TagsTagsPresident Bush is now making a statement on the Russian invasion of Georgia... UPDATE at 8/11/08 2:26:28 pm: Well, that was nothing if not brief. A quote: “It is time for Russia to be true to its word, and to act to end this crisis.” No action proposed.
Here’s a press release from the United States Ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, on a disturbing statement by Russian foreign minister Lavrov that reveals Russia’s true endgame in the Georgia conflict: Remarks by Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Permanent Representative, on the situation in Georgia. I want to focus however, ...
Anne Applebaum has an interesting column on the situation in Georgia: A Threat Explodes In Georgia. Both sides have deeper motives for fighting. The Russians want to prevent Georgia from joining NATO, as Georgia, a Western-oriented democracy — George Bush has called the country a “ beacon of liberty” — ...
A very dangerous situation is getting worse, as the Russian military moves into Georgia from the west while Georgian forces are engaged in South Ossetia. TBILISI, Georgia - Russia opened a second front of fighting in Georgia on Monday, sending armored vehicles beyond two breakaway provinces and seizing a ...
The Russian military has forced Georgian troops to retreat from South Ossetia. GORI, Georgia - Georgian troops retreated from the breakaway province of South Ossetia on Sunday as their U.S.-allied government ordered a cease-fire and pressed for a truce, overwhelmed by Russian firepower in a conflict that threatened to set ...
In addition to promoting the anti-science hoax of “intelligent design,” the Discovery Institute runs a pro-Russian site called “Russia Blog,” and today they come out in favor of Russia’s brutal assault on the breakaway republic of South Ossetia: Russia Blog: War in Georgia: Yawns and Kneejerks in America. (Hat tip: Instapundit.) ...
The provincial capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, lies in ruins as Russia sends hundreds of tanks into Georgia: Russian troops raid Georgian town; scores dead. GORI, Georgia (AP) - Russia sent hundreds of tanks and troops into the separatist province of South Ossetia and bombed Georgian towns Saturday in a ...
Open war has broken out between Russia and Georgia, over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia: Russia sends forces into Georgian rebel conflict. MEGVREKISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russia sent forces into Georgia on Friday to repel a Georgian assault on the breakaway South Ossetia region and Georgia’s pro-Western president said ...
Soviet Dissident Writer Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89. MOSCOW — Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel literature prize winner who revealed the horror of Stalin’s camps to the world, died late on Sunday aged 89, Russian news agencies reported. Itar-Tass news agency quoted Solzhenitsyn’s son Stepan as saying the writer ...
LGF, Russia, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn, Nobel, Stalin, Soviet Union
Please. No. Not the enema nurses. (And you wonder why some LGF commenters say Europe is doomed?)
LGF, Weird, Weird News, Russia
Tonight’s warm, cozy news for the new year: Report Reveals Rampant Smuggling of Radioactive Materials. In a troubling disclosure, the Russian Federal Customs Service has revealed that authorities thwarted more than 850 attempts to smuggle highly radioactive materials in and out of Russia in 2007. Eighty-five percent of these smuggling ...
The bad old days of the Russian bear are back with a vengeance, as Vladimir Putin pledges to complete Iran’s nuclear reactor, and makes agreements with Caspian Sea nations to obstruct any action to stop it. President Putin forged an alliance with Iran yesterday against any military action by the ...
Here’s a detailed and interesting article at Kommersant.ru on the apparent “forcible suicide” of journalist Ivan Safronov, who was reportedly about to release an exposé on Russian arms deliveries to the Middle East: Ivan Safronov Was Killed. (Hat tip: Igor.) The Taganka prosecutor’s office in Moscow has initiated a criminal investigation ...
Russia, Kommersant, Safronov, Journalism, Middle East, Arms Sales
No, they don’t want to behead him (yet), but Iran is tossing out the IAEA’s chief nuclear inspector: Iran wants senior atom inspector out. It’s a purely symbolic gesture. He wasn’t doing anything anyway. VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran, cranking up a war of nerves with the West, has demanded the removal of ...
United Nations, Iran, France, Russia, EU, Nuclear Weapons, ElBaradei, IAEA
This is the kind of story that gives me nightmares: Russian uranium smuggler caught in Georgian-US sting. TBILISI (AFP) - Georgian authorities have imprisoned a Russian citizen for attempting to sell 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of weapons-grade uranium after a joint operation with the FBI, officials announced. Georgia’s security services arrested Oleg ...
Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, Black Market, Georgia, Russia, IAEA
We all know that the UN’s blind, toothless nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, is vehemently opposed to the very thought of any sort of military action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. But he’s also opposed to any sort of sanctions against Iran, even the weak, meaningless ones now in place: ...
United Nations, Iran, France, Russia, EU, Nuclear Weapons, ElBaradei
Whistling past the thermonuclear graveyard: Iran’s caution under sanctions eases heat at IAEA. VIENNA (Reuters) - Talk of staging a special U.N. nuclear watchdog meeting to pile pressure on Iran has abated because of its moderate response to new U.N. sanctions and a wish to avoid damaging strife within the agency, ...
United Nations, Iran, France, Russia, EU, Nuclear Weapons, IAEA
The French and the Russians are bickering over a set of utterly useless proposed sanctions against Iran: Paris warns against ‘altering’ Iran sanctions. (Hat tip: Ron.) PARIS, Dec 20, 2006 (AFP) - The French government Wednesday warned against any attempt to “alter the scope” of proposed UN sanctions over Tehran’s nuclear ...
At Eugene’s Blog: How my grandad invented the Holocaust.
On November 24, LGF noted a report that poisoned Russian intelligence agent Alexander Litvinenko had converted to Islam. Most LGF readers dismissed it as either an unfounded rumor or an attempt to grab publicity by Chechen Islamists. But it turns out to be true. Dead Russian spy to be buried as ...
The Russian thugocracy may still be fond of poisoning their enemies, or there may be even more sinister forces at work; but whoever killed Alexander Litvinenko used a very rare radioactive element to do it: Radioactive Link To Dead Spy. A large quantity of radiation, probably from a substance called Polonium ...
Russia continues to provide Iran with advanced weapons systems that will be used to protect their nuclear facilities from preemptive attack: Russia delivers air defense missile system to Iran. Russia has begun delivery of Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, a Defense Ministry official said Friday, confirming that Moscow would ...
Iran, Ahmadinejad, Nuclear Weapons, Islam, Nuclear Proliferation, Israel, Russia
Here’s some excellent news in the global war against jihad, as Shamil Basayev, the Islamic terrorist responsible for the Beslan school massacre and the Moscow theater siege, has been killed by Russian security officers.
Coming soon to a space station near you: Islam in orbit. (Hat tip: TS.) KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) - How do Muslim astronauts pray in space? Malaysia’s National Space Agency is holding a conference to consider such questions as the country prepares to send its first citizen into orbit. A nationwide competition in ...
Here’s some new information from those recently released Iraqi documents that’s not exactly surprising—but it will be interesting to watch the diplomatic fallout now that it seems to be confirmed: Pentagon: Russia Gave Saddam War Intel. BAGHDAD, Iraq — The Russian government had sources inside the American military command as ...
Iraqi Documents, Saddam Hussein, Russia, Intelligence, Espionage