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Russian Plane Violates Finnish Airspace

A Russian plane violated Finnish airspace on Wednesday near the coastal town of Porvoo in southern Finland, according to the ministry of defense. The ministry said a Tupolev Tu-154 flew half a kilometre into Finland’s airspace at around 11 in the morning and remained in it for about three minutes.

Reuters reported that Russia denied any airspace violation had taken place although a Russian plane had been close to the Finnish border at the time. The Russian embassy in Helsinki refused to give the Finnish News Agency (STT) a comment, but said that the matter would be thoroughly investigated.

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Putin: Russia-China Interaction Helps Build Just World Order

Relations between Russia and China have a strong impact on the formation of a just world order, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

“Russian-Chinese relations provide a vivid example of friendly and mutually beneficial cooperation, based on long-term, strategic interests. Russian-Chinese political, economic and humanitarian ties have been developing vigorously, bringing visible benefits to the Russian and Chinese peoples. Strong interaction between our two countries in the world arena is an important factor of building a just world order with due account taken of civilized political-economic diversity,” Putin said in a message of greetings to Chinese President Hu Jintao, according to the Kremlin press service.

“The success of the Year of China in Russia and the Year of Russia in China provides a vivid example of the two countries’ shared wish to further develop mutual understanding and effective cooperation. The agreement you and I have reached to make the most successful events of the national years regular, will undoubtedly help deepen mutual trust and traditional friendship between our peoples,” the Russian president said.

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Russia Test-fires Missiles on Christmas Day

Russia test-fired two separate missiles, including one capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads more than 7,000 kilometres, and launched three satellites into orbit on Christmas Day.

The RS-24, an intercontinental ballistic missile, was launched from a facility in northern Russia on Tuesday. Its warheads successfully hit targets at the Kura testing range on the Kamchatka Peninsula almost 7,000 kilometres away.

It is intended to replace an aging missile system established during the Soviet era.

Strategic Missile Forces spokesman Alexander Vovk would not confirm how many test warheads the missile held, but the Interfax news agency said the RS-24 can carry at least three.

The Strategic Missile Forces released a statement saying the missile was launched from a mobile launcher and was built by Moscow’s Heat Technology Institute.

“This missile is being created using scientific and technological solutions from the Topol-M missile which allows to significantly reduce time and cost of its development,” the statement said.

Topol-M missiles currently in use can carry one nuclear warhead about 10,000 kilometres. The RS-24 was first test-fired successfully in May.

Also on Tuesday, a Navy spokesman confirmed a ballistic missile launch from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea.

That missile, designated the RSM-54 Sineva, is capable of carrying four nuclear warheads up to 8,800 kilometres.

President Vladimir Putin has earmarked much of Russia’s oil revenues to update and modernize its military arsenal. He has vocally opposed the U.S. plan to establish missile defence sites in nearby Poland and the Czech Republic.

Moscow said the U.S.’ missile defence system would pose a security threat, and has promised to take counter-measures.

On the same day, Russia’s Federal Space Agency launched three satellites intended to boost the country’s space navigation system, used for both military and civilian purposes.

They were sent into orbit by a Proton-M rocket from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan to join Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System — similar to the U.S. Global Positioning System.

The satellite system was established during the Soviet era, but since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union it has declined from its 24-satellite heyday.

Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Tuesday the three new satellites would bring the fleet to 18 — enough to provide navigation services across Russia.

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He had previously said the service would reach 24 satellites and be available worldwide by 2010.

Russia Warns of Retaliation Against U.S. Missile Shield

Russia will take “measures of reprisal” if the United States insisted on deploying a missile shield in central Europe which could threaten Moscow’s national security, a foreign ministry spokesman said Monday.

The U.S. missile defense plan will be “a strong action designed to weaken Russia’s nuclear deterrent,” said Mikhail Kamynin in a foreign ministry statement.

Russia would “have no other choice than to take measures of reprisal,” he said.

Russia’s head of strategic missile forces, General Nikolai Solovtsov, has threatened to target planned U.S. missile defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic if Washington ignored Russia’s concerns, the Interfax news agency reported.

Russia’s intercontinental ballistic missiles could target the planned U.S. shield if it was seen to “undermine the Russian nuclear deterrent capability,” Solovtsov said.

Washington has insisted the missile shield, which consists of a radar station in the Czech Republic and interceptor missiles in Poland, is intended to stave off the threat of attacks from what it calls “rogue states.”

