WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Lisa Murkowski Wednesday questioned United States Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno about the recent surge in Russian military activity in the Arctic region. In light of the regional volatility and the Pentagon’s heightened focus on the Asia-Pacific region, Murkowski questioned the reasoning behind the proposal to potentially draw down […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing back against Western opposition to his country’s planned South Stream pipeline that would allow Moscow to ship natural gas to European countries without going through Ukraine. The Russian president spent six hours earlier this week in Vienna where he signed an agreement for the pipeline’s construction in that country. […]
Russia and China finalized the $400 billion, 30 year agreement between the two countries for Russia to supply China with much-needed natural gas for the next three decades According to the deal penned by Gazprom and the China National Petroleum Corporation, Russia will supply 38,000,000,000 cubic meters annually through a new pipeline linking the Siberian […]
It was publicly stated by the Ukrainian government in Kiev on Wednesday that control of the situation, for all intents and purposes has been lost of the eastern region of the country. The interim president of Ukraine, Oleksandr Turchynov says that he believes that Russia has now set an eye on six more regions in […]