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Death Toll in Sinking of Russian Ship Rises to at Least 56
New York Times The sinking is the deadliest Russian maritime disaster since 2011, when a tour boat sank on the Volga River in central Russia, killing 112 people. Early in Mr. Putin's first term as president in 2000, the Kursk nuclear submarine sank during a training ... Russian |
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От "Булгарии" до "Дальнего Востока" by Радио Свобода
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Russia outguns US in information war
Sydney Morning Herald "Russia has engaged in a rather remarkable period of the most overt and extensive propaganda exercise that I've seen since the very height of the Cold War," US Secretary of State John Kerry told a Senate subcommittee in late February. It's "spending ... Putin spokesman slams Times 'demonizing' Russia over perceived nuclear threatRT |
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Рябков: Россия удовлетворена итогами переговоров в Лозанне
Коммерсантъ Москва довольна тем, как закончились переговоры «шестерки» и Ирана в швейцарской Лозанне, заявил замглавы МИД России Сергей Рябков по итогам переговоров. «Мы удовлетворены тем, как закончился этот забег, этот марафон. Раунд завершился нахождением решений ... и другие » |
Study: Male Mice Use 'Love Songs' to Woo Their Womenby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
"Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know," Paul McCartney sings in his 1976 song "Silly Love Songs." Mice might agree. It turns out male mice actually use ultrasonic "love songs" to woo females, using different tunes when they smell but do not see a female and when they lay eyes on their potential lady love, scientists said on Wednesday. "I do think there is more going on with animal communication than we humans have been attuned to," Duke University neurobiology professor Erich Jarvis said. "There is a clear communication signal in the mouse songs and not just random sequences of vocalizations." The researchers compared the songs to the courtship songs of male songbirds, although mice are more limited in their ability to modify their tunes. The mouse songs are a sequence of utterances, or syllables, strung together, at times with a tempo. "Those songs are really high in pitch, above 50 kilohertz, and are not audible to humans. When we pitch them down and play back at real speed, it sounds like a bird," Duke postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Chabout added. Scientists have known for decades that mice make such sounds, like when a pup calls for its mother, and have worked to better understand what they communicate. The researchers exposed male lab mice to different situations, recorded their songs, then analyzed them. The males sang more complex and louder songs when they were able to smell the urine of a female mouse but not actually see that potential mate. With the female present, the males changed their tune, with longer, simpler songs. "I think the mice are saying with the complex songs, 'Pay attention to me, I'm here, come to me, and see how my complex song sounds great,' as a measure of his health. Then the females assess it, and he simplifies the song when she is directly next to him in order to spend energy to try to mate," Jarvis said. The researchers played the two song types to sexually mature females, finding they preferred spending time next to speakers playing the complex song. "Whether or not it's a specific syllable type or something else in the complex song, we don't know," Chabout said. The research was published in the journal Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience.
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Лукашенко высказался против преемников
Lenta.ru Президент Белоруссии Александр Лукашенко заявил, что не намерен готовить себе преемника. Глава государства, по его мнению, может смениться только на демократических выборах. Об этом Лукашенко сказал в интервью агентству Bloomberg, которое было показано в четверг, ... и другие » |
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Russia's role in Ukraine seen shifting to training rebels
Yahoo News The man — almost certainly a Russian military officer — became alarmed when he saw two journalists approach. His entourage shielded him — forbidding photos — and the group sped off in a motorcade, the "general" safely inside a black Toyota SUV with ... Russia's role in Ukraine seen as shifting from sending troops to training rebelsFox News Ukraine to buy cheaper Russian gas for next three monthsReuters Russia ETF Rallies as Crisis Eases, Ukraine Truce HoldsBloomberg all 419 news articles » |
Obama Praises Iran Deal As 'Historic,' As Many Iranians Celebrate In The Streets by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL)
Iran and six world powers have reached an agreement on "key parameters" of a comprehensive agreement that the United States said would block "all pathways" for Iran to make a nuclear weapon.
