSC. We believe that a permanent presence of the African continent in the council must be ensured in a similar way because, let me stress this again, the developing countries are clearly not sufficiently represented ...
As Brazil's governability crisis escalates senate president Renan Calheiros has emerged as the political operator who can best protect the institutional legitimacy of embattled president Dilma Rousseff and her fragile Worker's Party (PT) coalition government....
... War. UK air force deployment on the American military base on Ascension Island in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean also raised the question of military operations in the Antarctic involving the use of lands beyond its borders. For example, in 1986, Brazil declared its zone of interests in the Antarctic between longitudes 28°W and 53°W. Moscow and Washington took action to strengthen Antarctica’s international status by signing the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine ...
... the development of large-scale infrastructure projects is an absolute priority ( Table 1 ). Table 1. Infrastructure Development Level in BRICS countries and their Priority Partner countries (2010—2014) Russia Priority Partners (average) 1 Brazil Priority Partners (average) 2 China Priority Partners (average) 3 Number of air transport registered carrier departures (2014) 67440 22027 958782 59948,18 3,073,450 – Electricity consumption (kW per capita, 2010 – 2014) 6486 2423 ...
Impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff will only further damage Brazil's reputation Over the past few days media everywhere have been buzzing up reports that the often reticent Swiss justice ministry is investigating Odebrecht, Brazil's most prestigious and influential parastatal company, in connection with a massive ...
... West Africa will benefit. While the BRICS countries continue to act as competitors, they are striving towards cooperation. At the 2013 Summit in Durban, the BRICS countries set a new model for financing infrastructure. The 2014 meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil resulted in the creation of the BRICS New Development Bank. And the 2015 Summit in Ufa, Russia is expected to produce the Strategic Economic Cooperation initiative. All this is designed to coordinate the efforts of the BRICS countries, including ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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