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08MOSCOW3254	GOR LIMITS NATIONALIST RALLIES ON RUSSIAN DAY OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Approximately 2,000 nationalist activists gathered in different parts of Moscow for the "Russian March," a rally organized by established nationalist groups, on Russia's Day of People's Unity. The holiday, held since 2005 on November 4 as a replacement for events remembering [...]	2008-11-06 18:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS

08MOSCOW3265	RUSSIA'S LIBERALS SCORN MEDVEDEV'S PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary: Political liberal opposition leaders have rejected President Medvedev's proposed changes to political party laws as attacks against democracy and evidence of further consolidation of power in Russia. The head of the only independent election monitoring organization painted a bl [...]	2008-11-07 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREL RS
08MOSCOW3269	RUSSIA RESPONSE: NO KNOWLEDGE OF RIO-PLUS-20 CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-10 11:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV RS
08MOSCOW327	U/S JEFFERY'S JAN 30 MEETING WITH RUSSIA'S CENTRAL [...] (C) During a January 30 meeting with Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery, EEB Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Elizabeth Dibble and the Ambassador, Central Bank of Russia (CBR) Chairman Sergey Ignatiyev provided a generally optimistic outl [...]	2008-02-08 10:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3271	RUSSIA LOSES NO MATTER HOW THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: Russia will lose no matter how the Iranian nuclear controversy is resolved, according to analysts who argue that Russia faces either the prospect of a nuclear Iran causing instability in the Middle East, or a negotiated settlement that will lead Iran to "drop" Russia in favor of [...]	2008-11-10 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG MARR MNUC IR RS
08MOSCOW328	U/S JEFFERY'S JAN 30 MEETING WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (C) During a January 30 meeting with Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery, EEB Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Elizabeth Dibble, and the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Kudrin said that the end of Russia's WTO ac [...]	2008-02-08 10:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EFIN RS
08MOSCOW3287	SUBJECT: GOOD NEWS AND BAD FROM RUSSIAN ELITE [...] (C) Summary: A study of the Russian elite, conducted by Mikhail Afanasev of the Niccolo-M consulting firm, found that a majority "second tier" leaders and managers supported a system based upon rule of law and a level playing field for economic competition. Except for respondents from the sec [...]	2008-11-12 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS PINR
08MOSCOW3289	DFM KARASIN AND EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSS GEORGIA AND [...] (C) Summary: In a November 1 meeting, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin and EUR DAS and U.S. Minsk Group Co-Chair Matt Bryza discussed Georgia, with Karasin striking a more constructive tone but insisting that access for international monitors to Abkhazia and South Ossetia had to be ne [...]	2008-11-13 06:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS AZ
08MOSCOW329	FM LAVROV PRESSES FOR 2+2 DATES [...] (C) At the request of FM Lavrov, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Kislyak contacted the Ambassador on February 8 to urge the U.S. to confirm the timing for the second round of the 2 2 ministerial dialogue. Noting the outstanding GOR proposal to meet in Washington on March 13, Kislyak said that [...]	2008-02-08 10:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR RS
08MOSCOW3290	DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH SECURITY COUNCIL DEPUTY [...] (C) Summary: In a November 1 meeting with visiting EUR DAS Matt Bryza, Russian Deputy Security Council Secretary Yuri Zubakov insinuated that Georgia started the August conflict with U.S. acquiescence, arms, and funds. He dismissed Bryza's avowal that Georgia was not prepared for war in Aug [...]	2008-11-13 06:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW3297	(C) TNK-BP END GAME? [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-13 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3303	UNDERSECRETARY BURNS' MEETING WITH FM LAVROV: [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-14 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KNNP KACT MNUC EFIN AF GG AM
08MOSCOW3308	NERPA DISASTER WILL CHANGE LITTLE [...] (C) Summary: On the evening of November 8, 20 people died and 21 were injured on the Russian nuclear submarine Nerpa when the fire extinguishing system activated, releasing Freon gas. The submarine, which was undergoing tests in the Sea of Japan before being leased to India, was not damaged, [...]	2008-11-14 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON MCAP RS
08MOSCOW3309	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: GENEVA PROCESS, PEREVI; [...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting, MFA fourth CIS directorate chief Andrey Kelin described the procedural difficulties EU Special Representative Morel faced in lining up the November 18 Geneva process talks. Russia's primary goal for the talks was to launch security discussions focused [...]	2008-11-14 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW3311	RUSSIA PUTS OFF PROHIBITIVE DUTY ON TIMBER EXPORTS [...] (SBU) In a major trade concession to the EU, PM Putin announced on November 12 that Russia would delay for 9-12 months the implementation of a prohibitive duty on uncut timber and round wood exports, which was scheduled to take effect as of January 1, 2009. Putin's announcement eliminates, at [...]	2008-11-17 03:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR EINV ENRG ECON RS
08MOSCOW3314	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-17 06:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	CA ETTC KOMC RS
08MOSCOW3315	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-17 06:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC RS
08MOSCOW3321	THIRD-PARTY ACCESS TO GAZPROM'S PIPELINES MAY [...] (C) The GOR's calls for expanded third-party access (TPA) to Gazprom's pipelines reflect the influence of multiple factors, including a desire on the part of Putin and others to boost domestic gas production by independent producers and oil companies. Most analysts believe Gazprom will resist [...]	2008-11-17 12:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3322	NEW CALLS FOR RUBLE TO BECOME A "RESERVE CURRENCY" [...] (C) President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin have both recently repeated suggestions that the Russian ruble should become a "regional reserve currency" and that to achieve this Russian oil exports should be denominated in rubles. We discussed these proposals with a variety of local analysts [...]	2008-11-17 13:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET EFIN ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3323	RUSSIA'S CONCEPT OF THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST, [...] (C) Summary: With the prospect of a major Middle East conference being convened in Moscow in early 2009, analysts explained to us how Russia views the Middle East and how they believe the region, in turn, views Russia. For Russians, the "Middle East" is a concept more than a region, which inc [...]	2008-11-17 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PROV PREL ECON MARR RS XF
08MOSCOW3329	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: OOO - STC AND [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, OOO - STC and ELIM-TLT (OOO - STC),St Petersburg, Russia. The compa [...]	2008-11-18 11:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3330	RUSSIANS SPLIT ON FUTURE OF RELATIONS UNDER OBAMA [...] (SBU) Summary. The November 4 U.S. presidential elections elicited great media coverage and expert commentary in Russia, but opinions about the incoming Obama administration have been decidedly mixed. While many government leaders welcomed a change in U.S. leadership, others expected the st [...]	2008-11-18 11:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
08MOSCOW3333	UNDERSECRETARY BURNS' MEETING WITH FM LAVROV: [...] (C) Summary. FM Lavrov told U/S Burns and the Ambassador November 12 in Moscow that Russia saw the Sochi Strategic Declaration as the basis for future U.S.-Russian relations. He dismissed the contention that Medvedev's state of the union address had been a deliberate slap at President-elect O [...]	2008-11-18 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KNNP KACT MNUC EFIN AF GG AM
08MOSCOW3336	RUSSIA ON PIC AND EULEX [...] (C) Putting down markers on the upcoming Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting in Brussels, Russia's Special Representative on BiH and Kosovo Botsan-Kharchenko told us that Russia will seek a "balanced" statement, but would not insist on a timeline for transition. He called the current [...]	2008-11-18 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BH KV RU
08MOSCOW3343	MEDVEDEVâ€™S ADDRESS AND TANDEM POLITICS [...] (C) Summary. Medvedev's address to the Federal Assembly last week provided a prism for viewing the power relationship in the Medvedev-Putin tandem, refracting opinion amongst our contacts into three, very divergent, camps. The first group views Medvedev as ascendant, slowly accruing power as he pla [...]	2008-11-19 06:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW3344	TAFT GRANT RECIPIENT MARKS PROJECT COMPLETION [...] (U) Summary: The Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy (MPC) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony November 17 to celebrate successful renovations on its new Parish Center, a social services office and refuge for mainly African refugees and vulnerable migrants in Russia's capital. Approximately 35 attendees, [...]	2008-11-19 08:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF KIRF EAID RS
08MOSCOW3346	EURO-ATLANTIC SECURITY TREATY: MFA GIVES LIMITED [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 09:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EUN RU
08MOSCOW3347	GOR MONITORING OF BANKS, ANTI-CRISIS FUNDS [...] (C) During a November 11 meeting with leaders of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI),President Medvedev outlined a plan for Central Bank (CBR) officials to ensure that banks receiving anti-crisis funds turn those resources into loans for domestic firms. At the meeting, RCCI [...]	2008-11-19 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3350	YET ANOTHER LIST- RUSSIA TO REQUIRE [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-19 11:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO WTO RS
08MOSCOW3352	UNDERSECRETARY BURNS' LUNCH WITH DFM RYABKOV: [...] (S) Summary. DFM Ryabkov November 12 reiterated FM Lavrov's message to U/S Burns and the Ambassador that Russia saw the Sochi Strategic Declaration as the basis for future U.S.-Russian relations, and Medvedev's state of the union address had not been intended as a deliberate slap at President [...]	2008-11-19 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR KNNP KACT MNUC EFIN AF GG AM
08MOSCOW3355	NEW KREMLIN-BACKED RIGHT CAUSE PARTY EMERGES FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, a new Kremlin-supported "liberal" opposition party - Right Cause - emerged from the ashes of 1990s-era liberal standard-bearer Union of Right Forces (SPS),which along with two other vanity political parties (Democratic Party and Civil Force) voted to dissolve on [...]	2008-11-19 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM RS
08MOSCOW3356	LEAD WTO NEGOTIATOR DISCUSSES VETERINARY LETTERS [...] (SBU) In a November 18 meeting with Agricultural Affairs M-C and EconOffs, Russian Chief WTO Negotiator Maksim Medvedkov stated that the November 2006 U.S.-Russia side letter on meat and poultry inspections and certifications was still in force. However, he said Russian and U.S. veterinary an [...]	2008-11-20 03:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
08MOSCOW336	BP RUSSIA LAWYER DISCUSSES "IMMENSE CHANGES" IN [...] (C) BP Russia's chief lawyer, Michael Drew (protect),said that when TNK-BP was formed in 2003 there were profound differences in the business philosophies of senior Russian management at the former TNK and those of BP. When BP bought 50% of TNK, it found a company with no health, safety, or [...]	2008-02-08 12:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3360	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE DELISTS ANOTHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) informed via official letter on November 14, 2008, that another U.S. poultry plant (P-13556) and pork plant (#17564) will be delisted as of November 24, 2008. According to the VPSS letter, routine tes [...]	2008-11-20 08:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO WTO RS
08MOSCOW3362	RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OVERCOMES BARRIERS, [...] (C) Summary. Uncertain economic and political circumstances are having an impact on the role that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) plays and steps it must take to ensure its activities continue. In addition to domestic challenges facing the ROC, the financial crisis has compelled Patriarch [...]	2008-11-20 12:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
08MOSCOW3363	PANFILOVA STILL OPTIMISTIC THAT MEDVEDEV WILL [...] (C) In a November 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Transparency International's Executive Director Elena Panfilova said President Medvedev was taking concrete steps to follow through on his anti-corruption initiatives, motivated in part by a desire to distinguish his administration from the pr [...]	2008-11-20 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV SOCI PGOV KCOR RS
08MOSCOW3364	RUSSIA INCHES AWAY FROM ARMENIA [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of the Georgia conflict, Russian and Armenian officials assert there has been no change in Russian-Armenian relations, and see no detrimental impact of possible improved relations between Turkey and Armenia. Experts however argue that Russia is able to use the [...]	2008-11-20 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON AM AZ RS
08MOSCOW3365	MOSCOW'S CHIEF MUFTI STRESSES TOLERANCE AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Chairman of the Kremlin-friendly Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gaynutdin told the Ambassador on November 13 that Russia's Muslims practice a tolerant form of Islam and are receiving increasing support from the GOR. This is most evident, according to Gaynutdin, in the huge [...]	2008-11-20 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KISL KIRF PHUM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW3366	TANDEM FOCUS ON ECONOMIC CRISIS AT UNITED RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Both President Medvedev and Premier Putin honed in on economic issues as the main challenge facing Russia today, with Putin outlining a number of measures to bolster economic performance and mitigate the impact of the deepening crisis. Instead of the political intrigue that had do [...]	2008-11-20 14:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
08MOSCOW3367	GOR EFFORTS TO AID RETAIL SECTOR RAISES QUESTIONS [...] (C) As Russia,s financial crisis gathered steam in recent weeks and began to spill over into the real economy, the GOR identified food retailers as a critical sector that the state should support. Industry insiders attributed the inclusion of the sector to a desire to support Russian agricultu [...]	2008-11-21 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV EAGR RS
08MOSCOW3368	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE DELISTS ANOTHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) informed via official letter on November 14, 2008, that another U.S. poultry plant (P-13556) and pork plant (#17564) will be delisted as of November 24, 2008. According to the VPSS letter, routine tes [...]	2008-11-21 07:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO WTO RS
08MOSCOW3371	RUSSIA'S DUMA PASSES CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 21, the Russian State Duma passed constitutional amendments proposed by President Medvedev increasing the term of Russia's next president from four to six years, and the terms of State Duma members from four to five years. The proposed amendments must now go to th [...]	2008-11-21 12:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PINR RS
08MOSCOW3372	MFA ON AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN AND IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-21 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AF IR PK RS
08MOSCOW3376	PUTIN TAKES ON THE FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] (C) Prime Minister Putin's speech to the United Russia Congress on November 20 was arguably the GOR's most forthcoming public statement to date about the effects of the financial crisis in Russia. Although he reiterated that the cause of the current financial turmoil was the U.S. mortgage ma [...]	2008-11-21 15:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3379	MFA ON RUSSIAN AND AMERICAN ROLES IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary: On November 14, MFA officials expressed to DAS Krol Russian concern that the U.S. presence in Central Asia, combined with efforts to expand NATO, gave the appearance that Russia was "surrounded" and called for the U.S. to be transparent in its actions. The GOR understood, howeve [...]	2008-11-24 06:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG SENV SMIG SNAR AF RS ZK
08MOSCOW3380	(C) OIL TRADERS: PIPELINE EXPORTS TO EUROPE STILL \ [...] (C) The oil trading business in Russia has long been \ opaque, benefiting politically connected firms such as the \ secretive oil trading firm Gunvor. Contacts tell us, \ however, that the business has lately become more transparent \ because seaborne trade is now largely conducted via \ commercia [...]	2008-11-24 06:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3386	GOR DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN GEORGIAN/POLISH [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOR has rejected allegations of Russian involvement in the November 23 shooting at the Georgian-Polish presidential motorcade. In reaction to the incident that garnered little attention in the Russian media, the MFA, MOD and security services unanimously called the incide [...]	2008-11-24 11:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV RS GG PL
08MOSCOW339	LOWER PROFILE FOR KREMLIN YOUTH GROUP [...] (C) Summary: Recent Kremlin steps to rein in the United Russia-affiliated youth movement Nashi suggest that GOR neuralgia about a possible Orange Revolution has faded. With the Kremlin now confident that operation successor has been successfully launched and will encounter no opposition, Nas [...]	2008-02-08 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW3390	FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 19, we shared reftel non-paper regarding the USG objectives for the UN-organized Doha conference on Financing for Development with Viktor Zagregov, Head of the UN Section in the MFA's International Organizations Department, and Grigoriy Ustinov, a second secretary in Zagregov' [...]	2008-11-24 12:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAID UNGA RS
08MOSCOW3391	RUSSIA WATCHES U.S. WITH A "WARY EYE" IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Russian analysts recently told SCA DAS Krol that while Moscow looked with suspicion upon U.S. activity in Central Asia, it was more concerned about the challenge presented by China, but was not sure how to counter a rival that had more resources at its disposal for winnin [...]	2008-11-24 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SENV SOCI AF RS ZK
08MOSCOW3393	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY
08MOSCOW3394	BP VP TELLS AMBASSADOR COMPANY IS IN RUSSIA FOR LONG-TERM, GETTING OUT OF CPC [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-24 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3395	ANNUAL GAS ROW WITH UKRAINE HEATS UP [...] (C) Gazprom's Director of Foreign Relations, Ivan Zolotov, told us November 24 that, despite press reports, there is "no serious discrepancy" between Russia and Ukraine on the amount of the outstanding gas debt, which he claimed is approaching $3 billion. He said negotiations to resolve debt r [...]	2008-11-24 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL UP RS
08MOSCOW3396	RUSSIA RESISTING YUSHCHENKO'S BAIT, MOSTLY [...] (C) Summary: Russian political circles see Ukrainian president Yushchenko attempting to bait Russia in order to improve his domestic popularity and gain support from the West. However, mindful of the strong economic ties between the countries, Russia has so far limited itself to sniping bac [...]	2008-11-25 03:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON UP RS
08MOSCOW340	Russian Companies: Emerging Global Players [...] (SBU) Russian companies are increasingly going "global" -- expanding rapidly overseas through acquisitions and investments. Russian companies, flush with cash, are joining their Indian and Chinese counterparts as a new breed of multinationals. Oil and gas companies are the most active but met [...]	2008-02-08 13:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD RS
08MOSCOW341	TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-08 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3410	GENERAL BUZHINSKIY WARNS DAS BRYZA ABOUT REARMING [...] (C) Summary. In a cordial but firm meeting with EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Matthew Bryza November 1, Ministry of Defense Lt. General Yevgeniy Buzhinskiy articulated what are clearly GOR-wide talking points on Georgia, contending that "someone in the USG outside the State Department" had giv [...]	2008-11-25 14:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR GG RS
08MOSCOW3411	ROSATOM TO SEND ONLY WORKING-LEVEL DELEGATION TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-11-25 20:06:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY IR RS
08MOSCOW3419	DFM KARASIN ON IRAQ, GEORGIA, UKRAINE, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 25 meeting, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin sought further information on the alleged November 19 collision between a U.S. convoy vehicle and a Russian embassy vehicle in Baghdad (reftel). He called the November 23 shooting near the Georgian and Polish pre [...]	2008-11-26 09:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS AZ UP MD IZ
08MOSCOW3423	PROPOSED GOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE AND FOOD [...] (SBU) We shared reftel talking points regarding the proposed Global Partnership for Agriculture and Food (GPAF) with GOR officials in the MFA's International Organizations Department and in the International Relations Departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health and Social Dev [...]	2008-11-26 12:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO RS
08MOSCOW3424	MFA PREVIEWS RUSSIAN GOALS FOR OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) At the December 4 OSCE ministerial in Helsinki, Russia will formally launch Medvedev's proposed European Security Treaty (EST),push its reform agenda, and seek "balance" in any Ministerial Declaration. The MFA tells us that they see the OSCE as a dated body that does not take into accou [...]	2008-11-26 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM OSCE RS
08MOSCOW3426	DAGESTAN: ATTENTION FOCUSED ON CONTINUED VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: The Moscow-based human rights organization Memorial has begun to focus more attention on the simmering violence that permeates Dagestan, one of Russia's most unstable regions. At a November 24 press conference, Memorial head Oleg Orlov said the situation in Dagestan is as bad a [...]	2008-11-26 12:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISL PHUM PINR RS
08MOSCOW3429	RUSSIA'S VIEWS ON THE IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN AND [...] (C) On November 25, ESToff delivered reftel points on the IAEA reports on the Iranian and Syrian nuclear programs to Alexander Bolichiov, Second Secretary in the MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. Syria ------ 2. (C) Bolichiov was dismissive regarding the points on [...]	2008-11-26 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA TRGY IR SY RS
08MOSCOW3431	RUSSIAN MFA QUESTIONED ON SUKHUMI RADIOACTIVE [...] (C) On November 25, ESToff requested clarification regarding the status of the four high-level radioactive sources located in Sukhumi from Alexander Bolichiov, Second Secretary in the MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. Bolichiov stated that he could not provide a definitive [...]	2008-11-26 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PGOV PREL GG RS
08MOSCOW3436	GOR ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT [...] (C) The MFA told us that Russia accomplished its objectives at the November 14 EU-Russia Summit in Nice: the normalization of EU-Russia relations after the events of Georgia, and a public endorsement of Medvedev's proposed Euroatlantic security proposal. Russia and the EU will resume negoti [...]	2008-11-28 12:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EU RS
08MOSCOW3437	CYPRIOT PRESIDENT CHRISTOFIAS VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) During a November 19-20 visit to Moscow, Cypriot President Christofias met President Medvedev but a scheduled meeting with PM Putin was canceled. Russia accomplished two objectives in the eight agreements signed during the visit: an agreement to request information on financial transacti [...]	2008-11-28 12:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN CY RS
08MOSCOW345	RUSSIAN-ESTONIAN BILATERAL RELATIONS UNDER MORE [...] (C) Summary. Russia and Estonia's already strained relationship took hits as Estonian contributions to the Schengen "blacklist" went into effect, closely followed by the beginning of trials in Tallinn from last May's Bronze Soldier incident. The MFA blamed new Schengen visa ineligibilites f [...]	2008-02-08 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EN RS
08MOSCOW346	RUSSIA SEEKS, AND FINDS, A ROLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) Summary: Russia is playing a higher profile role in the Middle East peace process, designed to draw attention to Moscow's reemergence on the international stage, which remains a significant motivation in the Kremlin's diplomacy. Russia continues to position itself as a bridge between the [...]	2008-02-08 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LE IS SY RS XF
08MOSCOW3464	PUBLIC CHAMBER TAKES UP PRESS FREEDOM [...] (C) Summary: In response to the recent attack on independent journalist Mikhail Beketov, the Public Chamber held a hearing on November 25 at which Lawyers Association head Pavel Astakhov proposed a legal amendment to the criminal code increasing the punishment for endangering the life of a jou [...]	2008-12-01 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
08MOSCOW3465	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: FEDERAL SECURITY SERVICE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Federal Security Service (FSB),Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2008-12-02 07:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3471	RUSSIA: AWAITING INTERAGENCY RESPONSE ON ARF [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, Post reached out to Russian MFA's Department of ASEAN and Asia Pacific Regional Affairs regarding Russian participation in the May 4-8, 2009 ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Disaster Relief Exercise in the Philippines. According to Counselor Dmitriy Lukiyantsev [...]	2008-12-02 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID MARR MOPS ASEAN ARF RS
08MOSCOW3472	ANNUAL START SLCM DELCARATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-02 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM BO KACT KZ RS UP US START JCIC
08MOSCOW3473	MINAG DELISTS 7 U.S. PORK FACILITIES. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that it had delisted 7 out of the first 9 pork facilities that were recently inspected as part of a joint audit. The results of the remaining 20 pork facilities are still p [...]	2008-12-02 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
08MOSCOW3475	POLISH MANPADS ALLEGED IN CHECHNYA [...] (C) On November 26 MFA DVBR First Secretary Andrey Odnoral passed us a nonpaper and video that allege Polish-made MANPADS were discovered in Itumkale, Chechnya. The video showed a raid on a home in Itumkale which housed a weapons cache, including small arms, ammunition, and MANPADS. According [...]	2008-12-02 15:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC MASS MCAP RS PL GG
08MOSCOW3476	KEEPING A WARY EYE ON THE STREETS: THE CRISIS [...] (C) Government statements and measures to contain the effects of the economic crisis are beginning to reflect official concern that a prolonged economic downturn could lead to social unrest as was the case in 1998. Senior analysts at two of Russia's leading research institutes claim that a sh [...]	2008-12-03 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ELAB SOCI RS
08MOSCOW348	REACTION TO ODIHR/OSCE-PA DECISION ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) As expected, the reaction to the decisions by ODIHR and the Parliamentary Assembly of OSCE not to observe the March 2 presidential elections has been loud and swift. Political analysts and members of the Duma from both United Russia and the Communist Party decried the decision not to sen [...]	2008-02-08 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PREL RS
08MOSCOW3488	RUSSIA SATISFIED WITH U.S.-IRAQ AGREEMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-03 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ RS
08MOSCOW3489	KITSMARISHVILI GETS AIRTIME IN RUSSIA, BRIEFLY [...] (C) Summary: While Russian government officials initially seized on the apparent sensationalism of former Georgian Ambassador to Russia Erosi Kitsmarishvili's November 25 testimony about Georgian responsibility for starting the war in August and his claims of U.S. support for Georgia's use o [...]	2008-12-03 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW349	(C) SAKHALIN ENERGY SEEKS QUIET WITHDRAWAL OF EXIM [...] (C) Shell has informed us that it and the other Sakhalin-2 partners (Gazprom, Mitsu and Mitsubishi) are reconsidering their need for export credit guarantees from a consortium of three export credit agencies: U.S. EXIM, the UK's ECGD, and Japan's JBIC. On February 5, the partnership, Sakhalin [...]	2008-02-08 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3492	SENATOR CORKER'S MEETING WITH DFM GRUSHKO: [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksandr Grushko told visiting U.S. Senator Bob Corker the U.S. and Russia should build off the Sochi Declaration to move the relationship forward. The U.S. was trying to impose its security interests on Russia with its missile defense proposal. Grush [...]	2008-12-04 08:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP GG RS
08MOSCOW3497	PUTIN CALLS FOR RUSSIAN INVESTOR CLASS [...] (C) In a December 1 cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Putin voiced frustration over the country's reliance on foreign markets to fund domestic growth. He blamed foreign investors for driving down the market value of Russian firms. While Russia would not place restrictions on foreign capital, P [...]	2008-12-04 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3498	SERBIAN EMBASSY SAYS SOUTH STREAM "GUARANTEE" [...] (C) Serbian Embassy Counselor Boris Sekulic told us December 1 that Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller will be in Belgrade on December 5 to attempt to conclude an agreement on Gazprom's purchase of 51% of Serbia's national oil company, NIS (reftels). According to Sekulic, however, the Serbian governme [...]	2008-12-04 11:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3507	CHATTERING CLASS ON WHY PUTIN CAN'T FAIL [...] (C) Summary: Putin remains the linchpin of the Russian political system, with rumors over his return to the Kremlin or departure from the White House serving to keep all options open and everyone off balance. Despite disagreements over whether and why Putin might contemplate a "spring scena [...]	2008-12-04 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EFIN RS
08MOSCOW3508	RUSSIA ON ENHANCING EFFORTS TO COMBAT PIRACY [...] (C) We discussed reftel points on enhancing efforts to combat piracy with the MFA Legal and Africa departments on December 4. Legal Department Director for Public Law Vasiliy Titushkin told us that the GOR was "fully prepared to support any reasonable effort" to tackle this issue and Russia wo [...]	2008-12-05 06:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER RS
08MOSCOW3519	(C) OLIGARCH VEKSELBERG TELLS AMBASSADOR RUSSIAN [...] (C) In a December 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Viktor Vekselberg, billionaire Chairman of Renova Group and major partner in TNK-BP, said the worst is yet to come for the Russian economy. He suggested needed economic reforms, including for the oil sector, would have to wait as the government [...]	2008-12-05 13:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3522	DEATH OF PATRIARCH ALEKSEY II [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Aleksey II, 79, died December 5 of heart failure. A temporary leader of the Church will be named on December 6, and a funeral is expected as early as December 7, but perhaps December 8 or 9. As a result, President Medvedev canceled a pla [...]	2008-12-05 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SCUL RS
08MOSCOW3525	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE REQUESTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russian Chief Veterinary Officer Nikolay Vlasov has requested, via official letter, consultations with USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in Moscow before December 20, 2008 to discuss Russian concerns with the quality and safety of U.S. meat and poultry shipments [...]	2008-12-05 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO WTO RS
08MOSCOW3526	MEDVEDEV BOLSTERS RUSSIA?S LATIN AMERICAN OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA and experts saw President Medvedev?s November 22-28 trip to Latin America as pragmatic, and focused on trade and economic issues, not driven by ideology or efforts to compete with the U.S. or China. In a meeting with the Ambassador December 2, Deputy Foreign Minister Ser [...]	2008-12-05 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MASS EAID ETRD EPET EINV ENRG RS XM
08MOSCOW3527	MFA PREVIEWS POST-START ISSUES FOR DECEMBER 15 [...] (C) Vladimir Yermakov, head of the START Treaty section in the MFA Office of Security and Disarmament Affairs (DVBR),told us December 3 that the GOR was looking forward to a "frank discussion" of all the issues related to a post-START Treaty agreement at the December 15 meeting between the de [...]	2008-12-05 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KACT START RS
08MOSCOW353	DFM KARASIN ON UKRAINE, GEORGIA, TRANSNISTRIA, [...] (C) Summary. In a February 8 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Karasin strongly cautioned against the Ukrainian government's push for NATO membership, underlining that a decision by the Alliance would be met with counter measures that would test our strategic relationship. Karasin urged the [...]	2008-02-08 16:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG UP MD AM BO RS
08MOSCOW354	GAZPROM SAYS UKRAINE CUTOFF THREAT JUST A "WARNING [...] (C) Gazprom's international affairs director Ivan Zolotov told us February 8th that press accounts of Gazprom's threat to cutoff gas to Ukraine on February 11th were correct. However, he added that his "personal opinion" was that this was just a "warning shot" to Ukraine in the run up to upcom [...]	2008-02-09 05:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3544	MEDVEDEV'S JUDICIAL PROPOSALS: WORDS OR ACTIONS? [...] (C) Summary: At the seventh All-Russian Congress of Judges, from December 2-5 in Moscow, Medvedev proposed a series of measures to restore public trust in the legal system. His stated goal was to improve transparency and judicial professionalism and impartiality, which, he said, would have th [...]	2008-12-08 11:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KJUS RS
08MOSCOW3546	SCENARIOS FOR RUSSIAN POLITICS IN ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. An INDEM survey of top analysts suggests that the economic crisis has shifted elite opinion on Russia's course over the coming year, with a growing expectation that the Medvedev-Putin tandem will either muddle through or accelerate existing trends toward a "Pinochet" model - a d [...]	2008-12-08 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI EFIN
08MOSCOW3547	RUSSIA REACTS TO THE NATO MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary: The reaction by Russian officials to the December 2 NATO Ministerial was largely muted, with the MFA welcoming a "return to realism" as NATO decided to resume a political dialogue with Russia. GOR officials expect NATO to make the first step in reestablishing ties with Russia, a [...]	2008-12-08 15:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR RS NATO
08MOSCOW355	GAZPROM SAYS UKRAINE CUTOFF THREAT JUST A "WARNING [...] (C) Gazprom's international affairs director Ivan Zolotov told us February 8th that press accounts of Gazprom's threat to cutoff gas to Ukraine on February 11th were correct. However, he added that his "personal opinion" was that this was just a "warning shot" to Ukraine in the run up to upcom [...]	2008-02-09 05:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3552	SCA DAS KROL'S MEETING WITH GAZPROM [...] (C) Summary: In a 13 November lunch with visiting SCA DAS George Krol, Gazprom head of foreign relations Ivan Zolotov said that Gazprom seeks "market-based" relationships with its suppliers and customers, including in Central Asia; that he expected more continuity than change in the U.S.-Russi [...]	2008-12-09 09:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3555	INITIAL RUSSIAN REACTION TO OSCE MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Russia's MFA has not yet issued a formal statement on the results of the OSCE ministerial, but the Russian press focused on President Medvedev's proposal for a new European security treaty and hailed the ministerial as an endorsement of it. Commentators were more restrained on the concept [...]	2008-12-09 12:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM OSCE RS
08MOSCOW3556	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FLYLAL TECHNICS, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, FLYLAL Technics, Vilnius, Lithuania. The company is listed [...]	2008-12-09 12:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3557	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: UAB ARNIKA, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, UAB Arnika, Gardino g. 55, LT-66191, Drushkininkai (Vilnius [...]	2008-12-09 12:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS

08MOSCOW3558	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: FLYLAL TECHNICS, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, FLYLAL Technics, Vilnius, Lithuania. The company is listed [...]	2008-12-09 12:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3559	MINAG DELISTS 7 MORE U.S. PORK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter dated December 5, 2008, that it had delisted an additional 7 out of 9 pork facilities that were recently inspected as part of a joint audit. These results immediately follow [...]	2008-12-09 12:30:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
08MOSCOW3563	G20 DEMARCHE: RUSSIA IS CONSIDERING "SOME" [...] (SBU) In response to subject demarche Andrey Kushnirenko, Deputy Director of the Economic Development Ministry's Trade Negotiations Department, told us December 4 that Russia will make decisions related to duty increases based on "all relevant factors." He acknowledged that Russia had committe [...]	2008-12-09 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EFIN EINV ECON RS
08MOSCOW3564	SPOT REPORT: FUNERAL SERVICES FOR PATRIARCH [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 9, numerous religious leaders, government officials, and Orthodox faithful gathered at Christ the Savior cathedral in central Moscow for the funeral of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Aleksey II who died on December 5. Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I, [...]	2008-12-09 15:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI
08MOSCOW3572	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ARVEKA UAB, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Arveka UAB, L. Stuokos Guceviciaus 9-6, Vilnius, Lithuania. [...]	2008-12-10 08:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3573	UNITED TO FLY DIRECT FROM WASHINGTON TO MOSCOW BY [...] (SBU) On December 1, Oracio Marquez, United Airlines' Manager for International Regulatory Affairs, confirmed to Embassy Moscow's FAA Attache that United would start direct, non-stop flights as of March 29, 2009 between Dulles International Airport (IAD) and Moscow's Domodedovo International A [...]	2008-12-10 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ETRD EINV ECON RS
08MOSCOW3574	RUSSIAN TRAVEL AGENCIES EAGER TO PROMOTE TRAVEL TO THE [...] (U) Summary: RussiaQs recent economic growth has brought about a dramatic rise in Russian tourist travel to foreign destinations. While traditional beach resorts in Turkey and Egypt still attract the bulk of Russian travelers, Russians are traveling to more varied destinations, including to the [...]	2008-12-10 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS PGOV ETRD RS
08MOSCOW3575	SMOLENSK: HOPE IN GOD AND PUTIN, APATHY IN ALL ELSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent conversations with government, political, business, religious and NGO officials in Smolensk revealed the divisions between official messages of calm and stability and the nervousness and discontent among citizens. Senior United Russia officials, speaking in their capacity [...]	2008-12-10 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN RS
08MOSCOW3576	RUSSIA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, GOR support for democracy and human rights in Cuba has been minimal. Both President Medvedev and Deputy PM Sechin have visited Cuba within the last six months, but the visits produced no major political or economic agreements. Despite these efforts to strengthen [...]	2008-12-10 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ETTC PREL CU RS
08MOSCOW3581	UNION STATE AND JOINT AIR DEFENSE AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) The Kremlin and Russian White House have provided no details on why the Union State has postponed, for the second time, the State Supreme Council meeting scheduled for December 1. Both sides reported that there is an ongoing dispute over the council's agenda, which will now require a mee [...]	2008-12-11 09:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MCAP BO RS
08MOSCOW3582	THE GOR'S ECONOMIC CHOICES: RESERVES AND THE RUBLE [...] (C) As Russia's economic downturn deepens, it is forcing the GOR to make difficult economic choices. One of the first of these choices is what to do about the deteriorating ruble, which has lost roughly 20 percent of its value to the dollar since August. Initially, the GOR strongly defended t [...]	2008-12-11 13:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL RS
08MOSCOW3584	MFA Discusses the Kiril Islands with Codel Rohrabacher [...] (SBU) Summary: Visiting Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R, CA) met with Russian MFA's Director of Asia-Pacific Regions Mikhail Galuzin on December 6 to discuss the Kiril Islands dispute between Russia and Japan. The Congressman presented to Galuzin his proposed solution to the dispute, whil [...]	2008-12-11 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP RS JA
08MOSCOW3585	CHAIRMAN OF RUSSIA'S SECOND-LARGEST BANK SAYS U.S. [...] (C) In a December 8 meeting with the Ambassador, VTB Chairman Andrey Kostin said next year would be very difficult for Russia's economy and that the U.S. economy's recovery would be the key to an economic turnaround in Russia. Kostin praised the GOR's response to the financial crisis to date [...]	2008-12-12 07:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3586	DEUTSCHE BANK CHIEF ECONOMIST ON CRISIS IN RUSSIA, [...] (C) In a December 6 meeting with EEB Special Representative Frank Mermoud, Deutsche Bank's Chief Economist Yaroslav Lissovolik said that investors, foreign and Russian, were concerned about increased GOR control over the economy. He said the GOR's intervention in support of the ruble was a mis [...]	2008-12-12 07:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW3588	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NII PM FGUP QTSENKIQ, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, NII PM FGUP QTSENKIQ, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]	2008-12-12 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW359	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: COMPLETED POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK [...] (U) Summary: Mikhail Andreyev, Director General of Okhotnik and Rybolov, confirmed the delivery of rifles imported under license 05-1009959. Subsequently, we verified the bona fides of Okhotnik and Rybolov and recommend it as a reliable end-user of United States Munitions List (USML) items. [...]	2008-02-11 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC RS KOMC
