US Military Presence In Central Asia Is A Threat – Kazakhstan statement

The USA military presence in Central Asia is a potential threat to Russia and China’s security, said the Director of the Kazakh’s presidential strategic research institute – Builat Sultanov.

"Military bases in Central Asia countries are a potential threat to Southern Siberia, the Far East and a threat to China. I am categorically against the presence of military bases in the Central Asian countries, because any military base is a base of occupation.

I cannot understand the euphoria of some Central Asian states regarding the US military bases on their territory. Everywhere in the world where foreign military bases are deployed, people are demanding that these bases be withdrawn – as they are doing in Europe, South Korea or Japan", he said.

Russian Air Force to Engage In Joint Exercises with China, India

The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force Vladimir Mikhailov said that: "Russian strategic aircraft, and also the SU-34M bombers and SU-27SM fighters will practice mid-air refueling during military exercises with China and India, in addition to military and transport aviation.

Russia Denounces SS Officers Congress in Estonia

The Russian Government has condemned the July Congress held by the SS Veteran Officers from the Baltic states – Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania and even from Canada in Tartu, Estonia.

"Russia has more than once resolutely condemned such gatherings in the past. We find it intolerable that it happened in a member state of the European Union, without the EU making any statement. We voice our great concern about this open neo-fascist sentiments.

Russia, China Spearhead Drive for New World Based on International Law

Russia and China are working together to help form a new world order in the 21^st Century that will be based on multi-polarity, respect for international law and a leading role for the United Nations, Deputy Minister of Russia Alexander Alexeyev said. He was speaking at the Chinese Embassy in Moscow during an official function devoted to the 60^th Anniversary of the country’s liberation from the Japanese occupation.

Chinese Ambassador on Moscow, Liu Guchang said in his turn that the Chinese people would never forget the feat of the Soviet Army in the liberation of China from Japanese militarism.

At the present, the Russian-Chinese relations are the highest they have ever gotten after 1953 of the bilateral contacts, the diplomat added.

US Military Thrown Out of Uzbekistan

Reuters Agency

Uzbekistan evicted the United States in July from the military base that had served as a hub for combat missions into Afghanistan, since the US was granted this base shortly after the September 11, 2001 attack.

This base was known as K2 and this diplomatic note was delivered to the US Embassy by the Uzbek Foreign Ministry. US must vacate the base in 180 days.

President Putin met with the top leaders of his own youth organization "NASHI-OURS" –0 the future storm troopers of Russian capitalism, in his country estate outside of Moscow. He said among other things, that they should "influence the Russian Society and you must defend the present policies against any returning back to what was the Soviet Union."

It was a massive campaign of 1.5 million Soviet Red Army soldiers under the leadership of Marshal Vasilevski, which inflicted the greatest military defeat in history. The Soviet Red Army encircled Japan’s Kwantung Army which lost over 80,000 dead.

The impact of this colossal defeat was the final blow that made the Japanese military General Staff to surrender and go over to the side of the US in its negotiations.

The Kremlin Turns To the Cossacks

President Putin has introduced a bill into the State Duma that would create special "Cossack Units" to preserve law and order and fight terrorism. According to the Times of London, the bill would make some 600,000 Cossacks eligible to join the units, the first that will be formed by the end of this year. "We want to defend the Motherland" said Sergei Buzinov, the deputy Aaman of the Cossacks But people are wary of this move, since there are recorded instances now that these Cossacks are beating up on ethnic minorities.

Abkhazia Committed To Becoming Part of Russia

NOVOSTI AGENCY

Abkhazia remains committed to be a member f the Russian Federation, the president of this republic proclaimed while in Moscow last August. Sergei Bagapsh said Russia is the main trade partner and investor and that both countries benefit by this.

Abkhazian residents will become Russian citizens in a year and that this process is under way. This is done in order to stop the attacks by the present Georgian leadership. He also stated that 84% of Abkhazians had Russian citizenship and about 70% of the population received a Russian pension.