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Putin attends sambo tournament with Armenian and Azerbaijani colleagues

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The presidents of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Vladimir Putin, Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev attended the international tournament in combat sambo in Sochi.

Putin-sakisian-AlyiveAccording to the Kremlin press service, this year the Russian martial arts team opposes the strongest athletes from Europe, Asia and America.

The heads of the three countries met in Sochi to discuss topical issues, the most important of which is the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. There were separate meetings of Vladimir Putin with the Armenian and Azerbaijani counterparts. On August 10 there is scheduled a trilateral meeting.

Putin Meets with Aliyev, Sarkisian

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A three way meeting of presidents is scheduled for Sunday7725_bSOCHI–Russian President Vladimir Putin held separate meeting on Saturday with is Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts at Bosharov Ruchey, the presidential residence in this port city. Among the topics discussed according to reports from all sides was the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, over which a tripartite presidential meeting is expected Sunday.

The tensions mounting in the Karabakh-Azerbaijan border were discussed by the President Serzh Sarkisian and Putin. The two also held discussions about Armenia’s membership in the Eurasian Economic Union and other bi-lateral concerns, according to the presidential press service.

“Vladimir Putin met with Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian in Sochi. The leaders of the two countries discussed Armenian-Russian relations in various areas as well as ways to resolve the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict,” said a statement by the Kremklin Saturday.
“Our relations are developing, and they are on the rise,” said Putin during his meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who also praised Baku-Moscow relations as positive and committed to “decisively grow the collaboration potential.”

Armenian Presidential spokesperson Narek Nikoghosyan announced about the Sunday meeting of the presidents on his Facbook page.

“Azerbaijan’s Aliyev will have to explain the logic behind his country’s military adventures and racist rhetoric,” Nikoghosyan added..

Aliyev’s deputy chief of staff Novruz Mammadov confirmed the Sunday meeting on his Twitter page.

Neither president elaborated on the specifics of the discussion about Karabakh and the growing instability there.

According to Vladimir Zhirinovsky Putin alone can solve the Nagorno Karabakh

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“The Nagorno Karabakh conflict will be resolved only by Vladimir Putin” has announced the leadeur the Russian Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky before the Sochi meeting between Armenian President arton102106-470x246Serzh Sargsyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev. According to V. Zhirinovsky the Nagorno Karabakh conflict can be resolved only by Russia. “Only the president of Russia can resolve this conflict. In Kiev, Baku or Yerevan is one decision that is able to solve problems. We can analyze all the solutions, but the war and foreign policy issues are in the hands of one person. We do not want war. We do not desire the death of Azeris and Armenians. But peace can not be achieved without war. After World War II, all countries are in the blood, “said V. Zhirinovsky.

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Putin to West: Stop turning world into ‘global barracks,’ dictating rules to others

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poroshenkoRussia’s president has laid the blame for the ongoing turmoil between Kiev and south-eastern regions squarely at the feet of Petro Poroshenko, after the Ukrainian leader terminated the ceasefire.

He has stressed that Russia and European partners could not convince Poroshenko to not take the path of violence, which can’t lead to peace.

“Unfortunately, President Poroshenko has made the decision to resume military actions, and we – meaning myself and my colleagues in Europe – could not convince him that the way to reliable, firm and long-term peace can’t lie through war,” Putin said. “So far, Petro Poroshenko had no direct relation to orders to take military action. Now he has taken on this responsibility in full. Not only military, but also political, more importantly.”

On Monday, the leaders of Russia, France, Germany and Ukraine held a phone call in which Putin stressed the need to prolong the ceasefire and the creation of “a reliable mechanism for monitoring compliance with it and the OSCE [Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe] should play an active role.”

Russia offered that checkpoints on the Russian side should be monitored by representatives of the Ukrainian Border service as well as OSCE observers for “the joint control of the border.”

As the violent conflict continues in the east of Ukraine and the number of refugees fleeing to Russia grows, Putin vowed to provide help to everyone who needs it.

“Everything that’s going on in Ukraine is of course the internal business of Ukrainian government, but we are painfully sorry that people die, civilians,” Putin said. He added that the killing of journalists was “absolutely unacceptable.”

“In my opinion, there is a deliberate attempt to eliminate representatives of the press going on. It concerns both Russian and foreign journalists,” the president said.

Putin signs deal on military-technical cooperation with Armenia

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June 30, 2014 | 16:22

216981Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law ratifying the agreement on development of military-technical cooperation with Armenia.

The document was signed on June 25, 2013, in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan. The agreement is with respect to the extension of the terms for the use of military equipment and arms, and their utilization, modernization, repair, operation, manufacture, and development.

According to the treaty, the supplies will be carried out according to the contracts signed by responsible organizations of the parties without licenses for export and import.

The Federation Council, upper house of Russian parliament, ratified the agreement last week.

 

Putin, Poroshenko meet on D-Day sidelines, call for end to E.Ukraine bloodshed

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RT Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s president-elect Petro Poroshenko have briefly spoken on the sidelines of the D-Day anniversary celebrations in Normandy. They called for both putin-poroshenko-ukraine-bloodshed.sisides to “stop violence and military actions” in eastern Ukraine.

Both leaders “have spoken for a prompt end to bloodshed in southeast Ukraine as well as for an end to military actions from both sides – from the side of the Ukrainian armed forces and the supporters of federalization of Ukraine,” said Putin’s press secretary, Dmitry Peskov.