08MOSCOW3590	RUSSIA DENIES CYBER-ATTACKS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA issued a strong denunciation on December 4 of press reports accusing Russia of attacks on the DoD's classified computer network and of denial of service attacks on Georgia and Estonia. The GoR has not yet responded to December 10 press accusations and statements [...]	2008-12-12 10:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EINT TINT MOPS PINR RS
08MOSCOW3591	CPC EXPANSION AT HAND? [...] (SBU) Andrew McGrahan, Chevron Russia's Vice President in charge of CPC, told us December 10 that an MOU on CPC expansion will be signed on December 17. McGrahan said BP, which is attempting to divest itself of shares in CPC, may not sign the MOU but is likely to allow the expansion plans to [...]	2008-12-12 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3592	DFM RYABKOV ON RUSSIA-U.S. RELATIONS - MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with Representatives Bill Delahunt and Dana Rohrabacher, Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov explained that while the GOR looked upon the advent of a new U.S. administration as an opportunity to improve bilateral ties, Moscow did not necessarily expect a sea [...]	2008-12-12 11:30:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3595	Scenesetter [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3597	SENIOR ANALYST WARNS OF THE DANGER OF IGNORING [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow Carnegie Center Director Dmitri Trenin provided an overview of Russia-U.S. relations for visiting Representatives Bill Delahunt and Dana Rohrabacher, explaining that Moscow was troubled by U.S. indifference toward Russian security concerns, and that Washington failed to [...]	2008-12-12 11:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP RS
08MOSCOW3599	RUSSIAN COAL: PRODUCERS WAITING FOR SIGNS OF DEMAND [...] (C) Summary. Russian coking coal producers on 27 November appealed to the government for assistance as they grapple with unpaid bills owed to them by Russia's struggling steelmakers. Although coal producers' most immediate priority is to remain solvent in the face of their customers' non-paym [...]	2008-12-12 12:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ELAB SOCI RS
08MOSCOW36	A WINDOW ON CORRUPTION: THE CASE OF VETERINARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The November arrest and indictment of Moscow Oblast's chief veterinary officer briefly opened a window on the scope of corruption in Russia's legendarily crooked federal veterinary service. Accused along with three colleagues of extortion, the now ex-CVO's case is scarcely one of [...]	2008-01-09 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR KCRM PGOV PINR RS
08MOSCOW3603	INFO ON LACEY ACT AMENDMENTS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) We shared reftel information on the recent amendments to the Lacey Act and the phased-in implementation of new U.S. import requirements for plant and wood products, with Russian officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Economic Development, and Natural Resources and Ecology, and in [...]	2008-12-12 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV TBIO RS
08MOSCOW3604	RUSSIA ON PREVENTING IMPLEMENTATION OF SYRIA'S [...] (C) On December 12, ESToff delivered the reftel non-paper urging Russia to support efforts to prevent the implementation of a Syria-requested Technical Cooperation (TC) Project to conduct a feasibility study and site selection for a nuclear power plant in Syria to First Secretary Olga Kuzne [...]	2008-12-12 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA TRGY SY RS
08MOSCOW3605	SEEKING RUSSIAN UPDATE ON SUKHUMI RADIOACTIVE [...] (C) On December 12, ESToff requested an update on the four radioactive sources located in Sukhumi, Abkhazia from First Secretary Olga Kuznetsova, Nuclear Affairs Officer in the MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. While she was aware of the issue and its history, she said that [...]	2008-12-12 14:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KNP ENRG IAEA PARM PREL GG RS
08MOSCOW3606	RUSSIAN RESPONSE ON AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES FOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY RS
08MOSCOW3607	RUSSIA RESPONSE ON LRTAP PROTOCOL AMENDMENT ISSUES [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel talking points to Igor Maydanov, Director of the Office of International Cooperation at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology. On December 11, in a written response from the same office, Acting Director Anatoliy Totskiy wrote that Russia is conducting an int [...]	2008-12-12 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD SENV RS
08MOSCOW3609	RUSSIA SUPPORTS EFFORTS TO COUNTER ILLICIT DIAMOND [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points concerning illicit diamond activity in Zimbabwe to Vladimir Borisyuk, Acting Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of Economic Cooperation. Boriskyuk told us the GOR was aware of the diamond trading trends in Zimbabwe. He maintained that the GOR would co [...]	2008-12-12 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD ECON EFIN ASEC RS ZI
08MOSCOW361	TERRORIST FINANCE: RUSSIA TO SUPPORT DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-11 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EFIN ECON RS IZ SY
08MOSCOW3610	OPIC FINANCE: ZAO STAR NETWORKS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3611	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL TAUSCHER [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-12 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3612	RUSSIA'S APPOINTED AMBASSADOR ON ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Ambassador to Abkhazia Semyon Grigoriev assured us December 11 that Russia would not welcome or condone any Abkhaz effort to redraw boundaries along the Enguri river. In order to improve border security, Russia and Abkhazia planned to sign an agreement on joint b [...]	2008-12-12 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW3614	RUSSIA RESPONSE ON ANTARCTIC TREATY ANNIVERSARY AND [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-15 06:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC KTIA SENV TPHY KSCA AY RS
08MOSCOW3615	DFM KARASIN ON GEORGIA AND U.S. RELATIONS - MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 6 meeting with Congressman Bill Delahunt and Congressman Dana Rohrabacher, Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin conceded Russia had lost the p.r. battle in the August conflict with Georgia, but reiterated why Russia had been compelled to respond militarily and then r [...]	2008-12-15 06:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3616	Scenesetter for Senator Lugar's Visit to Russia [...] (SBU) Your visit to Moscow comes at a time of real disconnect in the U.S.-Russian relationship. Disagreements over European security, Russia's role in its neighborhood, and the Kremlin's creeping authoritarianism were followed by the rupture over Russia's decision to send forces into Georgia [...]	2008-12-15 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON EAGR MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3624	DEMARCHE ON UNSC SOMALIA PIRACY RESOLUTION [...] (C) We delivered ref A demarche on December 15 to MFA Department of International Organizations Senior Counselor Valentin Berezovskiy, who said that the GOR remained concerned about elements of OP4 of the draft UNSC resolution on Somali piracy, but had yet to determine a final position on the [...]	2008-12-15 11:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM UNSC SO XA XW RS
08MOSCOW3628	RECENT VIOLENCE AND ECONOMIC WOES SEND TAJIKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The recent murder and decapitation near Moscow of an ethnic Tajik guest worker has added to the insecurity among the ethnic Tajik community whose low-wage, low-skill jobs have been the first casualties of the economic downturn here. The leader of an NGO assisting the Tajik co [...]	2008-12-15 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS TI
08MOSCOW3633	RUSSIA: NEW TELEPHONE AREA CODE FOR MFA [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-15 12:49:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR PREL AMGT RS
08MOSCOW3636	DISSENTERS' DAY PROTESTS LEAD TO ARRESTS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Police arrested more than 150 people across Moscow on December 14 in separate Dissenters' Day protests, with an additional 60 protesters arrested in St. Petersburg. In the largest Moscow protest, organized by Garry Kasparov and Eduard Limonov, police detained approximately 100 Othe [...]	2008-12-15 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM RS
08MOSCOW3637	AT INAUGURAL CONGRESS, SOLIDARITY SELECTS LEADERS [...] (C) Summary: On December 12-13, the Solidarity opposition movement held its inaugural national congress, bringing together several political opposition and human rights organizations. The congress elected leaders, including Garry Kasparov and Boris Nemtsov, and also elaborated its program to [...]	2008-12-16 03:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS
08MOSCOW364	JCIC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-11 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START JCIC US RS UP BO KZ
08MOSCOW3641	ISTC GOVERNING BOARD IN MOSCOW APPROVES STATEMENT ON [...] SUMMARY: At the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) Coordinating Committee (CC),Roundtable, and Governing Board (GB) meetings held December 9-11, 2008, the GB agreed on a Statement of Principles on Transformation and called for Russia to confirm the ISTC's tax-exempt status. Th [...]	2008-12-16 06:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PARM TSPL RS
08MOSCOW3648	DELIVERY OF DRAFT MOU AND IA BETWEEN DHS AND [...] (SBU) On December 9, ESToff delivered the reftel draft Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and Implementing Agreement (IA) between the Department of Homeland Security and the Russian Academy of Sciences in English and Russian to Oleg Rozhkov, Deputy Director of the MFA Department of Security a [...]	2008-12-16 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL GKGIC PTER KSCA KNNP RS
08MOSCOW3649	WILL RUSSIA JOIN OPEC? [...] (C) President Medvedev recently fed speculation about Russia's intentions to cooperate with or join OPEC, telling the press on December 11 that Russia "must defend" higher oil prices, including by reducing oil production and, possibly, joining "organizations of producers." Most Moscow-based a [...]	2008-12-16 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3650	RUSSIAN POSITION ON HUMAN CLONING [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 03:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO UNESCO RS
08MOSCOW3654	RUSSIA-GERMANY TRANSIT AGREEMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED [...] (U) In a November 20 statement, the MFA characterized the rail transit of German military hardware through Russian territory as a reaffirmation of the GOR's commitment to Afghanistan stabilization. The statement praised the close cooperation between Germany and Russia and said this would be t [...]	2008-12-17 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MASS MCAP MOPS RS AF
08MOSCOW3655	RUSSIA-GERMANY TRANSIT AGREEMENT TO BE IMPLEMENTED [...] (U) In a November 20 statement, the MFA characterized the rail transit of German military hardware through Russian territory as a reaffirmation of the GOR's commitment to Afghanistan stabilization. The statement praised the close cooperation between Germany and Russia and said this would be t [...]	2008-12-17 12:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS MASS MCAP MOPS RS AF
08MOSCOW3656	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT FOR THE SPECIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-17 13:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER LE SY UNSC EUN RS
08MOSCOW3657	FOREIGN ORGANIZATIONS SEEK COVER AS GOR DITHERS ON [...] (C) Summary: Despite the looming January 1, 2009 deadline for the possible end of a tax exemption for recipients of some grants from foreign non-commercial organizations, the GOR has yet to come up with the criteria and procedures for such donors to apply for inclusion on the list of foreign [...]	2008-12-17 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR EAID RS
08MOSCOW3659	RUSSIA CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC ABOUT NAGORNO-KARABAKH [...] (C) Summary: In a December 10 meeting, MFA Counselor Elena Kravchenko said the Minsk Group planned to organize another meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani presidents in the new year. She said the major obstacles for a conflict resolution were the Lachin corridor and the unwillingness of [...]	2008-12-17 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AZ RS
08MOSCOW366	GOR ADVISOR ON DIFFICULTIES FIGHTING GROWING [...] (C) Economic Experts Group (EEG) Director Yevsey Gurvich told us February 5 that fighting growing inflation was a GOR priority but that the tools at the government's disposal were inadequate to the task. In particular, the GOR had few levers with which to temper growing demand. Gurvich spec [...]	2008-02-11 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW3660	RUSSIA'S DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION: SERIOUS, BUT NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For several years, demographics and public health experts have prophesied Russia's demographic demise and warned of a potentially catastrophic loss of population. Russia indeed faces major public health and demographic problems (reftels). However, in certain areas there has bee [...]	2008-12-17 14:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KHIV SCUL SOCI EAID PGOV ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3665	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: S.P.KOROLEV ROCKET [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corp., Korolev, Russia. The comp [...]	2008-12-18 06:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW3669	SURVIVING THE CRISIS: THE RUSSIAN AUTOMOBILE [...] (C) Russia's deepening economic downturn has severely crippled the automobile sector. Car sales are starting to plummet for foreign and domestic companies alike, with the worst still to come. The slowdown in domestic manufacturing portends large job losses. Prime Minister Putin, who before [...]	2008-12-18 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV RS
08MOSCOW3673	CLIMATE CHANGE: RUSSIA'S ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE [...] SUMMARY: In response to reftel request, Post reports that Russia's lead agency on the political aspects of climate change is the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology (MNRE). The Federal Service for Hydro-meteorology and Environmental Monitoring (Roshydromet),a semi-autonomous agency unde [...]	2008-12-18 14:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG KGHG RS
08MOSCOW3678	JOHN DEERE CONCERNED ABOUT HIGHER DUTIES AND [...] (C) On December 11, PM Putin proposed raising the duties on imported combine harvesters and ending GOR-financing for purchases of foreign agricultural equipment. Deere and Company Russia Country Director Sidney Bardwell told us December 16 that PM Putin's recent proposals would have a catastr [...]	2008-12-19 08:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR EINV ECON RS
08MOSCOW3683	MINAG DELISTS 5 MORE U.S. PORK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter dated December 12, 2008(transmitted to the U.S. Embassy on December 16, 2008) that starting on January 1, 2009, an additional 5 pork facilities will be delisted. This action [...]	2008-12-19 11:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
08MOSCOW3684	RUSSIA DOES LITTLE ON INDIA-PAKISTAN TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: Russia has taken minimal action to calm tensions between India and Pakistan following the Mumbai attacks. While Medvedev stressed that the attacks should not be allowed to jeopardize India's dialogue with Pakistan, and has played up Russia's limited counter-terrorism cooperation [...]	2008-12-19 11:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ETRD MARR IN PK RS
08MOSCOW3685	RUSSIA DOES NOT HAVE A POSITION ON THE UNESCO [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-19 11:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNESCO EG RS
08MOSCOW3687	ROSTOV: TRADE HUB, PRODUCES GRUB, SUPPORTS CHUB [...] (C) Summary. As one of the country's most populous and temperate weather regions, Rostov Oblast in southwestern Russia boasts of being a leading agricultural and trade center. Recent travel to the region's capital, Rostov-Na-Donu (Rostov),gave us the opportunity to see how it has thrived i [...]	2008-12-19 13:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI ECON EFIN
08MOSCOW3688	NATIONALIST GROUP MARCHES PEACEFULLY, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 12, Constitution Day, the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) and the Slavic Union held the second "Russian March" in as many months. The peaceful and authorized gathering, attended by approximately 300 supporters under the banner "Support Your Constitution [...]	2008-12-19 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI
08MOSCOW3689	FEAR, PARANOIA, AND TREASON - MOSCOW PREPARING FOR [...] (C) Summary: As the economic crisis deepens, a GOR-proposed expansion of the definition of espionage is being interpreted as a blatant attempt to further restrict and intimidate critics of the United Russia dominated government from organizing any opposition to the present power structure. In [...]	2008-12-19 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
08MOSCOW3693	IN MOSCOW, GREEN CONSCIOUSNESS SLOWLY TAKING ROOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Slowly but surely, green practices are taking root in Moscow. Even the most ardent of Moscow's capitalist consumerists can no longer ignore the region's rapid environmental degradation as the once fish-chock streams and mushroom-rich forests that attracted flocks to build mini- [...]	2008-12-22 04:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON ETRD SOCI EAID PGOV RS
08MOSCOW3707	SENATOR LUGAR MEETS FM LAVROV: U.S. RELATIONS, POST-START, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 18 meeting, FM Lavrov welcomed the visit of Senator Lugar as recognition that the Senate appreciated the importance of relations with Russia. Lavrov emphasized Russia's interest in concluding a post-START treaty by December 2009 and urged a "quick start" to the [...]	2008-12-22 06:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KNNP ECON PARM OREP RS
08MOSCOW3708	SENATOR LUGAR: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR U.S. RELATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Lugar heard a mixed, but mostly positive, message on Russian receptivity towards rebuilding U.S.-Russian relations, with a range of officials and respected observers calling for a return to the official diplomatic architecture that once governed bilateral dialogue. Th [...]	2008-12-22 06:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS IR AF
08MOSCOW371	U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko told U/S Jeffery and Ambassador Burns on January 29th that the GOR expects rising domestic gas prices and a liberalized electricity market to raise energy efficiency in Russia as industries and consumers adopt energy saving technologies an [...]	2008-02-11 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3712	ROSNEFT AND LUKOIL TELL SENATOR LUGAR OIL TAX [...] (SBU) In separate meetings on December 17 and 18, Lukoil Executive V.P. Ravil Maganov and Rosneft V.P. for Finance Peter O'Brien told Senator Lugar that they strongly believe major oil tax reform is inevitable in Russia in order to stop the slide in production (reftels). They both suggested, [...]	2008-12-22 09:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EPET OREP PREL RS
08MOSCOW3719	GOR CALM ABOUT U.S.-UKRAINE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: In a December 22 meeting, MFA Ukraine desk Director Vyacheslav Yelagin told us that the GOR had not yet developed a formal position on the proposed U.S.-Ukraine strategic partnership agreement, but noted Ukraine had the right to conclude treaties with any country it wanted to. H [...]	2008-12-22 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON UP RS GG
08MOSCOW3720	RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. DRAFT START TREATY [...] (S) In the course of U.S. and Russian security discussions in Moscow December 15 (septel),DFM Ryabkov handed Acting U/S Rood a seven-page non-paper in Russian with a summary of Moscow's response, which the U.S. could consider as "an authoritative reply" to the U.S. draft text provided on Oct [...]	2008-12-22 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV KACT PARM MARR RS
08MOSCOW3728	DFM Ryabkov meets Codel Tauscher: Iran, Missile Defense, [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting the Codel Tauscher delegation on December 16, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov stressed that Russia wanted improved relations with the U.S., even as he acknowledged the "negative mindset" of the Russian public and the damage that issues like NATO enlargement had p [...]	2008-12-23 12:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3735	AGMIN DEMANDS ADDITIONAL INSPECTIONS AS [...] No summary [...]	2008-12-24 06:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
08MOSCOW3736	FREE AT LAST? IVANOVO UZBEKS WIN AT ECHR [...] (U) Summary: Since their June 2005 arrest in connection with violent unrest in Andijan, 13 ethnic Uzbeks have been in limbo, caught between the threat of refoulement to Uzbekistan and an offer of refugee status in Sweden. In a decision announced December 15, the European Court of Human Rights [...]	2008-12-24 06:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PREL SMIG OEXC RS
08MOSCOW3737	VPSS TO CLARIFY REQUIREMENTS FOR RELISTING PORK AND POULTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: US Embassy officials met with the Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) to seek clarity on the Russian response to a work plan for relisting U.S. pork and poultry plants as proposed by USTR and USDA during meetings in Moscow on December 17 and [...]	2008-12-24 06:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
08MOSCOW374	SOCHI REGION FACES OLYMPIC-SIZED CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) A meeting of Putin and his team on February 5 underscored the Kremlin's recognition that the "eyes of the world" are on Sochi, not only for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games themselves, but also in the way in which Russia manages the preparations. In addition to overcoming significant engin [...]	2008-02-12 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON SOCI RS
08MOSCOW3741	PRESIDENT'S ECONOMIC ADVISOR DISCUSSES ANTI-CRISIS [...] (C) In a December 19 meeting with Senator Lugar, President Medvedev's Chief Economic Advisor, Arkadiy Dvorkovich, was uncharacteristically pessimistic about Russia's growth prospects over the short and medium term and predicted a protracted global economic slow down. Dvorkovich said that dep [...]	2008-12-24 10:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV OREP PREL RS
08MOSCOW3742	LUKASHENKO POSTURES IN MOSCOW [...] (C) In a December 22 visit, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko and President Medvedev concluded an unspecified agreement on gas prices and a new date for the signature of an air defense agreement to unify the two countries' air defense networks. Lukashenko, in a belligerent public per [...]	2008-12-24 10:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MCAP BO RS
08MOSCOW3743	VOLGOGRAD: POLITICIANS CALM BEFORE ECONOMIC STORM, [...] (C) Summary: A December 17-19 visit to Volgograd revealed politicians and observers focused on maintaining political stability amid the deepening economic crisis. One Regional Duma Deputy predicted the crisis will last for up to two more years, with regional production slipping by as much as 3 [...]	2008-12-24 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM ECON RS
08MOSCOW3745	RUSSIA REACTS TO DUTY INCREASES ON CARS [...] (C) In the first sign of open discontent with GOR measures to deal with the financial crisis, protests continue to mount throughout Russia over increased duties on imported cars and tighter restrictions on imported used cars (Refs A, B, C). Thus far, the GOR has largely rebuffed the protesters, [...]	2008-12-29 03:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EIND EINV ECON PGOV RS
08MOSCOW375	THE INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRACY AND COOPERATION; [...] (C) Summary: The GOR has decided to establish an Institute for Democracy and Cooperation, which will be headquartered in Moscow with branch offices in New York and Paris. The Institute is intended to end what the GOR sees as the western "monopoly" on defining and reporting human rights abus [...]	2008-02-12 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW3752	IPR ROUNDTABLE: "WORKING WITH RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT" [...] (U) Summary: On December 11, the Embassy and the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) co-hosted an IPR roundtable, "Working with Russian Law Enforcement on IPR Cases". This was the first joint IPR Roundtable with AmCham and a deliverable of the U.S.-Russia IPR Working Group. The Ministry of [...]	2008-12-29 10:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD KIPR ECON PGOV RS
08MOSCOW3753	RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (C) Summary: In a December 24 meeting, Russia's ambassador to South Ossetia, Elbrus Kargiev, told us "president" Kokoity needed to gain experience in running a peacetime government, while making quiet progress on security and economic development instead of overreacting to accusations in the [...]	2008-12-29 12:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
08MOSCOW3754	MOSTLY QUIET IN THE WESTERN NORTH CAUCASUS [...] (SBU) Summary: The North Caucasus republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia have largely been spared the violence and instability of their eastern neighbors North Ossetia, Ingushetiya, Chechnya and Dagestan. In view of the sustained improvement in the security situation there, [...]	2008-12-29 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI PTER RS
08MOSCOW3755	GOR SUPPORTS UNSC RESOLUTION ON SOMALIA BUT [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and is not meant for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Per reftel request, Poloff discussed the draft Security Council resolution on establishing a peacekeeping mission in Somalia with MFA Department of International Organizations First Secr [...]	2008-12-29 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC KPKO SO ET RS
08MOSCOW3757	MEDVEDEV'S ASSESSMENT - 2008, A YEAR OF DIVERSE [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Medvedev took to the air on December 24 to speak on the three most important events of the year past: his inauguration, the war in Georgia, and the economic crisis. He reminded the audience of his legal responsibility as commander-in-chief and took personal res [...]	2008-12-29 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
08MOSCOW3760	RUSSIA THEATENS FODDER TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) raised the bar in requesting a list of U.S. fodder exporters to Russia in its December 26, 2008, letter by threatening to ban U.S. fodder exports if a list is not produced by January 1, 2009. The ori [...]	2008-12-30 07:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO WTO RS
08MOSCOW3763	RUSSIAN MFA UNDECIDED ON LEAD DEPARTMENT FOR [...] (SBU) In response to reftel requests, Post sent invitations for the January 13-14, 2009 inaugural meeting of the Contact Group on Somalia Piracy (CGSP) in New York and the January 13 pre-meeting of key countries to the Legal, International Organizations, and North Americas Departments of the [...]	2008-12-30 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT KCRM MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER RS
08MOSCOW3766	DEMARCHE: AVOIDING GAS SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS FROM [...] (S) We delivered points per reftel para. 16 to Gazprom's Director of Foreign Relations, Ivan Zolotov and the Senior Economic Advisor to the MFA's North America Desk, Vyacheslav Moshkalo. Both reported that as of 12/30, negotiations between Russia and Ukraine were underway to resolve the debt [...]	2008-12-30 15:11:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW3773	GOR NEVER RECEIVED INFO FROM POLAND REGARDING [...] (C) On December 30 we delivered ref A nonpaper to MFA DVBVR First Secretary Andrey Odnoral, who told us the GOR passed a diplomatic note regarding Polish GROM MANPADS sales to Georgia to the GOP via the Russian Embassy in Warsaw in June 2008, prior to the August conflict. To date, the GOR has [...]	2008-12-31 08:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ETTC MASS MCAP RS PL GG
08MOSCOW3775	Medvedev's Anti-Corruption Package: Two Views [...] (SBU) Summary: Transparency International Director Yelena Panfilova praised President Medvedev's anti-corruption bill that was signed into law on December 25 as an "extremely valuable" first step, while recognizing the deep flaws in its content and how it was promulgated. Arguing that waiti [...]	2008-12-31 11:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON PINR SOCI EAID RS
08MOSCOW3776	GENERAL BUZHINSKIY MEETS CODEL TAUSCHER: MD COOPERATION TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting the Codel Tauscher delegation on December 16, Lt. Gen. Buzhinskiy argued the U.S. and Russia could cooperate on short- and medium-range MD systems, but not if the U.S. also moved forward with plans to deploy a long-range MD system in Poland and the Czech Republic. He to [...]	2008-12-31 12:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3777	DUMA DEFENSE COMMITTEE FIRST DEPUTY CHAIR BABICH - MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 15 meeting with Representatives Ellen Tauscher, Loretta Sanchez, Rick Larsen, and Doug Lamborn, Duma Defense Committee, First Deputy Chair Mikhail Babich said that Russia had high expectations for the incoming Obama Administration. He welcomed the proposal for regu [...]	2008-12-31 12:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW3778	KOSACHEV MEETS CODEL TAUSCHER: MORE DIALOGUE NEEDED [...] (SBU) Summary: Duma International Relations Committee Chair Konstantin Kosachev told CODEL Tauscher on December 16 that parliamentary dialogue between the U.S. and Russia needed to be revitalized. He suggested that the Duma International Relations and Defense Committees should meet with the H [...]	2008-12-31 12:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PARM KNNP OREP RS
08MOSCOW378	PUTIN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISER ON "FROZEN" [...] (C) Summary: In her February 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Putin's human rights adviser, Ella Pamfilova said the Duma elections had been a "turning point," leading her to "divorce" herself from GOR actions and adopt a low public profile. While she welcomed FM Lavrov's engagement with the [...]	2008-02-12 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
08MOSCOW380	SEPARATISM NOT THE ROOT CAUSE OF INSTABILITY IN [...] (SBU) Summary: While Moscow-based experts believe that the insurgencies in the various North Caucasus republics are different in nature, none think that separatism is their root cause. Experts tell us that while the insurgency in Dagestan may have a religious basis, violence in Ingushetiya a [...]	2008-02-12 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI PHUM PTER ECON RS
08MOSCOW387	FORMER PM PRIMAKOV ON US-GOR DIALOGUE, MD, MAP, [...] (C) Summary: In a February 12 meeting with the Ambassador, former Prime Minister Primakov praised his dialogue with Dr. Kissinger and pushed for strategic reengagement on missile defense. He related Putin's unhappiness over the perceived shift in the post-2 2 U.S. offer, but argued that a [...]	2008-02-13 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ECON RS
08MOSCOW390	KING ABDULLAH'S LOW KEY MOSCOW VISIT [...] (C) Jordanian King Abdullah met Putin and his presumptive successor, First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev, during a February 11 visit that focused on maintaining continuity in Russia-Jordan relations. MFA First Secretary Elbrus Kutrashev and Jordanian Consul Hasan Saraireh told us separately [...]	2008-02-13 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO RS
08MOSCOW391	RUSSIA CAUTIOUSLY APPROACHES IMPROVEMENT IN TIES [...] (C) Summary: The MFA told us that Russia remained committed to improving bilateral relations with Georgia, and was prepared to discuss "anything and everything" with the two Georgian DFMs visiting Moscow on February 15, but stressed that Russia was interested only in concrete action from Geor [...]	2008-02-13 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW392	RUSSIA ON UNSC DISCUSSIONS ON CHAD, KENYA, [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that it would send four helicopters and 200 personnel to Chad, and was concerned over growing tensions on the Ethiopia/Eritrea border, but would take a "wait and see" approach to further UNSC involvement in conflicts in Kenya. The GOR believed that international [...]	2008-02-13 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR ZF XW RS
08MOSCOW393	U/S JEFFERY'S MEETING WITH SEVERSTAL DIRECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Under Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development Elizabeth Dibble and EcMinCoun on January 30, Aleksey Mordashov, General Director of Severstal Gr [...]	2008-02-13 15:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD WTO RS

08MOSCOW394	RUSSIA AND UKRAINE RESOLVE GAS DISPUTE, AGREE TO [...] (SBU) As most watchers expected, Russia and Ukraine came to a last minute agreement to settle the latest gas dispute (reftel) and avert a cutoff of gas flows. Announced by President Putin following a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart just as the 6:00pm February 12th deadline arrived, the [...]	2008-02-14 03:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW396	INSIDE ROSOBORONEXPORT [...] (C) Summary: On February 7, officials at RosoboronExport (ROE),the Russian government's monopoly arms exporter, made it clear how little control the company has over decisions regarding Russia's military sales. Most of the decisions affecting the company, including what products and to which [...]	2008-02-14 07:16:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EIND ETRD PGOV PREL RS MASS
08MOSCOW400	ANGARSK INTERNATIONAL ENRICHMENT CENTER: MOVING [...] (SBU) Development of the International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC) in Angarsk continues to move forward, though the center is still a "virtual" one to be carved out of the existing Angarsk Chemical Complex. Embassy was warmly received during a visit to the complex. Embassy toured the ca [...]	2008-02-14 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM RS
08MOSCOW401	RUSSIA "SATISFIED" WITH BURMA'S ROADMAP FOR [...] (U) The MFA issued a statement February 12, expressing "satisfaction" with the Burmese regime's recent announcement of the next steps in its "Roadmap" for political change (reftel). The MFA said that Russia hoped that the regime's decision to set dates for the "next phases of political change [...]	2008-02-14 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BM RS
08MOSCOW408	ROSATOM STATE CORPORATION GETS UNDERWAY [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Zubkhov officially appointed Sergey Kiriyenko Director General of the newly formed Rosatom State Corporation on February 4. Natasha Klishina, head of the Bilateral Cooperation Section of Rosatom's International Department, reviewed with us February 5 the state of play in [...]	2008-02-15 04:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG PARM PREL RS
08MOSCOW409	AUSTRIAN EMBASSY SASY OMV COMMITTED TO NABUCCO, [...] (C) Austrian Embassy Political-Economic Counselor Reimund Magis told us February 11th that Austria is committed to the Nabucco project and to diversification of Europe's gas sources. That said, Austria viewed Russia as a "strategic partner" on energy issues and planned to continue to carefull [...]	2008-02-15 05:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW410	POLISH PM TUSK'S VISIT TO MOSCOW REF: A. MOSCOW 267 B. MOSCOW 5585 Classified By: Political M/C Alice G. Wells for reasons 1.4 (b/d). [...] (C) Summary: Polish PM Tusk's trip to Moscow served as a symbol of the thawing of bilateral relations and a willingness on both sides to engage, if not agree. Missile defense discussions produced no new proposals, and Polish diplomats characterized Putin's position as "tough," including pushing for [...]	2008-02-15 05:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR ENRG PL RS
08MOSCOW411	SMOLENSK: SLOWLY BREAKING AWAY FROM THE RED BELT [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-15 07:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW421	MFA ON MULTILATERALIZING INF, NON-MILITARIZATION [...] (C) Summary. Vladimir Yermakov, MFA Director of Strategic Capabilities Policy, told us February 13 that FM Lavrov's proposal at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) on February 12 to "multilateralize" the Treaty on the Elimination of Medium-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (INF) was necessary t [...]	2008-02-15 10:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO RS
08MOSCOW431	Medvedev's Four "I"s: - The Keys to His Economic Program [...] (U) Summary. In a speech at an economic forum in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia February 15, Deputy Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Dmitry Medvedev identified four economic priorities for Russia: infrastructure, innovation, investment, institutions. He called for a smaller state role in the eco [...]	2008-02-15 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV ETRD RS
08MOSCOW433	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Seversk Business Development Agency, Seversk, Russia. The [...]	2008-02-15 14:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW434	DFM LOSYUKOV ON IRAN, PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (C) Summary. In a February 14 meeting with Ambassador, DFM Losyukov expressed frustration with the Iranian regime's arrogance and inflexibility. Considering Iranian domestic politics, the GOR foresees no serious political discussion occurring prior to its March 14 parliamentary elections. Lo [...]	2008-02-15 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC KNNP PINR AF IN JP IR RS
08MOSCOW435	DFM TITOV: RUSSIA WILL BE RESPONSIBLE ON KOSOVO, [...] (C) Summary: In a February 14 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Titov reiterated warnings over the destabilizing consequences of Kosovo's impending UDI, but said Russia would respond "responsibly," including by convoking a UN Security Council special session, and issuing sharp statements of c [...]	2008-02-15 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
08MOSCOW436	RUSSIA - BELARUS RELATIONS: VIEWS FROM SMOLENSK [...] (C) Summary. For Smolensk residents, Belarus spells shared history, friendly ties, the only path to Europe, and affordable goods. In their eyes, union with Belarus would be a plus. For the diehard communists, Belarus is what Russia could still be, while for others it is a backward, anti-de [...]	2008-02-15 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BO RS
08MOSCOW442	RUSSIAN CONCERNS ON ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON EXPORT [...] (SBU) On February 15, we delivered reftel points regarding U.S. support for the IAEA request to the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) Governments for additional information regarding export denials to Iran or nuclear related items already delivered to Iran. 2. (SBU) Alexandr Bolichiov of the MF [...]	2008-02-15 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP MNUC AORC PARM IAEA IR RS
08MOSCOW444	MOSCOW RESPONSE TO STATE 10743 FOR REQUIRED REPORTS TO [...] In response to action request in reftel, Embassy Moscow provides the following answers: A. Energy issues in Russia are handled by various sections in Embassy Moscow and the constituent posts. In the Embassy, from the State Department, the Economic Section, the Environment, Science, and T [...]	2008-02-15 15:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON AFIN ABUD RS
08MOSCOW445	KOSOVO: RUSSIA REACTS PREDICTABLY, STOPS SHORT OF [...] (C) Summary: Russia responded quickly and negatively to Kosovo's declaration of independence, with the Kremlin and MFA labeling it illegal, illegitimate, and destabilizing. While the joint Duma/Federation Council statement is not expected until later today, both chairs of the international [...]	2008-02-18 14:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS KV
08MOSCOW459	RUSSIAN CIVIL SOCIETY SAVORS SMALL VICTORY IN [...] (C) Summary: Members of Russia's beleaguered civil society feel that they have achieved a small, but noteworthy victory in the recent court decision to transfer former Yukos Oil vice president Vasiliy Aleksanyan to a medical facility where he can be treated for life-threatening illnesses. Al [...]	2008-02-19 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW46	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: UFA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Ufa Engine-Building Production Association (UMPO),Ufa, [...]	2008-01-10 11:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW460	AMBASSADOR'S FEBRUARY 19 MEETING WITH DFM KISLYAK [...] (C) Summary: In a February 19 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Kislyak stressed the importance of setting a date for the next 2 2 meeting. The Ambassador conveyed a copy of the President's letter to Putin (ref a),which he had earlier delivered to Kremlin Foreign Policy Adviser Prikhodko ( [...]	2008-02-19 16:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TSPL PARM KNNP CVIS RS
08MOSCOW461	DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN INCARCERATION POLICIES [...] (C) In addition to previous discussions with MFA North America Director Igor Neverov and to the concerns raised by the Ambassador with Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin and Presidential Human Rights Advisor Ella Pamfilova, on February 19 we passed reftel points on USG concern over harsh i [...]	2008-02-19 16:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PINR KJUS RS
08MOSCOW462	RUSSIA'S EXPECTED NEGATIVE REACTION TO KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary. Two days after the announcement of Kosovo's independence, the reaction in Russia has been predictably negative. Russian officials have continued their heated rhetoric, repeating the usual arguments. Public reaction has been limited so far to two tiny peaceful protests at U.S. d [...]	2008-02-19 16:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV RS
08MOSCOW467	IVANOVO: UNITED RUSSIA FRACTURE LEADS TO EARLY [...] (SBU) A simmering dispute in Ivanovo between a Kremlin-appointed Governor and a State Duma Deputy, over control of the local United Russia party and the economic benefits that go with it, reached a boiling point in December 2007 when more than half of the members of the regional Duma resigned [...]	2008-02-20 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM ECON RS
08MOSCOW47	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, West-Ural Company of Construction-Engineering Prospectin [...]	2008-01-10 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW470	CHEVRON READY TO GIVE UP ON CPC EXPANSION, SAYS [...] (C) Chevron Europe, Eurasia, and Middle East president Guy Hollingsworth told the Ambassador on February 11th that the company has largely "written off" CPC expansion. Chevron will pursue a trans-Caspian oil shipping route instead. He said the company is generally satisfied with its joint ve [...]	2008-02-21 03:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PINR RS
08MOSCOW475	RUSSIA'S MILITARY MUSCLE-FLEXING [...] (C) Summary. Russia's recent steps to flex its military muscles are designed both to impress the Russian public in an election year that Putin has reestablished Russia as a major player on the world stage, and to underscore that Russia will no longer engage NATO and the West from a position of [...]	2008-02-21 09:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR NATO PARM RS
08MOSCOW479	UNITED RUSSIA PULLS OUT ALL STOPS IN YAROSLAVL [...] (SBU) United Russia finds itself under a microscope in Yaroslavl where its poor showing in the December 2 Duma elections means the national party is closely watching its preparations for the March 2 presidential elections and hoping for better results. During a February 13-14 visit by Emboff, [...]	2008-02-21 16:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW48	GREEN STRUGGLES AGAINST BLACK GOLD IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) With its focus on oil, gas, and nuclear power, Russia has largely ignored the renewable energy sector. The GOR has not yet established a comprehensive renewable energy strategy. Instead, the GOR is targetting ways to reduce wasteful energy consumption. Experts believe renewable sourc [...]	2008-01-10 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG SENV ETRD ECON TRGY RS
