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Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle spoke about this at the Munich security conference Saturday.
He also said that Euro-Atlantic security rules must apply to the entire hemispheric swathe stretching from Canada’s Vancouver to Russia’s Vladivostok.
Mr Westerwelle emphasized the role of Russia in international crisis management and spoke about the importance of economic cooperation with Russia.
The report is from The Voice of Russia’s correspondent in Munich.
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US President Barack Obama began the official engagements of his visit to Berlin Wednesday, arriving at the palace of German President Joachim Gauck to receive a ceremonial guard-of-honour welcome.
The story line is beginning to sound familiar, too familiar. Young intelligent individual with high moral ideals attempts to expose the egregious clear and unarguable criminality of the U.S. Government, a government which is out of control and trampling on the rule of law and the rights of people worldwide, only to be villainized and forced to seek refuge and protection in a foreign country.
The second day of the Paris Air Show was marked by a demonstration flight of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet. Video report by The Voice of Russia.
Muslims in Cape Town are being asked to protest against President Obama, when he arrives next week in South Africa. The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) is trying to round up supporters for the demonstration.
US President Barack Obama began the official engagements of his visit to Berlin Wednesday, arriving at the palace of German President Joachim Gauck to receive a ceremonial guard-of-honour welcome.
Bulgarians have been demonstrating in Sofia and other cities since Friday demanding the resignation of the new government of Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski after it named a powerful media figure as head of national security (PHOTO, VIDEO).
A loud explosion followed by heavy shooting was heard close to the main United Nations compound in the Somali capital Wednesday, an AFP reporter and UN sources said.
The second day of the Paris Air Show was marked by a demonstration flight of Russia’s Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jet. Video report by The Voice of Russia.
A suicide attack on Wednesday rocked a local market in Yemen's Shiite city of Saada killing two civilians, said a Zaidi Ansarullah.
One person was confirmed killed ifollowing series of explosions and blaze at ammunition depot in Russia’s Samara Region where over 13 million shells were stored.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has convened an emergency meeting on the military warehouse blast outside the city of Chapayevsk in the Samara region, Putin’s aide Dmitry Peskov has told reporters.
Montana authorities have vowed to look into Russia’s reports about several Russian orphans being locked up at a local respite care home for “troubled children” in Montana, US. Now the Montana Supreme Court is to probe the case starting June 26, US State Department of Labor and Industry spokeswoman Casey Kyler-West told reporters Wednesday.
The World Bank on Wednesday warned that severe hardships from global warming could be felt within a generation, with a new study detailing devastating impacts in Africa and Asia.
Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller and the president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), Zhou Jiping, discussed yesterday evening matters involved in the concluding of a long-term contract for supplying China with Russian gas, a contract planned for signing before this year is out, Gazprom said.
At the G8 summit in Northern Ireland, the United States and the European Union have launched talks on Monday to what could become the biggest bilateral trade deal in history. British Prime Minister David Cameron said it was ‘a once-in-a-generation prize’, which they were determined to seize. US President Barack Obama announced that talks on a trans-Atlantic trade and investment deal would begin in Washington next month. While the EU leaders admit the negotiations will be difficult, they believe the agreement could be reached within two years. For more on the news we are joined by Patrick Young, Leading Expert on Financial Markets and the Founder and Chairman of Derivatives Vision, a securities exchange advisory and media company.
The Fitch rating agency is concerned about the unregulated part of the Chinese banking sector. The so-called “shadow banks” pose systemic risks for the country’s economy.
The Iranian economy is experiencing severe stress caused by the international sanctions against Tehran. An unofficial estimate of the Iranian inflation rate is almost three times the official annual inflation figure.
The foreign exchange market is now in the crosshairs of the global financial regulators in the aftermath of the rate-rigging scandals in currency rates and interest rates markets.
North Korean authorities have taken interest in the experience of Germany’s National Socialist Party, according to a report by New Focus International, a news organization based outside North Korea, but declaring that it has access to high-level North Korean sources. It is reported that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, deeply impressed by Germany’s soon revival after the defeat in the First World War, handed out copies of Adolf Hitler's memoir to senior officials.
On August 3, 1943 Soviet troops began an offensive operation in the southern segments of the Kursk Bulge, liberating Kharkov and Belgorod. The 20-day offensive operation entered the history of World War II as the Belgorod-Kharkov Offensive Operation.
Gays and lesbians are facing harsh discrimination when renting apartments, according to a new, first-ever US Department of Housing and Urban Development report on LGBT renters. Their findings indicate that same-sex pairs receive unfair treatment when looking for online rental homes versus opposite-sex couples.
One dead, 34 injured following explosions at ammo depot in Russia