Earlier reports said the first missile could be put on alert in Poland in 2011 and the deployment could be completed by 2013.

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Russia’s Putin Named Time’s Person of The Year

Russian President Vladimir Putin was named Time’s “Person of the Year” for bringing his country “roaring back to the table of world power,” the magazine said on its Web site.

Putin, 55, who has said he may become Russia’s prime minister after stepping down as president next year, has helped lead the country back to stability “at significant cost to the principles and ideas that free nations prize,” Richard Stengel, the magazine’s managing editor, wrote in an article explaining the choice.

“With dauntless persistence, a sharp vision of what Russia should become and a sense that he embodied the spirit of Mother Russia, Putin has put his country back on the map,” Stengel wrote.

Time, owned by Time Warner Inc., started the annual “Person of the Year” cover story in 1927 with Charles Lindbergh, the aviator who made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. Last year, Internet users behind the self-made content on Web sites such as Google Inc.’s YouTube.com won the honor.

Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, a Nobel Prize winner, “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling, Chinese President Hu Jintao and David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, were named runners-up, the magazine said.

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Russia Says Missiles Could Target US Shield

Russia’s nuclear weapons chief threatened Monday to target a planned US missile defense shield in central Europe if Washington fails to take into account Moscow’s worries, the Interfax news agency reported.

General Nikolai Solovtsov, head of strategic missile forces, said that such a decision could be taken if the US shield is seen to “undermine the Russian nuclear deterrent capability.”

In that case, “I do not exclude… the missile defense shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic being chosen as targets for some of our intercontinental ballistic missiles,” Solovtsov said, according to Interfax.

Washington says the plans to install radar in the Czech Republic and 10 interceptor rockets in Poland would guard against theoretical missile strikes from “rogue” nations such as Iran, without denting Russia’s massive nuclear offensive arsenal. But Moscow claims the United States is exaggerating the threat from Iran and describes the shield as the thin end of a wedge aimed at changing the current balance of military power.

On Saturday, the Russian chief of staff, General Yury Baluyevsky, warned that the launch of US interceptor missiles could accidentally trigger a Russian retaliatory strike. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk denounced the comments as “unacceptable” and said that “no declaration of this kind will influence Polish-American negotiations.”

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Russia Test-fires Intercontinental Missile

Russia successfully conducted a test launch on Monday of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, the navy said.

A statement said the missile was launched from the Tula nuclear powered submarine in the Barents Sea in the Arctic and hit a designated area in the Kura testing ground on the Kamchatka Peninsula on Russia’s Pacific coast.

“The launch was conducted from an underwater position as a part of training to test the readiness of the marine strategic nuclear forces,” the statement said.

A navy spokesman would not say what type of missile was tested. Itar-Tass news agency said the Tula submarine carried Sineva missiles commissioned by a decree from President Vladimir Putin in July.

Missile tests have become regular occurrences in the Russian armed forces in the past few years. They are viewed by Russia’s political and military leadership as evidence that they are reviving the country’s military might.

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Russian Warships To Dock In Syria

The Russian navy is deploying to the Mediterranean. Unlike past rumors on the issue, this is a declaration that comes directly from the defense minister who was speaking with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time. The deployment is just as important for what it does not mean, as it is for what it does.

The Russian navy is deploying to the Mediterranean. Unlike past rumors on the issue, this is a declaration that comes directly from the defense minister who was speaking with the Russian President Vladimir Putin at the time. The deployment is just as important for what it does not mean, as it is for what it does.

Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov announced Dec. 5 that the Russian navy was deploying a task force containing four warships, seven support vessels, 47 planes and
10 helicopters to the Mediterranean Sea. The task force will be on station until February 2008. While on occasion a small Russian force sails out to participate in exercises, this deployment is the first of any notable size into the Mediterranean since the Yeltsin government sent a force of similar size into the Adriatic Sea to register protest with NATO’s action in the 1999 Kosovo war.

Getting ships onto the Mediterranean for any amount of time is no small matter. With the Mediterranean having been a NATO lake for the past 15 years, the simple presence of a Russian force will force the review of a great many security policies.

Additionally, Russia in theory could re-establish itself as a permanent Mediterranean naval power, using a Cold War-era port in Syria. That in turn could embolden Damascus to take a firmer stance in dealing with Israel and the United States, which could have its own knock-on effect for U.S.-Iranian relations. The Russians are searching for levers to disrupt the recent progress in the Middle East; this may prove to be one of them.

