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VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran and six world powers are expected to break off negotiations on Monday and meet again next month after missing a deadline to clinch a final deal to resolve their 12-year standoff over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, diplomatic sources said.
Negotiations to curb Iran’s nuclear program will likely end in a stalemate on Monday, according toreports, but could resume one month after what had been called a deadline for striking a deal.
The New York Times, citing an unnamed Western diplomat, reports that Western negotiators were encouraged by “progress made this weekend” in Vienna and were likely to reconvene in December. But officials offered conflicting accounts of how far the negotiators had come toward reaching an agreement.
President Barack Obama called the differences “significant” in a Sunday television interview, but diplomats offered more optimistic assessments on Monday.
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Western nations agreed to relax sanctions against Iran in July in exchange for new limits on the nation’s nuclear program and an extension of talks on a final status agreement until this Monday.
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Iran nuclear talks will extend through end of June 2015, Britain says by Louis Charbonneau and Fredrik Dahl, Thomson Reuters
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Russia's finance minister says Russia is on a course to lose more than $100 billion due to Western sanctions and falling oil prices. Anton Siluanov said Monday at an economic forum in Moscow that Russia could lose as much as $40 billion per year because of Western sanctions. The United States and the European Union have imposed several rounds of sanctions against Russia for its role in the conflict in Ukraine. Russia denies involvement in hostilities in eastern Ukraine where pro-Russian forces are frequently involved in skirmishes against Ukrainian government troops, despite a cease-fire agreement. Siluanov also said Russia could lose up to $100 billion annually because of low oil prices, which have fallen by 30 percent. The Ria Novosti news agency says the Russian ruble has fallen about 23 percent against the U.S. dollar in the past three months as a result of the falling oil prices.
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Russia's finance minister says his country stands to lose some $40 billion per year due to Western sanctions
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Window on Eurasia: Putin’s Loose Talk about Nuclear Weapons Threatens Russia and Putin Himself, Fedorov Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, November 24 – Loose talk by Vladimir Putin and others in Moscow about using nuclear weapons not only has united the West in ways that nothing else, including Russian aggression in Ukraine, could, but it is spreading fear among those near Putin about their future prospects in such a brave new world, according to Yuri Fedorov.
“The logic of the Kremlin” in making such remarks, the Russian analyst says, “is understandable: the West is weak and cowardly, it won’t stand up to a nuclear confrontation with Russia, it will retreat, and it will allow ‘little green men’ to seize let us say the Baltics and then completely capitulate” (ru.krymr.com/content/article/26701065.html).
And as a result of that capitulation, those around the Kremlin calculate, “the consequences of the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century” as Putin has called the disintegration of the Soviet Union “will be corrected.”
That Putin might make that calculation is hardly surprising. Indeed, he is hardly “original,” but he clearly does not understand the full dimensions of the precedents on which he is acting, Fedorov says. In the late 1940s, Stalin unleashed the Berlin crisis, and the result was the formation of NATO.
In the early 1960s, Khrushchev decided to put Soviet missiles in Cuba, and the result of that was not only the Cuban missile crisis which reunified the West but led to his ouster. And in the 1970s, Brezhnev put intermediate-range missiles in eastern Europe thinking to divide the West but that action had exactly the opposite effect.
Now, “by threatening NATO with nuclear war, Putin and his entourage are committing two mistakes, each of which may cost them dearly. As long as the standoff with the US and Europe was limited to the Ukrainian problem, both in Washington and in European capitals, people could and certainly would have liked to find a compromise and détente, taking into consideration at least in part Kremlin phobias and ambitions.”
“But Europe and the United States could not tolerate a nuclear threat,” Fedorov continues. “It is too dangerous,” especially when, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested, the person with his finger on the nuclear button is someone who appears to be living in “another reality.”
Putin’s second mistake, Fedorov argues, may be even more immediately consequential to him. He appears to have “ignored the instinct for self-preservation” within the Russian ruling class. The several thousand people in this group are not distinguished by moral qualities, but none of them could have entered it without a well-developed “sense of danger” and the ability to defend themselves against threats.
According to Fedorov, “hardly any of the current bureaucrats wants to exchange the well- being” he now enjoys “for the doubtful satisfaction of living in conditions of a mobilized economy, a harsh military-chekist culture, and a national-patriotic miasma.” Their plans have never included “balancing on the edge of war.”