Putin and Poroshenko also agreed that there is “no alternative” to “peaceful political means” to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

Apart from his conversation with Poroshenko, Russia’s president also held meetings with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

“On the margins of a lunch on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings of Normandy’s allies, President Putin had a short talk with Francois Hollande, Angela Merkel and Petro Poroshenko,” Peskov said.

The brief negotiations were followed by a short meeting between Vladimir Putin and his American counterpart, Barack Obama. According to a White House official, their informal meeting lasted 10-15 minutes, Reuters reported.

“Despite that there was no separate meeting [scheduled], the leaders of the two states had an opportunity to share their views on the situation in Ukraine as well as on crisis in the east of the country. Putin and Obama have spoken for the necessity to reduce violence and military actions,” Peskov said.

On Thursday, the Russian president also spoke with UK Prime Minister David Cameron. The two met at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris, where they arrived ahead of the D-Day commemorations.

“Putin and Cameron discussed ways to resolve the situation in Ukraine and the prospects of revitalizing the Russian-UK dialogue,” Peskov said. “In the course of the conversation between Putin and Cameron, various issues of bilateral relations were discussed, including the topic of revitalizing the Russian-British dialogue, which is currently in a frozen state.”

German N-TV phone poll shows 89% back Putin’s Ukraine policy

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A phone opinion poll conducted by the German TV channel N-TV has yielded a surprise finding that 89 percent of its viewers sympathize with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s German pollpolicy on Ukraine, RIA Novosti reported.

A poll on Russia’s handling of the Ukraine crisis by the Berlin-based N-TV went spectacularly wrong in the channel’s opinion, when the majority of its audience said “yes” to the question “Do you have understanding for Putin’s policy?”

The response was indeed so baffling that the poll was wiped off the N-TV home page the same day, but not before some people managed to make screenshots of it, which they posted online.

A screenshot posted on the Facebook page of Christoph Hoerstel from Potsdam shows that 89 percent answered with a resounding “yes,” with the remaining 11 percent responding with a “no.” Respondents could choose only those two options.

The subsequent deletion of the controversial survey raised an important question of news coverage in the German mainstream media, which has been remarkably vocal in its disapproval of Russia’s stance on Ukraine.

In February, the Ukrainian parliament backed by far-right movements ousted President Viktor Yanukovych and scheduled an early presidential election for May 25.

Moscow has described the uprising in Kiev as an illegitimate fascist coup and a military seizure of power, which resulted in it taking steps to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine, including the reunification with Crimea.

Source: Panorama.am

Putin reveals NATO chief secretly recorded their talk, leaked it to media

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Vladimir Putin says that current NATO General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen secretly recorded and leaked a private conversation with him, when he was the head of the Danish government.

Putin-and-NATO“During his time as Prime Minister he once requested an unscheduled meeting with me, and we met and talked. As it turned out, he had a voice recorder on him, and surreptitiously recorded our conversation, and leaked it to the press,” the Russian president recounted during his annual TV hotline.

“I couldn’t believe my ears and eyes – what nonsense!”

The Russian president didn’t specify when the meeting took place, but Rasmussen was his country’s Prime Minister between 2001 and 2009.

“He explained to me that he recorded the conversation for posterity. I am flattered, of course, but he should have warned me, or at least asked permission to make the content public,” continued Putin.

“How can you trust someone after an incident like that?”

Putin spoke about the leak when questioned on the relationship between Russia and NATO, frayed after a succession of contretemps, climaxing with the crisis in Ukraine.

“From interpersonal to official relations, there should be more transparency, stability, and partnership,” summed up the Russian leader.

Rasmussen’s current office in Brussels, which he has occupied for the past five years, produced a swift response.

NATO Spokesperson Oana Lungescu told RT in an emailed comment that “These accusations are complete nonsense. During his term in office as Danish Prime Minister, Mr Fogh Rasmussen never brought a dictaphone to record meetings with Mr Putin or anybody else.”

Source: RT

Russia to create national payment system: Putin

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Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country should create its own national payment settlement system to reduce its reliance on West amid heightened tensions over Crimea.

Putin-2Putin told lawmakers in televised remarks on Thursday that such systems worked in countries like Japan and China.

“Initially, they started out solely as national systems limited to their own markets, their own territory, their own population, but they are becoming more popular right now,” the Russian President said, adding, “Why should we not do it? We should definitely do it and we will do it.”

Putin’s remarks came after two American financial companies Visa and MasterCard stopped providing services for payment transactions for clients at Bank Rossiya, following Washington’s sanctions imposed in response to Crimea rejoining Russia.

Crimea declared independence from Ukraine on March 17 and formally applied to become part of Russia following a referendum a day earlier, in which 96.8 percent of Crimean residents voted in favor of the secession. The voter turnout in the referendum stood at 83.1 percent.

The move sparked angry reactions from the United States and the European Union, both imposing punitive measures against a number of Russian officials and authorities in Crimea.

Ukrainian lawmakers have announced that they will never recognize the reunification of Crimea with Russia, vowing to fight for the liberation of the region as long as it takes.

Putin, Erdogan discuss Karabakh conflict settlement

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The Kababakh conflict settlement was on the agenda of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish-snake-oil-salesmanaccording to RIA Novosti.

“There are some common efforts we need to take. The conflict-related negotiations allowed us to build a platform for the settlement of the issue,” Erdogan said at the Russia-Turkey cooperation council meeting.

As he further noted, Russia and Turkey have an obligation to promote the settlement of the Karabah issue.