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04 February 2022 - Russia Special Weapons News
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- Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Moscow, February 4, 2022 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 04 Feb 2022
- What Sanctions Against Russia Could Look Like VOA 04 Feb 2022 -- Western nations have threatened sanctions against Russia if it invades Ukraine. While leaders have given few details about exactly what measures they plan to take or precisely what Russian actions would trigger sanctions, they have promised to make any new sanctions more punishing than previous efforts. Here is a look at what the United States and European countries might be considering.
- Russia, Ukraine Report Record Number Of Infections As Omicron Continues To Spread RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- Russia and Ukraine have both reported record numbers of COVID-19 infections as the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to spread across Europe.
- EU Looks To Azerbaijan For Increase In Supply Of Natural Gas RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- The European Union's energy commissioner has visited Azerbaijan as part of an effort to diversify the continent's energy sources and reduce dependency on Russian gas.
- EU Demands Central African Republic Boot Wagner Group Contractors Before Resuming Training Mission Sputnik 04 Feb 2022 -- After canceling its military cooperation with the Central African Republic's military in December, the European Union laid out the requirements for its return, including that Bangui cease cooperating with Wagner Group security contractors. However, the EU's training mission has long been criticized as ineffective.
- Putin Helping to Revive NATO, Say Western Officials VOA 04 Feb 2022 -- Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO, the post-World War II alliance forged between a victorious America and the conflict-battered countries of Western Europe, has often been dubbed a Cold War relic.
- Russia, China Claim United Front Against NATO Expansion RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have called on the West to "abandon the ideologized approaches of the Cold War" as the two leaders showed their deepening "no limits" relationship amid a standoff between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.
- NATO Fighters intercept Russian aircraft over the Baltic Sea and in the High North NATO 04 Feb 2022 -- U.S. F-15Es scrambled and intercepted Russian fighters operating near Allied air space over the Baltic Sea while Norwegian and British aircraft intercepted Russian aircraft in flying from the Barents into the North Sea on Thursday February 3, 2022.
- Russia to UK: Stop spreading 'fake news' about 'imminent Russian aggression' against Ukraine Press TV 04 Feb 2022 -- Moscow calls on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to stop parroting and spreading fabricated news about 'imminent Russian aggression' against Ukraine, two days after the United States announced it would be deploying several thousand troops to Eastern Europe.
- US and UK accuse Russia of planning to create a pretext for Ukraine invasion Press TV 04 Feb 2022 -- The United States and the United Kingdom have accused Russia of planning to create a pretext to invade Ukraine, despite the fact that, according to an independent analyst, it is Washington that has a long record of carrying out so-called "false flag" operations to launch wars.
- UK Foreign Secretary Truss Says US Has 'Shocking Evidence' That Russia Has Plans to Provoke Ukraine Sputnik 04 Feb 2022 -- On Thursday, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby claimed the US has information that Moscow "likely to want to fabricate a pretext for an invasion", and was staging "a fake attack by Ukrainian military or intelligence forces against Russian sovereign territory or against Russian-speaking people to therefore justify their action".
- Russian ships arrive at Syria's port of Tartus amid tensions with West Press TV 04 Feb 2022 -- Russia's Defense Ministry says a group of amphibious assault ships of its Northern and Baltic Fleets have arrived at the Syrian port of Tartus, as the Russian navy has been staging large-scale naval drills aimed to counter military threats to Russia amid heightened tensions with the West.
- The Week In Russia: The Chechnya Connection RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- In 1997, NATO and Russia pledged to cooperate on European security, basing their ties on a "shared commitment" to principles such as respect for human rights and the rule of law. Twenty-five years later, the words and actions of Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader highlight one of the reasons that didn't work out.
- The Chechen Telegram Channel That Has Gotten Under Kadyrov's Skin RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- On January 20, security forces loyal to Kremlin-backed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov abducted the mother of lawyer and anti-torture activist Abubakar Yangulbayev in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod and took her by force to Chechnya. She has been held since in isolation without contact with her lawyer or her family.
- Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's replies to questions from Russian media, Beijing, February 4, 2020 Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs 04 Feb 2022
- EU Actively Looking for Alternatives to Russian Gas, May Block Nord Stream 2, EC Prez Says Sputnik 04 Feb 2022 -- European officials have threatened to include restrictions against the brand new pipeline among other sanctions to be levied against Moscow in the event of a Russian "invasion" of Ukraine. Russian officials have dismissed the "invasion" claims and accused the West of stoking tensions to justify beefing up NATO's footprint in Eastern Europe.
- Moscow Not Surprised US Shifting Responsibility to Russia for Leaked Response to Security Proposals Sputnik 04 Feb 2022 -- On Wednesday, Spain's El Pais newspaper published the text of the alleged US response to the Russian security guarantees proposals, with both Moscow and Washington confirming the authenticity of the leaked documents. US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland claimed that Moscow was behind the incident.
- White House Dismissive of Putin - Xi Meeting VOA 04 Feb 2022 -- The White House dismissed a Friday meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in which the leaders unveiled a strategic alliance geared against the U.S.
- At Beijing Olympics, Xi and Putin Announce Plan to Counter US VOA 04 Feb 2022 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged closer cooperation to counter the influence of the United States during a meeting Friday ahead of the opening ceremony for the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
- Xi meets Putin, stressing strategic coordination to better tackle external interference Global Times 04 Feb 2022 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday afternoon, stressing the further deepening of "back-to-back" strategic coordination in upholding international fairness and justice and adhering to the four consensuses in supporting each other's sovereignty, security and development interests to better tackle external interference and regional threats, as they exchanged views on a series of major issues regarding global strategic security and stability.
- Closer energy partnership gets spotlight in Xi-Putin summit in Beijing Global Times 04 Feb 2022 -- Closer energy cooperation between China and Russia was a major focus for the top leaders of the two countries who met Friday in Beijing, just ahead of the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
- Xi stresses China-Russia back-to-back strategic coordination PLA Daily 04 Feb 2022 -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed commitment between China and Russia to deepening back-to-back strategic coordination and upholding international equity and justice side by side in the face of profound and complex changes in the international situation.
- Russia, China discuss ditching dollar, ink 30-year-old gas deal; warn West Press TV 04 Feb 2022 -- Russian and Chinese presidents have discussed shifting trade away from the dollar as they unveil a new gas deal, stressing that their strategic cooperation is "unshakeable" and warning the West to stop eastward expansion.
- New World Order Or Hidden Power Struggle? Experts Assess The Future Of Chinese-Russian Relations RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- Amid the spectacle of the start of the Winter Olympics, Chinese President Xi Jinping offered solidarity to his counterpart, President Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in Beijing amid high tensions with the West.
- German Broadcaster Deutsche Welle Closes Moscow Bureau After Russian Ban RFE/RL 04 Feb 2022 -- Deutsche Welle's (DW) operations in Russia have been closed a day after Moscow told the German broadcaster it was revoking accreditations following a move by Berlin that banned broadcasts by Russia's RT DE channel because it did not have a proper license.
- Upcoming Xi-Putin meeting to lay out structure for post-pandemic China-Russia ties, Wang Yi says in meeting with Lavrov Global Times 04 Feb 2022 -- The meeting in the new year between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin is to lay out the structure of post-pandemic relations between China and Russia, which embodies the high-level strategic cooperation of the two countries, as well as the deep mutual trust and friendship between the two state leaders, said Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi when meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday.
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