What that means, of course, is that Putin’s fate may now be in the hands of the anything but sympathetic members of the entourage around him, a group whose members will want to save themselves even if they have to sacrifice him.
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U.S. Ambassador John Tefft says the crisis between Moscow and Washington can be resolved and that Western sanctions may be rolled back if Russia implements the terms of a peace plan for Ukraine that it co-signed.
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Window on Eurasia: Putin has Made the Unthinkable Almost Unnoticed, Podrabinek Says by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
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Staunton, November 24 – One of the most dangerous developments for which Vladimir Putin is responsible is that the lies he and his regime regularly employ and the actions they take have made what would be unthinkable under normal conditions something that most people ignore what they would earlier have focused on, according to Aleksandr Podrabinek.
Not only the yawning gap between what the Kremlin says and what anyone’s eyes can see but also the revelations about that gap and about the workings of the Kremlin which appear and then often disappear without a trace are creating a world in which everything seems equally possible and impossible and thus believable or incredible.
The latest example of this, the Moscow analyst says, came last week when a witness in the Moscow trial of the Militant Organization of Russian Nationalists (BORN) told the court that the activities of this band were supervised and directed by officials in Putin’s Presidential Administration (grani.ru/opinion/podrabinek/m.235226.html).
“In any civilized country, this would have been sensation number one and would have led to talk about the immediate retirement of senior officials or distrust in the president.” But in Russia, “this news passed almost unnoticed.” The opposition media reported it, but the controlled media carefully avoided anything which might “compromise the chief of state.”
Yevgenia Khasis, the BORN activist who made this declaration, has already been convicted of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova and sentenced to 18 years behind bars. Two months ago, she was brought from the Mordvinian camps to give evidence against his former BORN comrades.
According to Khasis, the man in the Presidential Administration supervising BORN was Leonid Simulin, who provided some funding to the group but who refused to provide the amount that its activists wanted unless they carried out the murder of an FSB officer the Kremlin apparently wanted out of the way.
If they did, the Kremlin official was prepared to give the BORN people 5,000 euros. “Not all that much money for the work of a killer, but one can imagine how much money would pass into the hands of intermediaries on the path from those giving the orders and those carrying them out,” Podrabinek observes.
What is especially concerning, the Moscow analyst continues, is Khasis’ assertion that Simulin was close to Vladislav Surkov and constantly told those from BORN with whom he was working that he had “consulted the leadership” and “the leadership did not recommend” this or that action. That takes the criminal world inside Putin’s closest circles.
Links between the powers that be and the criminal world will appear “unbelievable only to those who believe that the authorities are really trying to defend the law.” There aren’t very many of them in Russia now, Podrabinek says, with the majority now convinced that “bureaucrats are corrupt” and that they are all thieves.”
“But few believe or want to believe that the highest leadership of the country is involved with ideological maniacs and murderers.” Now they may have to, just as they may have to recognize that Putin and company were involved in the 1999 apartment bombings that reignited the Chechen war or other crimes that the Kremlin has been only too ready to exploit.
Of course, such links between those in power and the criminal world “are not an exclusive aspect of the Russian authoritarian regime.” All too many other countries provide evidence of this dangerous trend. But those other authoritarian regimes also provide another lesson which Russians need to learn:
The person who orders such crimes is always the one at the top. “Executors can be sacrificed but those who do the ordering are untouchable as far as the law is concerned.” And typically they are protected from exposure by the fear of those below them. But Yegeniya Khasis showed she wasn’t afraid. Now, Putin and company should be.
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Russia’s Finance Minister said the combined cost of western sanctions and the recent fall in world oil prices to Russia’s economy this year would be a massive $140 billion.
“We will lose around $40 billion a year because of sanctions, and around $90-100 billion a year, if we assume a 30% drop in the price of oil,” Anton Siluanov told a conference in Moscow Monday, according to news agency reports.
Siluanov’s comments go against the grain of bravado from President Vladimir Putin and foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, both of whom have repeatedly tried to play down the impact of U.S. and E.U. sanctions in the wake of Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its sponsoring of an armed rebellion in the eastern provinces of Ukraine.
