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Cooperation
With U.S. Called Key to Fighting Terror
By Simon Saradzhyan, The Moscow Times, April 23, 2004
Russia and the United States need to institutionalize
their efforts to
disrupt agents of international terrorism and proliferation of weapons
of
mass destruction before they link up to carry out attacks of catastrophic
proportions, top security analysts from both countries said Thursday.
The
Defence Minister Surrounded by Generals
Interview with Alexei Arbatov, Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the State Duma by Irina Gordyenko, Novaya Gazeta, October 20, 2003
Nobody needs such a huge army in peace time. The US Army is 1.3 million
men strong, and that is too much for the Americans, even though their
economy is ten times the size of Russia's economy
and military budget is twenty times that of Russia's
One
War Is Not Enough
By Alexei Nikolsky, Vedomosti, October 3, 2003
Alexei Arbatov (Yabloko), deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee, says this document is far
too controversial to be regarded as a military doctrine.
The
War against Terrorism and the Transformation of the
World Order, three perpesctives
By Alexei G. Arbatov, CEPS Commentary, November 2001
...two months later after the "Black September",
the weaknesses of the coalition and deficiencies of
the operation are becoming more and more evident,
as well as the confusion and inconsistency of the
United States and other major players in adopting
a new security strategy and still less in implementing
it... (Archive)
Senior MP mulls Russian role in light of US-Europe standoff.
Interview with Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin (YABLOKO), Interfax, February 10, 2003
Russia today "can and must play the role coordinator for the Euro-Atlantic community, and Russian diplomacy should focus
on putting forward ideas to help find a common position for continental Europe and America, without hurting one another's
dignity," Lukin said in a Monday [10 February] interview with Interfax.
Russia Is Not Afraid of NATO expansion
Baltic News Service, Vilnius, December 2, 2002
Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the leader of the
opposition party YABLOKO Grigory Yavlinsky forecasts that after
Lithuania enters NATO relationships between Russia and Lithuania will
improve.
Russian
MPs offer divided response to NATO expansion
RTR channel, "Parliamentary Hour" programme,
December 14, 2002
Discussion of the impact of NATO expansion to Russia
with Russian parliament members Vladimir Lukin, Konstantin
Kosachev, Gennadi Zyuganov and Lyubov Sliska
Insiders
question if Russia-NATO bonding is little more than
hype
AFP, December 8, 2002
Moscow and NATO have bonded over the past
year, yet their true military relationship still stutters
when the two Cold War foes try to do more than just
talk, NATO-Russia experts here say.
Grigory
Yavlinsky thinks that a single Russian-European security
system needs to be created as soon as possible
Alliance Media, December 3, 2002
On November 30, 2002 Grigory Yavlinsky commented in
a speech at an international conference "The
Big Europe", held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on the
problems of establishing new relations between Russia,
Europe and the USA, dictating the requirements related
to the "creation of a new joint security agenda
for Russia and Europe." "One of the key
aspects today concerns the creation of a Russian-European
anti-missile defence system for the theatre of military
actions (RE AMD or AMD TMA)," said Yavlinsky.
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