May 11, 2009 By Citizen M

RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – May 11, 2009

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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 willhit 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.