They are, however, consistent with Siluanov’s own earlier warnings about the need for Russia to tighten its belt and make big cutbacks in the light of the new economic reality. Siluanov has already warned that the big increase in defense spending earmarked for the next three years is unaffordable.
“If you’re talking about the consequences of geopolitics, they are, of course, substantial,” Siluanov said. “But it’s not as critical for the exchange rate and even for the budget as the oil price.”
Siluanov’s comments come on the eve of a crucial meeting of oil ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna, which will focus on the alarming slide in oil prices since the summer. In a weekend interview with ITAR-TASS, Putin insinuated that the U.S. and Saudi Arabia had conspired to drive up global supply well beyond actual levels of demand, in order to weaken the Russian economy. Somewhat confusingly, he later added that “maybe the Saudis want to ‘kill off’ their competitors” in the U.S. shale oil sector.”
Russia isn’t a member of OPEC, but depends on taxes from oil and gas companies for some two-thirds of its budget revenue. A draft for next year’s budget, approved in September, assumes an average oil price of $100 a barrel, while banks such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase & Co. think it will be nearer $80.
Barred from western financial markets, the government will either have to cut spending or raise taxes to keep the deficit down to its projected 0.6% of gross domestic product, or borrow at increasingly expensive rates from domestic savers and institutions. The yield on the government’s 10-year bonds has risen to 10.12% as of Monday from 7.71% at the start of the year, as the ruble has depreciated by 30% against the dollar.
Russia’s central bank earlier this month cut its forecast for growth next year to zero, after having to raise interest rates sharply to stop the ruble’s fall. GDP rose by only 0.8% on the year in the third quarter, although that was above economists’ expectations.
The ruble has rebounded sharply against the dollar in recent days as the central bank’s actions have started to gain traction and stem a wave of speculation. By mid-day in Moscow, the ruble was at its highest in more than two weeks against the dollar as oil and gas companies converted their export earnings back into rubles ahead of a routine tax payment deadline.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain faces a bigger threat to its security from terrorism than at any time before or since the Sept. 11 2001 attacks on the United States, Home Secretary Theresa May said on Monday.
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A recent survey suggests that there are millions of pounds’ worth of unused spices sitting on our shelves. What should you do with those dusty jars of cumin, coriander and cayenne?
We called it the “Ottolenghi effect”. Where once our spice cupboard was really just half a shelf housing dried basil and mild curry powder, suddenly that forgotten corner of the kitchen was playing host to harissa and sumac and saffron. Bart Spices reported an 82% increase in sales of za’atar. Supermarkets stocked szechuan pepper like it was no big thing. We learned to pronounce asafoetida.
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Vladimir Putin: I don’t want to rule Russia for lifeby Shaun Walker in Moscow
President says he will step down by 2024, and accuses the west of trying to punish Russia for being strong and assertive
Vladimir Putin does not want to rule Russia for life, but may well run for another six-year term in 2018, he has said.
In an interview with a Russian state news agency, Putin, who has ruled as either president or prime minister since 2000, said he would base any decision to run again on the mood of the country and his personal feelings.
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Ekho Moskvy Plans Social Media Rules For Journalists, Sparking Outcry by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station says it is drafting rules for its employees’ behavior on social media after its state-controlled owner pressured the broadcaster over a journalist's controversial message on Twitter.
The Authorities of the Polish town of Tuszyn, in Central Poland vetoed the popular children's character, Winnie the Pooh, Understand That It is a bad example for children Because it has a "dubious sexuality, Not Properly dressed, half naked and going hermaphrodite".
According To Infobae website, controversy Arose When a citizen Recently Proposed giving the name "Winnie the Pooh" ("Kubus Puchatek" in Polish) for a playground and meth With opposition from several councilors, treats including the bulk of the town. "The Problem with That Is That bear no clothes, "Said Ryszard Cichy, more of the town.
The greatest added That the popular character "is half naked and That Makes it totally Inappropriate for children". Cichy Also Proposed another bear in the Polish popular children's stories, "a Polish bear is dressed from head to toe, and not just with a T (as Winnie the Pooh), "I Said.
The conversation was Recorded by one of the council of the town acerca With 7,000 inhabitants, lowest later leaked to the press locally.
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