08MOSCOW481	SUBJECT: MEDVEDEV, COMING OUT OF THE SHADOWS? [...] (SBU) Summary: Dmitriy Medvedev, heir apparent to the Russian Presidency, continued his whistle-stop tour of the country, touting his vision in Krasnoyarsk and Izhevsk of an economically vibrant country, with a strong market system, and without the corruption that permeates society today. His [...]	2008-02-22 06:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON SOCI RS
08MOSCOW482	RUSSIA NOTIFIED OF U.S SATELLITE ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) DCM delivered notification of U.S. satellite engagement to MFA North America Department Director Igor Neverov. He was appreciative of the information in advance of DoD's planned press conference. BURNS [...]	2008-02-22 08:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM PNAT KTIA PINS TSPA TPHY ESA CDG POUS
08MOSCOW483	KEMEROVO OBLAST: KREMLIN LOYALTY IN SIBERIA [...] (C) In the ten years he has been governor in Kemerovo, Aman-Geldy Tuleyev has garnered vast popular support and been among the most successful of provincial leaders in tacking with the prevailing political winds, delivering a near-Caucasus turnout to the ruling party. During meetings in th [...]	2008-02-22 10:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW484	SHUFFLE AT MEDT DEPUTIES' LEVEL [...] (SBU) Summary. MEDT's long expected personnel re-organization is underway. Embassy contact Andrey Klepach was promoted from within MEDT to a Deputy Minister position and another contact, Stanislav Voskrensensky, was transferred from the Presidential Administration and also appointed as a Depu [...]	2008-02-22 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON PGOV RS
08MOSCOW486	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH [...] (C) Summary: In a February 21 meeting with Human Rights Watch Moscow Director Allison Gill, the Ambassador confirmed that the Embassy would continue to press the GOR on the denial of a visa to HRW Director Kenneth Roth. Gill noted that the denial had increased publicity for the rollout of HRW [...]	2008-02-22 12:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL ELAB RS
08MOSCOW490	JEWISH LIFE IN IVANOVO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Jewish community in Ivanovo is close-knit, active and shrinking, as increasing numbers of its young residents emigrate to Israel. While the Jewish community is generally accepted among the wider oblast community and relations with authorities are good, two Ivanovo residents [...]	2008-02-22 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KIRF SOCI RS
08MOSCOW496	RUSSIA'S RESERVES: A $500 BILLION QUESTION [...] (C) Russian government policy has been to use its windfall from oil and gas revenues to build large reserves, rather than to address the country's many domestic needs. The bulk of Russia's reserves, which are approaching $500 billion, are held in low-yield government bonds in foreign currencie [...]	2008-02-22 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENIV ENRG PREL RS ETRD
08MOSCOW497	VOLGOGRAD: BUSINESS GROUPS CONTEST CITY DUMA [...] (C) Summary: Conversations with politicians and interested observers during a February 19 - 20 visit to Volgograd suggested little interest in the March 2 presidential elections, except among those charged with ensuring a high turnout. According to the Chairman of the Regional Election Commi [...]	2008-02-22 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW499	NEW DRAFT OF STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW WOULD TIGHTEN RESTRICTIONS ON FOREIGN INVESTORS [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-22 15:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW501	RUSSIA REMAINS UNCOMPROMISING ON KOSOVO ILLEGALITY [...] (C) Summary: Russia continued to send an uncompromising message on the illegality of Kosovo's independence and the irresponsibility of international recognition outside a framework of a negotiated solution, with the MFA reacting furiously to former Ambassador Holbrooke's alleged assertion of [...]	2008-02-22 16:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV RS
08MOSCOW502	CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT [...] (SBU) Embassy Moscow has proposed the following information on critical infrastructure and key resources (CI/KR) in Russia which, "if destroyed, disrupted, or exploited, might have an immediate and deleterious effect on the United States" (ref A). As requested, this message also provides in [...]	2008-02-22 16:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ASEC ECON PTER PGOV ETTC EAID EFIN RS
08MOSCOW503	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: COMPLETED PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] (U) Summary: Ref A requested a pre-license end-use check to confirm the bona fides of Barnaul Cartridge Plant, the foreign end-user on application 05-050077022. The commodities in question are 10.103000 components for ammunition (.224-.355 caliber) valued at USD 909,270.00. A Barnaul Cartri [...]	2008-02-26 03:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC RS KOMC
08MOSCOW509	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL HAN [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Shelly Han, Senior Advisor, and Mr. Kyle Parker, Staff Advisor, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, from March 1-7. 2. Control Officer is Karen Kirchgasser, tel. 7-495-728-5171; 7-495-234-2449 (hm); 7-495-970-4996 (cell); E [...]	2008-02-26 09:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM RS
08MOSCOW517	MFA ON RUSSIAN-JORDANIAN TIES AND CHECHNYA [...] (C) MFA Jordan Desk Officer Andrey Vavilov explained that Jordan's position as a moderate Arab state, and the growing ties between Jordanians of Chechen descent and Chechnya contributed to Russian-Jordanian relations. Speaking to us following King Abdullah's February 11 Moscow visit, Vavilov [...]	2008-02-26 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JO RS
08MOSCOW52	DEMARCHE ON RUSSIAN UPGRADES TO IRANIAN KVADRAT [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-10 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL ETTC PARM IR RS
08MOSCOW520	ENCOURAGING RUSSIAN ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Russia is ready to do more to assist in stabilizing and rebuilding Afghanistan - a key area of overlapping Russian, U.S. and NATO interests. Absent concerted U.S. effort, however, Russian attempts to constructively engage with the Karzai government likely will continue to founde [...]	2008-02-26 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PGOV PINS PREL MASS RU AF
08MOSCOW530	NORTH CAUCASUS SECURITY: CHECHNYA BETTER, OTHERS [...] (C) Summary: While the security environment in Chechnya has stabilized sufficiently to allow the Danish Refugee Council to base its operations in Grozny, Ingushetiya and Dagestan are experiencing increased violence due to separatist and extremist activities, high unemployment rates, easy avai [...]	2008-02-27 12:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF EAID PGOV ASEC RS
08MOSCOW531	RUSSIAN PRISONS [...] (C) Summary: The Russian prison system combines the country's emblematic features - vast distances, harsh climate, and an uncaring bureaucracy - and fuses them into a massive instrument of punishment. Russia imprisons a greater portion of its population than almost any other country in the world (s [...]	2008-02-27 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV TBIO RS
08MOSCOW535	CASE CONTINUES AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST [...] (C) Summary: The slander case against "For Human Rights" Chairman Lev Ponomarev that was opened on February 22 continued to move forward the week of February 25 with Ponomarev called in for questioning on February 26 and case materials provided to Ponomarev's lawyer the same day. In conversa [...]	2008-02-27 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PGOV PINR RS
08MOSCOW536	RUSSIA'S HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC GROWS STEADILY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia's HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to grow, though not at the same fast pace that occurred in 2000-2002. Infections continue to be concentrated among injecting drug users, but the epidemic is also spreading through heterosexual sex, primarily among the partners of high risk gr [...]	2008-02-27 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KHIV TBIO SOCI SCUL RS
08MOSCOW538	KOZAK ON ECONOMIC DECENTRALIZATION, REGIONAL [...] (C) In a February 27 meeting, Minister of Regional Development Dmitry Kozak told the Ambassador that the GOR was committed to a policy of economic decentralization but that the pace would vary from region to region depending on local factors, above all local leadership. Kozak said different r [...]	2008-02-27 15:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW539	MEDVEDEV MENDS BELGRADE FENCES, AFFIRMS CONTINUITY [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of scandalous comments by a Russian TV commentator calling the assassination of former Serbian PM Djindjic "well-deserved," First Deputy PM Dmitriy Medvedev and FM Lavrov traveled to Belgrade on February 25 to mend fences, reiterate Russia's support for Serbian terri [...]	2008-02-27 15:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SR KV RS
08MOSCOW54	DEMARCHE ON TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR UN SENIOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-10 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO PREL AF IO
08MOSCOW547	RUSSIA AND TURKEY ENERGY COOPERATION: "NOTHING [...] (C) The Turkish Embassy told us February 22nd that while Russia is interested in expanding gas supplies to and through Turkey, as well as participating more broadly in Turkey's energy sector, there were no breakthroughs on energy cooperation as a result of Turkish Foreign Minister Babacan's Fe [...]	2008-02-28 12:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW553	TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL ON MEDVEDEV'S LEGITIMACY [...] (SBU) Summary: Dismissing the March 2 presidential elections as preordained, Transparency International Director Yelena Panfilova nonetheless argued that the process accurately reflected Russia's political maturity and conferred the necessary legitimacy on First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev. [...]	2008-02-28 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM PGOV RS
08MOSCOW558	MEDVEDEV AND RUSSIA'S NATIONAL PRIORITY PROJECTS [...] (C) President Putin's choice of Dmitry Medvedev as his successor has been cause for optimism among much of Russia's business elite, who point to Medvedev's calls for more economic freedom. However, Medvedev's public record provides little substance to support this rhetoric. In addition to hi [...]	2008-02-28 15:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ECON PGOV RS SOCI
08MOSCOW559	RUSSIAN OFFICIALS REPORT BETTER TREATMENT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: GOR officials, including Human Rights Ombudsman Lukin and three members of the Public Chamber visited former YUKOS Vice President Vasiliy Aleksanyan on February 21 in his room in a specialized Moscow hospital. They confirmed that Aleksanyan had initially been chained to his ho [...]	2008-02-29 05:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR KJUS RS
08MOSCOW56	SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR HAGEL'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia's season for political surprises has ended. The country now looks set to continue Putin's domestic and foreign policies with the expected shift to Medvedev as President and Putin as Prime Minister this spring. The expected Putin-Medvedev team appears set to ensure conti [...]	2008-01-10 17:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON OVIP PGOV RS
08MOSCOW560	RUSSIA DOES NOT EXPECT SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN [...] (C) In a February 28 meeting, MFA Counselor for Cuba and the Caribbean Victor Koronelli told us that Russia does not expect a significant change in bilateral relations with Cuba after the change in government. Koronelli said that the media had "overplayed the impact" of Casto's retirement an [...]	2008-02-29 05:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CU RS
08MOSCOW561	CIS INFORMAL SUMMIT: MEDVEDEV AND KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary. The uncertainty of Kosovo and the lure of meeting heir apparent Dmitriy Medvedev brought all 12 CIS leaders to Moscow for the February 21-22 CIS Informal Summit. While the MFA pitched a new seriousness in its approach to the CIS, Putin used the summit to introduce Medvedev and [...]	2008-02-29 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS
08MOSCOW564	MEDVEDEV - AND PUTIN - DOMINATE MEDIA LEADING TO [...] No summary [...]	2008-02-29 10:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM KPAO RS
08MOSCOW567	RUSSIA'S SAMARA OBLAST - WHAT ELECTION? [...] (SBU) Summary: For most in Samara oblast, the coming Presidential election is a "non-event," with nearly all interlocutors seeing the campaign as already decided. Excepting the ubiquitous posters and banners calling for people to head to the polls this Saturday, there was little evidence in th [...]	2008-02-29 12:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
08MOSCOW570	RUSSIA UNSURE IF RESOLUTION ON DRC IS PROPER [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA International Organizations Senior Counselor Valentin Berezovskiy on February 29, who said that he would report the information and notify the Russian UN Mission about the decision. Berezovskiy told us that Russia maintained its long-standing positio [...]	2008-02-29 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CG PREL RW UNSC ASEC ETTC RS
08MOSCOW575	RUSSIA MAKING PROGRESS ON BERLIN TB DECLARATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia has made effective progress in implementing the Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis (TB). The Russian Government's adoption of the Berlin Declaration confirmed Russia's political commitment to TB control. The GOR continues to focus its attention on TB control and treatme [...]	2008-02-29 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL SOCI WHO RS
08MOSCOW585	REGIONAL ELECTIONS OFFER FEWER CHOICES [...] (SBU) Voters in 11 Russian regions will find fewer options on the ballot for their regional parliaments when they go to the polls March 2 in elections to be held concurrently with the selection of a new president. Following a trend that began with changes to the electoral legislation that requ [...]	2008-02-29 15:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW586	DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN KVADRAT UPGRADES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-01 06:40:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EETC IR PARM PREL PTER RS
08MOSCOW587	RUSSIA-UKRAINE RELATIONS: YUSHCHENKO AND [...] (C) Summary. After many last-minute changes and rescheduling involving Tymoshenko's visit, the February 12-13 Putin-Yushchenko Intergovernmental Commission (IGC) convened without Tymoshenko's participation. GOR officials expressed dismay at the complicated dynamics between Yushchenko and Tymoshenko [...]	2008-03-01 13:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON UP RS
08MOSCOW589	MEDVEDEV: WHAT HE SAYS, WHAT HE DOES [...] (C) Summary: During the two months that separate Dmitriy Medvedev's election March 2 from his inauguration, much will become clear about his power-sharing arrangement with outgoing President and incoming Prime Minister Putin. Following keynote speeches by Medvedev before fellow lawyers, civil [...]	2008-03-01 13:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR RS
08MOSCOW591	RUSSIAN COMMENTS ON USG VIEWS ON IAEA REPORT AND [...] (S) On February 27 we delivered reftel non-paper (Ref B) regarding U.S. views of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) assessments of Iran's activities to Alexander Trifimov of the MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. 2. (S) Trifimov contended that Iran had been relati [...]	2008-03-03 07:57:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA UNGA PREL IR RS
08MOSCOW60	RUSSIA STILL UNDECIDED ON HELICOPTERS FOR UNAMID [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-11 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS PGOV UNSC SU RS
08MOSCOW602	MEDVEDEV WINS BIG; COMMUNISTS DO BETTER THAN [...] (C) Summary: With almost 99.5 percent of votes counted, Dmitriy Medvedev, Putin's choice as Russia's next president, has received a landslide 70.23 percent of the vote. His closest competitor was the Communists' Gennadiy Zyuganov with 17.76 percent. Late evening March 2, Medvedev appeared w [...]	2008-03-03 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR PREL RS
08MOSCOW603	MOSCOW'S REACTION TO POLITICAL UNREST IN ARMENIA [...] (C) Summary. The MFA issued a statement on March 3, expressing regret for the unrest in Armenia and support for Kocharian's efforts to reach a peaceful settlement. MFA officials characterized the February 19 presidential elections as free and fair, and told us that although Russia would con [...]	2008-03-03 15:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AM RS
08MOSCOW604	GOR ON GEORGIAN JOURNALISTS DETAINED IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) In a March 3 conversation, GOR Special Envoy to the Abkhazia conflict Vladislav Chernov took on board our request that Russia communicate to the Abkhaz leadership the need for restraint and speedy release of the Georgian journalists detained in Abkhazia, and welcomed U.S. efforts to lower [...]	2008-03-03 16:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW605	GAZPROM REDUCES GAS SUPPLIES TO UKRAINE BY 25% [...] (C) Gazprom announced on March 3rd that it had reduced gas supplies to Ukraine by 25% because of non-payment of debts. Gazprom contacts told us March 3rd that the decision was purely commercial and would not hamstring Ukraine economically but would send a "strong signal" that Ukraine must pay [...]	2008-03-04 04:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW61	GOR ON GEORGIAN ELECTIONS AND BILATERAL TIES [...] (C) Summary. The GOR is watching closely the events in Georgia, and has been critical of the "hasty" stamp of approval given to the January 5 election by international organizations. It will continue to demand clarification of alleged election irregularities. Russian MFA officials stressed [...]	2008-01-11 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW614	INGUSHETIYA'S OPPOSITION: YEVLOYEV REMAINS IN [...] (C) Summary: Opposition to Ingushetiya President Murat Zyazikov is becoming bolder. Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the banned opposition "Ingushetiya.ru" internet site and the force behind the "I Did Not Vote" campaign after the December 2007 Duma elections, came out of hiding long enough to cha [...]	2008-03-04 16:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KDEM RS
08MOSCOW617	UNMEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-05 04:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO
08MOSCOW619	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PATRIARCH ALEKSEY II [...] (C) Summary: On March 4, the Ambassador met with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Aleksey II. The Patriarch discussed the relations between the Orthodox Church and the government, and its growing social role. The Patriarch spoke of cooperative relations among the four "tradition [...]	2008-03-05 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF PINR KHIV RS
08MOSCOW623	GAZPROM CUTS GAS TO UKRAINE BY ANOTHER 25%; [...] (SBU) Gazprom has announced that as of 8:00 pm Moscow time on March 4th it had cut gas supplies to (not through) Ukraine by another 25%, bringing the total reduction of gas to Ukraine in the latest episode of its ongoing dispute (reftels) to 50%. Gazprom demands payment of some $600 million i [...]	2008-03-05 13:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW624	MFA REASSERTS SUPPORT FOR NATO MISSION IN [...] (C) In a March 5 conversation, Deputy Director of the MFA Second Asia Department Ali Mustafabeily dismissed as "ludicrous" possible statements made by Russian Ambassador to Afghanistan Kabulov, who reportedly told the press he suspected that U.S. military aircraft were used to ship narcotics o [...]	2008-03-05 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF RS
08MOSCOW626	RUSSIA ATTEMPTS TO FRAME KOSOVO DISCUSSION AS A [...] (C) Summary. Russian officials continued to press the "illegality" of Kosovo's independence, EULEX, and the new International Steering Group for Kosovo, even as it observed that a "de facto" partition of Northern Kosovo was occurring as Russia had predicted. The Russian Duma will hold hearing [...]	2008-03-05 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV SR RS
08MOSCOW629	THE END OF OLIGARCH POLITICS IN SAMARA [...] (SBU) As many expected, the appointment of Vladimir Artyakov as Governor of Samara region has ushered in a new era in regional politics in which previously influential oligarchic groups that had made substantial gains over the past few years are quickly being marginalized. The moves to manage [...]	2008-03-06 11:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW630	THE ISLAMIC FACTOR IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Expanding Russia's ties with the Islamic world has been a priority for Putin and an important factor in his efforts to revitalize Russian foreign policy. The GOR has increased bilateral diplomacy with Muslim states, ratcheted up involvement in the Middle East peace process (MEPP [...]	2008-03-06 11:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KISL PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW635	KASHIN PROTESTS, BUT NOT TO EMBASSY OR MFA [...] (SBU) Aleksandr Kashin, who was paralyzed from the chest down as a result of a 1998 traffic accident involving then Consul General in Vladivostok Douglas Kent, traveled to Moscow on March 3 where he reportedly continues a hunger strike, apparently initiated to draw attention to his plight and [...]	2008-03-06 13:30:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS KJUS
08MOSCOW637	GAS DISPUTE WITH UKRAINE RESOLVED, FOR NOW [...] (C) Gazprom restored full gas shipments to Ukraine March 6 in the wake of an agreement brokered by Presidents Putin and Yushchenko. However, all sides to the dispute as well as industry watchers believe that a long-term solution will prove elusive and more disputes may follow. ------------- [...]	2008-03-06 13:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW638	RUSSIA'S GLONASS: LOST IN SPACE [...] (SBU) In late 2007, First Deputy Prime Minister Ivanov trumpeted the launch of three new satellites that were to complete the GLONASS system's coverage of Russia and challenge GPS in the commercial navigation market. Soon after, however, news reports revealed that the system had serious flaws, [...]	2008-03-06 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KSCA PREL PARM TSPA RS
08MOSCOW639	SIDELINED DEMOCRATS SPECULATE ABOUT MEDVEDEV, [...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with Ambassador, three opposition politicians described some of their current difficulties, the prospects for cooperation among western-looking democratic forces, and the future under President Medvedev. The three --ex-PM Kasyanov, ex-Duma Deputy Ryzhkov, and [...]	2008-03-06 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW64	RUSSIA: WIREC INVITATION DELIVERED TO MINISTRY OF FOREIGN [...] On January 9, 2008 post delivered reftel invitation from Secretary Rice for a Russian delegation to attend WIREC 2008 to the SIPDIS Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov. Invitation was sent through Mr. Igor Neverov, Director of the North America Department at the Ministry of Foreign A [...]	2008-01-14 10:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO RS
08MOSCOW648	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL'S [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 12:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM IR RS
08MOSCOW649	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ANNOUNCING THE U.S. SPECIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 12:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OIC RS
08MOSCOW655	GOR PULLOUT FROM CIS SANCTIONS AGAINST ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary: In a March 6 statement, the MFA announced that the GOR would no longer honor the CIS sanctions against Abkhazia. The statement justified the move by detailing the changed situation in Abkhazia since signing of the sanctions agreement in 1996. Consequently, the sanctions regime [...]	2008-03-07 12:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW656	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SPECIAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Special Purpose Militia Unit, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2008-03-07 12:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW657	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ADVANCED [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Advanced Technology Ltd, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BI [...]	2008-03-07 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW658	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: IKI RAN SPACE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Space Research Institute, Moscow, [...]	2008-03-07 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW660	DETAINED YABLOKO LEADER'S CASE RAISED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-07 14:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
08MOSCOW662	RUSSIA SATISFIED WITH RESULTS OF BOSNIA PIC MEETING [...] (C) Summary. The MFA expressed satisfaction that the February 26-27 Bosnia Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting (ref A) had provided "a clear picture" of the benchmarks to be completed prior to the closure of the Office of the High Representative (OHR),but stressed that Russia still wa [...]	2008-03-07 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
08MOSCOW663	RUSSIA SATISFIED WITH RESULTS OF BOSNIA PIC [...] (C) Summary. The MFA expressed satisfaction that the February 26-27 Bosnia Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting (ref A) had provided "a clear picture" of the benchmarks to be completed prior to the closure of the Office of the High Representative (OHR),but stressed that Russia still wa [...]	2008-03-07 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS
08MOSCOW665	DETAINED YABLOKO LEADER'S CASE RAISED [...] (SBU) On March 7, we raised our strong concern over the detention of St. Petersburg Yabloko leader Maksim Reznik with the Ombudsman's office and the Presidential Council on Human Rights. Ombudsman Secretariat Chief Natalia Mirza noted that she had yet to see the open letter sent to HR Ombudsm [...]	2008-03-07 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
08MOSCOW677	NATO AND GOR OFFICIALS DISCUSS BUCHAREST SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: Isabelle Francois, the Head of the NATO Information Office in Moscow, told us that NATO Deputy Secretary General Martin Erdmann used his February 28-29 SIPDIS visit to discuss deliverables for the NATO Summit in Bucharest, including: making training of Afghan counternarcotics [...]	2008-03-11 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PREL
08MOSCOW682	RUSSIAN FASCINATION WITH U.S. ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Compared to Russia's recent presidential elections, Russian interest in the U.S. presidential elections is hard to miss here. Newspapers are filled with stories on the race and profiles of the leading candidates' views on U.S.-Russia relations. Polling data suggests that 63 per [...]	2008-03-11 15:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW687	KAZAN REMAINS TIED TO MOSCOW DESPITE TATARSTAN'S [...] (C) Summary: Despite its unique status within the Russian Federation negotiated with the central government under Yeltsin in 1994 and again with Putin in 2007, Tatarstan is firmly part of Russia and seems set to remain so under Medvedev. President Mintimer Shamiyev is currently very much in [...]	2008-03-12 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM RS
08MOSCOW688	TATARSTAN VIES TO REMAIN LEADER OF MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] (C) Summary: Although its image as a center of Islam may have been tarnished somewhat during almost 70 years of obedience to Moscow during the Soviet period, the government of Tatarstan and the religious leadership there are now attempting to shore up their position as not only a leading for [...]	2008-03-12 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL PINR RS

08MOSCOW694	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: IKI RAN SPACE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Space Research Institute, Moscow, [...]	2008-03-13 08:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW701	GOR DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN ABKHAZIA MILITARY [...] (C) All MFA Georgia handlers expressed surprise at the GOG's allegation that the GOR was providing military assistance to Abkhazia (ref B). MFA CIS Fourth Department Deputy Director Aleksey Pavlovskiy told us March 12 that he was hearing such news for the first time from us. Pavlovskiy went [...]	2008-03-13 12:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW702	RUSSIA CRIES FOUL OVER 2007 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Although press coverage of the 2007 Human Rights Report has been largely straightforward, the Russian MFA and several members of the State Duma have accused the U.S. of having double standards and a "Cold War" mentality. The head of the Helsinki Moscow Group defended the report [...]	2008-03-13 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM PINR RS
08MOSCOW703	SPATE OF HATE CRIMES RESULTS IN WORDS BUT LIMITED [...] (SBU) Summary: A string of deadly hate crimes committed since the beginning of the year has alarmed NGOs and compelled Putin to speak out against xenophobia and nationalism. If the rate of fatalities resulting from hate crimes continues through the end of the year, the total number will be [...]	2008-03-13 16:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PREF SOCI SMIG RS
08MOSCOW705	RUSSIA AND ALGERIA SEEK CLOSER ECONOMIC TIES, [...] (C) Summary: President Bouteflika's February visit to Moscow focused on improving Russian-Algerian economic ties and not on Algerian complaints about the quality of MIG-29s purchased from Russia, according to Russian and Algerian diplomats. Neither side wanted the MIG issue to overshadow oth [...]	2008-03-14 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ETRD MARR AG RS
08MOSCOW709	ECONOMIC REFORMS UNDER MEDVEDEV--ANALYSTS' VIEWS [...] (C) The week following Medvedev's election we talked separately with four Moscow-based analysts about the prospects for market reforms under Medvedev: Renaissance Capital Managing Director Roland Nash; IMF Senior Resident Representative Neven Mates; consulting firm FBK's Director for Strategic [...]	2008-03-14 10:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PREL RS
08MOSCOW712	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IRAN'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-14 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL IR RS
08MOSCOW713	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT FOR NEW SPECIAL [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-14 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AF RS
08MOSCOW715	GAZPROM AND UKRAINE AGREE ON 2008 PRICES, 2009 [...] (SBU) In what may be the last chapter in the Ukraine-Russia gas trade saga for this year, Gazprom announced a deal was reached on March 13 with Ukraine's NaftoHaz that sets prices for 2008 gas supplies. According to Gazprom, from March to December 2008, NaftoHaz will pay $179.50 per thousand [...]	2008-03-14 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW716	RUSSIA-AZERBAIJAN RELATIONS BACK ON TRACK DESPITE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-14 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AJ RS
08MOSCOW717	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR U.S. EXPERTS FOR CFE [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jennifer Laurendeau, Donna Phelan, and Michael Q. Powell for the CFE Consultations from March 16-19, 2008. 2. Control Officer is Michael Kelleher, tel. 7-495-728-5311; 7-495-737-5065 (hm); 7-495-774-2573 (cell); E-mail is KelleherMJ@state.G [...]	2008-03-14 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT PARM PREL KFCE RS
08MOSCOW718	PSI FIFTH ANNIVERSARY INVITATION DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-14 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP KSTC PARM PREL XX
08MOSCOW721	MERRIL LYNCH RUSSIA CEO DISMISSES LIKELIHOOD OF [...] (C) Former Central Bank First Deputy Chairman, and current CEO of Merrill Lynch in Russia, Sergei Aleksashenko told us he did not anticipate that President-elect Medvedev would implement any pro-market reforms. Medvedev would be too weak and dependent on Putin to make major changes and would [...]	2008-03-14 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ENRG PREL RS
08MOSCOW722	RUE HEAD EXEMPLIFIES COMPANY'S LACK OF TRANSPARENCY [...] (U) As we reported in ref A, the latest deal reached by Gazprom and Ukraine's NaftoHaz regarding the turbulent Russia-Ukraine gas trade has left unanswered important questions. One of those is the future of intermediary RosUkrEnergo (RUE). RUE, 50% owned by Gazprom and 50% owned by Ukrainian [...]	2008-03-14 15:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RU
08MOSCOW725	DFM KARASIN ON NATO MAP, BELARUS, GEORGIA, [...] Summary: In a March 14 meeting with the Ambassador, DFM Karasin went to great lengths to emphasize the "disastrous consequences" of a NATO MAP offer for Georgia and Ukraine in Bucharest, warning (somewhat theatrically) that the U.S. and NATO had to choose between "peace and stability and anoth [...]	2008-03-15 09:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW732	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STAFFDEL TALWAR [...] Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Puneet Talwar, Senior Professional Staff Member Senate Foreign Relations Committee, from March 19-22, 2008. 2. Control Officer is Dereck Hogan, tel. 7-495-728-5152; 7-495-728-5451 (hm); 7-495-970-4995 (cell); E-mail is HoganDJ@state.Gov. [...]	2008-03-17 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN CH RS
08MOSCOW74	RUSSIA REPORT FOR FINANCIAL CRIMES PORTION OF 2007-2008 [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. The tracked changes version of this report will be sent to individuals specified in reftel. Post's point of contact for this report is Economic Officer Clayton Hays (hayscp@state.gov). 2. (SBU) Russia's financial system does not attract a s [...]	2008-01-14 12:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR RS
08MOSCOW744	LAVROV LINKS TIBET UNREST TO KOSOVO [...] Foreign Minister Lavrov linked the recent unrest in Tibet to Kosovo, telling the press that the violence in Lhasa had not occurred "by chance." In an interview published March 18 in Rossiskaya Gazeta, Lavrov used Tibet to demonstrate how Kosovo's independence had "already reverberated" among [...]	2008-03-18 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL CH RS
08MOSCOW747	DAS KRAMER'S MEETINGS WITH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: Both governmental and non-governmental human rights figures offered DAS David Kramer March 16 their views on the state of human rights in Russia and prospects for improvement during a Medvedev presidency. They variously identified the state of the judiciary and law enforcement ( [...]	2008-03-18 15:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV SOCI RS
08MOSCOW748	ACTING U/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary: In a lively and wide-ranging March 17 meeting with Acting U/S Fried, DFM Karasin underscored the depth of Russian opposition to the "explosive Kosovo precedent" and NATO MAP for Ukraine and Georgia. Karasin claimed that public opinion in Russia toward the U.S. had sharpened and [...]	2008-03-18 16:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW750	RUSSIAN ECONOMIST PESSIMISTIC ABOUT CONTINUED [...] (SBU) Yevgeniy Gontmakher, Director of the Center for Social Politics and the Institute of Economy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, told us March 5 that the growth of Russia's middle class was stagnating despite rising incomes. He identified inflation, which for most Russians was twice the [...]	2008-03-19 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV SOCI RS
08MOSCOW751	THE ISLAMIC FACTOR IN RUSSIAN FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Expanding Russia's ties with the Islamic world has been a priority for Putin in his efforts to revitalize Russian foreign policy. The GOR has increased bilateral diplomacy with Muslim states, ratcheted up involvement in the Middle East peace process (MEPP) and the Organization o [...]	2008-03-19 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KISL PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW756	RUSSIA'S BUDGET TRANSPARENCY [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-19 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW759	ACTING U/S FRIED'S MARCH 17 MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary. Meeting on the margins of the 2 2 in Moscow March 17, Acting Undersecretary for Political Affairs Daniel Fried and Russian Director for Security and Disarmament Anatoliy Antonov led delegations in a long discussion of outstanding issues on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) [...]	2008-03-19 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE NATO MARR RS
08MOSCOW767	RUSSIA LAUNCHES KYOTO PROTOCOL JOINT IMPLEMENTATION PROGRAM [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-20 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG KGHG RS
08MOSCOW768	BP AND TNK-BP OFFICES RAIDED BY AUTHORITIES [...] (C) Russian authorities raided the offices of TNK-BP on the morning of March 19 and, later that day, the offices of BP Russia. TNK-BP VP for International Affairs, Amcit Shawn McCormick, told us late that night that the raid had been conducted by the FSB. McCormick and a contact at BP said th [...]	2008-03-20 16:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW78	EMERCOM: COOPERATION IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT [...] (SBU) The Russian Ministry for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Natural Disasters (EMERCOM) and a U.S. delegation led by R. David Paulison, FEMA Administrator, met in St. Petersburg December 3-7. The purpose of the meeting, the twelfth in a series, was to review bilateral cooperation in emergenc [...]	2008-01-14 15:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL SENV RS
08MOSCOW780	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: RUSSIAN [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Russian Satellite Communication Company (R.S.C.C.),Moscow, Russia. [...]	2008-03-21 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW783	TWO-STEP REQUEST TO DEMARCHE KHARTOUM AND N'JAMENA [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-21 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	CD CH FR LY PGOV PREL RS SU UK KPKO
08MOSCOW784	MFA REFUSES TO DISCUSS DOD REPORT ON CHINA [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-21 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR MCAP PREL PGOV TSPA CH
08MOSCOW785	UNSCR 1540 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-21 14:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EU KPAO PREL PTER UNSC JA
08MOSCOW797	TRANSFER OF HEU SAMPLE TO RUSSIA [...] (S) On March 24, we delivered to MFA reftel paper on logistics surrounding the transfer from the U.S. to Russia of the ten-gram HEU sample seized in Georgia in 2006. Mikhail Kondratenkov of the MFA Security and Disarmament told us he found it "a very interesting document." He expressed reli [...]	2008-03-24 12:41:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP ASEC ENRG PTER MNUC AU GG RS
08MOSCOW803	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INVITATION TO CONSULTATIONS ON [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-24 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MNUC PREL RS XC
08MOSCOW804	RUSSIAN MEDIA NOT CONCERNED ABOUT BEING LABELED A [...] (U) Classified by Deputy Chief of Mission Dan Russell for reason 1.4(d) 2. (U) Summary: The Russian Duma approved the second reading of the Strategic Sector draft law regulating foreign investment in 42 so-called "strategic sectors" -- including much of the media -- on March 21. If passe [...]	2008-03-24 15:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM KPAO RS
08MOSCOW805	DUMA LINKS KOSOVO AND NATO MAP TO FROZEN [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-24 16:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO GG RS
08MOSCOW806	RUSSIA'S EXPECTATIONS FOR NATO SUMMIT DEPEND ON [...] (C) Summary. According to the head of the NATO section at the MFA, Putin's swan song at the NATO Summit in Bucharest was envisioned to be "constructive" and to call for more NATO-Russia cooperation, but recent U.S. statements of support for a Membership Action Plan offer for Ukraine and Georg [...]	2008-03-25 04:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR PARM KCFE UP GG RS
08MOSCOW812	An Inside Look at a Russian Optical Disc Plant [...] (SBU) On March 18, Embassy and European Commission IPR officers and a representative of the Russian Anti-Piracy Organization (RAPO),toured a successful optical disc production plant, DVD Club - a producer of legitimate DVDs. RAPO has 24 hour access to the plant. Afterward, they discussed pir [...]	2008-03-25 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR RS
08MOSCOW813	YOUNG RUSSIA TAKES AIM AT CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a ruling by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) that the GOR should "correct" the situation faced by the un-registered Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology in Russia (COS),the COS has been under investigation by the Ministry of Internal Af [...]	2008-03-25 12:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW815	NEW WRINKLE ON INTERNATIONAL NGO REGISTRATION [...] (C) Summary: The Federal Registration Service (FRS) has alleged that 43 international NGOs working here have been inappropriately registered as Russian NGOs, rather than as affiliates of international organizations. At a March 19 meeting, the FRS told representatives of 16 of the NGOs affect [...]	2008-03-25 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW816	UPDATE ON GOR INVESTIGATION OF TNK-BP [...] (C) Pressure on TNK-BP appeared to mount with the announcement that Russia's environmental watchdog was beginning an investigation of the company, fueling further speculation that the government was attempting to hasten and cheapen the transfer of the Russian-owned half of the company to Gazpr [...]	2008-03-25 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW817	MOSCOW UNDERSTANDS IRANIAN AMBITIONS, SAY RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: In a recent round of meetings, prominent Russian analysts argued that Russia's long history of dealing with Iran and its willing understanding of Iran's ambitions to be a great power in the Middle East and wider Islamic world are two important factors in appreciating the GOR appr [...]	2008-03-25 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PARM KNNP ETRD IR RS
08MOSCOW818	CONSTITUENCY FOR CHANGE? OBSERVERS HOPEFUL AS [...] (C) Summary: As candidate Medvedev transitions into "President-elect" Medvedev, commentators have begun to speak with increasing frequency about political support for a reform agenda, not only the expected backing from the "liberal" economic elite, but also more broadly amongst Russia's business le [...]	2008-03-25 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI KDEM RS
08MOSCOW820	AUSTRALIA GROUP: RUSSIA SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR ITS [...] (SBU) Following is the text of a Russian non-paper FM Lavrov passed to the Secretary on the margins of recent 2 plus 2 talks. English text below is as presented by the GOR. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Pursuant to the instructions of the President of the Russian Federation, we have been workin [...]	2008-03-25 16:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL RS
08MOSCOW821	DUMA PASSES STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 21, the State Duma passed the Strategic Sectors Law (SSL) in its second reading, clearing a path for President Putin to sign the law that will regulate foreign investment into Russia's "strategic sectors." The version passed by the Duma increases the number of sectors [...]	2008-03-26 05:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ENRG EPET RS
