Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Russia

Polish Prime Minister Denies Baltic Pipeline Plans

Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder (left) with Russia's Gazprom CEO Aleksei Miller on March 30 (epa)

May 11, 2006 -- Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has denied reports saying Poland was seeking to join a controversial project by Russian and German companies to build a gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

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May 11, 2006

Marcinkiewicz reiterated that Poland considers the project a threat to its energy security.

Poland's "Rzeczpospolita" daily and Germany's "Suddeutsche Zeitung" have both recently reported that Marcinkiewicz suggested this week to German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Poland was looking to become involved in the pipeline project.

(AFP)

Russia And The West

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COOPERATION, CONFLICT, CONFRONTATION: Relations between Russia and the West are notoriously volatile. "To see the kind of relationship that presidents Bush and Putin have developed and to see Russia firmly anchored in the West, that's really a dream of 300 years, not just of the post-Cold War era," then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice said in May 2002.
But observers have increasingly called into question the extent of the shared values between Russia and the West, particularly on issues relating to the transformations going on in other former Soviet countries.

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