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Quarter of Global Forest Losses Caused by Fires in Russia, Canada, Study Shows
TIME Forest fires in large parts of Canada and Russia resulted in almost a quarter of global forest losses between 2011 and 2013, a new study revealed. The study was conducted by researchers from Global Forest Watch, who analyzed the loss of forests by ... and more » |
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Russia's Yemen consulate damaged amid Saudi-led airstrikes – embassy source
RT The evacuation has now been delayed until Thursday, when the chartered flight “accompanied by two other aircraft” is expected to arrive in Sanaa, according to a source of Russian daily Kommersan. In addition to Russians, the aircraft will also help to ... Saudis Bomb Russian Consulate in YemenCenter for Research on Globalization Russia sends planes to evacuate its citizens from YemenU.S. News & World Report all 4,764 news articles » |
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Russia, Greece to discuss EU sanctions, economy in Moscow
Reuters Russia wants the EU to lift the sanctions imposed over Moscow's role in the turmoil in Ukraine and hopes to get support from some EU member states, notably Hungary and Greece. The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said it was too early to talk about ... Russia outguns US in information warSydney Morning Herald Russia Said to Plan No Aid to Greece, May Ease Curbs on FoodBloomberg Salutin' Putin: inside a Russian troll houseThe Guardian RT- |
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Президент Эстонии : "Полезные идиоты Путина нарушают единство ЕС"
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Президент Эстонии рассказал, кто в ЕС «полезные идиоты» Путина
ФБА «Экономика сегодня» Речь идет о Венгрии, Италии, Греции и Кипре, которые нарушают единство Европейского союза своими призывами. Страны, призывающие к отмене санкций против России, являются «полезными идиотами» для Владимира Путина. Об этом заявил президент Эстонии Тоомас Хендрик ... и другие » |
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Сенатор Вячеслав Фетисов прокомментировал информацию о наличии у него офшоров на Кипре
Коммерсантъ Офшорные компании, которые у сенатора Вячеслава Фетисова обнаружил Фонд борьбы с коррупцией (ФБК), не ведут хозяйственную деятельность, а являются держателями патентов российских изобретений и названия компаний аналогичны названиям изобретений. Об этом сенатор ... Фетисов откровенно рассказал об офшорахДни.Ру Вячеслав Фетисов: У моих друзей на счету порядка 2 тысяч изобретений!Полит.ру Фетисов объяснил наличие у него «кипрских офшоров»Газета.Ru РБК -Независимая газета -Утро.Ru Все похожие статьи: 104 » |
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Богатейший бизнесмен Румынии получил два с половиной года тюрьмы: за что
Mail.Ru Богатейшего бизнесмена Румынии Иоана Никулае приговорили к двум с половиной годам тюрьмы за незаконное финансирование выборов 2009 года. © Publika.md. Как установило следствие, он выделил миллион евро на проведение предвыборной кампании кандидата в президенты ... Румынский миллиардер получил 2,5 года тюрьмы за незаконное финансирование президентской кампанииКомсомольская правда Румыния: миллиардер Иоан Никулае сел в тюрьму на 2,5 годаNoticia.ru - Новости Испании и Европы Румынский миллиардер незаконно финансировал выборыTopnews24.ru ЕвроСМИ -УНИАН -Обозреватель Все похожие статьи: 69 » |
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Рада собирает подписи за отставку Яценюка
Дни.Ру 14:26 / 03.04.2015 Верховная рада, Украина, ЯценюкДепутаты Верховной рады Украины начали сбор подписей в поддержку отставки премьера Арсения Яценюка. С такой инициативой выступили народные избранники из "Блока Петра Порошенко" после обысков МВД в кабинете ... Украинские депутаты собирают подписи за отставку ЯценюкаНТВ.ru Депутаты от партии Порошенко требуют отставки ЯценюкаГазета.Ru Соратники Порошенко в Раде предложили отстранить от должности ЯценюкаГазета Труд РБК Украина -Lenta.ru -TOP News.RU Все похожие статьи: 69 » |
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Турецкие наблюдатели изучат положение крымских татар
Lenta.ru Министр иностранных дел Турции Мевлют Чавушоглу назвал неприемлемой ситуацию с нарушением прав крымских татар на полуострове. Как сообщает Reuters, такое мнение он высказал в ходе пресс-конференции в Литве. «Крымчане и особенно крымские татары подвергаются ... Турция заявила о притеснении крымских татарПолит.ру Турция пошлет в Крым делегацию для выяснения ситуации с правами крымских татарНовостной проект INFOX.ru Турция заступилась за крымских татарУтро.Ru РИА Новости -Версии.сом -Search News Все похожие статьи: 56 » |
Moscow Expresses Outrage Over U.S. 'Anti-Russia' Campaignby Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Russia expressed outrage on Friday over a "frenzied anti-Russian campaign" by U.S. media and political analysts, stepping up a war of words that has intensified during the Ukraine crisis.