08MOSCOW829	PROBLEMS FOR TOLERANCE SUPPORT FOUNDATION IN [...] (C) On March 20, law enforcement officials in Nizhniy Novgorod raided the offices of the Fund in Support of Tolerance (FST),the successor organization to the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RCFS) and confiscated the organization's computers. At the same time, in what appeared a well-or [...]	2008-03-26 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW831	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ATLANTIS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Atlantis Communications, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BI [...]	2008-03-26 15:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW832	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: JSC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, JSC Upravlyaushaya Communal Company, Novy Urengoy, Russia. [...]	2008-03-26 15:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW833	RUSSIA-UZBEKISTAN RELATIONSHIP COMPLEX BUT GROWING [...] (C) Summary: In the wake of Karimov's February visit, MFA officials and outside experts agree that Uzbekistan remains a priority, if difficult, partner for Russia. MFA officials stress Russia does not oppose the U.S. use of the Termez airbase in Uzbekistan, given the shared goal of a stable [...]	2008-03-27 04:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND ENRG EPET ETRD MARR MASS PGOV PINS PREL
08MOSCOW848	DFM SALTANOV ON MOSCOW CONFERENCE, SYRIA, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary: In a March 20 meeting with visiting Senate Foreign Relations Committee Senior Staff Member Talwar, DFM Saltanov reviewed Russia's position on a range of critical issues in the Middle East, underscoring strong U.S.-Russian cooperation in the lead up to and following the Annapolis [...]	2008-03-28 08:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS IR IQ MEP
08MOSCOW854	RUSSIA'S DEMOGRAPHIC UPTURN MAY BE SHORT-LIVED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Russia's demographic results continued to improve in 2007. Overall births increased by 8.5 percent, deaths declined by four percent, and a surge in migration helped to offset much of the natural population decline. The overall population stood at 142 million as of January 1, 2 [...]	2008-03-28 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SCUL PREL SOCI RS
08MOSCOW857	RUSSIA CONCERNED POLITICS UNDERCUTS PAKISTANI [...] (C) Summary: Russia is concerned that Pakistan's new coalition government will fail to aggressively pursue Islamic extremists. MFA observers lament the diminished influence of Musharraf, Russia's preferred Pakistani leader, and hope that he could make a comeback if a new government comes to p [...]	2008-03-28 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK RS
08MOSCOW859	RUSSIAN DEPUTY SECURITY COUNCIL NAZAROV ON IRAN [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 meeting with SFRC Staff Member Puneet Talwar and DCM, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Nazarov praised P5 1 unity on Iran, but argued that SIPDIS a lack of a roadmap, the failure to lay out positive inducements for Iranian action, over-reliance on sanct [...]	2008-03-28 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNDP RS IR
08MOSCOW86	DEMARCHE ON TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR UN SENIOR [...] No summary [...]	2008-01-15 11:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	NATO PREL AF IO
08MOSCOW860	INFO ON U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY FOR MANPADS THREAT REDUCTION [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-28 13:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM
08MOSCOW861	THE ART OF THE POSSIBLE IN THE JUST RUSSIA PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Four Duma deputies from the left-leaning, Kremlin-sponsored Just Russia party offered us assessments of their party in Russia's fifth Duma, which convened in January after the December 2 parliamentary elections. As expected, Just Russia has found it difficult to have an impact on [...]	2008-03-28 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SOCI PINR RS
08MOSCOW864	WHAT'S BEHIND THE RAIDS ON TNK-BP AND BP REF: A. MOSCOW 816 B. MOSCOW 768 C. 07 MOSCOW 3054 Classified By: Ambassador William J. Burns for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-28 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL PGOV RS
08MOSCOW865	SERDYUKOV VS. BALUYEVSKIY: DISCORD IN THE MINISTRY [...] (C) Summary. Tensions within the Ministry of Defense erupted in the press the week of March 24, with reports that Chief of the General Staff Baluyevskiy had submitted his latest letter of resignation, and that the General Staff was unhappy with Defense Minister Serdyukov's "intrusion" into mi [...]	2008-03-28 15:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR RS
08MOSCOW866	EXPERT VIEWS: MEDVEDEV'S REFORM PROSPECTS SLIM; [...] (C) A swelling number of experts has low expectations that the Medvedev administration will pursue pro-market reforms. In separate conversations the week of March 17, Deputy Director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition (aka the Gaidar Institute) Sergei Sinelnikov and Alfa Bank Chi [...]	2008-03-28 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV RS
08MOSCOW867	GOR NOTIFIED OF MISTAKEN SHIPMENT OF MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2008-03-31 06:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL TW CH JA RU FR AU KS UK
08MOSCOW870	ROSATOM TRANSITION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The transition of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency to the Rosatom State Corporation is moving forward. The uncertainty surrounding the retention of staff has brought anxiety and bureaucratic paralysis as employees wait to learn their fate in the new organization. End Summary. [...]	2008-03-31 06:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENRG PREL PARM RS
08MOSCOW875	MEDVEDEV'S ECONOMIC THINK TANK: INSTITUTE FOR [...] (C) On March 18, President-elect Medvedev participated in the opening seminar of the Institute for Contemporary Development, the economic think tank that many observers say will become the brain trust for Medvedev's economic policies. Press reports have compared Medvedev's endorsement of the [...]	2008-03-31 11:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL RS
08MOSCOW882	NO PUTIN-VORONIN DEAL ON TRANSNISTRIA, SAYS GOR [...] (C) Both MFA Transnistria negotiator Valeriy Nesterushkin and Second CIS Department Director Viktor Sorokin denied an impending Putin - Voronin deal to resolving the Transnistria conflict (reftel). On March 27, Nesterushkin told us that there was no change in the GOR position: without the two [...]	2008-03-31 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PBTS OSCE MD RS
08MOSCOW883	GOR REACTION TO LUKASHENKO: U.S. REDUCTION "UNWISE" [...] (C) MFA Second CIS Department Director Viktor Sorokin told us March 31 that the GOB did not consult with the GOR about its move and PM Zubkov, during his March 21 visit to Minsk, was briefed on the developments after the fact and was "asked to understand" the GOB's action. Sorokin maintained [...]	2008-03-31 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS
08MOSCOW884	RUSSIA ASKS FOR A "STRAIGHT ANSWER" ON AFGHAN [...] (C) MFA Afghanistan Desk Chief Yuri Khokhlov called in Poloff on March 31 to tell us Russia sought a "straight answer" from the U.S. on whether there was interest in the Russian offer to provide military aid to Afghanistan (refs). He said that while the GOR has dealt bilaterally with Afghanist [...]	2008-03-31 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AF RS
08MOSCOW893	STRATEGIC SECTORS LAW: REIMAN DEFEATS ATTEMPT TO INCLUDE [...] (SBU) Communications Minister Reiman beat back an attempt to include all telecommunications, including the internet and mobile phones, as a "strategic sector" under the draft Strategic Sectors Law now making its way through the Duma. The FSB was apparently behind the broad definition. Reiman [...]	2008-04-01 10:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINT ECON TINT ECPS RS
08MOSCOW910	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON KOSOVO IN LEAD-UP TO BUCHAREST [...] (C) Summary: MFA Special Envoy for Kosovo Botsan-Kharchenko told us that Putin will reiterate Russian opposition to Kosovo's independence in Bucharest, but the issue is not expected to feature prominently, including during the President's visit April 5-6 visit to Sochi. The GOR will contin [...]	2008-04-02 16:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID RU
08MOSCOW911	RUSSIA-UKRAINE: NATO AND HOLODOMOR [...] (C) Summary. FM Lavrov, during his April 2 address to the Duma, characterized NATO enlargement as "artificial and unnecessary," while arguing that NATO members could no longer solve important tasks without Russia's help. While the Duma held a special hearing on the friendship agreement with [...]	2008-04-03 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UP RS
08MOSCOW912	(C) LUKOIL TELLS AMBASSADOR SATTERFIELD IRAQ CAN'T [...] (S) Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov told Ambassador Satterfield April 2nd that production sharing agreements (PSAs) are a prerequisite to multi-billion investments needed to modernize Iraq's oil infrastructure and develop fields. Alekperov indicated that Lukoil may still be willing to work in [...]	2008-04-03 12:39:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW913	MOSCOW HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ON MEDVEDEV, CURRENT [...] (C) Summary: Seven prominent Moscow-based human rights activists offered Ambassador April 1 their expectations for a Medvedev presidency, and their perspectives on the current human rights climate in Russia. The group was skeptical that much would change after Medvedev's May 7 inauguration, a [...]	2008-04-03 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PGOV SOCI RS
08MOSCOW914	LIBERALS ON LIFE UNDER MEDVEDEV, THE NATO SUMMIT, [...] (C) Summary: In a series of recent meetings, traditional SPS patron and UES Chairman Chubais, beleaguered Yabloko Chairman Yavlinskiy, and radio station Ekho Moskvy Editor Venediktov described a MAP for Ukraine as a "major strategic mistake," but thought that Putin's intention in Bucharest re [...]	2008-04-03 13:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW916	CONTINUED PRESSURE ON NATIONAL BOLSHEVIKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Eduard Limonov's outlawed National Bolshevik Party (NBP) has been frequently in the news recently as a series of relatively high-profile court cases have resulted in the jail sentences for young NBP activists. On March 24, a Moscow court sentenced seven NBP activists to up to [...]	2008-04-03 13:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KDEM PINR RS
08MOSCOW918	Russia's Plan for Long-Term Socio-Economic Development [...] (U) The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (MEDT) released its program for Russia's socio-economic development through 2020. The policy document, expected to be finalized in May, outlines the GOR's plans for economic diversification away from present levels of reliance on natural res [...]	2008-04-03 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON RS
08MOSCOW924	MORE VIEWS ON PROSPECTS FOR ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (C) In a series of meetings March 20, NSC Senior Director Mary Warlick and the Economic Minister Counselor solicited the views of a variety of Russian interlocutors on the prospects for economic reform under President-elect Medvedev. From those meetings, we offer three disparate but represent [...]	2008-04-03 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL RS
08MOSCOW927	JOINT DECLARATION FOR NUCLEAR ENERGY AND NONPROLIFERATION: [...] (SBU) On April 3, we delivered reftel letter from Ambassador Jackie Wolcott on the Joint Declaration for Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation to Mikhail Kondratenkov, MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs. Kondratenkov said he would convey the letter immediately to Ambassador Berd [...]	2008-04-04 03:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ETTC KNNP PREL PARM TRGY RS
08MOSCOW932	SOLZHENITSYN AND METROPOLITAN KIRILL ON RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: In separate conversations recently, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Metropolitan Kirill criticized the decision to recognize Kosovo's independence and sharply condemned plans for Ukraine to move closer to NATO. Solzhenitsyn, who is partially paralyzed by a stroke, but remains alert and very [...]	2008-04-04 06:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR RS
08MOSCOW937	RUSSIAN ECONOMIC PROGRESSIVES VS. CONSERVATIVES: [...] (C) The GOR's resolution of April 1 to authorize deposits of so-called "temporarily available budget funds" into commercial bank accounts is not being uniformly welcomed by policy makers. During an April 2 conference hosted by the Association of Russian Banks (ARB),representatives of Russia [...]	2008-04-04 11:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
08MOSCOW944	RUSSIA-JAPAN RELATIONS: WAITING FOR NEW [...] (C) Summary. With the GOJ's abortive efforts to stage a summit before the end of the Putin presidency behind it, both Moscow Japan handlers and the Japanese Embassy say that the GOJ is waiting for the new Russian president to take the reins before trying again. GOR officials and analysts be [...]	2008-04-04 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JA RS
08MOSCOW945	SIX COUNTRIES AND USG UNITE TO FIGHT CHILD [...] (SBU) Summary: From March 10 to March 14, 2008, delegates from Georgia, Russia, Armenia, Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan, accompanied by Department of Justice (DOJ) Resident Legal Advisors (RLA) and Embassy representatives met in Chisinau, Moldova, to participate in a DOJ sponsored regional c [...]	2008-04-07 06:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM SMIG KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL OPRC RS MD
08MOSCOW954	KERENSKY-ERA CLAIMS DEMARCHE DELIVERED MARCH 20 [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-08 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC ECON KGCN KIDE PREL RS
08MOSCOW955	DFM SALTANOV DISCUSSES IRAQ, MIDDLE EAST, WITH S/I [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with DFM Saltanov in Moscow April 2, Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq (S/I) Ambassador David Satterfield urged Russia to encourage Iraq's neighbors to play a greater role in helping to stabilize the country, noting that Iraq was important for [...]	2008-04-08 07:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR EPET ENRG IR IZ RS
08MOSCOW956	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ AND IRAN [...] (C) Summary: Present and former Russian officials welcomed the message from the Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, Ambassador Satterfield, that the U.S. encouraged increased Russian engagement in Iraq during a round of April 2-3 meetings, and pressed the U.S. to broaden [...]	2008-04-08 07:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ RS
08MOSCOW957	RUSSIAN EXPERTS SAY U.S. MUST REMAIN IN IRAQ AND [...] (C) Prominent Russian analysts told Senior Advisor to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq, Ambassador Satterfield, SIPDIS and Ambassador Burns, during an April 3 gathering, that preventing the fragmentation and radicalization of Iraq was a key Russian concern, and urged that direct, long- [...]	2008-04-08 07:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IZ RS
08MOSCOW962	RUSSIA'S REACTION TO SAAKASHVILI'S NEW ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary. The Russians have taken a dim view of Saakashvili's new Abkhazia proposal, dismissing it as a political maneuver designed to make Georgia look better in Bucharest. In their view, the rollout to the international community rather than to the Abkhaz speaks for itself about the in [...]	2008-04-08 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS
08MOSCOW963	KERENSKY-ERA CLAIMS DEMARCHE DELIVERED MARCH 20 [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-08 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC ECON KGCN KIDE PREL RS
08MOSCOW965	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) On April 8, we delivered reftel inquiries regarding the Estonian Prime Minister's idea to draft a three-way editorial on the importance of international cooperation to combat nuclear proliferation to Senior Counselor Vladimir Prokhorov, MFA Department on New Challenges and Threats. Pro [...]	2008-04-08 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR PINS PARM PREL ET RS
08MOSCOW970	GOR PROMOTES "INNOVATION ECONOMY" [...] (SBU) Summary: Russia continues to promote innovation as a means to harness its scientific expertise and diversify its economy beyond oil and gas exports. The Federation Council and Duma recently held hearings on stimulating innovation. The GOR also promoted innovation through sponsorship of [...]	2008-04-09 05:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL ECON EINT ETRD TNGD IR RS
08MOSCOW973	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel 1 requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end- user, Optolink Ltd., Zelenograd, Moscow Region, Russia. The co [...]	2008-04-09 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
08MOSCOW976	GAZPROM OFFICIAL SEES NO END SOON TO NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Gazprom's International Affairs Director Ivan Zolotov believes an agreement with Ukraine on 2009 gas prices is unlikely before December and complained about its refusal to agree to the long-term contract Gazprom seeks. He claimed Gazprom is flexible on all provisions, including the elimin [...]	2008-04-09 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
08MOSCOW988	GOR HOPEFUL FOR TRANSNISTRIA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) GOR Special Envoy for the Transnistria conflict Valeriy Nesterushkin told us April 10 that since the April 7 Voronin - Smirnov telephone conversation where the two agreed to meet, the atmosphere has taken a dramatically positive turn. He expected the April 14-16 meeting in Odessa would be [...]	2008-04-10 12:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS OSCE MD RS
08MOSCOW989	RAID ON OFFICES OF HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES LIKELY A [...] (C) Summary: A late-night raid on the offices housing well-known human rights figures, Karina Moskalenko and Lev Ponomarev, was likely an attempt to seize property in a desirable part of Moscow. The description of events fits an increasingly common phenomenon in Moscow of wealthy Russians hi [...]	2008-04-10 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
08MOSCOW990	YOUNG YABLOKO LEADER IVAN BOLSHAKOV DETAINED AND [...] (C) Summary: Ivan Bolshakov, leader of the Moscow branch of Young Yabloko, was detained by police on April 8 for four hours. He was questioned about his alleged assault on a policeman in May 2007, an incident he had been questioned on before without any criminal case filed against him. He wa [...]	2008-04-10 12:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW991	CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY MOSCOW CENTER LOSES ITS LEASE [...] (SBU) Summary: A representative from the Moscow branch of the Church of Scientology (COS) informed us that the lease for its center next to the Bauman State Technical University was not renewed and that the organization must vacate the premises by May 15. The COS representative said that the [...]	2008-04-10 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI RS
08MOSCOW997	RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC PROGRESSIVES VS. CONSERVATIVES, [...] (C) Disagreement between Trade Minister Nabuillina and Finance Ministry Kudrin over the right economic prescription - promote growth or control inflation - came into the open at an April 1 conference at the Higher School of Economics. Nabiullina dismissed Kudrin's concern about inflation, cal [...]	2008-04-11 11:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN RS
08MOSCOW999	DEMARCHES ON IRAQ'S NEIGHBORS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2008-04-11 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER EUN IZ IR RS
09MOSCOW1	DEPUTY SECURITY COUNCIL SECRETARY NAZAROV MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 15 meeting with CODEL Tauscher, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Vladimir Nazarov called the lack of trust the main obstacle for U.S. and Russian cooperation, followed by ineffective mechanisms to guarantee security. Nazarov claimed that U.S. assistance t [...]	2009-01-01 07:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR KNNP OREP RS
09MOSCOW1000	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: KLIOINVEST, INC., [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Klioinvest Inc., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2009-04-20 12:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1001	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: KLIOINVEST, INC., [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Klioinvest Inc., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2009-04-20 12:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1003	RUSSIA BLAMED FOR BLEAK SOUTH OSSETIA CIRCUMSTANCES [...] (C) Summary: In a recent spate of reports on the situation in South Ossetia, the Russian print and internet media painted a bleak picture of post-conflict living conditions and allowed discontent with Russia to shine through. The press noted the lack of aid and ineffectiveness of reconstruct [...]	2009-04-20 13:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF RS GG
09MOSCOW1004	GOR PROTESTS KUZNETSOV DETENTION BY GEORGIA [...] (SBU) The Russian MFA has sharply protested the detention of Nashi activist Aleksandr Kuznetsov by Georgian authorities on April 16, claiming the Georgian administration was "trying to accuse its external enemy, Russia, of everything" in claiming Kuznetsov had traveled to Georgia to plan prov [...]	2009-04-20 13:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW1005	GOR RATCHETS UP PRESSURE ON NORTH KOREA WITH A FM [...] (C) In the wake of North Korea's announced withdrawal from the Six Party Talks and the expulsion of inspectors in response to the UN Security Council's censure of its April 5 missile launch, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit Pyongyang April 23-24 with a stop over in Seoul aft [...]	2009-04-20 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS KS KN

09MOSCOW101	INCREASED HARVESTERS DUTIES WILL HURT JOHN DEERE [...] (C) Increased duties on imported harvesters and financing problems will cause foreign agricultural equipment sales in Russia to plummet in 2009, affecting major U.S. and EU producers such as John Deere. GOR suggestions that foreign producers could avoid the duty problems by setting up domesti [...]	2009-01-16 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR EINV ECON RS
09MOSCOW1016	RUSSIAN ANALYSTS ON IRAN, MISSILE DEFENSE, AND RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Analysts told visiting Senators Carl Levin and Bill Nelson that Russia did not consider Iran a threat, and warned the U.S. against isolating Tehran or countenancing a military option to halt the Iranian nuclear program, which would lead to instability in the Middle East. Russia [...]	2009-04-21 10:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OREP IR RS
09MOSCOW1020	RUSSIA CONDEMNS NATO-GEORGIA PFP EXERCISES [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev, Foreign Minster Lavrov, and Russian NATO PermRep Rogozin have sharply condemned the upcoming NATO-Georgia Partnership for Peace (PfP) exercise, charging it would be "dangerous" to conduct it in an area where "tensions were running high," and threatening conse [...]	2009-04-21 11:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO RS GG
09MOSCOW1021	CODEL LEVIN MEETS MARGELOV -- MD, Iran, Afghanistan, DPRK, [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 14 meeting with CODEL Levin, Russian Federation Council International Relations Committee Chair Mikhail Margelov said momentum on missile defense had been lost when the U.S. did not take up Russia on its offer on using the Gabala and Armavir radar stations, but state [...]	2009-04-21 11:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MASS KNNP OREP RS
09MOSCOW1034	KIRILL CRONIES BENEFIT FROM RUSSIAN ORTHODOX [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 31, Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Kirill presided over the first meeting of Church leaders since his enthronement, introducing significant personnel and structural changes to the ROC. Kirill appointed faithful supporter Bishop Ilarion as the new Chairman of [...]	2009-04-22 08:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1039	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: 1)INSYS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested post-shipment verifications to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-users, Insys Corporation, Moscow and Tores, Moscow, Russia. 3. I [...]	2009-04-22 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1047	CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES IRAN AND MISSILE DEFENSE WITH [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and is not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. In an April 14 roundtable at his foundation, former President Mikhail Gorbachev expressed to Codel Levin cautious optimism on improving bilateral relations and called attention [...]	2009-04-23 06:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MASS KNNP OREP RS
09MOSCOW105	GOR MOTIVATIONS IN THE GAS CRISIS LIKELY PRECLUDE EARLY RESOLUTION REF: MOSCOW 36 Classified By: CDA Eric S. Rubin for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-16 15:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UK
09MOSCOW1051	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S TRIP TO RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. Director Mueller: Your engagement with Russia's top law enforcement and security service heads provides an opportunity to help re-build US-Russian relations, following the positive trajectory set by Presidents Obama and Medvedev at their April 1 meeting in London. The Russian leadershi [...]	2009-04-23 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	FBI PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW1052	(SBU) GOR AGREES TO ACCEPT DELIVERY OF SEIZED HEU [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Moscow has taken the following actions: 2. (SBU) On April 21, U.S. Embassy Moscow FBI Legal Attache sent a letter to General A.F. Kuzyura, Chief of the FSB's International Relations Department, informing him of the planned delivery of the sample and proposing log [...]	2009-04-23 14:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC
09MOSCOW1053	MEDVEDEV MEETS ALIYEV: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary: During President Aliyev's April 17-18 visit to Moscow, Medvedev touted Russia's "mandate" in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict via presidential-level meetings, while Aliyev stuck to support for the Minsk Group process. Russia supported Aliyev's proposal for determining th [...]	2009-04-23 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS AJ AM
09MOSCOW106	GOOD MONEY ON METROPOLITAN KIRILL AS THE NEXT [...] (C) Summary. In a two-stage process beginning January 25 and concluding January 29, a new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) will be elected, with the winner determining whether the ROC remains on a conservative course or embarks on a liberal path. Contacts posit six leading co [...]	2009-01-16 15:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI
09MOSCOW1060	DEBTS AND LEADERSHIP WOES FORCE YABLOKO TO THINK [...] (C) Summary: Suffering from dwindling membership, fraying internal discipline, and onerous debt, the Yabloko liberal opposition party has failed to resurrect its national prospects since overhauling its leadership structures in June 2008. After failing to register in all nine October regional [...]	2009-04-24 07:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW1072	TEMPORARY RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON 3 MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that 3 more U.S. poultry facilities have been temporarily restricted from exporting to Russia due to concerns that products from these facilities were involved in an illegal [...]	2009-04-24 10:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1073	GOR EDUCATION PLANS MISS LONG-TERM MARK [...] (C) The GOR is responding to reports that 14 percent of 700,000 university graduates in 2009 will not find work by instituting a series of measures intended to reduce labor market stress. Current plans will increase access to publicly funded slots in universities, lower the cost of student lo [...]	2009-04-24 10:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1074	NONPAPER DELIVERED: JCIC-DIP-09-002: PROVISION IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KACT START US RS UP BO KZ
09MOSCOW1075	RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN CONCERNS ABOUT UNLICENSED [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-24 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETTC ETRD MASS RS
09MOSCOW1076	MFA ON NATO PFP EXERCISES IN GEORGIA, CHOD MEETING [...] (C) In an April 23 meeting, MFA General European Cooperation Director Vladimir Voronkov said the upcoming NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) Cooperative Longbow/Cooperative Lancer 2009 exercises were a "sensitive issue" for Russia. He pointed out that the U.S. and Georgia conducted military mane [...]	2009-04-24 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR RS NATO
09MOSCOW1077	RUSSIAN MFA ON UKRAINE, MOLDOVA [...] (C) Summary: In an April 24 meeting, MFA Second CIS Director Viktor Sorokin rejected Ukrainian President Yushchenko's call for a "reset" in relations as gimmickry, noting a continued negative trajectory. While Putin and Tymoshenko will discuss USD 5 billion in Russian credits during their A [...]	2009-04-24 13:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP MD
09MOSCOW1080	CHECHNYA COUNTERTERRORISM OPERATION ENDS: CHANGES [...] (C) Summary: Consensus across the spectrum of Chechnya observers is that the Kremlin's decision to end its counterterrorism operation in Chechnya has the potential to bolster the republic's economy, but will otherwise effect little change. The opening of the Groznyy airport to international tr [...]	2009-04-24 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON RS
09MOSCOW1082	RUSSIA UPBEAT ON INCIDENT PREVENTION MECHANISM; [...] (C) Russia gave upbeat assessments of the April 23 Incident Prevention Mechanism talks, while showing no flexibility on reaching a compromise over the OSCE mission in Georgia. Tatiana Mazanova from the 4th CIS Georgia Desk told us Russia was "very pleased" with the "successful" outcome of th [...]	2009-04-24 14:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE RS GG
09MOSCOW1087	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: GOLD GLOBE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Gold Globe Complete, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on [...]	2009-04-27 05:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1091	UNITED RUSSIA WINS SOCHI MAYORAL RACE AMID FRAUD [...] (C) Summary: Amid allegations of ballot-rigging and electoral fraud, United Russia's Anatoliy Pakhomov won Sochi's April 26 mayoral election with 77 percent of the "official vote." Opposition candidate Boris Nemtsov took 13.5 percent in the official count, and Communist Party (KPRF) candidate [...]	2009-04-27 12:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1098	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON LICENSE [...] (SBU) In an April 21 meeting, Andrew Kuznetsov confirmed to us that he ordered the reloading bullets listed on this license. He said that he would personally use all these reloading bullets to train for and participate in a varmint hunting tournament in July. Kuznetsov told us he regularly use [...]	2009-04-28 08:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC RS
09MOSCOW11	ARMENIA: STAKEHOLDERS IDENTIFY GAPS IN REFUGEE PROTECTION, [...] (U) Summary: A draft UNHCR Armenia conference report on November 2008 stakeholders' consultations identifies significant legal, economic, and social challenges to refugees' integration in the impoverished former Soviet republic. While it makes dozens of recommendations for strengthening prote [...]	2009-01-07 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PHUM PREL SMIG AM
09MOSCOW110	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NEXEL ENTERPRISES [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Nexel Enterprises Inc., doing business IN cooperation with Ul [...]	2009-01-20 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1107	RUSSIA'S ST PETERSBURG PORT OPENING NEW CLASS VII [...] (U) Summary. On April 20, EST officer and senior FSN visited the Class VII pier in Region 4 of the St. Petersburg port. Beginning May 1, all HEU - LEU contract shipments to the U.S. Enrichment Corporation (USEC) will commence from this location in Region 4. EST officer was assured by Isotope, [...]	2009-04-29 10:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM EWWT RS
09MOSCOW1108	WAITING AND WATCHING: NORTH KOREA AFTER CURRENCY [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: On December 15, EAP DAS David Shear and ConGen staff met with XXXXXXXXXXXX, a major player here in Chinese-North Korean economic exchanges. XXXXXXXXXXXX attributed the DPRK,s recent currency reform to several factors: controlling rampant inflation, preventing 'hot money' flows, [...]	2009-04-29 13:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RU UNSC KNNP KN
09MOSCOW111	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NEXEL ENTERPRISES [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Nexel Enterprises Inc., doing business with in cooperation wi [...]	2009-01-20 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1110	MFA ON OSCE AND UNOMIG MISSIONS, INCIDENT [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting, MFA Fourth CIS Director Kelin showed no signs of flexibility on the OSCE mandate renewal. He downplayed prospects that a UN mandate for Abkhazia could be extended to South Ossetia, but predicted Russia's proposal for the UN mandate would "surprise" the W [...]	2009-04-29 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG AZ
09MOSCOW1111	FM LAVROV DISCUSSES MISSILE DEFENSE AND IRAN WITH [...] (S) Summary. Foreign Minister Lavrov told visiting Codel Levin April 15 that arms control issues were Russia's top priority. Noting that Moscow was waiting for concrete proposals, including specific language, from the U.S. on a post-START treaty agreement, Lavrov said he recognized that the [...]	2009-04-29 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR KACT IR RS
09MOSCOW1112	RUSSIAN JOBLESS RATE CLIMBS AS ECONOMY CONTRACTS [...] (C) According to GOR statistics released this week, actual unemployment surged to 7.5 million workers, or approximately 10% of the workforce, in March 2009. 3.5 million Russians have lost their jobs since last August. Meanwhile, the number of workers on administrative leave and partly employe [...]	2009-04-29 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1113	MFA ON THE PEACE PROCESS, ISRAEL, IRAN AND SUDAN [...] (Summary): MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Director Sergey Vershinin told us on April 28 that the GOR envisioned the proposed May 11 UNSC ministerial on the Middle East as a general discussion of the situation in the region and a chance to reiterate the Security Council's support f [...]	2009-04-29 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UNSC IS IR SU RS
09MOSCOW1115	CODEL Levin with Duma Foreign Relations Chairman Kosachev [...] (SBU) On April 15, State Duma International Relations Chairman Kosachev told Senators Levin, Collins, and Nelson that President Medvedev had issued instructions to finalize a post-START agreement by the end of the year. Although he stated that negotiators must re-link arms control and defensi [...]	2009-04-30 06:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN RS
09MOSCOW1116	PATRUSHEV TELLS CODEL LEVIN RUSSIA WANTS CLOSER [...] (S) Summary: National Security Advisor Patrushev told visiting CODEL Levin on April 15 that Russia wanted closer intelligence cooperation on Iran, and said that the GOR would pass to the USG via intelligence channels a list of Western companies assisting Iran in its nuclear ambitions. Medvede [...]	2009-04-30 06:50:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV PARM PINR PINS MARR MCAP MASS MNUC
09MOSCOW1119	MEDVEDEV'S LIBERAL GESTURES AND PUTIN DYNAMICS [...] (C) Summary: A series of liberal political gestures by Medvedev have excited speculation about dynamics within the political tandem, with a couple of analysts going so far as to predict Putin's imminent demise. However, well-connected political observers argue against over-interpreting these [...]	2009-04-30 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR PREL RS
09MOSCOW112	2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR RUSSIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-20 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV OPIC KTDB USTR RS
09MOSCOW1120	RUSSIAN ENERGY CHARTER PROPOSAL: NO RESPONSE [...] (C) President Medvedev issued on April 21 a "Conceptual Approach to the New Legal Framework for Energy Cooperation," putting down on paper the GOR's ideas for, in effect, a new global Energy Charter Treaty, replacing the existing European Energy Charter Treaty (ECT),which Russia has signed, bu [...]	2009-04-30 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1122	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARTICIPATION IN THE ISLAMABAD [...] No summary [...]	2009-04-30 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR KPWR EAID BEXP PREL AF RS
09MOSCOW1123	THE KHODORKOVSKIY SHOW, UP CLOSE [...] (C) Summary: On April 28, we attended the Khodorkovskiy/Lebedev trial in Moscow's Khamovnikchesky Court, which began on March 31. Although on previous visits we had been restricted to a viewing room for journalists, on this occasion we gained entrance to the courtroom. The prisoners' approxi [...]	2009-04-30 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS RS
09MOSCOW1124	COMMUNISTS IN OREL EMPOWERED AMIDST TWIN [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Communist Party (KPRF) in Orel is gaining support at the expense of United Russia due to the overwhelming level of government corruption there, and the economic crisis in general. Locals [...]	2009-04-30 14:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR KCOR ECON RS
09MOSCOW1125	RUSSIAN MFA SAYS RASUL KUDAEV'S HEALTH IS [...] (SBU) On April 23 Post received the following response from the Russian MFA pursuant to our January 23, 2009 demarche concerning the treatment of former Guantanamo detainee Rasul Kudaev, currently in pre-trial detention in Nalchik, the capital of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria (reftels). [...]	2009-04-30 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER KJUS RS
09MOSCOW113	RUSSIAN MFA ON GAZA, LEBANON AND IRAQ [...] (C) Summary: In a January 16 meeting, MFA Middle East and North Africa Director Sergey Vershinin welcomed the U.S.-Israeli Anti-Smuggling MOU, which he thought would help produce the Egyptian brokered cease-fire, and urged early consultations by the Obama Administration on next steps. Vershini [...]	2009-01-20 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR LE IQ IR IS RS
09MOSCOW1136	RUSSIAN SME SECTOR: DESPERATELY SEEKING SOLUTIONS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) The economic crisis has hit Russian SMEs hard, resulting in significant setbacks to the sector's development. Access to credit, administrative barriers, corruption, and hig [...]	2009-05-04 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV RS
09MOSCOW1137	MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF FIRED, REFORM PROGRESSING [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-04 13:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINS PREL MCAP RS
09MOSCOW1138	30,000 DEMONSTRATORS DESCEND ON MOSCOW FOR MAY DAY [...] (SBU) This message is sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On May Day, some 33 opposition groups, trade unions, and pro-government groups, numbering an estimated 30,000 individuals, took to the streets of Moscow. Protests were generally labor-related an [...]	2009-05-04 14:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM ECON RS
09MOSCOW1139	MOSCOW ON ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER LIEBERMAN [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials look forward to working with Israeli Foreign Minister Lieberman, who they believe may be more pragmatic on the peace process than his typically harsh rhetoric suggests. They remain unsure, however, just how large a role he will have in formulating key policy decisio [...]	2009-05-05 04:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL OFDP IS RS
09MOSCOW1140	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ISTC-INTERNATIONAL [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftels requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, ISTC - International Science and Technology Center, Moscow, [...]	2009-05-05 05:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1143	MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF FIRED, REFORM PROGRESSING [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 24 Medvedev dismissed the 63-year old Chief of the GRU, General Valentin Korabelnikov. No official reason was given for the dismissal, but experts told us Korabelnikov's impending dismissal had been rumored for months. Korabelnikov was known to be a Soviet-style gener [...]	2009-05-05 07:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PREL MCAP RS
09MOSCOW1144	MILITARY INTELLIGENCE CHIEF FIRED, REFORM PROGRESSING [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 24 Medvedev dismissed the 63-year old Chief of the GRU, General Valentin Korabelnikov. No official reason was given for the dismissal, but experts told us Korabelnikov's impending dismissal had been rumored for months. Korabelnikov was known to be a Soviet-style gener [...]	2009-05-05 07:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINS PREL MCAP RS
09MOSCOW1145	RUSSIAN MFA SAYS GEORGIAN COUP ATTEMPT A SURPRISE [...] (C) In a 1300 May 5 conversation with the Ambassador, Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin expressed "surprise" at reports of a coup attempt in Georgia, reiterating that the event was unexpected. Karasin dismissed Georgian MinInt Merabishvili's accusations of Russian special services involvement [...]	2009-05-05 09:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RU GG
09MOSCOW1146	RUSSIA AND BULGARIA INITIAL SOUTH STREAM [...] (SBU) Gazprom and Bulgarian Energy Holding initialed an agreement on South Stream during the April 29 visit of PM Stanishev to Moscow, but the two sides are reportedly still working on the details of the agreement. PMs Stanishev and Putin publicly hinted at some of the tensions over South Str [...]	2009-05-05 10:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS BU
09MOSCOW1147	U.S. PROPOSAL FOR THE ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-05 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KACT START US RS UP BO KZ
09MOSCOW1148	RUSSIA-UKRAINE: "COMPLICATED" ENERGY TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In a May 4 meeting, MFA Second CIS Director Viktor Sorokin repeatedly described Tymoshenko's April 29 energy talks with Putin as "complicated." In one-on-one, small group, and the plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee on Economic Cooperation, it was decided that Ga [...]	2009-05-05 13:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EFIN RS UP
09MOSCOW1149	RUSSIA SURPRISED BY URGENT MEETING OF CONTACT [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A demarche on May 5 to MFA Department of New Threats and Challenges Attache Azamat Nurgushiyev, who expressed the MFA's surprise at the U.S. proposal to hold a Contact Group meeting on May 29 in New York. The GOR had expected the meeting to be held in July, following th [...]	2009-05-05 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MARR RS
09MOSCOW1150	RUSSIA BLOCKS IMPORTS OF U.S. MEAT AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that several U.S. states have been restricted from exporting meat and poultry to Russia resulting from human cases of influenza A H1N1. California, New York, Texas and Sout [...]	2009-05-05 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1153	RUSSIA DENIES INVOLVEMENT IN FAILED GEORGIAN COUP [...] (C) Summary. The MFA, MOD, and Duma members all rejected Georgia's claims of Russian special service involvement in the failed Georgian coup attempt May 5, saying the accusations were meant to distract from internal instability that was the true cause of the uprising. The MFA stated Moscow [...]	2009-05-06 03:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW1156	RUSSIA: THE SITUATION IN KALMYKIA IS ANYTHING BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The predominantly Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia in Russia's Southern Federal District, headed by a chess-obsessed autocrat, has not been spared the corruption endemic to the rest of the country or the ethnic strife found in the nearby North Caucasus republics. Both the mayor o [...]	2009-05-06 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KIRF PINR RS
