... (not incidentally at Pulkovo airport, His Highness was met by Energy Minister Alexander Novak and
Director General of Russian Fund for Direct Investments Kirill Dmitriyv
), peaceful nuclear projects, joint GLONASS-based projects and arms supplies to Saudi Arabia (the Iskander-E short-range ballistic missile system). The weapons part is especially noteworthy, since it gives Russia the opportunity to fill at least a small niche in the U.S.-dominated market.
Even the official list of issues covered by the two leaders is quite meaningful given the inclusion of investment and electric power peaceful nuclear projects, joint GLONASS-based ...
... suffice it to mention its key position on commercial routes from the Red Sea across the Gulf of Aden to the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.
REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah/Pixstream
Leonid Issaev:
Yemen: Following in Afghanistan’s Footsteps?
Second, Russia might obtain some kind of leverage on Saudi Arabia, which has not been friendly to Moscow for about 20 years. Moscow is well aware that the Saudis are seriously concerned about the region. It would be rational to consider creating some pressure on the
sworn friends
. At least, the Houthi ...
... growth again, barring some exceptions, most notably the U.S.A.
“The revisions reflect a reassessment of prospects in China, Russia, the euro area, and Japan as well as weaker activity in some major oil exporters because of the sharp drop in oil prices.... ... may yield better returns in the long term. Some others would instead benefit, but deliberately chose not do so, most notably Saudi Arabia. Countries belonging to this group may be employing this strategy to gain a competitive advantage over a broader ...
... world's general diplomatic unrest, and the current outright hostile stance of Western countries towards the Russian Federation, might still suggest that there could be some truth to this view.
The Pin Attack
The other theory states that Saudi Arabia is moving not against Russia, but against American shale oil and gas, which the Arab country would see as an undesirable market competitor, especially once the shale fuels will be ready to be exported consistently from the United States, if ever. Indeed, there are some elements ...
... Russia” in a similar way
[2]
, and Iran’s former oil minister Masoud Mir Kazemi believes that the USA and Saudi Arabia are also reckoning on damaging Iran.
“Am I the only one who thinks this, or is it really an oil war in which the USA and Saudi Arabia are taking action against Russia and Iran?” writes the well-known American political commentator Thomas Friedman. He assumes that Saudi Arabia and the USA intend to “pump Iran and Russia to death”, in other words to “bankrupt them”
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“There ...
... J Street lobby claims that the RUNET (Russian Internet) is hosting servers for ISIS? http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russian-website-hosts-terror-propaganda/
Having already spent upwards of $3 trillion to “democratize” the Middle ... ... than ISIS because, as a political and religious institution, it has been around longer, and has long held the goal of removing Saudi Arabia as the center of world Islam.
Days before that statement, in a Wall Street Journal teaser article promoting his ...
... democracy,” is funded mainly by George Soros.
The New York Times sourced Levy about the latest attempt by Israel and Saudi Arabia to cooperate on a casus belli project involving their common enemy, Iran.
This budding activity has “mission ... ... Kochavi made "miscalculations".
Bandar had sealed his fate last year during his secret visit outside Moscow with Russian president Vladimir Putin. He bragged that Riyadh controlled Chechen extremists in Russia, and that he would unleash them ...
... Ukraine and Syria dominating media coverage, billions of dollars are moving around to influence the outcomes in those crises. Much of that money comes from sources who have a stake in the outcome of the FIFA investigation; Qatar and their arch rival Saudi Arabia, the United States which has pivoted to a Cold War-style posturing and Russia, which western media sets up as the “bad actor” in the Ukraine situation. Add Edward Snowden and Victor Bout to the mix and Octoberfest becomes Propgandafest. Because of this what many nations and non-government actors driven by western ...
... communities, including those who generally oppose each other, there is a common, unwritten rule that the best security is quiet, silent. You don’t see it, feel it or hear it. This view was confirmed recently by Sergey Ivanov, chief of staff for Russian Federation president Vladimir Putin, responding to questions from the international online media platform “RT.”
France is an example and it is using nuclear diplomacy to increase its global footprint. France derives around 87 percent ...
... Laboratory
,
Zakneftegazstroy-Prometheus
,
Promstroygroup
,
Energostroy
,
Initial Stage Management
, and
Globalstroy-Engineering
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Photo: g20russia.ru
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ibrahim
bin Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, Minister of Finance of
Saudi Arabia
Russian companies flocked to the KSA after the 2008 crisis, enthused by idling heaps of hard currency and their own desire to turn a profit fast.
In 2009-2011, more than 15 Russian firms that tried to launch operations in Saudi Arabia encountered setbacks....
