Russia 100527 Basic Political Developments
RIA: Plane with injured Russian tourists in Turkey lands in Moscow
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RIA: Plane with injured Russian tourists in Turkey lands in Moscowhttp://en.rian.ru/russia/20100527/159175470.html 05:3727/05/2010 A Russian emergencies ministry Il-76 plane with 21 injured Russian tourists from Tuesday's bus crash in the southwest of Turkey landed at the Domodedovo airport in Moscow. On early Tuesday morning, a bus with 39 Russian tourists and two Turks en route from the resort of Alanya to the town of Pamukkale veered off the road and plunged 15 meters into the Aksu River killing 15 people, including 13 Russians, and injuring the rest. "All injured people, evacuated to Moscow, are in stable condition," Igor Yakirevich, a doctor with the Russian Emergencies Ministry, said. President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered Russia's Emergencies Ministry to help the Russian tourists injured in the crash, and to repatriate the bodies of those killed. Valery Shabanov, a senior doctor with Russia's health ministry, said that initially it was planned to take 22 injured tourists to Moscow, but the condition of one woman, hospitalized in Turkey, deteriorated at the last moment and doctors decided against transporting her for the time being. He added that besides the woman two more Russians remain in Turkish hospitals as they are in extremely critical condition, while two Russian tourists from the bus crash returned to Russia from Turkey on their own. According to preliminary investigation results, the bus crashed after the driver suffered a heart failure. MOSCOW, May 27 (RIA Novosti)
State Minister for Reintegration Temur Iakobashvili says that by demonstrating military trainings in Abkhazia, Georgia`s occupied territory, Russia tries to convince the international society that it controls situation on the ground. `By these trainings, the occupant regime wants to demonstrate to local population, that Russia controls situation in Abkhazia,` Iakobashvili said and added that these trainings are dull response to the military parade held in Tbilisi yesterday. Military trainings in Abkhazia, Georgia, will begin today and last for two days. Russian military authoirties will observe the excercises. Rustavi2 2010.05.27 10:53 Moscow News: Azerbaijan bans five Russian politicianshttp://www.mn.ru/international/20100527/187845784.html Source Andy Potts at 27/05/2010 Five members of Russia’s Duma have been declared ‘persona non grata’ by Azerbaijan after they acted as observers for parliamentary elections in the disputed province of Nagorno-Karabakh. A foreign ministry spokesman in Baku said the decision was final, but might be reviewed if the five admitted their presence was an act of “deliberate malice”, RIA Novosti reported. The province of Nagorno-Karabakh, which has a large Armenian population, became de facto independent after a war in the early 90s, but Baku insists that the territory should be returned to Azerbaijan. This frozen conflict remains a source of tension between Azerbaijan and neighbouring Armenia.
The so-called Armenian lobby is indeed powerful, but it does not get its way on every issue, In this case, I believe the priorities of the Obama Administration simply lie elsewhere. Do you think it is justified to consider this US attitude to the Karabakh problem a demonstration of the overall course of the US administration on reducing fight with Russia for the influence in the former USSR space, which has had a significant impact on Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan and some other post-Soviet countries? Russia and the US have not been "fighting" over the former Soviet space, but for the past two decades have had differences over the region's future, including Azerbaijan, and each sees the region differently from a security perspective. Russia believes it has privileged interests in these countries and seeks a major political and economic role in most of them, The Bush Administration hoped that these countries would eventually become free market democracies and eventually integrate into Western structures such as NATO and the European Union. The Obama Administration has not formally abandoned those goals - at least over the long term - but they have put them on the backburner due to regional political problems and the fact that they alienated Moscow. The White House would prefer for now to work directly on its bilateral agenda with Moscow instead. All of these comments apply to Azerbaijan, of course. I would expect an increase in Russian economic and political activity there.
Moscow regards NATO as a potential threat. I do not believe it would ever agree to Azerbaijan or Georgia joining NATO. Can the process of the Karabakh conflict settlement be promoted through the recently intensified Russian-Turkish interaction? That is possible, and their engagement may even be constructive, but stability is above all the responsibility of the nations of the South Caucasus. Anyway, do you think Armenia may approve Turkey’s intention to become a direct mediator in the conflict solution? Turkey can indeed play a productive role in principle, but the legacy of mistrust with Armenia is longstanding and deep. Overcoming this legacy to the extent that it could be seen as an honest broker would be quite difficult. By the way, another regional superpower – Iran- also expresses intention to mediate along with Turkey. What can you say about it? Iran quite understandably wishes to be a major power in the region, including in Karabakh. My own view, however, is that the Iranian leadership is too preoccupied with the rising international pressure against its nuclear program and its increasing fragile domestic stability to devote much time to the crisis. Do you permit possible escalation of tensions around the Karabakh conflict with the repetition of 2008 events? While such a development is possible, I think Russia learned from the adverse international reaction to its 2008 invasion of Georgia and will not rely on military force again in the region anytime soon. The deepening of political and economic influence, however, is another matter. How do you think Moscow may react to the possible accession of the regional countries to the Euroatlantic structures? May Russia accept Azerbaijan and Georgia’s membership in NATO in any circumstances? Moscow regards NATO as a potential threat. I do not believe it would ever agree to Azerbaijan or Georgia joining NATO. Leyla Tagiyeva News.Az May 26, 2010 Yüklə 244 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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