09MOSCOW1161	RUSSIA EASES RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. MEAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that restrictions placed on all pork and pork products from 10 U.S. states, using influenza A H1N1 as justification, have been lifted effective immediately (REF A). As of to [...]	2009-05-06 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1164	MEDVEDEV-SARGSIAN: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ECONOMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a press conference after his April 23 meeting with Armenian President Sargsian, President Medvedev stressed the November 2 Moscow Declaration he personally had brokered as the basis for progress on Nagorno-Karabakh, while the MFA stated its hope the Turkey-Armenia rapprochemen [...]	2009-05-06 13:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS AM AZ
09MOSCOW1174	TUVA: LONELY REPUBLIC SEEKS STABLE RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the remote Siberian republic of Tuva revealed overwhelming support for the ruling United Russia party, but social and economic isolation from the rest of the country. The capital of Tuva trumpeted no major businesses and relied on government allocations, small [...]	2009-05-07 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1177	MORE JOURNALISTS BEATEN AS FREEDOM HOUSE PANS [...] (C) Summary: On May 3, the U.S.-based NGO Freedom House released its report on freedom of speech worldwide in 2008, ranking Russia 174th out of 195 countries and designating Russia's media environment as "Not Free." The report pointed to government pressure on journalists, a large proportion o [...]	2009-05-08 11:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1181	RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN EXPANDING HEALTH POLICY [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a welcome development, Russian health officials are expressing much more interest in cooperating with the United States on a wide range of health issues, including infectious and chronic disease control and preventi [...]	2009-05-08 12:16:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO PREL EAID SOCI KHIV TSPL KCRM PTER KFLU
09MOSCOW1182	RUSSIAN BANKING SECTOR'S SECOND CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. Russia's banking sector is preparing for a second wave of the financial crisis. Banks have been setting aside a higher-than-required share of in-house resources as provisions against an anticipated rise in non-peforming loans (NPLs). Some observers, including Sberbank President [...]	2009-05-08 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
09MOSCOW1184	CFE: A WAY FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. Although Russian Foreign Ministry officials would like to overcome the impasse over the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE),other Russian interagency voices argue for its annulment. As noted in the non-paper provided to A/S Gottemoeller April 24, the MFA is prepared to c [...]	2009-05-08 13:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCFE PGOV MARR RS
09MOSCOW1185	NEW KHAKASSIA GOVERNOR PUSHES ECONOMIC REFORM, [...] (SBU) Summary. A recent trip to the small southern Siberian republic of Khakassia revealed strong local government clearly support for the United Russia party, despite difficult economic challenges in the near future. Newly-appointed Governor Zimin has established his reputation as a Medvede [...]	2009-05-08 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1186	RUSSIA'S COMMENTS ON IAEA DIRECTOR GENERAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-08 15:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP AORC IAEA PREL RS
09MOSCOW1187	RUSSIA MAINTAINS RESTRICTIONS ON U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that restrictions placed on meat and poultry products from 8 U.S. states are in place. As of today, California, New York, Texas, South Carolina, Delaware and (most recently [...]	2009-05-12 03:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1192	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RADIOCOMP, MOSCOW, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Radiocomp, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licen [...]	2009-05-12 05:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1193	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: DELTA COMPONENT AND FSUE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-users, Delta Component and FSUE RNII KP, Moscow, Russia. The company is list [...]	2009-05-12 06:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1199	Russian Experts Give Congressman Rogers a Snapshot of [...] (SBU) On April 10, Russian scholars told Congressman Rogers that there was little popular opposition to the GOR and that any challenges to the government would come from elites, rather than the general populace. However, the leadership could use the threat of popular dissent to scare factions [...]	2009-05-13 04:49:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW12	RUSSIA AND POLAND HOLD MISSILE DEFENSE TALKS [...] (C) On December 19 a Russian delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Lieutenant-General Yevgeniy Buzhinskiy hosted a Polish delegation led by Deputy Foreign Minister (and former Ambassador to the United States) Przemyslaw Grudzinski to discuss Polish missile defense (MD) t [...]	2009-01-08 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MARR MASS MCAP RS PL
09MOSCOW1205	HEAT TURNED UP AGAINST JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent written appeals by Russian Federation Human Rights Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin to General Prosecutor Yuriy Chayka, Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia are facing enhanced scrutiny as local police pursue charges of "extremism" directed at JW religious literature. JW Amcit [...]	2009-05-13 11:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1206	MEAT AND POULTRY RESTRICTIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letters that restrictions placed on meat and poultry products from 11 U.S. states are currently in place. As of today, California, New York, Texas, Illinois, and Wisconsin are res [...]	2009-05-13 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW121	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ECOSOC COMMITTEE ON NGOS: [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-21 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM SOCI UNAUS NGO RU
09MOSCOW1223	RUSSIA - "TO THE BARRIER" NO MORE [...] (SBU) Summary. The decision in late April to pull Vladimir Solovyev's program, "To the Barrier," from the airwaves stirred controversy among Moscow's commentariat, reflecting the often conflicted attitude toward the host and his contradictory role as both regime advocate and critic. The reaso [...]	2009-05-14 13:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW1224	PUTIN'S ASIAN MEDIA LEITMOTIF: I'M IN CHARGE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Putin's interview with Japanese media and his briefer exchanges with reporters while in Japan and Mongolia have given pundits a wealth of information to analyze for signs of splits within the ruling "tandemocracy," as well as for indications of Putin's predilections [...]	2009-05-14 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PHUM ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW1225	RUSSIA'S HARDENING VIEWS ON SPHERE OF INFLUENCE [...] (C) As the Kremlin's new national security strategy (septel) reasserts the priority of strengthening Russian influence in the CIS, well-connected Russian analysts and government-supported institutniki increasingly call for "positive neutrality" or the "Finlandization" of Russia's neighbors. [...]	2009-05-14 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR ECON NATO OSCE RS
09MOSCOW1226	RUSSIAN PUBLIC TUNES OUT KHODORKOVSKIY [...] (C) Summary: The Khodorkovskiy/Lebedev trial resumed on May 12 after a two-week hiatus. A Levada Center poll released on the same day showed that only a third of the Russians polled were aware that the trial was taking place. Of those paying attention, most believed that the GOR will pressure [...]	2009-05-14 14:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1238	RUSSIA: UPDATES ON COLLECTION, SCREENING, AND [...] (C) Post responses are keyed to reftel questions. Please note that the working relationship between the USG and the Russian Federation is difficult and there is little information sharing outside of specific cases. Much of the information that follows is anecdotal, based on the Embassy's ex [...]	2009-05-15 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV CVIS ASEC KHLS RS
09MOSCOW1240	MFA ON POSSIBILITY OF REGIME CHANGE IN GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. MFA Georgia section head Dmitriy Shtodin told us that the GOR would use the prospect of renewed diplomatic relations as a means of encouraging the Georgian people to replace Georgian President Saakashvili, but denied that Russia supported the Georgian opposition's protests or th [...]	2009-05-18 07:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS GG
09MOSCOW1249	KADYROV FEELING THE PRESSURE AFTER TERRORIST [...] (C) Summary: Less than one month after Moscow lifted the counter-terrorism regime in Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov is beginning to show even less patience with opposing views. He has declared an end to the amnesty procedure by which former fighters came down from the mountains and out of the fore [...]	2009-05-18 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM PINR PREF RS
09MOSCOW1250	GAY RIGHTS ISSUE RAINS ON EUROVISION PARADE [...] (C) Summary: On May 16, police arrested more than 50 gay rights activists (80, by some accounts) at Sparrow Hills Park, where they were attempting to gather for an unsanctioned protest march. Organizer Nikolay Alekseyev announced that the march would take place downtown near Pushkin Square, d [...]	2009-05-18 16:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1259	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATIONS A & B: FSUE FEA [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the foreign purchaser, FSUE FEA Radioexport, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]	2009-05-19 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1260	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AMOTEC TECHNOLOGY, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the foreign purchaser, Amotec Technology, Moscow, Russia. The company is li [...]	2009-05-19 07:38:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1268	RUSSIAN MFA ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Transnistria Conflict Negotiator Nesterushkin told us May 18 that DFM Karasin was planning to visit Chisinau and Tiraspol May 26-27 to pressure Smirnov to revoke the travel ban on Ambassador Chaudhry and EU negotiator Miszei, in order to make possible the next "3 plu [...]	2009-05-19 12:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS FI MD
09MOSCOW1271	AGENDA FOR PROPOSED MANPADS EXPERTS MEETING PASSED [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-19 15:15:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PERM PREL PETR RS
09MOSCOW1273	ITALIAN-RUSSIAN RELATIONS (C-RE8-02675) [...] (S/NF) Economic ties, especially long-term gas contracts, are a pillar of Russia-Italy relations and affect Italy's policies toward Russia. Italian gas company ENI and Russian Gazprom have supply commitments in place until 2035, as well as a joint-construction agreement for the South Stream pipelin [...]	2009-05-20 05:30:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ENRG EPET IT RS
09MOSCOW1276	RUSSIAN EXPERTS OFFER VIEWS ON NORTH KOREA [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and is not intended for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. Russian experts on the DPRK see Pyongyang's April 5 missile test and subsequent announcement of withdrawal from the Six-Party Talks as a ploy to obtain further concessions from [...]	2009-05-20 11:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KN RS
09MOSCOW1280	RUSSIAN VIEWS ON AN INTERNATIONAL PIRACY TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary: Russia favors some form of an international tribunal as the best means to ensure that suspected pirates are tried by uniform legal standards and to allow for thorough investigations to help build evidence against the criminal bosses directing piracy operations. Among the options [...]	2009-05-20 12:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR EWWT KCRM PBTS PHSA RS
09MOSCOW1281	RUSSIAN MFA REQUESTS COOPERATION ON BERING STRAIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Head of Bilateral Relations at the MFA U.S. Desk on April 17 raised several Bering Strait issues, primarily extending the existing visa-free travel regime to all permanent residents of Chukotka and Alaska, agreeing to create a joint protected territory, and reviving the Berin [...]	2009-05-20 13:19:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV CVIS ECON EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL KTIA XQ RS
09MOSCOW1282	DELIVERY OF MD, JDEC VISIT DOCUMENTS: MFA PROMISES [...] (C) Ambassador delivered draft documents (reftel) and Russian language translations May 19 to Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov. (DCM had earlier also passed copies to MFA North Americas Department Director Neverov, and a copy was also delivered to MOD General Lieutenant Buzhinskiy.) Ryabkov th [...]	2009-05-20 13:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON RS
09MOSCOW1283	GAZPROM SIGNS SLEW OF DEALS ON SOUTH STREAM; [...] (C) On May 15, Gazprom signed separate agreements on South Stream with Italy's ENI, Bulgarian Energy Holding, Greece's DESFA, and Serbia's Srbijagas. The most significant of the agreements was an "addendum" to an existing MOU between Gazprom and ENI, calling for capacity expansion from 31 bil [...]	2009-05-20 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW13	A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...]	2009-01-08 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG
09MOSCOW132	TURNING RUSSIA INTO A MORE HELPFUL SIX PARTY [...] (C) Summary: Russian Six Party negotiator Grigoriy Logvinov is pressing for closer coordination with the new Administration. Early consultations, in Washington or Moscow (on the margins of the February 19-20 NEAPSM Working Group meeting),could potentially turn the GOR into a more helpful [...]	2009-01-21 15:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KN KS CH RS
09MOSCOW1331	START FOLLOW-ON DISCUSSIONS, OPENING SESSION, [...] (S) SUMMARY: During the first meeting between the United States and Russian Delegations to conclude a START Follow-on Treaty, the Russian Delegation reiterated that Russia's approach was provided to the United States in its Aide Memoire, dated December 15, 2008. The Russian Delegation also m [...]	2009-05-22 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL KACT MARR RS
09MOSCOW1332	NORWEGIAN PM STOLTENBERG'S MEETINGS WITH MEDVEDEV [...] (C) On May 19, Norwegian PM Stoltenberg met separately with Putin and Medvedev for "friendly talks." The discussions focused on cooperation on the Far North and energy, but were not detailed. To the Norwegian delegation's surprise, neither Putin nor Medvedev raised contentious issues like N [...]	2009-05-22 12:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG EINV NO RS
09MOSCOW1333	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-05-22 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL UNSC BM RS
09MOSCOW1336	RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UN CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff delivered reftel demarche on May 21 to Alexander Pankin, Deputy Director, Multilateral Organizations Department, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pankin noted that a number of countries, including Russia, had difficulties with the text presented by General Assembly [...]	2009-05-22 13:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN UNGA
09MOSCOW1337	START FOLLOW-ON DISCUSSIONS, SECOND SESSION, [...] (S) Summary. U.S. and Russian delegations continued and concluded the first round of START Follow-On Negotiations on May 20. On missile defense, Russia believed a statement that would recognize a link between offensive and defensive forces should be included, possibly within the preamble of [...]	2009-05-22 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL KACT MARR RS

09MOSCOW1340	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: INFINET WIRELESS [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, InfiNet Wireless Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2009-05-26 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1341	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: OPTICAL ELECTRONIC [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Optical Electronic Technologies, Moscow, Russia. The company [...]	2009-05-26 07:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1345	A RUSSIAN MARSHALL PLAN FOR AFGHANISTAN? [...] (SBU) Summary: A recent conference on Russian-Afghan relations organized by a Russian NGO provided Moscow an opportunity to demonstrate its concern over the situation in Afghanistan without committing to provide additional assistance to the country. The event brought together Russian official [...]	2009-05-26 11:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EAID SNAR AF RS
09MOSCOW1346	RUSSIA AND THE ARCTIC: POLICY AND COMPETING VOICES [...] (C) In March, Medvedev approved Russia's long-delayed Arctic policy. It defined the region as Russia's strategic energy reserve, called for its promotion as a transportation corridor, and sought to balance cooperation with the country's security needs. The policy itself reflects competing [...]	2009-05-26 11:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG SENV RS
09MOSCOW1347	CORRECTED COPY: START FOLLOW-ON DISCUSSIONS, [...] (S) Summary. U.S. and Russian delegations continued and concluded the first round of START Follow-On Negotiations on May 20. On missile defense, Russia believed a statement that would recognize a link between offensive and defensive forces should be included, possibly within the preamble of t [...]	2009-05-26 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL KACT MARR RS
09MOSCOW1348	MFA CONTEMPLATES RETURN TO CFE [...] (C) Summary: MFA DVBR Counselor Federyakov told us May 21 that recent press reports that Russian intended to propose a "revised version" of the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty were referring to the proposals in the aide memoire passed to A/S Gottemoeller on April 24, not a new Russi [...]	2009-05-26 12:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV MARR RS
09MOSCOW1349	RUSSIA: BURY HITLER, NOT STALIN [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 19, the Kremlin announced that it had formed a "Commission to Oppose Historical Falsification," to address any attempts to "cast doubt on our people's victory in World War II." This decision followed a May 7 proposal in the State Duma to introduce amendments criminalizin [...]	2009-05-26 12:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1350	UNITED RUSSIA: SPRING TRAINING FOR FALL ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In the past week President Medvedev has stepped forward to chastise United Russia, Prime Minister Putin's political creation and vehicle for his political interests, for its reluctance to engage political opponents in public debate. This salvo at United Russia has triggered predic [...]	2009-05-26 13:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON RS
09MOSCOW1354	GOR MAKES STRONG STATEMENTS ON NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of North Korea's nuclear and short-range missile tests, the Russian government has issued strong statements condemning the actions and declaring Pyongyang to be in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1718. While supporting the need for a new UNSC resolution [...]	2009-05-26 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV UNSC KNNP KN RS
09MOSCOW1355	MFA ON RUSSIAN TROOPS IN ABKHAZIA, SOUTH OSSETIA; [...] (C) Summary. In a May 26 meeting, MFA IVth CIS Ambassador-at-large Dmitriy Tarabrin and Deputy Alexey Dvinyanin denied any Russian interference in Georgia's internal situation, and rejected reports of recent troop increases due to the ongoing demonstrations in Georgia. MFA I/O Head of Divis [...]	2009-05-26 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN RS GG
09MOSCOW136	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: TON LTD, MOSCOW, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a Post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Ton Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licens [...]	2009-01-22 07:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1361	RUSSIA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF THE [...] (SBU) In response to ref A request, GOR support for democracy and human rights in Cuba has been minimal. Cuban President Raul Castro visited Moscow in January 2009. The visit produced no major political agreements and only modest strengthening of the limited economic ties between the countrie [...]	2009-05-27 12:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD ECON PREL CU RS
09MOSCOW1362	READING THE TEA LEAVES ON MEDVEDEV'S [...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev's May 16 proposal to change the way the head, deputy head and secretary of Russia's Constitutional Court are selected passed all three readings by the State Duma on May 20 and 22, received the approval of the Federation Council on May 27, and now appears hea [...]	2009-05-27 13:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR KJUS RS
09MOSCOW1363	RUSSIAN MFA ON OSCE IN GEORGIA AND GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) Summary. MFA IVth CIS Ambassador-at-large Dmitriy Tarabrin and Deputy Alexey Dvinyanin in a May 26 meeting reiterated that a continued OSCE presence in Georgia was contingent on approval of Russia's OSCE proposal for separate monitoring missions in South Ossetia and Georgia proper. Dviny [...]	2009-05-27 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE RS GG
09MOSCOW1364	DEMARCHE FOR RUSSIAN CO-CHAIR OF GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 27, EST Off delivered reftel demarche on strengthening the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) to Russia's MFA Department of Security and Disarmament Affairs First Secretary Olga Kuznetsova. Kuznetsova said she was aware of some of the proposed enhance [...]	2009-05-27 15:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KGIC PARM PREL PTER RS
09MOSCOW1373	IZHORA STEEL WORKS NEEDS INVESTMENT TO REALIZE RUSSIA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: The Izhora Steel Works currently is Russia's only producer of nuclear power plant equipment sets for Russia's 1000 megawatt pressurized light water reactors (VVER). Although Izhora claims it can meet current plans for domestic and international nuclear construction, it needs a [...]	2009-05-28 09:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL ENRG PGOV SENV RS
09MOSCOW1386	MEDVEDEV AND THE "GOLDEN MEAN" [...] (C) In a May 25 speech on budget priorities, the first-ever to the Cabinet, President Medvedev acknowledged that the economic downturn was far from over. Medvedev also appeared to side with economic conservatives, who favor sharp reductions in government spending, in the televised May 25 spe [...]	2009-05-28 12:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD RS
09MOSCOW1388	WITH BP'S ACQUIESCENCE, RUSSIAN PARTNER TAKES OVER [...] (C) TNK-BP announced on May 27 that its board had appointed Mikhail Fridman, the senior partner in the AAR consortium that owns 50 percent of TNK-BP, as the company's new interim CEO. The company also announced the board had appointed Russian executives Pavel Skitovich and Maxim Barsky to sen [...]	2009-05-28 14:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1389	MOSCOW RULES CONSTRAIN NIKITA BELYKH'S "LIBERAL [...] (C) Summary: Our May 20-21 visit to Kirov, one week after President Medvedev's own visit, revealed tight Moscow limits on the ambitions of Governor Nikita Belykh, a former opposition leader who assumed office in January 2009. Unable to implement political or mass media reforms, Belykh has tur [...]	2009-05-28 17:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1397	RUSSIA AND POLAND SEEK TO INTENSIFY RELATIONS [...] (C) The Russian MFA called Polish FM Sikorski's May 5-6 visit to Moscow a success for "intensifying relations." The MFA and Polish diplomats tell us that they have expanded track two mechanisms in an effort to keep contentious issues from derailing high-level talks. The GOR expressed its pr [...]	2009-05-29 11:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PL RS
09MOSCOW1401	MEDVEDEV CAPITALIZES ON MOSCOW POLICE FORCE [...] (SBU) Summary: An April 27 police shooting spree that was captured on video and placed on the internet rocked Moscow and gave President Medvedev an opportunity to burnish his anti-corruption credentials. In sacking Moscow police chief Vladimir Pronin and four other high-level police officia [...]	2009-05-29 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW1402	DPRK: GOR LOOKING FOR SANCTIONS BALANCED WITH [...] (SBU) Russian MFA Spokesperson Andrey Nesterenko's May 28 statement that "we do not need a language of sanctions" has received wide coverage and called into question Moscow's support for sending North Korea a strong message through a new UNSC resolution. The statement, however, should be vi [...]	2009-05-29 12:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KN RS
09MOSCOW1403	Russia following South Ossetia elections [...] (SBU) Summary: The Russian press has been closely following the South Ossetian election campaign over the past several months. Reports cover the election mechanics and Russian assistance, which includes polling stations on Russian soil, election observers, and "methodological" aid. Pressure b [...]	2009-05-29 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GG RS
09MOSCOW1404	CONTROVERSIAL GENERAL NAMED HEAD OF RUSSIAN AIRBORNE [...] (SBU) Summary: Strongly criticized for war crimes committed in Chechnya by troops under his command, Lt. General Vladimir Shamanov's appointment to command Russian airborne troops is considered by some experts to be a message from the Russian leadership in support of not only military reform bu [...]	2009-05-29 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR MCAP PREL PINS RS
09MOSCOW1423	GLONASS DEPLOYMENT HAS FULL RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SUPPORT [...] (SBU) At the third International Satellite Navigation Forum in Moscow from May 12-13, Russian officials took pains to demonstrate high-level government support for the previously behind-schedule Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS). They assured the thousand plus government a [...]	2009-06-01 10:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA TSPL PREL ECON KPAO ECIN TNGD PGOV RS
09MOSCOW1424	LATEST RUSSIA-EU SUMMIT, LIKE ITS IMMEDIATE [...] (C) The May 21-22 Russia-EU Summit, held in Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East (RFE),resulted in no breakthroughs on major energy, political and trade issues. Press reports focused on continuing "tensions" over energy, a topic dominated by Russia's push for the EU to finance Ukraine's gas ne [...]	2009-06-01 11:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS EU
09MOSCOW1431	DPRK: GOR SUPPORTS STRONG SANCTIONS RESOLUTION [...] (C) Ambassador Beyrle on May 30 discussed with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Borodavkin in detail the ref points regarding a UNSC resolution on North Korea. Borodavkin agreed fully that, given Pyongyang's capacity for dangerous actions, the Security Council needed to send a strong [...]	2009-06-01 12:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KN RS
09MOSCOW1436	THE MAN WHO WRITES PUTIN'S FOREIGN POLICY BRIEFING [...] (C) Summary: Putin has assembled for himself a small foreign policy team after moving from the Kremlin to the Russian White House, according to Yuri Kholkhov, a former MFA official who now prepares briefing papers for the Prime Minister. Russian prime ministers did not previously have a fore [...]	2009-06-02 06:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL RS
09MOSCOW1439	IPR: RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT PARTICIPATION IN A NORTHEAST [...] Summary. A delegation of Russian law enforcement officials participated in the 5th annual USPTO Northeast Baltic Regional Conference on Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights in the Digital Environment held in Helsinki, Finland on April 28-29, 2009. Their participation signals [...]	2009-06-02 12:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD KIPR ECON RS
09MOSCOW1440	FSVTS ON ARMS TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary. In a recent meeting with Washington analysts, Aleksandr Y. Skobeltsyn, Chief 2nd Department for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS),reiterated FSVTS's role in Russia's arms export policy (reftel),stressing that his office focused on reviewing proposed arms sales to foreign c [...]	2009-06-02 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR RS IR
09MOSCOW1447	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RADIS LTD., [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Radis Ltd., Zelenograd, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed [...]	2009-06-03 06:16:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1449	RUSSIA'S ROSATOM AND ENVIRONMENTAL/NUCLEAR WATCHDOG GROUPS [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Forum-Dialogue on "Nuclear Power, Society and Safety" held April 21 and 22 hosted by Rosatom State Corporation in Saint Petersburg featured Rosatom Director General Kiriyenko's affirmation the current Federal Targeted Plan (FTP) will continue as planned, but [...]	2009-06-03 08:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL MNUC ENRG KRAD SENV PGOV KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1450	COOPERATION ON RUSSIAN ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS: [...] (C) Despite the economic crisis, in recent months President Medvedev has kept up a steady flow of initiatives to combat corruption, his signature issue in the presidential campaign last year. Medvedev has largely focused these initiatives on corruption by officials, including declarations of [...]	2009-06-03 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL RS
09MOSCOW1451	WEATHERFORD TO BUY TNK-BP SERVICES UNIT FOR $450 [...] (C) American (but Swiss-registered) oil field services company Weatherford agreed on May 29 to buy TNK-BP's oil field services (OFS) enterprises in a deal worth approximately $450 million. It is one of the largest foreign investments in Russia in recent years and certainly the largest since R [...]	2009-06-03 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1452	PUTIN WARNS EU OF "PROBLEM" IF UKRAINE UNABLE TO [...] (C/NF) In a May 29 entry on his website, PM Putin warned the EU "of a potential problem," should Ukraine fail to meet its June 7 payment deadline for May gas deliveries. Without offering specific outcomes, the PM expressed concern about Ukraine's ability to pay and explained why various option [...]	2009-06-03 09:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1456	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 13:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA RS
09MOSCOW1457	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-03 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KPAL PGOV PREL WBG EU IS RS
09MOSCOW1459	FSVTS ON ARMS TRANSFERS [...] (C) Summary. In a recent meeting with Washington analysts, Aleksandr Y. Skobeltsyn, Chief 2nd Department for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS),reiterated FSVTS's role in Russia's arms export policy (reftel),stressing that his office focused on reviewing proposed arms sales to foreign c [...]	2009-06-03 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS MARR RS IR
09MOSCOW1461	RUSSIAN MFA ON ASSISTANCE TO STRENGTHEN [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-04 05:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP KCRM MNUC ASEC PARM PINR
09MOSCOW1462	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Due to a lack of funding, we were not able to travel to Surgut, Russia to conduct a site visit of Surgutneftegas's business operations and on-site security. A company representative, however, flew to Moscow to meet us and provided us with corporate reports. He also described t [...]	2009-06-04 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC RS
09MOSCOW1464	U.S. RESPONSE TO RUSSIAN AIDE MEMOIRE ON B-1 HEAVY [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-04 11:47:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START US RS UP BO KZ
09MOSCOW1469	CSTO RAPID REACTION FORCE BECOMING A REALITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) will gather in Moscow on June 14 to create a Moscow-based CSTO rapid reaction force (KSOR). MFA officials and experts agree that Russia's principal motivation for creating KSOR is to counter a possible northern influx [...]	2009-06-04 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PINS PINR MCAP MARR RS
09MOSCOW1470	RUSSIA AND BELARUS: A CLOSE BUT DYSFUNCTIONAL [...] (C) PM Putin's May 29 visit to Minsk began a sharp exchange on Belarus's financial situation, with the Russian Finance Minister predicting the collapse of the Belarusian economy by the end of the year. According to analysts this latest spat was reflective of a "close but dysfunctional" relat [...]	2009-06-04 13:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BO RS
09MOSCOW1473	RUSSIAN MFA WELCOMES NON-PAPER ON SATELLITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a June 2 meeting, MFA Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament (DVBR) Expert on Military Space and ABM Systems Klapovskiy and Third Secretary Grebenshchikov were pleased by the cooperative tone of ref A non-paper and points and will inform the Embassy if the Russian [...]	2009-06-05 03:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CDG MCAP NASA PARM PREL TSPA UNPUOS UNGA RS
09MOSCOW1474	RUSSIAN MFA WELCOMES NON-PAPER ON SATELLITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a June 2 meeting, MFA Department for Security Affairs and Disarmament (DVBR) Expert on Military Space and ABM Systems Klapovskiy and Third Secretary Grebenshchikov were pleased by the cooperative tone of ref A non-paper and points and will inform the Embassy if the Russian [...]	2009-06-05 03:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP NASA PARM PREL TSPA UNGA RS
09MOSCOW1475	RUSSIA EAGER TO CONCLUDE AGREEMENT ON LETHAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-05 06:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AF RS
09MOSCOW1478	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWING THE SUDAN SPECIAL [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on June 5 to MFA Department for Human Rights section chief Andrey Lancjikov, who said that Russia's position on extending the mandate of the Special Rapporteur for Sudan was "still under consideration." He explained that on June 4, the MFA had discussed this [...]	2009-06-05 08:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM PREL RS
09MOSCOW1479	CLINTON-KOUCHNER LETTER AND UNOMIG DEMARCHE [...] (C) Summary: On June 4, Ambassador delivered Ref B talking points on UNOMIG to DFM Karasin, while post delivered ref A and B demarche and letter to MFA Fourth CIS Director Kelin the same day, jointly with French Embassy DCM Philippe Lefort. Karasin said Russia would engage and negotiate on [...]	2009-06-05 08:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW148	RUSSIA TO SANCTION ARMS TRANSFERS TO GEORGIA? [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev signed a decree January 19 prohibiting the supply of military and dual-use items to Georgia, and threatening economic sanctions and the termination of military-economic and military-technical cooperation for foreign countries and entities engaged in such arms [...]	2009-01-22 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS GG RS
09MOSCOW1487	RUSSIA EAGER TO CONCLUDE AGREEMENT ON LETHAL [...] (C) Summary: Russian officials expressed genuine interest in overcoming obstacles to conclude an agreement with the U.S. on lethal transit to Afghanistan during May 27 talks, and passed a draft agreement to the U.S. delegation. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said that there might be [...]	2009-06-05 12:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR AF RS
09MOSCOW1488	ISRAELI FM LIEBERMAN IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Israeli FM Lieberman's June 2-3 visit to Russia appears not to have broken new ground diplomatically, but cemented Moscow's impression that the Russian-speaking Lieberman is one of their own. The trip included meetings with Medvedev and Putin, as well as a lengthy discussion with [...]	2009-06-05 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR IS SY GG RS
09MOSCOW149	RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-22 15:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN RS
09MOSCOW1490	ALEKSANDR EBRALIDZE--RUSSIA'S CHOICE FOR PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. While press reports describe St. Petersburg businessman Aleksandr Ebralidze as "the Kremlin's favorite" to become the next President in Georgia, South Caucasus watchers had not heard of Ebralidze before he announced his aspirations at a Georgian diaspora conference in Sochi in M [...]	2009-06-05 13:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW1491	MISSILE DEFENSE, JDEC, NON-PROLIFERATION [...] (S) Summary. During interagency delegation discussions in Moscow May 28 on prospects for developing joint cooperation on ballistic missile defense (MD),outstanding issues regarding establishment of the Joint Data Exchange Center (JDEC),and non-proliferation deliverables for the July summit, [...]	2009-06-05 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL MARR PARM RS
09MOSCOW1492	RUSSIA AGREES WITH U.S. POSITIONS ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One of Russia's two representatives to the International Whaling Commission (IWC) told Post that Russia fully supports U.S. positions for the upcoming IWC meeting in Madeira. Specifically, the government of Russia (GOR) favors continuing the "Future of the IWC" process to reach a [...]	2009-06-08 06:30:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS KSCA PREL SENV IWC RS
09MOSCOW1496	RUMORS OF DEFENSE MINISTER OUSTER DISCOUNTED [...] (C) Summary: Local press reported that Defense Minister Serdyukov would be dismissed from his post and made Head of the Federal Customs Service (FTS),to be replaced by someone from within the Defense Ministry. A working group of Duma Deputies and military experts submitted a report to Medved [...]	2009-06-08 10:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MCAP RS
09MOSCOW1497	NEMTSOV, MILOV: OBAMA MUST SHOW SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a June 3 meeting, former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov and former Deputy Energy Minister Vladimir Milov -- co-leaders of the Solidarity opposition movement -- outlined for the Ambassador how President Obama should approach his July visit to Moscow. First, they argued, Ob [...]	2009-06-08 11:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM KDEM OVIP RS
09MOSCOW1498	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: T-PLATFORMS, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, T-Platforms, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]	2009-06-08 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW150	RUSSIA TAKING UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS REVIEW [...] (C) Summary: The Russian Federation is taking the February 2009 review of the human rights situation here under the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) special mechanism seriously. The Senior Human Rights Adviser at the UN's mission in Moscow told us that last summer he [...]	2009-01-22 16:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR UNHRC RS
09MOSCOW1500	RUSSIA GRANTS EXTENSION ON NEGOTIATING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In late January 2009, the Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) expressed its concerns in both a DVC and in a letter that the veterinary certificate for the export of US pork to Russia does not adequately reflect Russian requirements. VPSS [...]	2009-06-08 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1501	MURDER OF TOP COP SHOWS THAT DAGESTAN IS STILL [...] (SBU) The June 5 shooting of Dagestan's Interior Minister Adilgirei Magomedtagirov by a sniper while he stood outside a banquet hall where he was attending the wedding of a lower-ranking ministry official shows just how uncontrolled the security situation is in this North Caucasus republic. P [...]	2009-06-08 15:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW1503	EXBS: SUPPORTING RUSSIAN CUSTOMS' EFFORTS TO IMPROVE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 07:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW1505	CRISIS FAINTLY BOOSTS PRESS FREEDOM; PUBLIC SNOOZES [...] (SBU) Summary: Criticism of GOR policy in some print and internet media has sharpened as the financial crisis has taken hold. This has raised hopes among some liberal observers that the financial crisis will improve press freedom in Russia, by forcing GOR officials to be more open to criticis [...]	2009-06-09 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM ECON SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1506	INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR FUEL BANK - RUSSIA STILL [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-09 13:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA RS
09MOSCOW1507	KALUGA REGIONAL GOVERNMENT SPENDS ON DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to the ruling United Russia-dominated Kaluga Region, local government officials took great pains to portray it as one of the most attractive regions in Russia for foreign investment and, despite the current economic crisis, one that is thriving with virtu [...]	2009-06-09 14:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM KCOR SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1508	RUSSIA SUPPORTS DRPK UNSCR TEXT, SEEKS CLARITY ON [...] (C) Russian DFM Aleksandr Borodavkin called in Ambassador Beyrle late June 8 (Moscow time) to discuss the current draft UNSCR under consideration in New York condemning North Korea for its recent nuclear tests and missile launches. Borodavkin opened by noting that, in principle, Russia is read [...]	2009-06-09 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC PGOV NK RS
09MOSCOW1509	DFM GRUSHKO ON NATO-RUSSIA AND EUROPEAN SECURITY [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko told the Ambassador June 8 that the GOR could not prepare in time for a formal NRC ministerial June 27, but would support an informal meeting, which would provide the political signal to allow reengagement on military to military cooperation. He was unwill [...]	2009-06-09 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO UP RS
09MOSCOW1512	EXBS RUSSIA MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] EXBS contractor Commonwealth Trading Partners (CTP) through its Russian partner, the Center for Export Controls (CEC),conducted export controls training in Kaliningrad May 5-6 for approximately 20 Russian Customs inspectors. Specialists from the Federal Service for Technical and Export Contr [...]	2009-06-10 08:34:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW1520	ELECTRICITY SECTOR REFORM: STILL ON HOLD [...] (C) The strains of the economic crisis are increasing pressure on the GOR to slow down electricity sector reform. Consumers are concerned about the speed of price reform and generating companies (gencos) are reluctant to modernize generating capacity. The GOR's signals about its intentions ar [...]	2009-06-11 07:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV EIND ENRG RS
09MOSCOW1521	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NPO SP LLC, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, NPO SP LLC, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lice [...]	2009-06-11 09:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1525	INFORMATION ON RUSSIA'S AFGHANISTAN POLICY MAKERS [...] (C) In response to ref A request for information on Russian leaders with influence on GOR Afghan policy, we have provided profiles of MFA officials involved in Russian policy toward Afghanistan. Of the MFA officials listed below, we classify the following as experts on Afghanistan: Aleksandr [...]	2009-06-11 11:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV PREL AF RS
09MOSCOW153	GAS CRISIS RESOLUTION LEAVES ROOM FOR FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. Confirming press reports, Gazprom told us January 21 that supplies to Europe and Ukraine had been restored "in full." An EU representative told us January 22 that monitors have confirmed flows are "on track" and have reported no problems. As has been widely reported, the gas fl [...]	2009-01-23 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UP
09MOSCOW1530	NORD STREAM CEO SAYS PIPELINE WILL BE COMPLETED BY OCTOBER 2011 -- IF IT STARTS ON TIME Classified By: Ambassador John R. Beyrle for Reasons 1.4 (b/d) [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS GM
