Christmas in Moscow
An unforgettable adventure
in a land of surprises
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009
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Style champion
Russia considers Nato
Copenhagen
request for helicopters
didn’t change
the climate
Nato Secretary General Anders ence after his meeting with Mr
Fogh Rasmussen has asked the Medvedev.
Kremlin to provide Russian Fyodor Lukyanov, editor in Despite ambivalent results at
helicopters and spare parts to chief of Russia in Global Affairs, the Copenhagen summit, Russia
bolster the Nato campaign in agreed that there is “substan- still plans to commit to lower
Afghanistan. What the alliance tial” scope for co-operation on CO2 targets and reduce harmful
chief got was a promise that Afghanistan.“Russia, the Unit- emissions. This comes as part of
the Russian government would ed States and Nato have… close a broader plan to improve
consider the request. Stability interests in Afghanistan and, energy efficiency and spur
in Afghanistan is important for although Russia is not interest- economic growth through green
both sides, but can they put ed in getting directly involved, technologies.
their differences behind them it will do several things to help
to make it happen? the Americans continue their
ILYA ZINENKO
effort to create the conditions GAZETA
TOM BALMFORTH
for withdrawal,” he said. Russia
RUSSIA PROFILE would benefi t greatly from a de- On the heels of the summit, pres-
feated Taliban in Afghanistan, ident Dmitry Medvedev had
Meeting in Moscow, Rasmussen but shies away from direct in- pledged to cut Russia's harmful
told president Medvedev that volvement in the US-led cam- emissions to 25pc less than the
Afghanistan should become the paign because of its own trau- 1990 level if other leaders follow.
focus of renewed Nato-Russia matic experience of fi ghting in Mr Medvedev also promised to
cooperation. “I do believe that the war-torn country from 1979 make Russian industry 40pc more
it’s also essential for Russia that to 1989. energy efficient by 2020.
we succeed in Afghanistan,” Previously, presidential Aide
Rasmussen told a press confer- CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 Arkady Dvorkovich had
pledged $200m to a multibil-
lion-dollar fund to support
poor nations, but not before a
President Medvedev’s new
successor to the Kyoto Protocol
on reducing harmful emissions
security vision
would be signed.
However, speaking at an infor-
mal meeting with his counter-
In June 2008, president Dmitry Mr Medvedev’s initiative was parts from post-Soviet states,
Medvedev first floated the idea the logical continuation of the Mr Medvedev echoed the words
for a new, broader structure for foreign policy outlined by then- of several commentators:
European-Atlantic security. The president Vladimir Putin at the “There are results, but they are
Kremlin made it a concrete 2007 Munich Conference on se- rather modest.”
proposal in November, posting curity. Mr Putin said: “Security
the article “The European for each is security for all,” and
Security Treaty” on its website. the model of a unipolar world
in the 21st century is not only
VLADIMIR YEVSEYEV
unacceptable but impossible.
THE MOSCOW TIMES In Moscow’s opinion, unilateral
action (in the former Yugoslavia
Under the heading “From Van- or Iraq) only creates problems.
couver to Vladivostok”, Mr Every country, especially a to-
Medvedev’s treaty attempts to talitarian one, defends its fun-
encompass, among others, damental national security
Nato, the Organisation for Se- concern: self-preservation. For
SERGEI KARPUKHIN_REUTERS curity and Cooperation in Eu- the past 60 years, nuclear arms
rope and the Collective Securi- have proved to be one of the
“The crisis is not a time to give Each of his collections is a Russia Now explores Zaitsev’s ty Treaty Organisation. The most reliable guarantors of ERIC FEFERBERG_AFP
up, but to switch to domesti- hymn to Russian style, a com- Soviet-era roots and the ori- West has reacted sceptically at this for countries that are part Sculptures at the Bella Centre,
cally produced textiles,” be- bination of Eastern splendour gins of Russian style.
-
best. At worst, many in the West of the official and unofficial Copenhagen, venue for the UN
lieves Vyacheslav Zaitsev, the and bright colours with an ar- see the proposal as an attempt nuclear club. Climate Change Conference
patriarch of Russian fashion. ticulate European silhouette. TURN TO PAGE 8 to restore Russia’s lost global
infl uence, if not its empire. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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