EFTA00702008.txt

"Russia under Putin"

"Putin has been in Beijing this week to meet Chinese leaders"

"Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the UN"

"U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta"

"Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov"

"Dmitri Trenin is director of the Carnegie Moscow Center"

"Kofi Annan, the special envoy to Syria for the United Nations"

"Kofi Annan, the special envoy to Syria for the United Nations and the Arab League"

"China keeps Iran's money and uses it as a substitute to Letters of Credit to guarantee payments for Chinese products purchased by Iran"

"penalties for business interests that might follow open defiance of U.S.-backed sanctions"

"China's key business relationship with Saudi Arabia"

"stronger Russia-China cooperation to counter U.S. foreign policies"

"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will likely have used his meetings with Putin"

"meetings with... senior Chinese officials on the sidelines of this week's Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit"

"we will no longer ship arms to a government involved in a civil war"

"Russia did lean on Assad, persuading him to agree first to an Arab League mission, and then the Annan plan"

"his deputy, Gennady Gatilov"

"From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen... Subject: June 9 update Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012"

"Bashar al-Assad has a lot to hide... reported chilling evidence of multiple killings"

"Russia and Iran are both still selling arms to Damascus... stop enabling Mr. Assad's savagery"

"Russia, China and Iran to stop enabling Mr. Assad's savagery"

"Russia and Iran are both still selling arms to Damascus"

"Russia would still have port facilities at Tartus"

"crimes against humanity, indeed near-genocide, that Vladimir Putin ordered in Chechnya at the turn of the century"

"The Washington Post... Anne-Marie Slaughter"

"Bloomberg... Dmitri Trenin"

"Baztab publication, believed to have close links with former Iranian Revolutionary Guard chief Mohsen Rezai"

"even if they mend fences with each other to balance U.S. power"

"Bernice Lee is Research Director for Energy, Environment and Resources at Chatham House"

"China's decision to ban super-sized ships from Vale, the Brazilian mining giant, from docking in Chinese ports"

"Raghuram Rajan is a professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business"

"He previously served as the International Monetary Fund's youngest-ever chief economist"

"and was Chairman of India's Committee on Financial Sector Reforms"

"Bernice Lee June 2012 - July 2012 -- Will Rio+20 just be a side show"