09MOSCOW1535	UNITED RUSSIA MANIPULATES PENZA REGION'S MASSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During a recent visit to the Penza Region it was apparent that United Russia dominates the region to an extreme degree. Opposition forces, like the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF),the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR),and Just Russia have very little [...]	2009-06-11 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1536	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE THREATENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 5th the Deputy Head of Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) informed via official letter that the VPSS would grant an extension on the negotiation of a frozen pork meat and by-products certificate to August 1, 2009. (Ref A) Howeve [...]	2009-06-11 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1537	GOR WITHDRAWS FROM SCHNEERSOHN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS, [...] (C) On personal instructions from Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Director for the North America Department Khudrin summoned us on June 11 and presented a note (scanned and emailed to EUR/RUS) that announced the GOR's withdrawal from United States court pro [...]	2009-06-11 14:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1538	RUSSIA'S WTO ACCESSION: ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Kirk's June 4-6 visit to St. Petersburg seemed to make progress on Russia's WTO accession in bilateral meetings with senior Russian economic officials, including First DPM Shuvalov, this progress proved illusory: PM Putin announced Jun [...]	2009-06-11 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1539	NONPAPER DELIVERED: JDEC/PLNS NON-PAPER: "RARE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 14:34:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR PARM PREL KTIA RS
09MOSCOW154	RUSSIAN MFA ON TREATMENT OF FORMER GUANTANAMO [...] (C) We met with Artem Kudoyarov, Deputy Director in the MFA's North America Department, to convey reftel concerns about reports that the GOR has denied critical medical care to Rasul Kudaev, a former detainee at the Guantanamo detention center currently in Russian custody. In addition to ref [...]	2009-01-23 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDGR PTER KJUS RS
09MOSCOW1540	Russia's Ministry of Emergency Situations Seeks to Expand [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-11 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR AORC EAID PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS KG TI
09MOSCOW1541	RUSSIA: DEMARCHE ON EUROPEAN SECURITY AND THE [...] (C/NF) MFA Deputy Director Gorlach welcomed reftel demarche as an important signal and expressed interest in the idea of a joint U.S.-Russian statement for the Corfu ministerial. He said that Russia would not oppose efforts to discuss the human and economic agenda, but asked for specifics an [...]	2009-06-11 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EU NATO OSCE RS
09MOSCOW1542	FM STEINMEIER URGES RUSSIA TO SEIZE THIS HISTORIC [...] (C) On a June 10 visit to Moscow, German FM Steinmeier met separately with President Medvedev, PM Putin, and FM Lavrov. According to the German embassy, the visit bolstered the strategic partnership, with Steinmeier using the opportunity to press Russia on nuclear disarmament negotiations wit [...]	2009-06-11 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG GM RS
09MOSCOW1544	DELIVERY OF U.S.NON-PAPERS ON STRATEGIC NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-12 11:45:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM KACT START JCIC KTIA US RS
09MOSCOW155	MOSCOW GOVERNMENT COPES WITH THE GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: According to Moscow city officials, the global economic crisis has not affected the average Muscovite to the same degree that it is impacting the capital's more affluent residents. In order to mitigate its effects and maintain a stable political climate in Moscow, the city gover [...]	2009-01-23 13:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON RS
09MOSCOW1556	WORLD GRAIN FORUM IN ST.PETERSBURG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 6-7 the Government of the Russian Federation hosted its first World Grain Forum in St. Petersburg. With approximately 1,500 representatives from over 40 countries ranging from Agriculture Ministers to grain industry experts the forum focused on the role of grain produc [...]	2009-06-15 06:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1557	MOSCOW CONSIDERS THE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH SIGNIFICANT, [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-15 07:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IS RS XF
09MOSCOW1561	SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S VISIT [...] (C) Embassy Moscow warmly welcomes your visit to Russia, which provides an opportunity for us to engage with the highest levels of the Russian government on energy issues, an opportunity that has until recently been largely absent in the relationship. The "reset" of relations and in particular [...]	2009-06-15 10:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1562	PUTIN, PIKALEVO, AND THE FAILURE OF THE POWER [...] (C) Summary. The events two weeks ago in the northwestern town of Pikalevo, in which frustrated workers in three small, idled plants blocked a federal highway to draw attention to their plight, demonstrated the failures of Russia's "vertical of power" and gave insight into the balance of power [...]	2009-06-15 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW1565	2009 REPORT FOR RUSSIA ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) Per reftel request, attached is post's draft 2009 Report for Russia on Investment Disputes and Expropriation Claims. We have also e-mailed to EUR/RUS and EEB/OIA the draft report as a Word document marked to show changes from the 2008 Report for Russia. Begin text of draft report: 2. ( [...]	2009-06-15 13:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV KIDE ETRD ECON RS
09MOSCOW1572	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SWEMEL INNOVATION [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Swemel Innovation Enterprise, Moscow, Russia. The company is [...]	2009-06-16 06:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1582	MOSCOW CONSIDERS THE PRESIDENT'S CAIRO SPEECH SIGNIFICANT, [...] Summary: The President's June 4 Cairo speech received a generally positive response in the Moscow press. Russia's Muslim leaders were similarly upbeat, and they expressed hope for better relations between West and East and an inclusive global conversation. Many commentators questioned wheth [...]	2009-06-16 14:11:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL IS RS XF
09MOSCOW1591	IMPLICATIONS OF REARMING GEORGIA FOR U.S.-RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: A decision to move towards a more robust military relationship with Georgia will imperil our efforts to re-start relations with Russia, if it is not carefully calibrated and deployed. While Medvedev understands the strategic and personal benefits of crafting a productive partnersh [...]	2009-06-17 14:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW1597	JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, SCIENTOLOGISTS UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary. The campaign against the Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) in Russia, instigated by General Prosecutor Yuriy Chayka in early 2009, continued in May and June. While a judge dismissed one case against the JW branch in Tolyatti on insufficient grounds, the situation in Samara Oblast, Sve [...]	2009-06-18 07:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1599	RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. NONPAPER ON AN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, MFA Legal Department Section Chief Titushkin provided a response to reftel nonpaper laying out U.S. opposition to an international piracy court. He explained that the GOR considered an international tribunal an appropriate forum to prosecute suspected pirates, espe [...]	2009-06-18 08:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL RS
09MOSCOW160	RUSSIAN CENTRAL BANK ENDS GRADUAL RUBLE DEVALUATION [...] (C) In a post-trading day press conference on January 22, Central Bank (CBR) Chairman Sergei Ignatiyev announced the end of the CBR's policy of gradual ruble devaluation. The announcement came two months after the CBR embarked on a series of 1-percent devaluations against a currency "basket" [...]	2009-01-23 15:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
09MOSCOW1603	"PIKALEVO SYNDROME:" NOT A PANDEMIC, BUT STILL [...] (C) Government officials, business leaders, and economists have become fascinated over the past couple weeks with the potential spread of "Pikalevo syndrome" and the repetition in other single company towns of this month's highly publicized demonstration outside St. Petersburg. As expected, th [...]	2009-06-18 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1605	MEDVEDEV, MOSCOW DEMONSTRATE RESOLVE BY STAMPING [...] (SBU) Summary: In Moscow and across Russia, radical changes are afoot as gambling businesses scramble to comply with a new federal law restricting gambling facilities to four special gaming zones. Some gambling moguls are planning to move their businesses to other former Soviet republics and [...]	2009-06-18 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1606	CSTO RAPID REACTION FORCE LAUNCHED WITHOUT BELARUS, [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) on June 14 signed documents to create the Moscow-based CSTO rapid reaction force (KSOR). Though in attendance at the summit, Uzbekistan did not sign the KSOR agreement, possibly for fear that KSOR may be used to settl [...]	2009-06-18 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MCAP MARR RS ETRD BO
09MOSCOW1608	RUSSIA UNDECIDED ON INTERNATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AGENCY [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-18 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG KGHG SENV RS
09MOSCOW1609	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary Poneman and DOE Moscow representatives met with Russian Federation Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko on June 10, 2009 in Moscow to discuss future cooperation in areas of mutual interest to include energy and climate change. During the ninety-minute meeting, Shmatk [...]	2009-06-19 05:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP PREL PTER RS

09MOSCOW1611	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) Summary. DOE Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman met with Russian Federation Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on June 10, 2009 in Moscow to discuss nonproliferation Presidential Summit deliverables, including the Joint Statement on Nuclear Security, the Protocol to amend the Plutonium Ma [...]	2009-06-19 05:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL RS PARM ENRG
09MOSCOW1612	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary of Energy Poneman and Ambassador Beyrle met with Russian Federation Minister of Education and Science (MES) Andrey Fursenko on June 10, 2009, in Moscow to discuss future DOE-MES cooperation in energy efficiency, carbon capture and sequestration, and nanotech [...]	2009-06-19 06:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG KNNP PREL PTER SENV TSPL TNGD KGHG EAID
09MOSCOW1616	DOE DEPUTY SECRETARY PONEMAN'S MEETING WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY. DOE Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman, Ambassador Beyrle, and Senior Advisor to Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Jim Timbie met with Rosatom Director General Sergey Kiriyenko and his Deputy Nikolai Spasskiy on June 9, 2009 in Moscow to develop a p [...]	2009-06-19 09:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL KTIA IR RS ENRG
09MOSCOW1617	GOR ROLLS THE DIE ON THE CAR INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) In an effort to inject life into its moribund car sector, the GOR -- through Sberbank -- has committed 500 million Euros (about USD 700 million) to the Magna consortium's successful bid for GM's European car unit Opel. For the GOR, the hope is that GM technology will improve Russian car [...]	2009-06-19 10:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND EFIN GM RS
09MOSCOW1619	BUSINESS LEADER ON LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 12, Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) met with Yanna Yakovleva, the head of Business Solidarity, a NGO dedicated to protecting Russian businesses from government extortion. Yakovleva expressed appreciation for a recent joint project with the Embassy that had changed the law o [...]	2009-06-19 11:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KJUS SNAR RS
09MOSCOW1620	MEDVEDEV SENDS DUMA WATERED-DOWN AMENDMENTS TO NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17 President Medvedev sent to the Russian State Duma a packet of proposed changes to the NGO Law enacted in 2006 at the behest of then president Vladimir Putin. The proposed changes are minor -- permitting smaller NGOs to use shorter, less burdensome forms when registe [...]	2009-06-19 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1621	MFA ON UNOMIG FAILURE, NEXT STEPS [...] (C) Summary: MFA IVth CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told us UNOMIG renewal talks failed in part due to the West's rigid response to Russia's earlier OSCE proposals, which caused Moscow to "tighten" its position on UNOMIG. Dvinyanin described Russia's concurrence with UNSCR 1866, which refer [...]	2009-06-19 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN RS GG
09MOSCOW1625	LOOKING FOR A "NO" FROM WTO ON CUSTOMS UNION [...] (C) Summary. Following Putin's surprise announcement that Russia intends to accede to the WTO as part of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russian officials are still trying to figure out how best to proceed. Intensive consultations are underway, with Minister Nabiullina reported [...]	2009-06-19 13:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD RS WTO
09MOSCOW1626	IMF'S MISSION TO MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. IMF Senior Resident Representative for Russia Odd Per Brekk gave us an overview of the recent Article IV consultations with the GOR. He explained that non-vital spending comprised too much of the country's 2009 fiscal deficit. Right-sizing the deficit and directing more of the [...]	2009-06-19 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
09MOSCOW1642	NO OFFICIAL GOR POSITION ON PATRIOT MISSILES IN [...] (C) MFA North America Desk First Secretary Aleksey Ivanov told us the GOR had no official position on the possible rotating-basis deployment of Patriot anti-missile systems in Poland. He told us that many GOR officials, however privately oppose such a move because they interpret Polish statem [...]	2009-06-22 10:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINS MCAP MARR RS PL
09MOSCOW1645	SUMMIT DELIVERABLES: RYABKOV NOTES SPEED AND [...] (C) Summary: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov confirmed to Ambassador Steve Mull in a June 17 meeting in Moscow that the GOR is working hard to get responses to the "very creative hard work" delivered by Energy DepSec Poneman, A/S Gottemoeller and Ambassador Mull himself during r [...]	2009-06-23 04:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW1646	SAMARA - A CITY OF TWO TALES [...] (SBU) Summary. The economic crisis has heightened the divide between the Samara oblast administration's relentless assertions of stability and the "non-official" story of growing discontent among the more politically active part of society and within elite circles. Samara officials assured us [...]	2009-06-23 04:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW1647	FOR RUSSIAN WOMEN, SURVIVAL TRUMPS RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite liberal laws and official Russian policy protecting women's rights, Russian women routinely suffer rights abuses in their daily lives, including violence and sexual harassment. Centuries-old patriarchal attitudes continue to hold sway. Soviet ideology temporarily and [...]	2009-06-23 07:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM EFIN SOCI KWMN RS
09MOSCOW1649	MOSCOW SAYS IRANIAN ELECTION AN INTERNAL AFFAIR [...] (U) Moscow has steered clear of the controversy over Iran's June 12 Presidential election, waiting until June 22 for the MFA to release a brief statement declaring the election a "purely internal affair." The statement did acknowledge that the election was being "challenged by other contender [...]	2009-06-23 09:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IR RS
09MOSCOW1650	RUSSIA-UKRAINE TALKS ON BLACK SEA FLEET "MOST [...] (C) Summary. The MFA was at pains to stress the success and cooperative tone of the June 10 Russia-Ukraine Black Sea Fleet sub-commission talks. The sides agreed on a mechanism for rapid exchange of information on urgent issues and a scheme to inventory land parcels used by the BSF, plus di [...]	2009-06-23 12:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR MCAP RS UP
09MOSCOW1652	RUSSIA WILL CONSIDER DRAFT U.S.-RUSSIA POINTS OF [...] (C) We delivered ref A points to MFA European Cooperation Section head Pavel Knyazev on June 23. Knyazev said all the points looked fine at first glance, although the point on Trafficking in Persons struck him as "on a different scale," and did not address all of the issues in this area, where [...]	2009-06-23 14:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE KCFE MARR RS
09MOSCOW1653	WOMEN IN MOSCOW CITY LEADERSHIP: AN UPHILL BATTLE [...] (SBU) Summary: As elsewhere in Russia, women in Moscow are underrepresented in high-level positions in politics. On the whole, women do not have equal opportunities as men to run for office because they lack the necessary financial and administrative means and have difficulty overcoming Russ [...]	2009-06-23 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM KWMN SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1658	VISIT OF SE MORNINGSTAR: RUSSIA RECEPTIVE TO [...] (C) In June 17-18 meetings with visiting Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy Morningstar, Russian interlocutors welcomed greater cooperation and dialogue with the U.S., including on two-way investment and global strategic issues such as the future of LNG, pipelines, and energy diplomacy. SE Mor [...]	2009-06-24 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1660	RUSSIAN REACTIONS TO REVISED DRAFT OF THE RUSSIA [...] (C) Embassy delivered the revised draft of the Russia Afghanistan Transit Agreement (reftel) to MFA North America Deputy Director Nikolay Sofinskiy and European Cooperation Deputy Director Yuri Gorlatch June 24. Set forth below are their initial questions and comments on the text. We also pa [...]	2009-06-24 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF US RS
09MOSCOW1661	RUSSIAN MEDIA, OFTEN CRITICAL OF FOREIGN [...] SUMMARY: A recent series of news items in the Russian press has cast an introspective spotlight on the perils that Russian children face in orphanages and domestic adoptive families. The media has increasingly drawn public attention to a spate of incidents in recent months in which Russian [...]	2009-06-25 06:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	CVIS CASC KOCI PGOV RS
09MOSCOW1664	START FOLLOW-ON: A/S GOTTEMOELLER PRESENTS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Rose Gottemoeller led an inter-agency delegation that presented U.S. papers on SNDVs and ODSNWs, a draft Joint Understanding (Refs C and D),and the U.S. non-paper containing comments on the Russian "vision" paper to a Russian interagency delegation June 15-16. [...]	2009-06-25 08:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KACT START MARR KNNP RS
09MOSCOW1665	RUSSIAN AG MINISTER SUPPORTS ACTION ON A/H1N1 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Minister of Agriculture Elena Skrynnik met with Ambassador Beyrle on June 22, 2009. In a short and cordial exchange, Skrynnik instructed Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) leaders present to hold a DVC with USDA technical experts this week in an ef [...]	2009-06-25 09:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON RS
09MOSCOW1666	VLADIMIR REGION WEATHERS THE CRISIS [...] (C) Labor, business, and government leaders in Vladimirskaya oblast remain optimistic about their region's future despite recent setbacks caused by the financial crisis. Regional administration officials anticipate the opening of sixteen new enterprises and production lines by the end of 2009 [...]	2009-06-25 09:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1667	GOR SO FAR LOW KEY ON MANAS [...] (SBU) In the wake of the Kyrgyz announcement that the U.S. and Kyrgyzstan had reached a new agreement on the continued use of the Manas airport in support of NATO operations in Afghanistan, official GOR reaction so far has maintained the consistent line that Manas is a matter of bilateral re [...]	2009-06-25 10:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS
09MOSCOW1670	VORKUTA: ARCTIC MINING TOWN WEATHERS CRISIS AMID [...] (SBU) Summary: A June 13-15 visit to Vorkuta, a former gulag mining town north of the Arctic Circle, revealed a company town (or so-called "monogorod") struggling to define itself amid "optimization" that has hemorrhaged jobs and residents over the past decade. A May 24 rally that attracted 1 [...]	2009-06-25 13:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON PHUM SOCI PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1685	SUPREME COURT OVERTURNS ACQUITTAL OF POLITKOVSKAYA [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 25, Russia's Supreme Court overturned the February acquittal of three men charged with the murder of Novaya Gazeta journalist Anna Politkovskaya, citing serious procedural violations, and ordered a retrial. The defendants' lawyers called the decision "political," and sta [...]	2009-06-29 09:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1688	SAMADUROV EXPECTS GUILTY VERDICT IN "FORBIDDEN [...] (SBU) Summary: The trial of former Sakharov Center Director Yuriy Samodurov and former curator of the New Tretyakov Gallery Andrey Yerofeyev has entered its third month of hearings at the Taganskiy district court in the criminal case brought against them for a 2006 modern art exhibit entitle [...]	2009-06-29 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM PINR SOCI KJUS RS
09MOSCOW169	NONPAPER DELIVERED: JCIC-DIP-09-001: [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-26 13:36:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START US RS UP BO KZ
09MOSCOW1696	FIRST BRIC SUMMIT OFFERS NO CONCRETE RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Though labeled a resounding success by Russian President Medvedev, the first formal BRIC summit offered few concrete results. While downplaying the future role of the group, Russian MFA officials stressed that BRIC was a consultative forum that aims to address pressing global pr [...]	2009-06-29 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECIN EFIN BR CH IN RS
09MOSCOW1704	DEMARCHE ON RECENT U.S. NOMINATION OF THREE [...] No summary [...]	2009-06-30 11:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC RU
09MOSCOW173	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AUTEX LTD., [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftels requested Post-shipment verifications to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Autex Ltd., Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on two (2) [...]	2009-01-27 07:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1730	CUBA-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP (C-AL9-00784) [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-01 16:09:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV CU RS
09MOSCOW1731	RUSSIAN MFA GRANTS MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE WITH [...] On June 29, 2009, via diplomatic note 3217/DSA, MFA authorized a fisheries research survey on pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) by the vessel Oscar Dyson in Russia's Exclusive Economic Zone in the Bering Sea during the period July 1 to August 3, 2009, without entering Russian ports. Post has e-m [...]	2009-07-02 04:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KRVC TPHY EWWT RS
09MOSCOW1732	CUBA-RUSSIA RELATIONSHIP (C-AL9-00784) [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-02 05:00:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET//NOFORN	PINR PREL PGOV CU RS
09MOSCOW1733	ALCOA INVESTMENT LIFTS SAMARA'S SAGGING ECONOMY [...] On June 23-24, the Ambassador visited Samara to officiate at the opening of the latest production line of the USD 750 million Alcoa investment in the Samara Metallurgical Plant, Russia's largest aluminum producing facility. The Ambassador met with Samara Governor Vladimir Vladimorovich Artyako [...]	2009-07-02 08:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON PGOV SOCI RU
09MOSCOW1738	VORONIN VISITS MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary. Russia said Moscow's agreement to meet with Moldovan President Voronin June 22 in Moscow was not election campaign assistance, but only support inasmuch as Moscow sought to maintain good relations with its neighbors and protect the interests of the Russian-speaking (voting) popu [...]	2009-07-02 11:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS MD
09MOSCOW1742	YAVLINSKIY'S POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE [...] (C) Summary: On July 1, Ambassador Beyrle met with former Yabloko leader Grigoriy Yavlinskiy prior to the Obama-Medvedev summit to hear his views on U.S.-Russian relations, as well as his thoughts on how the U.S. should best approach bilateral relations. His top five recommendations pertain [...]	2009-07-03 10:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW1743	MOSCOW CITY DUMA AMENDMENTS FAVOR A UNITED RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Moscow City Duma amended Moscow's Election Code on June 17, strategically changing the rules for its own elections. These measures set up a voting structure that favors United Russia's continual dominance in the October 11, 2009 Moscow City Duma elections. Key legislativ [...]	2009-07-03 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW176	KREMLIN DIRECTS UNITED RUSSIA TO "SPIN" CRISIS [...] (C) Summary: At the instruction of Kremlin officials, United Russia is taking a more active visible role in defending Russian government actions to the Russian public. Countering the anti-import duty protests and messages which have resonated in political and media circles for weeks, United Ru [...]	2009-01-27 10:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON RS
09MOSCOW1763	MEDVEDEV IN BAKU: NAGORNO-KARABAKH, ENERGY [...] (C) Summary. In the wake of President Medvedev's visit to Baku June 29, Russia is optimistic that the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict can be resolved in the near future. To effect that, Moscow plans no actions outside of the Minsk Group Process, which is organizing a meeting between the Armenian [...]	2009-07-08 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS AZ
09MOSCOW1764	RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH KIRILL PROPOSES [...] (SBU) Summary. In advance of the July 6-8 visit to Moscow by President Obama, Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill welcomed stronger ties between the U.S. and Russia and proposed a religious component to international peace negotiations. Kirill also presse [...]	2009-07-08 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1768	EXBS RUSSIA MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] EXBS contractor Commonwealth Trading Partners (CTP) through its Russian partner, the Center for Export Controls (CEC),conducted export controls training in Vladivostok June 9-10 for approximately 20 Russian Customs inspectors. Specialists from the Federal Service for Technical and Export Con [...]	2009-07-09 09:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW1772	DPRK SANCTIONS: RUSSIAN MFA HOPES TO HAVE RESPONSE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and is not meant for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Per reftel request, Post delivered the demarche on DPRK sanctions designations to Russian MFA International Organization Department's North Korea action officer Anna Yevstegneyeva. Our Bri [...]	2009-07-09 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM UNSC KN RS
09MOSCOW1780	CODEL BERMAN MEETS WITH CARNEGIE CENTER AND AMCHAM [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings June 30, Codel Berman met with Carnegie Center experts and AmCham members. Carnegie's Trenin told the Codel that missile defense was the "make-or-break" issue for Russia's post-START treaty posture. Russia benefited from U.S. tensions with Iran, although i [...]	2009-07-10 10:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW1781	U.S. HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE MEETS WITH DUMA [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Representatives of the House Foreign Affairs Committee met with Duma deputies June 29 to discuss an array of issues affecting U.S.-Russia relations. Economic topics included Russia's WTO membership aspirations, IPR, corruption, and energy, while the discussion of internal i [...]	2009-07-10 10:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SNAR ECON RS
09MOSCOW1787	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SIGM PLUS COMPANY, MOSCOW, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Sigm Plus Company, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS licens [...]	2009-07-10 12:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1790	TATARSTAN'S EXPORT-ORIENTED ECONOMY AWAITS GLOBAL [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador Beyrle's June 24-25 visit to Kazan, Tatarstan President Mintimir Shaymiyev and members of the central Russian republic's business community told him that the republic's export-oriented local economy (oil and heavy machinery) is suffering greatly from the current [...]	2009-07-10 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PINR KISL SCUL RS
09MOSCOW1791	UNEMPLOYMENT FALLS, WAGE ARREARS & REDUCED HOURS [...] (C) According to GOR data released last week, actual unemployment in Russia fell to 8.5 percent, or 6.5 million workers, in May. Employment was also down 1.9 percent, or 2.1 million workers, from May 2008. Experts predicted that the employment decline would continue because workers leaving t [...]	2009-07-13 06:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1793	ASD VERSHBOW DISCUSSES SUMMIT WITH ROUNDTABLE OF [...] (C) Summary: A panel of experts told ASD Vershbow the July 6-8 POTUS visit had been a success, with both sides working hard to ensure a positive outcome. Experts praised Obama's rhetoric as defending U.S. values without meddling in Russia's internal affairs. Being Obama's primary interlocut [...]	2009-07-13 09:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MARR MCAP MNUC EAID RS
09MOSCOW1794	RUSSIAN MFA DOWNPLAYS DISCORD WITH UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. The MFA downplayed press speculation that Russia stood to benefit from the de-sovereignization of Ukraine, but said Russia would continue to protest against attempts to "ukrainize" Crimea. While several recent accords showed that Russia-Ukraine relations remained fruitful on the [...]	2009-07-13 13:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP
09MOSCOW1797	"DA, WE CAN": OPTIMISM SWEEPS CIVIL SOCIETY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Civil Society Summit of July 6-7 brought together approximately 100 NGO representatives from both the U.S. and Russia. Although participants were pleased with the detailed results of the Summit's various Working Groups, they saved their most effusive praise for President Ob [...]	2009-07-13 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW180	MOSCOW MULLS SOCIAL UNREST AFTER VLADIVOSTOK [...] (SBU) Summary: The scope and spontaneity of protests last December against the regime's anti-crisis policies sparked speculation about the potential for unrest and political crisis in the coming year. Opponents of the regime and even some loyalists seized upon the protests as a sign of broader [...]	2009-01-27 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW1804	EXPERT TELLS ASD VERSHBOW GOR HAS CHANGED ATTITUDE [...] (C) Summary: PIR Center Director Vladimir Orlov told ASD Vershbow on July 8 that the attempts to reset U.S.-Russia relations, culminating in the July 6-8 summit, had improved the GOR's attitude toward the United States. He expressed optimism that genuine U.S.-Russia cooperation would be poss [...]	2009-07-14 08:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM MARR MCAP MNUC RS
09MOSCOW181	UNHCR SECURITY ADVISOR IN NORTH CAUCASUS HOPEFUL [...] (C) Summary: According to UN security officials based in Vladikavkaz, Ingushetia's new president has made a promising start as he tries to restore calm to the restive North Caucasus republic. Recent attacks on civilians in North Ossetia, meanwhile, do not appear to these observers to portend [...]	2009-01-27 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF MARR UNHCR PINR PTER RS
09MOSCOW1811	NEW BP RUSSIA CEO SAYS TNK-BP DOING "EXTREMELY [...] (C) New BP Russia President Jeremy Huck told the Ambassador in a July 13 meeting that his first priority is to maintain and protect BP's investment in TNK-BP. Huck said TNK-BP continues to perform "extremely well" and that despite some tensions, relations with AAR (its Russian partners in TNK [...]	2009-07-15 07:21:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW182	INGUSHETIYA AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (C) Summary: In his first three months as president of Ingushetiya, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has made all the right moves to tackle what he believes are the three root causes of extremism and crime in the northern Caucasus republic -- corruption, unemployment and a lack of credibility in the gover [...]	2009-01-27 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR PREF ECON RS
09MOSCOW1824	RUSSIA'S RETURN TO AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev's June trip to Africa marked Russia's attempt to "return" to Africa and increase economic ties after a period of relative inactivity on the continent following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Medvedev visited Egypt, Nigeria, Namibia, and Angola June 23-27, a [...]	2009-07-15 11:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD EPET EMIN RS XA EG WA NI AO
09MOSCOW1825	RUSSIA'S RETURN TO AFRICA [...] (SBU) Summary: President Medvedev's June trip to Africa marked Russia's attempt to "return" to Africa and increase economic ties after a period of relative inactivity on the continent following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Medvedev visited Egypt, Nigeria, Namibia, and Angola June 23-27, a [...]	2009-07-15 11:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON ETRD EPET EMIN RS XA EG WA NI AO
09MOSCOW1827	THE GOR'S "SECRET" VISIT TO KYRGYZSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7 Russian Minister of Defense Anatoliy Serdyukov and Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin made a brief, unannounced visit to Kyrgyzstan to discuss Russia's interest in opening a second Russian military base in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh. The base is expected to house [...]	2009-07-15 13:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR MCAP EINV EMIN RS KG
09MOSCOW1828	EXCHANGE OF AFGHAN TRANSIT AGREEMENT NOTES [...] (SBU) On July 15 EmbOff delivered to Russian MFA North America Department Second Secretary Ruben Malayan the original and one copy of Embassy Note No. MFA/104/09, initialed on July 8, referring to the Afghan Transit Agreement signed on July 6. In exchange, Malayan delivered to EmbOff the origi [...]	2009-07-15 14:02:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PGOV MARR MOPS MASS RS AF
09MOSCOW1835	DFM RYABKOV TAKES STOCK FOLLOWING "VERY GOOD" [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told the Ambassador July 16 that the Russian government viewed the Obama-Medvedev summit as a "very good visit," and said the MFA was preparing next steps for post-START negotiations, the ballistic missile joint threat assessment, and the bilateral [...]	2009-07-17 10:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON EAGR MARR MNUC PARM IR RS
09MOSCOW1836	RUSSIA: COMPETING PRIORITIES, POOR FUNDING INHIBIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Refugee and IDP women in Russia face even greater hurdles to equality than their sisters in the native and local population (refs A and B). Frequently they come from cultures in which women are subordinate to men, and populations in exile appear inclined to cling to outmoded ge [...]	2009-07-17 10:54:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF SOCI PHUM KWMN RS
09MOSCOW1847	RUSSIAN ANALYSTS: OBAMA'S VISIT FIRST STEP ON LONG [...] (SBU) Summary: Reactions to President Obama's July 6-8 trip to Moscow have been largely positive among Russia's analytic community and political activists, most of whom saw the summit as setting the stage for a further improvement in the bilateral relationship. The President's approach, parti [...]	2009-07-17 13:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL RS US XH MARR MCAP PARM PHUM KMDR
09MOSCOW1858	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EFFORT BY RUSSIAN FIRM TO [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-20 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS IR
09MOSCOW1869	INTERNET PIRACY: RUSSIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT SUCCESSFULLY TAKES [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian law enforcement, in collaboration with local industry, conducted a raid against an Internet piracy release group "Interfilm" and arrested the owners of their bit- torrent site, "Interfilm.ru." The criminal action against this site is not only the first in Russia since th [...]	2009-07-22 03:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ETRD KIPR ECON RS
09MOSCOW187	U.S. POULTRY FACILITIES PUT ON NOTICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) demanded via official letter a list of U.S. poultry facilities that do not use chlorinated anti-microbial washes in poultry production by September 2009. According to the letter a resolution banning t [...]	2009-01-28 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW1873	U/S BURNS JULY 7 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN: [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting with U/S Burns July 7, on the margins of the President's visit to Moscow, Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin said he was optimistic about the chances of a settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. He urged the U.S. and Russia to be transparent on dealings in [...]	2009-07-22 09:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KG GG AZ AR RS
09MOSCOW1876	ROC ADVOCATES CREATION OF AN INTER-RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) External Church Relations Chairman Archbishop Hilarion advocated to the Ambassador for interfaith dialogue through the creation of an Inter-Religious Council within UNESCO and the strengthening of inter-Orthodox and inter-Christian relationships. [...]	2009-07-22 11:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KIRF SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1889	EMBASSY MOSCOW CONFIRMS TWO CASES OF H1N1 FLU, RUSSIA'S [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has confirmed two cases of H1N1 influenza within the Embassy community. Symptoms have been mild, and both patients are recovering well. Aside from these cases, Russian health authorities have publicly confirmed 12 cases of H1N1 throughout the country. However, this number [...]	2009-07-23 13:48:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO KFLU PREL SOCI CASC EAGR RS
09MOSCOW1910	MARKET CLOSURE COMBATS FRAUD BUT UNEMPLOYS [...] (C) Moscow authorities closed the massive, open-air Cherkizovskiy market in the northeastern part of the city at the end of June after inspectors found multiple trade, sanitation, and fire code violations. Although technically closed temporarily pending resolution of the violations, city offi [...]	2009-07-24 10:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW1912	RUSSIA AND CHINA CONTINUE QUIET ENGAGEMENT [...] (SBU) In contrast to the high-profile visit of President Obama to Moscow two weeks ago and the attendant expectations for a "reset" U.S.-Russian bilateral relationship, Chinese President Hu Jintao's June 16-18 official visit was low key and almost routine. Moscow and Beijing are continuing a [...]	2009-07-24 12:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECIN EFIN EINV CH RS
09MOSCOW1917	RUSSIAN ANTI-CRISIS MEASURES AND POST-CRISIS [...] (C) Summary. In a July 21 meeting characterized by wide-ranging and spirited interchange, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko provided the Ambassador with his vision of Russia's anti-crisis measures and post-crisis reform. Khristenko noted that the crisis hit Russia hard [...]	2009-07-27 05:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON RS
09MOSCOW1918	RUSSIA: MANDATE RENEWAL FOR THE UNITED NATIONS - [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-27 08:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO PREL SU RS
09MOSCOW1925	RUSSIA: ASSISTING AFGHANISTAN BEYOND THE AUGUST [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-28 11:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	NATO PREL MOPS MARR
09MOSCOW1926	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA DVBR Deputy Director Mashkov told us Russia wanted the upcoming UNSCR 1540 Comprehensive Review to address serious issues, and was concerned that allowing participation of international organizations such as the Australia Group, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie [...]	2009-07-28 12:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC RS RU CM
09MOSCOW1936	DFM KARASIN WARNS AGAINST US PARTICIPATION IN EU [...] (C) Summary. In a discussion July 28 that covered Georgia, Central Asia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Ukraine, and VP Biden's WSJ interview, DFM Grigoriy Karasin expressed strong opposition to the idea of U.S. forces participating in the renewed EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, calling the idea "surpri [...]	2009-07-29 11:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR GG UK RS
09MOSCOW1939	RUSSIA'S WTO ACCESSION: ON AGAIN? [...] (C) Summary: Recent discussions with senior advisers to President Medvedev and PM Putin indicate that Russia is again prepared to pursue accession to WTO on its own, reversing the course seemingly set by Putin,s June 9 statement that Russia would accede only together with Belarus and Kazakhst [...]	2009-07-29 13:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON EAGR RS
09MOSCOW1941	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MERCURY [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Mercury Electronics, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on [...]	2009-07-30 04:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1942	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: TEHKOM, MOSCOW, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Tehkom, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license [...]	2009-07-30 04:26:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1946	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: AKNIIPO ANO, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, AKNIIPO ANO, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lic [...]	2009-07-30 06:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1953	NONPAPER DELIVERED: JCIC-DIP-09-008: RUSSIAN [...] (S) On July 29 Acting A/S Van Diepen delivered reftel nonpaper to MFA DVBR Director Anatoliy Antonov, who acknowledged the seriousness of the GOR's failure to properly notify the United States about its recent missile launch. He promised to convey our concerns to appropriate GOR authorities. [...]	2009-07-30 10:10:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START US RS
09MOSCOW1954	NONPAPER DELIVERED: DPRK'S KOMID PROCURING [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-30 10:21:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC RS KN YM
09MOSCOW1956	NONPAPER DELIVERED: DPRK'S KOMID PROCURING [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-30 10:24:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM MTCRE PREL MNUC ETTC RS KN YM
09MOSCOW1958	SECRETARY OF COMMERCE LOCKE'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting with Russian Minister of Economic Development Elvira Nabiullina on July 7 in Moscow, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke stressed U.S. support for continued Russian integration into the world economy, including WTO accession, and raised several trade issues. Minis [...]	2009-07-30 11:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW196	RUSSIAN SOLDIER FLEES TO GEORGIA [...] (U) On January 27 Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Colonel Aleksandr Drobyshevskiy announced that Georgian special services had captured Junior Sergeant Aleksandr Glukhov of the Russian army the previous night (reftel). Drobyshevskiy said that Glukhov's statements that he fled his post in th [...]	2009-01-28 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PREF MOPS PBTS RU GG