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Billions Up for Grabs if Nuclear Deal Opens Iran Economyby webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters)
Iranian investment banker Ramin Rabii says he shouted in joy when he learned that Tehran and world powers had reached a deal which promises to lift economic sanctions on Iran. Then he called colleagues to discuss the business implications. Rabii, managing director of Turquoise Partners, a Tehran-based investment firm with about $200 million of assets under management, has been grappling for years with the results of the sanctions: unstable growth, high inflation, international banking restrictions and hard currency shortages. The agreement on curbing Iran's nuclear program, reached on Thursday, will - if confirmed in a final deal by a June 30 deadline - begin to ease those crippling problems for Turquoise and thousands of other Iranian firms. “We've been preparing for this moment for 10 years,” Rabii said by telephone, adding that in the months leading up to the deal Turquoise was in touch with hundreds of potential foreign investors about opportunities for them if sanctions were lifted. He said the company now planned to develop its asset management and brokerage businesses, and would hold roadshows for investors in Europe and possibly Dubai. Frozen out of the international banking system, its foreign trade slashed by the sanctions, Iran looks likely to become the biggest country to rejoin the global economy since post-Communist eastern Europe in the early 1990s. The resulting boom could create tens of billions of dollars worth of business for both local and foreign companies and shift the economic balance in the Gulf, which has so far been heavily weighted towards the rich Gulf Arab oil exporting countries. “Precautionary talks have already started between Iran and some big Western investors” in areas such as oil and autos, said Iranian-born economist Mehrdad Emadi of London's Betamatrix consultancy. “Now there will be accelerating momentum.” He predicted annual growth of Iran's $420 billion economy would rise by as much as 2 percentage points to over 5 percent in the year after a final nuclear deal. It could accelerate further to 7 or 8 percent in the following 18 months - matching the growth of Asia's “tiger economies” during their boom years. Iran's trade with the European Union, which totalled 7.6 billion euros ($8.3 billion) last year, could balloon 400 percent by mid-2018, Emadi said. Banking sanctions The complex web of financial, shipping, energy and technology sanctions woven by the United States, the European Union and the United Nations is expected to take years to remove, even if a final nuclear agreement is reached and implemented smoothly. As a result Iran's oil exports, cut by the sanctions to about 1.1 million barrels per day from 2.5 million bpd in 2012, may not start rebounding before 2016. But the single most damaging sanctions measure, the U.S. Treasury's use of Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act to identify Iran as a money laundering area, could be lifted quickly by the Obama administration, analysts believe. This would have a big impact on trade and investment by letting foreign banks deal with Iran without fear of being targeted by U.S. officials. Iran could be re-admitted to the SWIFT global payments system, from which it was expelled in 2012, within three months of a final nuclear deal, Emadi said. Rabii said the boost to Iranian production from easier trade would quickly spur the economy, even if big foreign investment deals took longer to arrange. “Iranian industry is currently operating at about 60 to 70 percent capacity. Thirty percent is idle - that's because of the sanctions. Getting this working again is the low-hanging fruit of lifting the sanctions.” The economic benefits would extend across the Gulf, particularly to Dubai, which is a traditional hub for business with Iran and has a large Iranian community. The sanctions slashed Dubai's trade with Iran by more than a third; the emirate could now become a jumping-off point for foreign companies going back into Iran. Airlines and logistics firms around the region also stand to profit. Tarek Sultan, chief executive of Kuwait-listed logistics giant Agility, said Iran was potentially attractive because its isolation had encouraged it to develop indigenous expertise that could allow it to leapfrog other economies. “When the international situation is resolved and restrictions are lifted, we'll be among the first ones in there,” Sultan told Reuters late last year. Other parts of the Gulf economy may at least temporarily be hurt by the rise of Iran. Gulf Arab stock markets are reforming themselves to attract foreign capital; Saudi Arabia plans to open its bourse to direct foreign investment within months. These markets will now have a major rival for funds in Tehran. Any increase in Iranian oil sales could come at the expense of Saudi Arabia, OPEC's biggest producer, which has lifted its output near 10 million bpd. The kingdom already faces a record budget deficit this year because of low oil prices.
