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Russia and Argentina agree on an “all-encompassing strategic partnership”
Russia and Argentina signed agreements which amounted to an “all-encompassing strategic partnership” during Argentine President Cristina Fernandez visit to Moscow, which ended on Thursday with the meeting at the Kremlin with her counterpart Vladimir Putin. Read full article
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Apr 24th, 2015 - 08:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who else would want either ?
'Cristina Fernandez said Argentina considers Russia a strategic partner'. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin, who hadn't been listening, said that Russia considers argieland a strategic serf.
Apr 24th, 2015 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Russia will provide Argentina with access to Russian nuclear power technology' in an agreement laughingly called Chernobyl Kursk SoAm X.
For the first time, Russian GLONASS satellites will enable the argie sub to go straight down!
@ 1 You beat me to it!
Apr 24th, 2015 - 11:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0@2 “strategic serf.” That IS funny, true as well.
'But seriously folks' as the shyster Hughie Green used to say before giving the camera one of his rictus grins and then lied through his teeth, do we think anything will come of this? When the new argie President gets the numbers involved and the strategic threat that comes with them it will all be put in Ushuaia if they have the new shitter ready.
“Cristina Fernandez said Argentina considers Russia a strategic partner and revealed the two sides agreed to conduct thorough consultations on using national currencies in trade calculations instead of the US dollar”
Apr 24th, 2015 - 11:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hmmm - does this mean that there will soon be a 'blue rate' for the Rouble.
The US now needs to concentrate satellite surveillance. When will Russian ballistic missiles appear? Above ground? Mobile? Silos? The 'argie Missile Crisis'? Or will the West use weaponry it didn't have in 1962? It'll be Britain's fight too. US and British submarine-launched cruise missiles. US and British air-launched cruise missiles. Russian warships will be sunk just like the Belgrano. HMS Queen Elizabeth is nearly ready. HMS Prince of Wales may be renamed HMS Ark Royal.
Apr 24th, 2015 - 04:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0War-mongering? No. It's defence. “We shall fight on the beaches. On the landing grounds. In the streets and in the hills. We shall never surrender.”
Russia would like nothing better, than to have a military base in the south Atlantic in readiness for future entry to the Antarctic,
Apr 24th, 2015 - 06:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0but even if this was not true, Russia has, apparently offered he access to satellite information,
surely this would /may be classed as provocative and a danger to peace in the south Atlantic,
I could be wrong but is just an opinion.
Putin is playing Monopoly and having a good laugh
Apr 24th, 2015 - 06:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Poor old Putin, reduced to cutting deals with beggars and scoundrels. How the might Russian bear has fallen. If this alliance develops, the world and the rest of SA will be very glad indeed that there is a NATO base in the South Atlantic.
Apr 24th, 2015 - 08:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bypassing the dollar!
Apr 24th, 2015 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A dream come true.
Cristina rocks!
May rotting roadkill be blessed with infinte cretinas!
Apr 24th, 2015 - 09:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Definitely the South is winning the war!
Apr 24th, 2015 - 09:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only on. SA would someone think they are at war. Brasshole don't you know the last war had the Brits handing Argentina their asses back to them neatly folded with a few extra holes.
Apr 24th, 2015 - 10:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Brasileiro is right; he and I know what war he is talking about.
Apr 24th, 2015 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lol....right ......one brasshole to another. You Latinis are......well...nevermind.
Apr 25th, 2015 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0“.......and revealed the two sides agreed to conduct thorough consultations on using national currencies in trade calculations instead of the US dollar.”
Apr 25th, 2015 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0So they are going to bypass the US dollar and use the mighty Argentine peso instead. And yet
“A two billion dollars memorandum was signed for the construction .........”
So they havent quite got there yet!
If you lay down with dogs you get fleas, they deserve each other.
@11 Brasileiro
Apr 26th, 2015 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So Russia is in “the South” now is it?
You have no idea what you’re dealing with there.
Remember what happened to Cuba, end of the cold war, no more use to Russia, all aid cut-off and left to starve.
But Australia is in this south!
Apr 26th, 2015 - 09:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0More south than Brazil!
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Apr 28th, 2015 - 01:56 am - Link - Report abuse 0“It’s very strange that Gazprom, the largest gas producer in the world with a lot of gas that it can’t sell, would come here for gas,” said Daniel Gerold, an energy consultant in Buenos Aires, suggesting that there may be a political motivation behind the deal. “I would be very surprised to see sizeable investments materialise in the short term, to put it politely,” he said.
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Mr Gerold said that a Russian-financed $2bn hydroelectric plant and a contract for Russian firms to build a new nuclear power station were of greater significance — if they happen, he cautions.”
“comparison to the $260bn in trade between Latin America and China, while the US remains the region’s top trading partner.”
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Speculation that Russia will lease Argentina 12 Soviet-era long-range bombers in exchange for beef and grain exports has even triggered concerns in the UK government that Buenos Aires poses a “very live threat” to the Falkland Islands, where the UK ramped up spending last month to reinforce defences.”
“This government doesn’t have a foreign policy. It is constantly subordinated to the needs of internal political conflicts,” he says.
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Apr 30th, 2015 - 12:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0the best you guys can do is get a liver pie (yuck) and bad beer. after seeing their pathetic football clubs being eliminated in the league of champions ... oh wait ... it already happened ... hahahahahaha ...
@ 19 juliana
Apr 30th, 2015 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“not give one penny for their views ..”
Well that lets you out then, you haven't GOT a penny to your name.
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