But before you duck and cover, keep in mind that to float this task force Russia had to cherry-pick ships from its Black, Baltic and Northern fleets. This is not a casual deployment, but represents real effort. It is the maximum the Russian navy can project at present, and the slow rate that Russian shipyards operate at suggests this will remain the case for some time.

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Russia Pulls Out Of Post-Cold War Arms Treaty

President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Friday suspending Russia’s participation in a key post-cold war arms treaty, triggering an angry reaction from the US, which declared the move a “mistake”.

In a significant new indication of the worsening diplomatic relationship between Moscow and Washington, Mr Putin personally ratified a law that means Moscow will suspend the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty (CFE) in a little under two weeks.

Western military experts believe the CFE, first signed in 1990, is a significant treaty that limits the number of battle tanks, heavy artillery, combat aircraft and attack helicopters deployed and stored between the Atlantic and Russia’s Ural mountains.

It also contains a significant array of confidence-building measures, requiring all signatories to give other states advance notice of troop movements and missile launches.

Senior officials from the US and other Nato states said Russia was now all but certain to suspend the treaty from December 12, a deadline it gave earlier this year unless an agreement could be forged with Nato ­countries. “Russia has made a mistake in this unilateral behaviour of walking out of a major arms control treaty in Europe,” said Nicholas Burns, the US under­secretary of state for political affairs.

Senior officials from other Nato states said Washington and its allies now needed to decide when they would themselves suspend the treaty provisions.

“From December 12, Russia will not be giving notification of its troop movements or allow external inspections,” said a senior official from a Nato ­government.

“We will therefore see a gradual degradation in the application of the treaty. By March or April of next year we will have to decide whether we start to suspend the application of the treaty to our own forces.”

Russian and US negotiators met in Madrid on Thursday to discuss the CFE but no progress was made, US officials said.

A senior US official said Russia had demanded that so-called “flank limits” limiting the movement of Russian troops should be lifted in advance, while those restricting Nato troop movements should be left in force. “That is so one-sided it really isn’t workable,” he said.

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Russia Seeks To Hold Middle East Peace Talks

A Mideast summit in Moscow could bolster Russia’s prestige and please Arab nations such as Syria, but progress would depend heavily on the actions of Israel and the Palestinians, analysts said Thursday.

Moscow has offered to host a follow-up to the peace conference held this week in Annapolis, Md. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the idea “received support” during the summit, but stopped short of saying it was definite. He said the timing was not yet clear.

An official with the European Commission, the executive body of the EU, said a Moscow meeting “could happen as early as February.” The official spoke in Israel on condition of anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the subject.

A conference in Moscow would fit in with President Vladimir Putin’s efforts to restore Russia’s global clout and further burnish his image at home — particularly before March 2 presidential elections in which he is barred from seeking a third term.

“Putin has been doing everything possible to prove to the world — and not least to his own people — that Russia is a great power that has risen up from its knees” and opposes U.S. dominance, said Georgy Mirsky, a Mideast expert and professor at Moscow’s Institute of World Economy and International Relations.

Putin has sought to strengthen Russia’s role in Mideast peacemaking, visiting both Israel and the West Bank in 2005.

Russia, whose close ties with Syria go back to the Soviet era, has long called for a broad conference including Israel’s neighboring Arab states, whose support is considered vital to any peace agreement. A meeting in Moscow would likely train a sharper focus on Syria.

But it is far from clear whether such a gathering would take peace efforts further than the meetings in the United States, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert reiterated their desire to reach a peace settlement by the end of next year.

“I don’t see any real leverage” in Moscow, Mirsky said. “I can’t imagine what card could be played here that wasn’t played in Annapolis.”

“A heck of a lot of effort will be needed from both sides” to make progress toward a settlement, he said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov acknowledged that difficulty on his way back from the U.S. meeting. He said plans for the Moscow meeting would be made “taking into account first of all the progress of the direct work between the Palestinians and Israelis,” the ITAR-Tass news agency quoted him as saying.

Galia Golan-Gild, an Israeli expert on Soviet and Russian policy in the Middle East, said Putin has nothing to offer to further the peace process and is pushing the conference to appear influential in the region.

“Putin very clearly wants to be considered a superpower like the Americans,” she said.

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