09MOSCOW1960	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: T.K.BRUKVOOD, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, T.K. Brukvood, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS l [...]	2009-07-30 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1961	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DELAY OF START OF WORK IN THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-07-30 14:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC CH FR PK RS UK
09MOSCOW1964	SAKHALIN OIL AND GAS -- "NOBODY GETS HURT" [...] (SBU) Embassy officers traveled to Sakhalin Island July 21-24 to gain a better understanding of the region's oil and gas operations. The two main hydrocarbon-producing projects in the region, Sakhalin 1 and 2, account for only a small fraction of Russian oil and gas production but are signifi [...]	2009-07-31 11:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW197	KIRILL ELECTED 16TH RUSSIAN ORTHODOX PATRIARCH [...] (SBU) Summary. Leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) gathered on January 27 at Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior to elect Acting Patriarch Metropolitan Kirill as the Church's 16th Patriarch. Seventy-two percent of delegates picked Kirill, who deftly used his position and the me [...]	2009-01-28 16:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI
09MOSCOW198	GEORGIA: MFA'S HARDLINE VIEW ON OSCE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) The MFA told us January 28 that Russia had rejected the Greek proposal on "legal" grounds but stated that Russia would be ready to accept two equal-ranked mission offices (one in Georgia and one in South Ossetia) that reported to a "chapeau" organization in Vienna, but not one that reports [...]	2009-01-28 16:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE GG RS
09MOSCOW1981	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: T.K.BRUKVOOD, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, T.K. Brukvood, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS l [...]	2009-08-03 08:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1982	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: NPO SP LLC, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, NPO SP LLC, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS lice [...]	2009-08-03 08:15:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW1989	NONPAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-03 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA RS
09MOSCOW199	TRANSNEFT HEAD TELLS AMBASSADOR COMPANY BUILDING [...] (SBU) Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev told the Ambassador January 27 the company is moving forward on its various major pipeline projects as "they are needed to handle new oil supplies" and "because the government has directed them." Tokarev said the company is getting the funding it need [...]	2009-01-29 08:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW1995	TENSIONS WITH GEORGIA: NATO ALLIES PONDER [...] (C) Summary. On August 4, NATO Quad Allies proposed a joint demarche to the GOR regarding the rising tensions with Georgia, accompanied by a similar approach to the GOG. On August 2 and 3, the MFA told us it had no information why Russian forces did not respond to Georgian attempts to contac [...]	2009-08-04 12:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG GM UK FR SW OSCE
09MOSCOW1999	CONCURRENCE ON DOL'S UPDATE OF THE EO 13126 LIST [...] (U) Post concurs with DOL's inclusion of pornographic products from the Russian Federation on the revised EO 13126 list, see reftel. Both official and non-government sources confirmed that the commercial, sexual exploitation of children in the Russian pornography industry continued to thrive [...]	2009-08-05 11:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON EIND SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2	RUSSIAN ANALYSTS COMPLAIN U.S. HAS BETRAYED RUSSIA'S TRUST [...] (SBU) Summary: A roundtable of Russian analysts described -- often in emotional terms -- for visiting Representatives Ellen Taushcer, Doug Lamborn, Rick Larsen, and Loretta Sanchez, the deep displeasure with which many Russians view the U.S. government. They blamed much of this on America's f [...]	2009-01-01 07:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR OREP PINR RS
09MOSCOW20	A/S SHANNON AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS RUSSIA-LATIN [...] (C) Summary: On December 22, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs Thomas Shannon discussed ways in which the U.S. and Russia could constructively engage on issues related to Latin America. Both sides agreed on the need to cast o [...]	2009-01-09 06:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PBTS ECON ECIN EIND EINV ENRG
09MOSCOW2000	RUSSIA: WTO AND CUSTOMS UNION "IN PARALLEL" [...] (C) Summary. Following President Medvedev's announcement that Russia will continue its individual WTO accession process "in parallel" with formation of a customs union with Belarus and Kazakhstan, Russian officials are now scrambling to find a way to move forward with the WTO without contradic [...]	2009-08-05 14:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL RS WTO
09MOSCOW2001	GEORGIA/RUSSIA: NATO ALLIES DEMARCHE MFA [...] (C) Summary. On August 5, in response to a NATO Quad Allies' demarche on Georgia, MFA IVth CIS director Kelin insisted that Russia had not been invited to the 31 July Incident Prevention and Response Mechanism meeting, but conceded that the Russian-Georgian hotline was not functioning July 30 [...]	2009-08-05 16:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG GM UK FR

09MOSCOW2006	MOSCOW'S CRISIS SITUATION DETERIORATES FURTHER [...] (SBU) Summary: In January 2009, Moscow officials claimed that the global economic crisis had not affected the average Muscovite to the same degree as the capital's more affluent residents. Roughly six months later, the situation has deteriorated, but Moscow officials continue to maintain the [...]	2009-08-06 07:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PGOV PREL PINR RS
09MOSCOW2008	DEMARCHE FOLLOW-UP: GOR WILL APPROACH CHINA AND [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-06 09:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC CH FR PK RS UK
09MOSCOW201	RIGHT CAUSE PARTY SUFFERS FROM INTERNAL RIFTS, [...] (C) Summary: Right Cause, a new Kremlin-friendly party created in November, continues to suffer from internal rifts and an uncertain relationship with the Kremlin that has left the nominated head of its Moscow City branch -- Evgeniy Chichvarkin -- exiled in London. Party leaders told us that [...]	2009-01-29 13:34:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2013	INVITATION DELIVERED: JCIC-DIP-09-009 U.S. [...] (S) We delivered reftel invitation on August 5 to DVBR Third Secretary Andrey Malyugin. He received the offer without substantive comment. RUBIN [...]	2009-08-06 14:29:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START RS
09MOSCOW2014	RUSSIA AGREES TO NEXT PLENARY MEETING OF IPR [...] (U) During a familiarization visit to Moscow on July 29-31, A/USTR for Europe and the Middle East Christopher Wilson met with his counterpart on the U.S.- Russia IPR Working Group Deputy Economic Development Minister Stanislav Voskresenskiy. Voskresenskiy confirmed his commitment to the WG, e [...]	2009-08-07 06:45:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR RS WTO
09MOSCOW2015	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN PROPOSAL FOR ANGARSK [...] (C) On August 5, Special Advisor for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Robert Einhorn delivered reftel demarche to MFA DVBR Deputy Director Oleg Rozhkov and Ambassador at Large and IAEA Governor Grigoriy Berdennikov, who expressed appreciation and stated that our demarche showed that the U.S. [...]	2009-08-07 07:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC ENRG KNNP RS TRGY IAEA
09MOSCOW2020	EXBS RUSSIA MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] EXBS Russia staff contributed to President Obama's successful visit and related events in Moscow July 6-8. Advisor Joan Agerholm worked in the control room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel (where the Obama family stayed). Assistant Konstantin Troyan and the EXBS Jeep were pressed into service as pa [...]	2009-08-07 12:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW2021	RUSSIA'S RESPONSE TO UNSC DRC SANCTIONS COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-07 13:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
09MOSCOW203	KUDRIN SAYS U.S. ECONOMY KEY TO RUSSIA'S RECOVERY [...] (C) Summary. In a January 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Aleksey Kudrin said the U.S. economy's recovery would be critical to a Russian economic recovery this year. He said that policy coordination with the U.S. in particular and among G-20 countries in general would produ [...]	2009-01-29 15:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON ETRD RS
09MOSCOW2045	DELIVERY TO RUSSIA OF UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN) [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-10 10:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
09MOSCOW2046	MOSCOW'S LEVELS - AND LEVERS - OF POWER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Moscow City government is unique to Russia in that Moscow's Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov exercises near complete control over all aspects of official life, including directly instructing many of the 1000 officials under him, and, by the accounts of some observers, taking the law int [...]	2009-08-10 11:41:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2053	AMBASSADOR GOLDBERG DELEGATION MEETINGS IN MOSCOW [...] (C) Summary: Russian Foreign Ministry and financial officials, including Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin, assured Ambassador Philip Goldberg and his delegation that Russia fully supports United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1874 and was already taking measures regardin [...]	2009-08-11 11:44:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PARM PGOV ECON MNUC EFIN KNNP UNSC RU KN
09MOSCOW2055	RUSSIA GETS USED TO THE IDEA OF A NON-COMMUNIST MOLDOVA [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow is coming to terms with the Moldova election outcome, and has reached out via its ambassador to liberal party leaders. Experts, who describe the elections as a "peaceful example of post-Soviet countries' forging new political identities," assume Russia will cooperate wit [...]	2009-08-11 13:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MD RS
09MOSCOW2057	SELIGER-2009 IN RUSSIAN "YEAR OF YOUTH" STRESSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Seliger-2009, the highly visible Russian government-run summer camp for young adults, has come to a close. This is the first year that Seliger has not been operated directly by the nationalist youth group "Nashi." However, during the first week of August the official youth wing [...]	2009-08-11 14:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW2061	IPR: RUSSIA ACCREDITS ROYALTIES COLLECTING SOCIETY [...] (C) Summary: On August 6, the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Law Observance in Cultural Heritage Protection (ROK) granted All-Russia Organization for Intellectual Property (VOIS) accreditation as Russia's sole royalty collecting society in both the performer and phonogram producer [...]	2009-08-12 08:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR KCRM RS WTO
09MOSCOW2064	GOR APPROVES 2010-12 BUDGET PARAMETERS: ARE THEY [...] (C) The GOR has approved the macroeconomic parameters of the 2010-12 federal budget based on a moderately conservative assessment that the oil price will remain at $55-57/bbl for Urals. Revenues are expected to grow slightly in line with nominal GDP and expenditures are planned at near current [...]	2009-08-12 13:06:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2065	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRST ON AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) On August 12, CDA conveyed to Igor Neverov, Director North America Department and Acting Deputy Minister, reftel points urging GOR cooperation on a UN Security Council Presidential Statement. Neverov stated that the U.S. and Russian delegations would likely discuss the issue in New York. [...]	2009-08-12 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM RS CH
09MOSCOW2067	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. MARINES TO TRAIN GEORGIAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-13 09:05:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PREL PGOV MARR RS GG AF
09MOSCOW2068	PATRIARCH KIRILL'S UKRAINE TRIP: DOMESTIC AND [...] (C) Summary: In light of the escalating diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Kyiv, the objectives of Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) Patriarch Kirill's July 27-August 5 visit to Ukraine are receiving renewed scrutiny, with an emphasis on his engagement with President Yushchenko and his amended [...]	2009-08-13 09:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL ECON RS UP
09MOSCOW2070	HARDLY WORTH THE TRIP: MEDVEDEV'S VISIT TO CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The most significant result of President Medvedev's recent trip to Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, where he attended an informal meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO),was the signing of an agreement with Kyrgyzstan on the intention to establish another Russi [...]	2009-08-13 09:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL TI KG RS
09MOSCOW2071	MEDVEDEV BROADSIDES UKRAINE [...] (C) Summary. While deploring recent Ukrainian "anti-Russian" policies, MFA and Presidential Administration statements underscored that President Medvedev's letter to Ukrainian President Yushchenko and the decision to postpone the departure of Russian ambassador-designate to Kyiv were meant t [...]	2009-08-13 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS UP
09MOSCOW2073	NONPAPER ON JOINT THREAT ASSESSMENT RECEIVED [...] (S) On August 12 MFA DVBR Second Secretary Dmitriy Kostychenko passed us a nonpaper response to ref request for potential dates for further joint threat assessment consultations. 2. (SBU) Begin unofficial translation of nonpaper text: To be passed to the U.S. side Given the information [...]	2009-08-13 12:26:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL PGOV MNUC RS
09MOSCOW2074	LATEST MURDER OF CHECHEN CHARITY ACTIVISTS LEAVES [...] (C) Summary: The August 10 abduction and murder in Grozniy of Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov, activists with the children's charity "Save the Generation," has left many wondering who carried out the attack and why it occurred. Commentators agree that the murders bring ad [...]	2009-08-13 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW2084	NONPAPER DELIVERED: U.S. VIEWS REGARDING THE [...] (S) On August 14 we delivered reftel nonpaper to MFA DVBR Director for Strategic Capabilities Policy Vladimir Yermakov, who reiterated to us the GOR's position that all USG facilities at Votkinsk should be removed December 5. This meant, according to Yermakov, that the U.S. should begin movin [...]	2009-08-14 11:01:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START US RS
09MOSCOW2085	NONPAPER DELIVERED: U.S. VIEWS REGARDING THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-14 11:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START US RS
09MOSCOW2088	RUSSIA SUPPORTS BMENA AND FORUM FOR THE FUTURE [...] (C) We conveyed reftel points to Third Secretary Yevgeniy Kudrov of the MFA's Middle East and North Africa Department. He stated that the GOR viewed as important the upcoming G8 Broader Middle East and North Africa Forum for the Future and that Russia intended to participate. He indicated tha [...]	2009-08-14 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL KMPI KPAO KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2102	MOSCOW OBLAST GOVERNMENT: ON THE BRINK OF [...] (C) Summary: The Moscow Oblast Government is on the verge of financial collapse. While the economic crisis is a contributing factor, corruption on a massive scale plays an equally significant role. Deputy Governor Aleksey Panteleyev, Moscow Oblast Governor Boris Gromov's top ally, left his [...]	2009-08-17 14:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2106	RUSSIA IN DENIAL OVER GEORGIA'S CIS EXIT [...] (SBU) Summary: While Moscow officials speculate that Georgia under a new leadership might choose to reapply for CIS membership, analysts take Georgia's departure from that organization as an indication that the CIS only has "symbolic" importance, as former Soviet Union countries increasingly d [...]	2009-08-18 12:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GG RS
09MOSCOW2108	RUSSIAN CALLS FOR DIALOGUE, NOT PRESSURE AT [...] (C) Per reftel request, we delivered USG views on Russia's human rights and democracy performance to Tatyana Sulitskaya, Head of the European Division of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Sulitskaya called for a real dialogue on human rights at the upcoming OSCE H [...]	2009-08-18 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR OSCE RS
09MOSCOW2115	GOR ON AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (C) On August 18, we, along with a representative from the British Embassy, conveyed reftel points to Afghan Section Counselor Movladjon Makhkamov of the MFA's 2nd Asia division. Makhkamov stated that Russia was interested in stability in Afghanistan and hoped that the elections would be open [...]	2009-08-19 03:32:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PGOV PREL AF KPAO RS
09MOSCOW212	OSCE CIO'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (C) During the January 29 visit of Greek FM and OSCE CiO Bakoyannis to Moscow, Lavrov suggested Mevedev's proposed European Security Treaty (EST) be discussed at the Annual Security Review Conference (ASRC). He proposed that the ASRC be held at the minister-level, and in Athens, instead of V [...]	2009-01-30 07:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OSCE RS
09MOSCOW2121	NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) POCS [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 11:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09MOSCOW2122	(S) NONPAPER DELIVERED: RUSSIAN FIRM INVOLVED IN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 11:33:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS IR CH
09MOSCOW2125	(S) POST FOLLOW UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 13:57:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK
09MOSCOW2127	(S) POST FOLLOW UP WITH RUSSIA ON CASE OF [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-19 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA RS CH PK
09MOSCOW2138	CONOCOPHILLIPS COMMENTS ON RUSSIA-VENEZUELA OIL [...] (C) A senior ConocoPhillips executive (protect) told us on July 20 that the JV set up between a consortium of Russian companies (state-owned Gazprom and Rosneft, Lukoil, TNK-BP, and Surgutneftegaz) and Venezuela's national oil company, PDVSA, is unlikely to yield the results Russian and Venezu [...]	2009-08-20 12:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS VE
09MOSCOW2141	RUSSIA'S QUARTERLY GDP DROP WORST EVER: HAS IT [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-20 13:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2151	STAFFDEL BRANEGAN IN MOSCOW: INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-21 12:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2168	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY OFF [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-24 12:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO RS
09MOSCOW2179	IRKUTSK: TOUGH TIMES FOR WORKERS AND IMMIGRANTS, [...] (C) Summary: In Siberia's Irkutsk Oblast, businesses and their owners/managers, in particular prominent oligarchs such as Oleg Deripaska, also constitute the region's political elite, and everyone is scrambling dealing with the crisis. The Russian economic downturn may influence how and who ne [...]	2009-08-24 13:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM SENV SOCI
09MOSCOW2180	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARF DISASTER RELIEF DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-24 13:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ARF EAID MARR RS
09MOSCOW2187	RUSSIA ON NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (C) Summary: The Russian MFA, MOD, and RosAtom are the GOR entities most heavily involved with nonproliferation issues, including the NPT. The MFA leads the interagency process, with the Prime Minister's office issuing the final orders (with little Kremlin involvement). Russia works most cl [...]	2009-08-25 10:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09MOSCOW2188	DIPNOTE DELIVERED: JCIC-DIP-09-007: U.S. RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 11:02:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START US RS UP BO KZ
09MOSCOW2189	DELIVERED: U.S. DRAFT NEW START TREATY TEXT [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-25 11:03:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START US RS
09MOSCOW2199	RUSSIA DECLINES USG REQUEST TO EXTEND JOINT SMALLPOX [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 12, Russian federal authorities informed the International Science and Technology Center (ISTC) that the government will not support resumption of three U.S.-funded smallpox projects at the Vector Center for Virology and Biotechnology near Novosibirsk. In a curt letter [...]	2009-08-26 05:37:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SOCI SCUL TSPL TNGD PREL PARM EAID OSCI RS
09MOSCOW22	OPPOSING IRAN PRESIDENCY AT UNDP [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-09 11:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN EAID IR RS
09MOSCOW220	REDEFINING RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA IN CENTRAL ASIA [...] (C) Summary. Current Russian policy toward Central Asia seeks to maintain Moscow's historical dominance while recognizing the need to cooperate with the U.S. and NATO on stabilizing Afghanistan and managing the transnational challenges confronting the region. A not-so-secret agenda to lock [...]	2009-01-30 13:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS ZK AF
09MOSCOW2202	NONPAPER DELIVERED: CLARIFYING THE U.S.-COLOMBIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-26 13:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL CO RS
09MOSCOW2204	THE CUSTOMS UNION IS GOING TO GENEVA - TO SEE WHAT [...] (C) Summary: During the August 12 Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Customs Union (RBKCU) Summit, the members agreed to negotiate WTO accession using a joint negotiating team headed by Maxim Medvedkov, Russia's lead WTO negotiator. Medvedkov and his new tri-country team will go to Geneva in early Se [...]	2009-08-27 05:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL RS WTO KZ BO
09MOSCOW2205	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INVITATION FOR SEPTEMBER 24 [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-27 05:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM UNSC MNUC KSUM KNNP RS
09MOSCOW2208	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MOSCOW STATE [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Moscow State University of Railway Engineering, Moscow, Russi [...]	2009-08-27 10:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW2209	(S) DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POTENTIAL HIZBALLAH-IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-08-27 12:33:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PGOV PREL PTER ECCT RS IR SY
09MOSCOW2210	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: COMMENTS BY INGUSH PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) On August 26, Ambassador delivered demarche (Ref A) to DFM Sergey Ryabkov regarding Ingush President Yevkurov's public claim that the United States supports instability in Russia. 2. (SBU) In response, Ryabkov stated that the Government of Russia (GOR) greatly appreciated President Ob [...]	2009-08-27 12:35:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL RS
09MOSCOW2211	RUSSIA'S ALTAI REPUBLIC FACES ECONOMIC PROMISE AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Rising tourism presents an economic opportunity for the Altai Republic's mostly rural population, but also threatens its unspoiled wilderness. Threats include desecration of ancient cultural sites, poaching of endangered wildlife, and, to a lesser extent, illegal logging. Develop [...]	2009-08-27 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ECON EAID SOCI PGOV KCRM KDEM PREL RU
09MOSCOW2229	MOLDOVAN PRESIDENT VORONIN CALLS ON MEDVEDEV [...] (C) Summary. The MFA downplayed Moscow's role in Moldova's coalition talks, saying Moldovan President Voronin's August 21 meeting with President Medvedev in Sochi was motivated instead by the upcoming CIS summit. Liberal-Democratic leader Filat's positions on NATO and the CIS do not worry Mos [...]	2009-08-28 05:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS MD
09MOSCOW2230	EMPLOYEES OF FAILING BUSINESSES SEEK [...] (C) On August 6, AvtoVaz workers rallied to demand the nationalization of their employer, which suspended production in August and planned to reduce the workweek in September. Demands for nationalization by workers and unions increased in frequency, particularly in industrial areas, owing to th [...]	2009-08-28 06:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2238	GOR PLANS $10 MILLION DONATION TO PALESTINIAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel letter to Aleksandr Nikolayevich Rudakov, Palestine Desk Senior Counselor from the MFA's Middle East and North Africa Department. Rudakov stated that, in March, Russia pledged a $10 million biannual donation to the Palestinian Authority (PA),but he also admitted that [...]	2009-08-28 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON EAID KWBG PGOV OPDC PREL IS RS
09MOSCOW224	ANALYSTS QUESTION PAVEL FELGENHAUER'S CREDIBILITY [...] (C) Summary: While Russian analyst Pavel Felgenhauer's prediction of an August war with Georgia has been seized upon by Georgian decisionmakers as proof of Russian responsibility for the war (reftels),he is held in low regard by other respected Russian military analysts. Felgenhauer enjoys [...]	2009-01-30 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW2240	PUTIN TO VISIT GDANSK TO MARK 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF [...] (C) PM Putin will attend the commemoration of the outbreak of World War II in Gdansk, Poland on September 1. During a meeting with PM Tusk, the sides are expected to sign agreements on cultural exchanges, transit of the Kaliningrad Bay, and the transfer of Polish HEU to Russia for reprocessin [...]	2009-08-28 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG PL RS
09MOSCOW2241	SOLIDARITY LEADER MILOV DISCUSSES UPCOMING [...] (U) Summary: Leading member of Solidarity and candidate for Moscow City Duma Vladimir Milov outlined for us his election platform and personal vision for the movement. Milov predicted overwhelming victory for ruling United Russia in city elections. He expects to lose election for his district [...]	2009-08-28 14:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM RS
09MOSCOW2242	DFM RYABKOV: GOR ENERGIZED ON SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP, [...] (C) Summary: In a lengthy and substantive discussion August 26, Ambassador reviewed with DFM Ryabkov a wide range of bilateral issues, including senior USG visits to Moscow in the coming months, high-level engagement on critical summit follow-up issues such as START follow-on and cooperation on [...]	2009-08-28 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW2248	Progress on the Russian International Uranium Enrichment [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy representatives visited the Angarsk Electrolysis Chemical Complex (AECC) uranium enrichment facility on July 15, 2009 and received a briefing in Moscow on August 3, 2009 on the status of the International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC). The briefing was provided by re [...]	2009-08-31 11:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP ENGR IAEA TSPL SENV KZ NO AM UP SW RS
09MOSCOW226	PROVOCATIONS FROM RUSSIAN SECURITY SERVICES [...] (S) Summary. With their usual light touch and unique sense of timing, the security services appear to be tightening the screws on what they see as Russia's internal and foreign enemies along three fronts. First was a confidential letter from the Federal Security Service (FSB) demanding that USA [...]	2009-01-30 15:25:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PGOV PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2262	EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: OJSC RPE KVANT, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a post-shipment verification to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, OJSC RPE Kvant, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS [...]	2009-09-02 05:49:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW2265	(S) NONPAPER DELIVERED: FOLLOW-UP INFORMATION ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-02 06:40:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC MASS SY IR RU
09MOSCOW2277	GAZPROM SAYS PUTIN-TYMOSHENKO "AGREEMENT" JUST [...] (SBU) According to press reports quoting unnamed sources, PM Putin and Ukrainian PM Tymoshenko reached an agreement in their meeting in Poland that Russia would allow Ukraine to buy less gas than it has contracted in exchange for lower transit fees and contracts for Russian nuclear energy comp [...]	2009-09-02 13:24:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2281	DRAFT NEW START TREATY INSPECTION PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-03 11:33:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START US RS
09MOSCOW2294	SENATOR MARGELOV ON COOPERATING, IRAN, [...] (C) Summary. In a September 2 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mikhail Margelov said Russia is hesitant to work outside the P5 plus 1 format when discussing possible sanctions against Iran. Margelov invited Ambassador Beyrle to present U.S. [...]	2009-09-04 05:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AORC IR MARR PARM PGOV PREL RS SU UP
09MOSCOW2295	UKRAINIAN ECONOMIC COUNSELOR DISCUSSES RUSSIA [...] (C) On August 13, econoff paid a courtesy call on Ukrainian Trade and Economic Counselor in Moscow Vladimir Zaritsky. During the meeting, Zaritsky became voluble on the matter of Russia and its "growing impunity in the region," especially as its economic power increases. He expressed concern [...]	2009-09-04 06:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD EPET RS WTO UA
09MOSCOW2296	REGARDLESS OF OPEL DECISION, GM PREPARING TO [...] (C) Despite press histrionics about GM "refusing" to sell to Russians, indications are that -- in one corporate form or another -- GAZ' Nizhny Novgorod plant will start producing GM cars in the next 12-24 months. According to sources at GM CIS, regardless of the GM Board's decision about Opel, [...]	2009-09-04 07:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND EINV RS EU GE
09MOSCOW2298	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON [...] (C) Phil, we're all looking forward to seeing you out here next week. U.S.-Russian relations continue to feel the momentum from the July summit; your visit will be important in sharpening the focus of the Bilateral Presidential Commission and identifying areas where we can collaborate on a br [...]	2009-09-04 10:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM PINR SENV ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW230	MEDVEDEV CALLS BACK NEW LAW ON TREASON FOR [...] (C) Summary: On January 27 Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev ordered his administration to rework legislation submitted by the White House on December 12 containing amendments to the sections of the Criminal Law and Criminal Procedures Codes before the State Duma and Federation Council could [...]	2009-01-30 15:45:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW2305	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. VIEWS ON THE LATEST IAEA [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on September 4 to MFA DVBR Attache Roman Ustinov, who said that Russia considered the latest IAEA report to be "better than the previous two." Noting that Iran had accepted safeguard measures in both Natanz and at the conversion facility in Isfahan, Ustinov [...]	2009-09-04 15:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY TRGY PREL RS
09MOSCOW2312	RUSSIAN BAPTISTS SEEKING MAINSTREAM RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) Summary. The Russian Union of Gospel Christian Baptists (RUGCB) focuses on interfaith cooperation and targeted outreach to Russian elite to overcome mainstream biases toward non-traditional religions. The main venue for their outreach is an annual National Prayer Breakfast, modeled on W [...]	2009-09-08 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2319	APPOINTMENT OF NEW U.S. OSCE MINSK GROUP CO-CHAIR [...] (C) We met with MFA Minsk Group Counselor Yelena Kravchenko September 7 and 8 to discuss reftel announcement. Kravchenko told us Russian Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov remains on leave through the end of the week, but looks forward to receiving Ambassador Bradtke's phone call at his dacha. Best ti [...]	2009-09-08 14:13:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS AJ
09MOSCOW232	WORKING WITH RUSSIA TO STABILIZE AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: The February 10 interagency consultations led by SCA DAS Moon should launch a sustained effort to engage Russia on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia that reduces the zero-sum nature of U.S.-Russian relations in the region and increases the chances of our success in Afghanis [...]	2009-02-02 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MARR SNAR NATO AF RS
09MOSCOW2321	GEORGIA: RUSSIA HAS LOW HOPES FOR SEPTEMBER 17 [...] (C) MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Alexei Dvinyanin told us September 8 that he had just finished all the papers for DFM Karasin to use at the Georgia-South Ossetia/Abkhazia talks in Geneva September 17. He reported that the Russian side expected no breakthroughs, no progress, but ho [...]	2009-09-09 09:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW2324	NONPAPER DELIVERED: JCIC-DIP-09-010: U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-09 13:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KACT PARM START US RS UP BO KZ
09MOSCOW2329	EXBS RUSSIA MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] On August 21st, the EXBS Advisor and EXBS Assistant had a very constructive, positive meeting with the export controls section within the Security and Disarmament Department of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). MFA had contacted the Federal Customs Service, the Ministry of Defens [...]	2009-09-10 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW2330	VENEZUELA TO RECOGNIZE ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH OSSETIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez announced Venezuela's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia during a meeting with Russian President Medvedev in Moscow September 10. The decision was possibly sweetened by the conclusion of a number of agreements to develop energy resources [...]	2009-09-10 14:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV GG RS VZ
09MOSCOW2336	MAGNA/SBERBANK: CLOSER TO ACQUIRING OPEL [...] (C) The Magna/Sberbank bid has cleared the most recent hurdle in acquiring European Opel and received a green light from the GM Board. Approval from the Opel Trust does not appear to be an obstacle. The GOR, however, appears to have unrealistic expectations about the impact of this acquisitio [...]	2009-09-11 11:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND EINV RS GE
09MOSCOW2339	DELIVERY OF THE AFGHANISTAN TRANSIT -- GENERAL [...] (C) We delivered reftel General Authorization Agreement to Nikolay V. Sofinskiy, Deputy Director, Alexey Lisenkov, Counselor, and Alexander Pashedko, Third Secretary, of the MFA's North America department. U.S. Air Force Colonel Ray Schultz, Air Attache, also attended. 2. (S) Sofinskiy wel [...]	2009-09-11 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MARR PREL US RS AF
09MOSCOW2340	MOSCOW CITY DUMA ELECTIONS: STILL EARLY, BUT [...] (C) Summary: On October 11 candidates will compete in elections for all 35 seats in the Moscow City Duma. August 26 was the deadline for submitting signatures, and over the following week the electoral committee proceeded to deny registration to 23 candidates of the 141 candidates competing [...]	2009-09-11 15:19:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2345	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHILD LABOR LISTS & REPORT [...] (U) Per reftel, on September 9 Post delivered a demarche to Nikolai Smirnov of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' North America Department on the release of the Department of Labor's list of goods from countries that the Bureau of International Labor Affairs has reason to believe are produced by [...]	2009-09-14 07:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ELAB ETRD PHUM RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2347	RUSSIA: GLOBAL NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT INVITATION [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-14 10:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KNNP KACT ENRG MNUC PARM RS
09MOSCOW2349	MEDVEDEV'S DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON DEFENSE [...] (U) On September 9, the Duma passed the first reading of President Medvedev's draft amendment the Law on Defense. Medvedev's proposed amendment addresses the operational use of Russia's armed forces outside Russia. Current legislation only allows the use of the armed forces outside Russia fo [...]	2009-09-14 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR MCAP PREL PGOV RS
09MOSCOW2350	POVERTY GROWTH REPORT UNDERESTIMATES THE PROBLEM [...] (C) The number of Russians living in poverty rose for the first time in seven years in the first quarter of 2009. Families with multiple children, single pensioners, and migrant laborers suffered most acutely. Experts and legislative officials accused the government of using an insufficient b [...]	2009-09-14 13:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2353	TNK-BP COO SAYS COMPANY'S FUTURE IS BRIGHT; MODERNIZING RUSSIA'S OIL SECTOR WILL TAKE TIME [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-14 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2354	MEDVEDEV'S CALL FOR REFORM: ANYONE LISTENING? [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev's article "Russia Forward," released on the Internet with little fanfare September 10, launched a vociferous debate among politicians and analysts about the feasibility and probability of the kinds of reforms needed to implement his vision for a more diverse eco [...]	2009-09-14 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2360	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: QUAD DEMARCHE ON GEORGIAN SHIP [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points to MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Alexei Dvinyanin September 14 -- Quad partners had been instructed to deliver the points separately. Dvinyanin welcomed the U.S. engagement with Georgian authorities, and confirmed that the GOR had been weighing on th [...]	2009-09-15 07:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR RS GG GM FR UK
09MOSCOW2361	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MIDDLE EAST ISSUES IN IAEA [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-15 10:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PARM IAEA KNNP IS EG PREL RS
09MOSCOW2366	RUSSIAN ILLEGAL LOGGING -- AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The USG has an opportunity to work with Russia to combat illegal logging, and increasing reasons to do so. Russia contains more of the world's forested area than any other country -- approximately 20 percent -- and between 10 and 30 percent of wood is harvested illegally. Illeg [...]	2009-09-15 11:50:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV EAGR KGHG EAID KCRM SOCI PREL RS
09MOSCOW2367	MAYOR DALEY VISIT: MOSCOW AND CHICAGO PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley, accompanied by advisors and business leaders, visited Moscow September 2-6, 2009. The purpose of the visit included promoting commercial and cultural exchange between the cities, reaffirming the Moscow-Chicago Sister City relationship, and d [...]	2009-09-15 13:43:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2368	EDF TO JOIN SOUTH STREAM? [...] (C/NF) French Embassy Energy Attache Vincent Pringault (protect) confirmed to us on September 15 that Electricite de France (EDF) is negotiating to participate in the South Stream gas pipeline project. Pringault told us that the deal, reported the same morning by Russian daily Kommersant, had [...]	2009-09-15 13:48:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2369	PUTIN ADVISOR USHAKOV: FIND WAYS TO ENGAGE PUTIN [...] (C) Summary: In a brief meeting cut shorter when Ushakov was called away, Prime Minister Putin's foreign policy advisor Ambassador Yuriy Ushakov kept his cards close to his vest on Putin's views about U.S.-Russian relations and issues having a direct impact on those ties, including cooperation [...]	2009-09-16 04:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON RS
09MOSCOW2371	RUSSIAN ANALYSTS TELL A/S GORDON ANTI-AMERICANISM [...] (C) On September 10, prominent Russian analysts and commentators questioned whether Russia's leadership had changed its approach to the U.S. and removed anti-Americanism as a "pillar" of its foreign policy. One analyst expressed her concern that the "reset" in relations would end up like the [...]	2009-09-16 06:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG UP IR AJ AM RS
09MOSCOW2372	ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON'S MEETING WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Shuvalov met with A/S Gordon and the Ambassador on September 9 to discuss bilateral economic cooperation in advance of his trip later this month to Washington and the Pittsburgh G-20 Summit. Shuvalov agreed that the July Summit and the Bilateral Presidentia [...]	2009-09-16 07:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PREL RS WTO
09MOSCOW2373	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER RYABKOV TELLS A/S GORDON [...] (C) In a September 10 meeting with A/S Gordon, Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov said he saw no political barriers in the way of the START Follow-on Treaty or the October meeting of Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Lavrov. He pressed for concluding the composition of the Bilateral Preside [...]	2009-09-16 10:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SENV RS
09MOSCOW2376	HR ACTIVISTS: SURKOV, NORTH CAUCASUS NOT A PRETTY [...] (C) Summary: In a September 9 meeting at the Embassy, human rights activists told Assistant Secretary Gordon the GOR had poured cold water on hopes for a meaningful way forward by appointing Kremlin Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov to represent Russia on the planned bilateral commission on civi [...]	2009-09-16 13:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2378	RUSSIA'S DISSONANT HARMONY IN THE CHORUS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-16 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC IR RS

09MOSCOW2381	MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS ON CUSTOMS UNION [...] (C) Summary: In an attempt to understand the form the Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan Customs Union (RBKCU) will take on its planned implementation day of January 1, 2010 and its potential effect on the external trade of the three countries, post has put together this backgrounder on the Customs [...]	2009-09-17 06:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON PREL RS WTO KZ BO
09MOSCOW2388	DRAFT NEW START TREATY INSPECTION PROTOCOL ANNEXES [...] (S) We delivered draft new START Treaty Inspection Protocol Annexes and Telemetry Protocol (reftels),and the courtesy Russian translation of the Telemetry Protocol, on September 17 to MFA DVBR Second Secretary Dmitriy Kostyuchenko. Kostyuchenko had no substantive comment. 2. (S) We receiv [...]	2009-09-17 11:13:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START US RS
09MOSCOW2389	YOU'VE GOT MAIL - MIND IF WE HAVE A LOOK? [...] (C) Summary: The federal Ministry of Communications and Mass Media has issued a decree allowing eight law enforcement agencies access to citizens' mail and electronic correspondence, and to customer databases of postal and internet services. The decree found opposition inside and outside of t [...]	2009-09-17 11:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW239	RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia will not change its foreign policy goals because of the financial crisis or difficulties in relations with the West and neighbors, according to FM Lavrov in his annual press conference on January 16. Blaming the conflicts in 2008 mostly on the West, Lavrov nonetheless e [...]	2009-02-02 09:52:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2391	RUSSIA AND MD: AWAITING CONFIRMATION [...] (C) Official Moscow took the news that the U.S. would "shelve" MD plans in the Czech Republic and Poland calmly, awaiting an official confirmation. Neither President Medvedev nor PM Putin have commented on the purported decision. Duma, defense, and commentators did not pass up the opportuni [...]	2009-09-17 12:39:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR PL RS