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Путин болел, но не признавался, заботясь о репутации, рассказали западные СМИ
NEWSru.com Зарубежные СМИ подтвердили слухи о болезни президента России Владимира Путина, ссылаясь при этом на свои источники в американских спецслужбах. Как следует из материала издания The Times, глава российского государства действительно был нездоров, когда исчез из поля ... Times назвала правдой слухи о болезни ПутинаMail.Ru Путин в марте действительно болел – западные СМИСЕГОДНЯ 03.04 17:35 The Times: Президент России Путин чем-то боленОбщественный контроль Версии.сом -"Что происходит?" -Новости Все похожие статьи: 63 » |
Russian Billionaire Galchev Plays Spoiler in Cement Merger Deal by Reuters <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
A Russian billionaire with a reputation for corporate bust-ups is trying to play spoiler in Holcim and Lafarge's effort to create the world's biggest cement company, only weeks before a shareholder vote to ratify the merger.
An EU divided between Russian and US influence, abandoning its values and its political force in the world: this will be the inevitable result if its current Ukraine policy prevails
The European Union stands at a crossroads. The shape it takes five years from now will be decided in the coming 35 months. Year after year, the EU has successfully muddled through its difficulties. But now it has to deal with two sources of existential crisis: Greece and Ukraine. That may prove too much.
Greece’s long-festering crisis has been mishandled by all parties from the outset. Emotions are running so high that muddling through is the only constructive alternative.
Putin has the first-mover advantage. He can choose between hybrid war and hybrid peace
The EU will have to spend a lot more money defending itself than it would need to spend helping the new Ukraine succeed
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Компромисс найден: "шестерка" завершила дискуссии по иранской ядерной программе
Вести.Ru Компромисс найден: в Лозанне завершились дискуссии по иранской ядерной программе. В общей сложности переговорный процесс между Тегераном и "шестеркой" международных посредников длился десять лет. Вот документ подписан, он оставляет за Ираном право на мирный атом ... Роухани: Иран намерен выполнять договоренности, достигнутые в ЛозаннеРИА Новости Иран не выбирал между конфликтом с Западом или капитуляцией при решении вопроса о ядерной программеРадиостанция ЭХО МОСКВЫ Роухани: «шестерка» признала право Тегерана на обогащение УранаГазета.Ru УНИАН -Первый канал -Regions.ru Все похожие статьи: 1 131 » |
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Russian Spaceport Workers Start Hunger Strike Over Unpaid Wages by noreply@rferl.org (RFE/RL's Russian Service)
Twenty-six workers at Russia's newest spaceport in the Far East have begun a hunger strike to demand overdue salaries.
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Russia Hails Iran Nuclear Deal, But is a Mixed Blessing for Moscow
Wall Street Journal MOSCOW—Russian officials welcomed the deal to limit Iran's nuclear capabilities on Friday, hailing it as a rare example of East-West cooperation amid the current tensions. But while Moscow has long criticized Western sanctions against Iran, the ... Putin Has Mixed Motives in Backing Iran Nuclear DealNewsweek Russia Says Iran Nuclear Program Deal Good for Middle EastThe Moscow Times Russia says ready to process Iranian nuclear fuelZee News Russia Beyond the Headlines all 6,293 news articles » |
Russia's Bombers Over Europe Are Scary, But Not in the Way You Thinkby By Matthew Bodner <moscowtimes@themoscowtimes.com>
Russia is using increased strategic bomber flights along Europe's airspace to project the image of power, but are the Soviet-built aircraft really a military threat?
