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Just days after President Obama announced a historic thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba, one of Russia’s most hawkish emissaries was set to arrive in Havana on Friday to meet with Cuba’s leadership. The emissary, Dmitri O. Rogozin, the outspoken deputy prime minister whose portfolio includes Russia’s weapons and space programs, had already panned the United States’ supposed change of heart toward Cuba as just a calculated change in tactics. […] Discounting avowed hawks like Mr. Rogozin, analysts and diplomats in Moscow met Mr. Obama’s decision with an approval that is rare in the current political climate,...

Russia builds all of the rocket engines that deliver U.S. military satellites into space. Gen. William Shelton, U.S. Space Command, said Tuesday the recent missile attack on Malaysian passenger jet that killed 298 people will not result any change to this (crony driven, United Launch Alliance) RD-180 engine arrangement. Space Exploration Technologies Corp., SpaceX, has sued the Air Force for the oppertunity to compete, for contracts that provide lift to military and intel satellite. Right now, only ULA is allowed to "compete" for the $9 billion Engine project. //Snip// Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dimitry Rogozin threatened in May to cut...

MOSCOW – Russia’s deputy prime minister laughed off President Obama’s sanction against him today asking “Comrade @BarackObama” if “some prankster” came up with the list. The Obama administration hit 11 Russian and Ukrainian officials with sanctions today as punishment for Russia’s support of Crimea’s referendum. Among them: aides to President Vladimir Putin, a top government official, senior lawmakers, Crimean officials, the ousted president of Ukraine, and a Ukrainian politician and businessman allegedly tied to violence against protesters in Kiev. It remains to be seen whether the sanctions will dissuade Russia from annexing Crimea, but one an early clue that they...

A Russian Cabinet member says Moscow has reserved the right to use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional strike. Wednesday's comments by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin carried by Russian news agencies reflected Moscow's concern with prospective U.S. weapons. Weapons that have been developed in the U.S. under the so-called "prompt global strike" program would be capable of striking targets anywhere in the world in as little as an hour with deadly precision. Russia, which has lagged far behind in developing such weapons, has described them as destabilizing. Without naming the U.S., Rogozin said that those who "experiment with...

Just got done watching Coulter on Hannity. In the midst of one of her responses she rambled off, "Putin has made Obama his monkey". Ruh roh...lol. Godspeed Ann

NATO plans campaign in Syria, tightens noose around Iran - Rogozin Topic: Protests in Syria 05:48 05/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 5 (RIA Novosti) NATO is planning a military campaign against Syria to help overthrow the regime of President Bashar al-Assad with a long-reaching goal of preparing a beachhead for an attack on Iran, Russia's envoy to NATO Dmitry Rogozin said. The UN Security Council condemned on Wednesday ongoing violence in Syria and urged the country's authorities to stop using force against peaceful protesters, while saying the current situation in the country has not yet called for NATO interference. "[This statement] means...

Agence France-Presse First Posted 15:13:00 11/06/2010 Filed Under: Personalities, Internet BRUSSELS—While Russia's ambassador to NATO deals with issues of war and peace every day, his wife Tatiana Rogozina can be found on YouTube serenading her husband about "making love." In the 3:55-minute clip, Rogozina sings and dances to a song titled "Stay Forever!" by the swimming pool of the couple's residence in Brussels under autumn leaves. "I know what you want, and I know what you think, making love to me is like having a good drink," sings Rogozina, who is wearing a black leather jacket and jeans as the...

Military help for Georgia is a 'declaration of war', says Moscow in extraordinary warning to the West Last updated at 16:47pm on 27.08.08 Moscow has issued an extraordinary warning to the West that military assistance to Georgia for use against South Ossetia or Abkhazia would be viewed as a "declaration of war" by Russia. The extreme rhetoric from the Kremlin's envoy to NATO came as President Dmitry Medvedev stressed he will make a military response to US missile defence installations in eastern Europe, sending new shudders across countries whose people were once blighted by the Iron Curtain. And Moscow also...

MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - Russian Ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin does not rule out the fact that Russia could use force to protect its interests. "Today, if the EU works out a single position or if NATO steps beyond its mandate in Kosovo, these organizations will be in conflict with the UN, and then I think we will also begin operating under the assumption that in order to be respected one needs to use force," Rogozin said in a televised linkup with Brussels. av md

Russia's new ambassador to Nato has warned the west to expect no change in Moscow's tough foreign policy after the presidential elections next month - in part because Vladimir Putin, the outgoing president, would remain "as strong as ever". As Russia prepares for elections on March 2 that are almost certain to see Dmitry Medvedev elected president, there have been questions over whether he might soften Moscow's stance. But in an interview with the Financial Times, Dmitry Rogozin, a Russian nationalist, said: "Medvedev expects to have friendly relations with his neighbours. But he will defend Russia's national interests in the...

The Motherland bloc -- or "Rodina," as it is called in Russian -- is the sensation of the new Russian Duma. Elected on a platform combining leftist economics and nationalist rhetoric, Motherland is believed to be a Kremlin creation meant to siphon protest votes away from the Communists. RFE/RL looks at Motherland's roots and what its two strong political leaders may hope to achieve once the new Duma begins work. Moscow 11 December 2003 (RFE/RL) -- "Let's reclaim Russia for ourselves" was the motto for the fledgling Motherland-Patriotic Union bloc during the campaign season leading up to last weekend's (7...

The Russian parliamentary chairman for international affairs says his nation will not accept the use of force against Iraq in the war on terrorism. Dimitri Rogozin told the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat that Moscow is assisting Baghdad and strongly opposes any use of force against Iraq, despite its international provocations. "We are helping Iraq, and we will not accept anyone seeking to use military force against it," he said in an interview translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. "We are strongly opposed to the sanctions and maintain that they have outlived their usefulness and have proven ...

<p>The strapping nationalist lawmaker strode past the television crew camped in front of his office. Not long ago, Dmitri Rogozin would have gladly sought out a chance for some airtime. But not anymore -- not after his Motherland bloc rode a wave of Russian patriotism and disenchantment with Western-style reforms to an impressive showing in last week's parliamentary vote. Now the cameras chase after him.</p>