RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 11, 2009
TODAY: Victory Day parade and a stern warning from Russia; Putin suggests financial crisis will determine who is to run for President; NATO games prove a spanner in the works of US-Russia restart; ‘sorry’ not good enough for ex-Standard editor
Sergei Lavrov’s meeting with Hillary Clinton has apparently reaped ‘reassuring’ results. Putin has said in an interview with the Japanese media that NATO’s military exercises are a sticking point in US-Russia relations and hopes that America will ‘hit the brake hard‘. The Prime Minister has made clear that for Russia the issues of nuclear disarmament and Washington’s planned missile-defense system are ‘inseparably bound up’. The Guardian finds Russia’s policy of polarizing Europe and NATO ‘baffling’. Putin has urged against upping the ‘emotional temperature’ and risking a renewed arms race with North Korea.
Sergei Lavrov’s meeting with Hillary Clinton has apparently reaped ‘reassuring’ results. Putin has said in an interview with the Japanese media that NATO’s military exercises are a sticking point in US-Russia relations and hopes that America will ‘hit the brake hard‘. The Prime Minister has made clear that for Russia the issues of nuclear disarmament and Washington’s planned missile-defense system are ‘inseparably bound up’. The Guardian finds Russia’s policy of polarizing Europe and NATO ‘baffling’. Putin has urged against upping the ‘emotional temperature’ and risking a renewed arms race with North Korea.