Staunton, April 3 – More than 1,000 residents of Petrazovodsk took part in a demonstration there yesterday which called for the ouster of the Karelia’s current head Aleksandr Khudilaynen, “the first region in Russia” in Putin’s times where the local population has demanded such a step, according to Karelian republic television.
(The television station’s assertion is not literally true: the people in several North Caucasian republics have demonstrated for the same ends at various points in the last decade. What is true is that by asserting this, the station has raised the stakes for both Petrozavodsk and Moscow in what might otherwise have been a minor issue.)
The protest was sparked by the arrest of Olga Zaletskaya, a Yabloko deputy in the city council, and Aleksandra Kornilova, another Yabloko activist who is the director of a local trading firm, for what the demonstrators said were trumped up charges intended to remove two of Khudilaynen’s critics.
The Yabloko Party council in Moscow and its Petrozavodsk section are demanding that the two be immediately released, saying that their arrests are politically motivated in advance of elections there and promising that a demonstration to be held on April 9 will repeat and extend the demands of Karelian residents.
Dmitry Rybakov of the Moscow council said that the April 9 meeting will be “against political repressions in Karelia and for the retirement of Aleksandr Petrovich Khudilaynen as head of the republic.” Moreover, like the one yesterday, it will call for an elected rather than a Moscow-appointed leadership.
Anatoly Tsygankov, the head of the Center for Political and Social Research in Karelia, suggested that the arrests, which were supposedly triggered by an investigation into land sales there, may not be as baseless as the demonstrators suggest, given that there are always conflicts about such things.
But as the Petrozavodsk television station put it, there is general agreement among city residents that the 13-day arrest of Zaletskaya, who has two young children and an elderly father, is “impermissible” and that “her detention will hardly increase support for the current leadership.”
Both these arrests and the protests they have triggered will only exacerbate tensions in Karelia and concerns in Moscow. In recent months, several Russian legislators in Petrozavodsk and Moscow security officials have suggested that separatism is on the rise there, and they will almost certainly view these protests as evidence that they are right.
Such fears mean the Russian authorities are likely to try to block the demonstration planned for April 9, possibly by arresting more opponents of the Putin-installed regime and stepping up their campaign against what they see as Finnish-inspired separatist attitudes there. (“Separatism in Karelia More Serious than Many Think, Petrozavodsk Deputy Says,” December 17, 2014)
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СМИ: американский эсминец вошел в акваторию Черного моря
BBC Russian Эсминец военно-морских сил США "Джейсон Данхем" миновал пролив Босфор и вошел в Черное море, сообщают российские агентства. Ранее в ВМС США заявили, что присутствие корабля в Черном море продемонстрирует приверженность США взаимодействию с партнерами и ... Очередной эсминец США вошел в Черное мореДни.Ру Американский эсминец с системой «Иджис» вошел в Черное мореLenta.ru Эсминец ВМС США «Джейсон Данхем» вошел в Черное мореРБК НТВ.ru -Московский комсомолец -Газета.Ru Все похожие статьи: 115 » |
Putin’s New Nationalities Chief Says His Job is to ‘Prevent Pogroms in Biryulevo' by paul goble (noreply@blogger.com)
Paul Goble
Staunton, April 3 – Vladimir Putin has chosen a Duma deputy from Sverdlovsk with an FSB background and service in the notorious Alpha Group during his Chechen wars to be the head of the new Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs, an indication of how the Kremlin leader intends to use this new tool and why Igor Barinov may be just the man to do it.
When Putin called for the creation of the new agency last month, many were skeptical it would amount to more than a new arrangement of bureaucratic chairs, especially given that Putin disbanded the nationalities ministry more than a decade ago and that for such an agency to deal with ethnic issues generally would require more power than he would be willing to cede.
But now, far more than the listing of its duties in Putin’s decree (kremlin.ru/news/48055),
Putin has given a clear indication of what he expects the agency to do by his appointment of the former FSB officer, one that Barinov himself has reinforced in his first interview since his appointment (ura.ru/articles/1036264473).
Barinov, a native of the North Caucasus, will be working with other North Caucasians now in Moscow on ethnic issues, including Magomedsalam Magomedov, the former Daghestani president who serves as a nationalities advisor to Putin, Gadzhimet Safraliyev, who chairs the Duma’s nationalities committee, and Ilyas Umakhanov, vice speaker of the Federation Council.
But Barinov, an ethnic Russian (something many Russian commentators argued was an absolute necessity for this position), denied that he would be spending “80 percent” of his time on the North Caucasus. Instead, he said, his focus will be “above all” on not allowing pogroms like those which broke out in Moscow’s Biryulevo area to occur. (On the Biryulevo one, seewindowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2013/10/window-on-eurasia-biryulevo-violence.html.)
To do that, Barinov said, he will “monitor inter-ethnic conflicts” in order to be in a position to intervene in a timely fashion and prevent them from becoming explosive.He added that it is still too soon to say exactly how that will be done given that as yet “there is no agency, no building and no staff.”
Asked by URA.ru whether he had taken his views on nationality policy arose from his service in Chechnya, Barinov replied “not only then. Let us begin with the fact that I was born in the North Caucasus, in Novocherkassk.” Moreover, during various jobs, he said he had gotten to know the local population in many places of the country.
“We [in Russia],” he argued, “have many centuries of experience with a successful nationality policy.”If that is what he believes and if he sees himself more as a policeman than anything else, the future of nationalities policy under Putin is likely to prove even more repressive and thus dangerously explosive than the present.
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Staunton, April 3 — Russian military spending, even as officially given by the finance ministry, provides a remarkably accurate early warning indicator of Russian intentions, Andrey Illarionov says, and a dramatic increase in spending since January of this year thus suggests that Vladimir Putin is preparing for a larger war in Ukraine and/or elsewhere.
Between the time that Putin came to power up to January 2014, the Moscow economist and commentator says, Moscow has spent on average 2.5 to 3.2 percent of GDP on the military, with the figure tending to rise over time. During the first 13 years of his rule, Illarionov says, spending in constant prices went up 2.6 times.
But over the 14 months – the period of Moscow’s intervention in Ukraine – Russian spending on its military has not only gone up significantly as one would expect at a time of military operations but has tracked in a way that provides insights on Russian intentions for the future, the Moscow analyst says.
After Putin made his final decision to intervene in Ukraine in February 2014, he says, Moscow’s military expenditures “were increased by more than twice,” a figure that suggested the Russian government intended not only to seize and occupy Crimea but all of what it calls “Novorossiya.”
In February, March and April of last year, Russian military spending amounted to 6.7 percent of GDP and 27.7 percent of all budget expenditures.
At the end of April, the Kremlin halted its most ambitious plans and reduced its monthly military spending for the rest of 2014 by approximately a third compared to the first three months of last year, reductions that were possible even though Moscow increased its exercises near the Ukrainian border and supported military action within Ukraine.
According to Illarionov, official Russian government figures show that “the situation radically changed” in the first two months of this year, the latest period for which figures are available. Average monthly military spending increased 2.3 times, compared to the May-Deceber 2014 period, 3.3. times compared to the last pre-war period, and 8.8 times compared to 2000.
For those two months alone, he says, military spending was more than 1.3 trillion rubles – that is, more than 20 billion US dollars – and it constituted 43.3. percent of the federal budget and 12.7 percent of Russia’s admittedly diminished GDP.
Such a “sharp increase” in military spending provides addition evidence that Putin is preparing for military actions “on a far larger scale and much higher level of intensity than even those which [the world] has seen over the course of the last 14 months.” In short, Illarionov says, the Kremlin leader is preparing for a major war in Ukraine and/or elsewhere.
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