09MOSCOW2393	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING SECURITY COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR STRENGTHENING 1820 RESOLUTION SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN CONFLICT [...] (C) Embassy Moscow delivered reftel points to Nikita Zhukov, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of International Organizations, and First Secretary Galina Khvan of the Department for Humanitarian Cooperation and Human Rights. Second Secretary Anna Evstigneeva of the International Organiz [...]	2009-09-17 13:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PHUM PREL CG IO RS KWMN
09MOSCOW2394	ONDCP INVITATION TO FSKN DIRECTOR IVANOV [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-18 05:53:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR RS
09MOSCOW24	RUSSIAN DEPUTY PERMREP WILL ATTEND SOMALIA PIRACY MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2009-01-09 13:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV UN PTER RS
09MOSCOW240	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN JANUARY 30: [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Grigoriy Karasin told Ambassador January 30 that the GOR hoped for more flexibility and a move away from "unilateralism" by the new Administration. He said, while the international community could discuss the status and future of the region, Georgia neede [...]	2009-02-02 10:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR GG AF KG UP RS
09MOSCOW2400	DELIVERY OF U.S.-PROPOSED NEW START TREATY MEETING [...] (S) We delivered on September 18 the U.S.-proposed new START Treaty meeting schedule (reftel A) to MFA North America director Igor Neverov and, separately, to DVBR Second Secretary Dmitriy Kostyuchenko; neither made any substantive comment of the meting schedule 2. (S) We also delivered to [...]	2009-09-18 14:06:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START RS US
09MOSCOW2401	RUSSIA'S DISSONANT HARMONY IN THE CHORUS ON IRAN [...] (S) We delivered reftel points to Maxim Baranov, Head of the Iranian Desk in the MFA's Second Asia division. He indicated that he would pass the message to the relevant offices within the MFA as well as those attending the upcoming UNGA meetings. Baranov informed us that he planned to attend [...]	2009-09-18 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC IR RS
09MOSCOW2402	RUSSIA SUPPORTS US POSITION ON FAO BUDGET [...] (C) Embassy Moscow delivered reftel points to Valery I. Yudin, Administrative and Budgetary Expert in the MFA's International Organizations Department. Yudin stated that Russia fully supported the U.S. position advocating for zero nominal growth in the FAO budget cycle 2010-2011. He commente [...]	2009-09-18 14:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	FAO EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR UN RS
09MOSCOW2406	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: MXM Hunting Club received the 99 firearms mentioned in reftel on May 14, 2008, and has since sold them. MXM Hunting Club has been owned by Andrey Shelestov since April 2009, although the company has been in business since 2000. The company sells sporting goods, including firea [...]	2009-09-21 08:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC RS
09MOSCOW2409	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: MXM Hunting Club received the 99 firearms mentioned in reftel on May 14, 2008, and has since sold them. MXM Hunting Club has been owned by Andrey Shelestov since April 2009, although the company has been in business since 2000. The company sells sporting goods, including firea [...]	2009-09-21 08:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC RS
09MOSCOW2412	INCORPORATING UKRAINE INTO U.S.-RUSSIA POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is shaping up as a key challenge in U.S.-Russian relations. The risk of serious trouble remains as long as the two governments are at loggerheads, and as long as Russian leaders engage in periodic bouts of historical propaganda aimed at undermining Ukraine's claim to na [...]	2009-09-21 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PNAT PBTS ENRG RS UP
09MOSCOW2413	"CULTURE" IS NO EXCUSE FOR ABUSES [...] (SBU) Meeting with us to discuss a GOR attempt to water down UN Human Rights Council work by introducing a resolution on "respect for traditional values" (reftel),a member of the MFA's Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Cooperation acknowledged deep flaws in Russia's protection of rig [...]	2009-09-21 12:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2416	"RUSSIA, FORWARD!" 10 DAYS LATER: TANDEM [...] (C) Summary: Debate over President Medvedev's "Russia, Forward!" article continues unabated, though focus has turned from content and prospects for realizing his vision to consequences for the tandem. Medvedev's defense of his presidential authority in interviews with foreign correspondents - [...]	2009-09-22 09:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2417	NIZHNIY NOVGOROD HEEDS THE CALL FOR ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary: On the sidelines of meetings of the U.S. - Russia Foundation in Nizhniy Novgorod September 15-16, Ambassador Beyrle emphasized the overall "reset" in U.S.- Russia relations to develop trust by promoting economic cooperation and face-to-face exchanges, a message that local author [...]	2009-09-22 09:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS ECON EFIN PINR
09MOSCOW2419	DELIVERY OF NPT/FMCT POINTS AND AGENDA [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL
09MOSCOW2420	DELIVERY OF U.S. PROPOSALS FOR START FOLLOW-ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-22 14:18:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START RS US
09MOSCOW2437	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR THE AD-HOC [...] (SBU) Embassy Moscow delivered reftel points to A.V. Efimov, Section Chief of the MFA's Middle East and North Africa Division. There was no substantive response. Rubin [...]	2009-09-24 06:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KPAL PGOV WBG EU IS
09MOSCOW2442	DELIVERY OF U.S.-PROPOSED DRAFT START FOLLOW-ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-25 09:13:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START RS US
09MOSCOW2443	RUSSIA SEEKS TO BALANCE ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to Russian MFA Human Rights Department Section Chief Andrey Lanchikov on September 25. Lanchikov said that the GOR had not yet developed an agreed position on the Goldstone report, but commented that the U.S. and Russia shared common positions on the way f [...]	2009-09-25 10:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS RS
09MOSCOW2446	GEORGIA: RUSSIAN VIEW OF SEPTEMBER 17 GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told us that the status question was the biggest obstacle for progress in the September 17 Geneva talks. Russia rejected the co-chairs' drafts in the security working group, as they did not proceed from the starting point of Russian troops a [...]	2009-09-25 11:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW2448	PUTIN'S YAMAL MEETING WITH INTERNATIONAL ENERGY [...] (C) Lack of GOR coordination with Gazprom reportedly preceded PM Putin's September 25 meeting in Yamal with executives from eleven global energy giants. Press reports, industry newsletters and postings on the PM's website provide only general information on the meeting's outcomes without stat [...]	2009-09-25 12:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2450	UNITED RUSSIA POISED TO SWEEP ELECTIONS IN MOSCOW [...] (SBU) Summary: United Russia has a great advantage and is poised to sweep the elections in the Moscow Oblast, where opposition groups have little support and laws are easily broken. The hot button political issues in the October 11 elections are taxes, land distribution, and corruption. End [...]	2009-09-26 13:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR EFIN KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2458	FIVE YEARS AFTER BESLAN, GOR STAYS TIGHT-LIPPED [...] (SBU) Summary: Five years after the Beslan terrorist attack, frustration continues about the GOR's handling of the crisis as it unfolded. While public focus on this issue has dissipated, a small but vocal minority of Russians has continued to agitate for the GOR to open an investigation of wh [...]	2009-09-28 11:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2471	RUSSIAN RESPONSE TO USG PROPOSAL ON NON-MEMBERS IN NPAFC [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-29 14:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS RS
09MOSCOW2483	AMBASSADOR BEFORE FED COUNCIL: "RESET" WITH [...] (C) Summary: On September 21, Ambassador Beyrle addressed the Federation Council's International Relations Committee, highlighting President Obama's visit to Moscow and the importance of developing closer relations between the U.S. and Russia. Questions from committee members focused on how t [...]	2009-09-30 07:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2486	REQUEST TO GOR FOR HELICOPTERS TO UNAMID DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-09-30 11:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO MARR SU RU RS
09MOSCOW2490	STAFFDEL BRUDER VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (SBU) Summary: Senate Staff Delegation Bruder visited Moscow August 31-September 4 to seek ways to sustain momentum in the U.S.-Russian relationship after the successful July 2009 Presidential meeting in Moscow. While Federation Council Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Margelov suggested re [...]	2009-09-30 12:29:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SENV OREP RS
09MOSCOW2494	RUSSIAN RESPONSE ON DPRK'S KOMID PROCURING [...] (S) On September 29, MFA DVBR Second Secretary Alexey Chumichev handed Poloff a non-paper response to Ref A. The non-paper said that Russian firm "Ctroymashintorg" did not and does not have any contacts with the DPRK's KOMID, and asked for any further information we could provide to the GOR [...]	2009-10-01 11:29:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PREL MNUC ETTC RS KN YM
09MOSCOW2496	RUSSIA RESPONDS POSITIVELY TO BURMA POLICY REVIEW [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points and non-paper to MFA Asia-Pacific Region Division Chief Anatoly Borovik on September 30. Borovik said that Russia appreciated the conclusions of the Burma policy review and that USG plans for engagement were a "positive step." Inquiring about the nature of [...]	2009-10-01 12:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM RS
09MOSCOW2497	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUGGESTED LIST OF EQUIPMENT [...] (C) Embassy Moscow delivered the reftel suggested equipment list to Vitaly Rugalyov of the MFA Afghan Desk in the Second Asia Department. Rugalyov said that he would disseminate the list to the appropriate offices in the MFA and the MOD. He indicated that, in order to give the list fair cons [...]	2009-10-01 12:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF RS
09MOSCOW2498	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EXISTENCE OF A COVERT URANIUM [...] (C) Embassy Moscow delivered reftel points to MFA DVBR 1st Secretary Olga Kuznetsova and Attache Roman Ustinov. Kuznetsova said that Russia was awaiting information from the IAEA before determining if Iran had violated its international obligations. Noting that it was unclear when constructio [...]	2009-10-01 12:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR RS
09MOSCOW2499	DOE PDAS ELKIND'S VISIT TO MOSCOW [...] (SBU) DOE Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs, Jonathan Elkind, visited Moscow September 21-22 to meet with his counterparts at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Energy, Science and Education, Economic Development and Natural Resources. As Coordinator for [...]	2009-10-01 12:57:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2504	BELARUSIAN EMBASSY: NO GOR PRESSURE TO RECOGNIZE [...] (C) In a September 25 meeting, Counselor for Political Affairs of the Embassy of Belarus in Moscow Olga Dolgopolova told Poloff that Russia was not pressuring Belarus to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. She insisted that a decision either way on the issue would not a [...]	2009-10-02 10:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BO RS GG
09MOSCOW2509	PUTIN'S YAMAL MEETING OFFERS FEW DETAILS FOR IOCS, [...] (C) According to representatives of international oil companies (IOCs) that attended a meeting with PM Putin to discuss potential development of the gas resources of the Yamal Peninsula (reftel),the event was little more than a "road show." Our contacts said neither Putin nor anyone else fro [...]	2009-10-02 12:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2510	INVITATION DELIVERED TO GOR FOR OCTOBER 14 P-5 [...] (SBU) On October 1, we informed the MFA North America Department and DVBR section about reftel invitation to a luncheon hosted by Special Representative of the President for Nuclear Nonproliferation Ambassador Susan Burk. The GOR had no official response at this time. Beyrle [...]	2009-10-02 12:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC CDG PGOV PREL PARM ENRG KNNP MNUC UNGA
09MOSCOW2512	KIROV: STRONG LEADERSHIP V. TOO MANY PROBLEMS [...] (C) The ailing, industrial economy of Kirov oblast shows little sign that the peak of the crisis has passed. With few exceptions, the region suffers from falling production, low levels of consumption, and inaccessible financing. Local SMEs continue to face heavy administrative burdens and hig [...]	2009-10-02 13:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2518	Did Russia and Georgia both lose the war? [...] (SBU) Summary: Official Russia hailed the EU's report on the August 2008 Georgia war, considering the core conclusion to be that Georgia started the armed hostilities. Duma and Federation Council officials reacted similarly, claiming the report called Russia's actions "legitimate." Analysts [...]	2009-10-02 15:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EU GG RS
09MOSCOW252	GOR SUPPORTS ISAF TRANSIT OF GOODS TO AFGHANISTAN, [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: In response to ref A dipnote, the MFA has indicated that, provided all usual requirements for commercial shipments on Russia's rail network are met, there should be no difficulties with the proposed shipment of non-military goods to ISAF in Afghanistan using [...]	2009-02-02 15:31:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINS MARR MASS RS AF
09MOSCOW2520	U.S.-RUSSIA BUSINESS FRONT AND CENTER AT SOCHI [...] (SBU) Summary: During his trip to Sochi on September 16-18 Ambassador Beyrle attended the Eighth International Sochi Investment Forum (the Forum) where he led a delegation of U.S. executives at a meeting with the Krasnodar Region and Sochi officials. He also visited the main venues and for the [...]	2009-10-05 05:44:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EINV PREL ECON RS
09MOSCOW2522	NEW OPEL RUSSIA: WORKING OUT THE DETAILS [...] (C) It remains unclear how management, production, distribution, or sales will be handled by the Magna/Sberbank consortium, which was selected to purchase European Opel. GM CIS confirmed that both of its Russian production sites (the greenfield factory in St. Petersburg and the joint-venture [...]	2009-10-05 08:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND EINV RS
09MOSCOW2524	YAKUNIN CONSULTANT SEEKS USG SUPPORT FOR NORTHERN [...] (C) We recently met with Consuelo de Haviland (aka Dussya Kostolevskaya),at the introduction of the French Embassy in Moscow. She presented herself as a consultant to Vladimir Yakunin, general director of Russian Railways (RZhD),and RZhD's representative in France. Her purpose in meeting wi [...]	2009-10-05 10:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND EINV ENRG PINR RS
09MOSCOW2527	RUSSIA SUPPORTIVE ON BOSNIA (C-RE9-01807) [...] (C) The Ambassador on October 2 delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Titov, who said that he had already heard broad outlines of the proposal from EU representatives and supported the overall approach. Titov appreciated that the U.S. and Russia shared the same strategi [...]	2009-10-05 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK EU RS
09MOSCOW2528	GAZPROM'S REVERSAL OF FORTUNE, PART ONE [...] (U) This is the first of a two-part report on the new economic realities facing Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas sector giant. ------- summary ------- 2. (SBU) Far from reaching its ambitions of becoming "the most valuable company in the world," Gazprom's fortunes have reversed dramatically in [...]	2009-10-06 11:02:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2529	ASD/ISA VERSHBOW'S SEPTEMBER 30 VISIT TO MOSCOW: [...] (C) SUMMARY: During consultations with GOR officials on September 30, Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow discussed ways to implement bilateral cooperation in a number of key areas of mutual interest. Both sides praised progress since t [...]	2009-10-06 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR RS IR AF UP GG
09MOSCOW253	RUSSIA CONSIDERING EXPENSIVE PATH TO FREE-FLOATING [...] (C) Summary. The ruble will almost certainly breach the level at which the Central Bank (CBR) has pledged to intervene to prevent further depreciation tomorrow. Experts are divided as to whether the Central Bank will implement its pledge to intervene. One school of thought holds that the r [...]	2009-02-02 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON RS
09MOSCOW2530	POLLSTERS EXPLAIN MEDVEDEV AND "TEFLON VLAD'S" [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Moscow polling firms told PolOff that Prime Minister Putin and President Medvedev are almost certain to maintain high public opinion ratings--barring a calamity--due largely in part to Putin's almost mythical status, reinforcing the consensus that Putin remain [...]	2009-10-06 14:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2531	MEDVEDEV, PUTIN, AND RUSSIA'S IRAN POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite Russian President Medvedev's September 24 remarks that sanctions against Iran might be necessary, other government officials and experts here caution that Russia will remain, for the time being, reluctant to pursue a tougher line against Tehran. The consensus among the R [...]	2009-10-06 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS IR
09MOSCOW2537	AmbassadorQs Meeting with Chief Justice Lebedev [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-07 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID KJUS PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2538	RUSSIA'S CHUKOTKA REGION YEARNS FOR A BERINGIA PARK AND AN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Russian government is advocating for stronger economic, scientific, and cultural ties between its easternmost province of Chukotka and Alaska (ref A). The poster child for these aspirations, a "shared heritage area" -- in effect, a bilateral national parks partnership -- spann [...]	2009-10-07 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SENV CVIS ECON TSPL SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2539	WORKER SAFETY PROGRAM SHIFTS FROM REACTION TO [...] (SBU) Recent GOR statistics show modest progress in ensuring worker safety but also underscore the need for continued improvement. In 2008, over 50 percent of Russian workers labored in conditions that were dangerous to their health, according to a report on worker safety published by the Mi [...]	2009-10-07 13:09:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW254	DISSENTERS' DAY EVENTS IN MOSCOW RALLY CROWDS FOR, [...] (SBU) Summary: January 31 Dissenters' Day rallies in Moscow proved a failure for democratic and radical opposition groups, which focused more on attracting press coverage than domestic support. Not a single major leader of the liberal democratic opposition appeared at the amateurish "flash mob [...]	2009-02-02 15:55:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RS
09MOSCOW2541	GAZPROM'S REVERSAL OF FORTUNE PART TWO; COMEBACK UNLIKELY [...] (U) This is part two of a two-part cable on the new economic realities facing Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas sector giant. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Gazprom faces many external and internal constraints to renewed growth, following a dismal year in which all main indicators of its perform [...]	2009-10-07 13:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2542	BELYKH FACES ROUGH YEAR AHEAD IN KIROV [...] (C) Summary: Our September 23-25 visit to Kirov revealed a newly-settled government slowly expanding its influence within the region. Strict limitations placed on Governor Belykh and his staff by local security services six months ago appear to have eased significantly, and the new government remai [...]	2009-10-08 06:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2543	PUTIN CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin issued Resolution #761, which calls for Russian restrictive, non-science-based sanitary/phytosanitary (SPS) measures to be harmonized with international norms. However, the details of Resolution #716's implementation remain unclear as officials i [...]	2009-10-08 06:47:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON RS
09MOSCOW2548	GOR CLAIMS DIPLOMATIC COURIERS IN KABUL OBSTRUCTED [...] (C) On October 8, MFA North American Desk Second Secretary Sergey Kuznetsov passed us a nonpaper detailing GOR complaints that their diplomatic couriers in Kabul were stopped and searched by a private security firm at Kabul Arport on October 5. He added that FM Lavrov may raise this issue wit [...]	2009-10-08 11:42:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ADPM ASEC RS AF
09MOSCOW2550	MFA CONTENT WITH EU REPORT ON AUGUST 2008 CONFLICT [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told visiting EUR/RUS desk officer that Russia was content with the EU's Report on the Conflict in Georgia. Major takeaways included that the August 7-8 aggression had been undertaken by Georgia, and that, in attacking peaceful South Ossetia [...]	2009-10-08 12:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS EU GG
09MOSCOW2551	MFA ON RUSSIA-GEORGIA [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Deputy Director Dvinyanin told visiting EUR/RUS desk officer that the Geneva talks on South Ossetia and Abkhazia need to become more productive and produce recommendations that the UN or OSCE could approve. Georgia needs to sign non-use of force agreements with the b [...]	2009-10-08 12:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW2555	EXBS RUSSIA MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE [...] A US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) delegation visited Russia September 11-23 to deliver a groundbreaking seminar and to hold meetings with Russian officials on a variety of strategic issues. This was the first time in many years that a senior-ranking member of CBP has led a group to Rus [...]	2009-10-09 11:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW2559	TOMSK: ANN ARBOR ON THE STEPPE - BUT CYNICISM [...] (SBU) Summary: As a university town and a former SPS bastion, Tomsk has a small but stable liberal electorate, and shows greater press freedom and tolerance for foreigners than many other regions in Russia. This press freedom has had little influence on local politics; most articles exposing [...]	2009-10-09 11:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2560	RELIABLE COMMERCIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION: AN ABSENT [...] (SBU) An unpredictable legal system, specifically as it relates to resolving business disputes, has undermined foreign (and domestic) investor confidence in Russia. Some investors have focused on international arbitration and private dispute resolution to resolve commercial disputes involving [...]	2009-10-09 11:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL RS
09MOSCOW2564	RUSSIA: NON-PAPER ON ARAB-ISRAELI PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) At a meeting with EUR DAS Dan Russell October 12, MFA North America Acting Director Oleg Burmistrov passed the U.S. a non-paper on the Israeli-Arab conflict resolution. A scan of the non-paper has been e-mailed to EUR/RUS. An unofficial translation follows below. 2. (C) Unofficial tr [...]	2009-10-12 11:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KISR IS RS
09MOSCOW2567	DAS RUSSELL'S SEPTEMBER 28 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin told visiting DAS Dan Russell September 28 that the U.S. decision on missile defense created trust in the U.S.' "reset" intentions with Russia, although U.S.-Russia cooperation in some areas of the post-Soviet space would not be easy. The Russian [...]	2009-10-13 06:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG UP MD AM AJ BO
09MOSCOW2571	TULA REGIONAL ELECTIONS: UNITED RUSSIA CUTS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: With new, less democratic voting rules in place, Tula Oblast elections were held October 11. Discussions with opposition party groups revealed that United Russia has a firm grip on the region and United Russia-backed governor Viacheslav Dudka had already orchestrated a massive [...]	2009-10-13 14:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2579	START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, MOSCOW (SFO-MOSCOW): [...] (U) This is SFO-MOS-001. 2. (U) Meeting Date: October 12, 2009 Time: 10:05 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The first meeting of the two delegations to the START Follow-on (SFO) Treaty ne [...]	2009-10-14 15:36:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	JCIC KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START
09MOSCOW2586	ACTIVISTS ON PODRABINEK AND WHERE THE FAULT LINES [...] (C) Summary: At a roundtable gathering at Spaso House, a group of leading activists told the Ambassador that they continued to face an uphill battle in their work to promote civic freedoms. They said that their relationship with conservatives inside and outside of the GOR remained adversarial [...]	2009-10-15 14:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2600	START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, MOSCOW (SFO-MOSCOW): [...] (U) This is SFO-MOS-002. 2. (U) Meeting Date: October 13, 2009 Time: 4:10 P.M. - 6:10 P.M. Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The second meeting of the START Follow-on (SFO) delegations was held at the Minis [...]	2009-10-16 13:38:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START
09MOSCOW2602	DUMA THEATRICS: OPPOSITION STAGES WALK OUT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, deputies from all three "nominal" opposition parties of the State Duma, typically moderate in their criticism of the Russian government, walked out of the State Duma's plenary session in protest over vote rigging during October 11 local elections across Russia an [...]	2009-10-16 14:54:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2603	Ambassador and NASA Administrator Attend Launch and Docking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From September 28 through October 3, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden traveled to Russia and Kazakhstan for the first time as the NASA Administrator to participate in the launch and docking activities for the Soyuz 20S (TMA-16) flight to the International Space Station (ISS). [...]	2009-10-19 04:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA KNNP ENGR TSPL SENV PREL KZ RS
09MOSCOW2605	FEDERATION COUNCIL CHAIR MIRONOV ON RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary: In an October 15 meeting with the Ambassador, Federation Council Chairman and Just Russia political party head Sergey Mironov offered frank analysis of recent national elections, as well as focused criticism of the ruling United Russia party. Just Russia is not considered to repre [...]	2009-10-19 09:26:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2607	START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, MOSCOW (SFO-MOSCOW): [...] (U) This is SFO-MOS-003. 2. (U) Meeting Date: October 14, 2009 Time: 10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M. Place: MFA Guest House (Osobnyak),Moscow ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) The third meeting of the START Follow-on (SFO) delegations was held at the Guest [...]	2009-10-19 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START
09MOSCOW2608	SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S ENERGY CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) In separate meetings with Ambassador Morningstar, representatives from TNK-BP, Rosneft, and the MFA independently indicated that the recent financial crisis has opened up opportunities for greater foreign participation in Russia's hydrocarbon sector. Each noted the impact of lower Europea [...]	2009-10-20 05:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2609	HAS THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY BOTTOMED OUT? [...] (SBU) President Medvedev recently announced that the worst of the recession was over, but real losses suffered by the economy were more severe than anticipated. The industrial sector, particularly the single-company towns, was hard hit, with unemployment remaining at an unprecedented high. Me [...]	2009-10-20 05:40:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV RS
09MOSCOW2611	U/S BURNS' OCTOBER 12 MEETING WITH DFM KARASIN [...] (C) Summary. Deputy Foreign Minister Karasin told Under Secretary Burns October 12 that Presidents Sargsian and Aliyev had made little progress in their recent talks on Nagorno-Karabakh. Russia does not consider a joint statement on the recent Turkey-Armenia protocol necessary. The Minsk G [...]	2009-10-20 12:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG UP MD AM AJ TU AF TI KG KZ
09MOSCOW2614	SEPTEMBER 2009 FRAUD SUMMARY - MOSCOW [...] (U) SUMMARY: This report covers the timeframe of March 1, 2009 to 31 August 2009. Consular officers referred 389 cases of suspected fraud to the Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) at Embassy Moscow. Fraud was confirmed in approximately 12 percent of the referred cases, mostly for fraudulent emplo [...]	2009-10-20 13:33:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC RU
09MOSCOW2618	ANTI-JEHOVAH'S WITNESS CAMPAIGN ENTERS NEW PHASE [...] (C) Summary: A recent Gorno-Altaysk court ruling that Jehovah's Witness publications are "extremist" adds a new layer of complication to persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses throughout the country. Harassment and court cases continue apace, and the fact that the only two recent court decisions [...]	2009-10-21 11:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2619	POPULAR PUTIN CAN'T HELP GOVERNOR AND UNITED [...] (C) Summary: A two-day visit to the upper Volga city of Saratov gave us the opportunity to hear about the "power vertical," by which federal government and United Russia political party authorities exercise control over oblast-level activities. The very top-down approach to decision-making ha [...]	2009-10-21 11:28:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2620	UNION COALITION TO REPORT WORKERS' RIGHTS [...] (C) An independent coalition of Russian unions plans to submit a complaint to the International Labor Organization (ILO) regarding alleged freedom of association violations at various industrial, educational, and service enterprises, including Ford Motor Company and General Motors (GM). The I [...]	2009-10-21 12:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2623	LANDSLIDE FOR UNITED RUSSIA IN MOSCOW, TULA, [...] (SBU) Summary: The ruling United Russia party dominated October 11 elections across Russia, thanks to the government's high ratings, its use of overwhelming administrative resources, and voting irregularities in the party's favor. Although official results for the Moscow City Duma elections [...]	2009-10-21 14:17:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2624	RUSSIA-CHINA GAS DEAL UNLIKELY TO RESULT IN [...] (C) A gas "deal" signed during PM Putin's recent trip to China is very unlikely to result in significant gas flows from Russia to China anytime soon. Obstacles to Russian gas deliveries include a lack of transportation infrastructure, a lack of agreement on the price of gas, and a lack of dev [...]	2009-10-21 14:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS CH
09MOSCOW2629	STAGE SET FOR RESOLVING TELENOR-FRIDMAN TELECOM [...] (C) On October 5, Norwegian government-owned Telenor and Russian-controlled Altimo announced the creation of a new mobile operator, potentially ending a half-decade feud over control of their current joint venture, Vimpelcom. Telenor's Corporate Affairs Director in Russia called this a positiv [...]	2009-10-22 11:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ECPS ETRD RS EINV BEXP
09MOSCOW2641	MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) PAPER [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-23 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR BR
09MOSCOW2643	SAKHAROV PRIZE "BITTERSWEET" FOR ORLOV, MEMORIAL [...] (SBU) On October 22, the European Parliament awarded its annual Sakharov Prize to the rights group Memorial, specifically activists Oleg Orlov, Lyudmila Alekseyeva, and Sergey Kovalev. This is the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union that the prize, which includes a cash award of 50, [...]	2009-10-23 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW265	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE STOPS SHIPMENTS OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) has halted trade of U.S. pet food, animal feed and animal feed additives as of January 1, 2009. VPSS officials have advised that trade can resume only after USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Se [...]	2009-02-03 13:05:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW2651	VOLGOGRAD: STING OF FINANCIAL CRISIS SOFTENED BY [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-26 14:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM PINR KCOR RS
09MOSCOW2652	RUSSIAN FEDERAL CUSTOMS SERVICE DROPS LAWSUIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation announced on October 22 that it had dropped its USD 22.5 billion RICO lawsuit against the Bank of New York Mellon (BONY),filed in the Moscow City Arbitration Court, in exchange for BONY paying USD 14 million to Russia to cove [...]	2009-10-26 14:47:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV RS
09MOSCOW2653	MURDERED INGUSHETIYA OPPOSITIONIST BURIED AS [...] (SBU) Former Ingushetiya oppositionist Maksharip Aushev was buried October 26 according to strict Muslim practice, one day after he died in a hail of gunfire October 25 while driving near Nalchik, the capital of the northern Caucasian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. Ingushetiya president Yu [...]	2009-10-27 04:49:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2658	START FOLLOW-ON NEGOTIATIONS, MOSCOW (SFO-MOSCOW): [...] (U) This is SFO-MOS-004. 2. (U) Meeting Dates: October 12 and 14, 2009 Times: 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.; 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Place: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Osobnyak, Moscow ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (S) During two receptions - October 12 and October 14 [...]	2009-10-27 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT MARR PARM PREL RS US START
09MOSCOW266	(C) EXXONMOBIL TELLS AMBASSADOR POLITICS HOLDING [...] (C) ExxonMobil Russia President Stephen Terni (protect) and ExxonMobil's Sakhalin 1 project manager Zeljko Runje (protect) told the Ambassador on January 31 that GOR refusal to approve project budgets has halted development of new Sakhalin 1 fields. Runje said Deputy Energy Minister Stanislav [...]	2009-02-03 14:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW267	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE DELISTS 9 MORE U.S. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that 9 additional U.S. pork facilities will be delisted as of February 10 ostensibly due to clerical errors found on documentation that accompanied meat shipments to Russia. [...]	2009-02-03 16:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW268	WHY MEDVEDEV MATTERS [...] (C) Summary: While Prime Minister Putin remains the linchpin within the Russian leadership, it is President Medvedev whose success as a political leader can tip the balance of power towards the elite faction that supports Russia's political and economic modernization. A series of crises hav [...]	2009-02-04 08:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2686	IRF REACTIONS: MFA GETS NASTY, ROC NICE [...] (C) Reactions to the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report (IRF) varied among official entities, indicating that not all of Russian officialdom had compared talking points before hitting the airwaves. In a scathing communique, the MFA sneered that "it seems that the authors decided not [...]	2009-10-29 14:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2687	SUDAN STRATEGY ROLLOUT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2009-10-30 10:42:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SU RS
09MOSCOW2688	IS STALINâ€™S GHOST A THREAT TO ACADEMIC FREEDOM? [...] (C) Summary: Efforts to sanitize Stalin's role in Soviet history may be potentially damaging to academic freedom and linked to GOR efforts to increase authoritarian rule. Although some recent incidents have caused concern among human rights monitors, thus far GOR efforts to enlist academics to help [...]	2009-10-30 11:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2690	U.S. EXPLORES ENVIRONMENTAL CRIMES COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two conferences organized the week of October 2 in Vladivostok and Moscow highlighted both the importance of and challenges to increasing U.S.-Russian cooperation on environmental crimes. A 2007 prosecution of an Amcit for illegal hunting in Kamchatka failed in part because of [...]	2009-10-30 12:27:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV KCRM KJUS PGOV PHUM PREL CH RS
09MOSCOW2693	GOR RESPONSE TO CHILD LABOR LISTS [...] (U) Per reftel, on September 9 Post delivered a demarche to Nikolai Smirnov, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' North America Department, on the release of the Department of Labor's list of goods from countries that the Bureau of International Labor Affairs has reason to belie [...]	2009-10-30 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2696	U.S.-RUSSIA ARMS CONTROL AND INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the inaugural meeting of the U.S.-Russia Binational Commission's Arms Control and International Security Working Group, held October 12 in Moscow, U/S Tauscher and Russian D/FM Ryabkov reviewed Missile Defense, nonproliferation issues, CFE, and START. Lt General O'Reilly of th [...]	2009-10-30 16:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KCFE KNNP KTIA PARM PREL START RS US

09MOSCOW2697	U.S. EMBASSY MOSCOW'S TOURIST VISA VALIDATION STUDY: A [...] SUMMARY: This is the first installment of a quarterly rolling validation study of B1/B2 tourist visas issued by U.S. Embassy Moscow covering the period of March 2008 to May 2008. It is our intent to track adverse incident rates of travelers who were issued visas over a fairly tumultuous econ [...]	2009-11-02 04:40:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC RU
09MOSCOW2708	RUSSIA WILL SUPPORT OIC ON "DEFAMATION OF [...] (C) Summary: In response to our demarche per reftel A, MFA representative Natalia Zolotova told us that Russia planned to support the "defamation of religions" resolution sponsored by the Organization of the Islamic Conference in the UN General Assembly. Zolotova said that absolute free speech [...]	2009-11-02 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2709	NONPAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-02 14:50:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	BR ETTC FR KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA
09MOSCOW271	MORE AUDITS OF U.S. MEAT AND POULTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) requested via official letter that the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) organize another joint audit of U.S. pork, beef, and poultry facilities that are eligible to export to Russia begin [...]	2009-02-04 14:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW2710	MFA OFFICIAL SAYS NORTH KOREA WILLING TO RETURN TO [...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA Koreas Division Director Alexander Minaev said that recent Chinese and Russian overtures and the political heat of UN sanctions have made North Korea more willing to return to multiparty talks, although the regime may require a face-saving measure to do so. Eager to [...]	2009-11-02 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KN RS
09MOSCOW2711	RUSSIA PONDERING NEXT STEPS IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Moscow discussed Russia's Afghanistan policy with Vitaly Rugalyov of the MFA Afghan Desk in the Second Asia Department. He indicated that Russia remained committed to building a stable Afghanistan, although much depended on the new government and the U.S. strategy that w [...]	2009-11-02 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF RS
09MOSCOW2712	RUSSIAN STEPS TO EXPAND ODA PROGRAMS [...] (U) This is an action request cable. Please see paragraph 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) In 2007, then-President Putin called for the expansion of the GOR's Official Development Assistance (ODA) system, including the development of bilateral assistance programming. Putin mandate [...]	2009-11-02 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EIND ELAB PGOV PREL RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2714	RUSSIAN MFA ON TRANSNISTRIA [...] (C) Summary. Transnistria Conflict Negotiator Nesterushkin told us that the November 6 talks on Transnistria would be an important first contact between the conflict parties, but expressed concerns about the October 6 "3 plus 2" meeting in Vienna. He said U.S. suggestions at that meeting to [...]	2009-11-02 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS MD
09MOSCOW2715	PUTIN'S SOUTH STREAM WISHES UNLIKELY TO COME TRUE [...] (C) PM Putin stated during a meeting with Italian PM Berlusconi that the proposed South Stream gas pipeline could be completed before the proposed Nord Stream gas pipeline. His statement followed agreement by Turkey to allow South Stream feasibility studies in its Black Sea waters, and agreeme [...]	2009-11-02 15:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2719	GOR GIVES, GETS LITTLE FROM ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) Summary. During the October 27-29 visit to Moscow of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa, several bilateral cooperation and trade agreements were signed, but the meetings did not conclude with the GOR granting any substantive arms deals, nor did President Correa recognize the breakaway r [...]	2009-11-03 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS EC
09MOSCOW2720	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GOLDSTONE REPORT [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche to Russian MFA Human Rights Department Section Chief Andrey Lanchikov on November 3. There was no substantive response. Beyrle [...]	2009-11-03 12:21:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PTER RS IS KPAL
09MOSCOW2721	UKRAINIAN FM URGES MOSCOW TO TALK TO YUSHCHENKO [...] (C) Summary. The MFA told us that visiting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Poroshenko urged Russia to resume contact with Ukraine at the presidential level, although both sides agreed there was no need for a "reset" in relations. Economic cooperation dominated the brief meeting, while pundits dis [...]	2009-11-03 12:38:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG RS UP
09MOSCOW2722	MOSCOW'S CHINESE DIASPORA A WIN-WIN FOR RUSSIA AND [...] 4 (b). Â [...]	2009-11-03 12:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KCOR SMIG TIP RS
09MOSCOW2723	INTEL'S CRYPTO IMPORTATION WAIVER: LESS THAN A [...] (C) Summary: Intel representatives recently briefed us on the waiver it received to import 1,000 encrypted platforms for the development of software. Intel was able to by-pass the cumbersome licensing process by engaging in high-level lobbying and capitalizing on Russia's desire to become a "know [...]	2009-11-03 13:56:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EINV ECON PREL RS WTO
09MOSCOW2724	PAPER DELIVERED: JCIC AGREEMENT ON THE EXCHANGE [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-03 14:20:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	KACT PARM START RS US KZ UP BO
09MOSCOW2728	BOSNIA: RESPONSE TO BUTMIR PACKAGE AND LAVROV'S [...] (C) The MFA's BiH desk officer Ivan Gorbunov told us on November 3 that Russia rejected the U.S.-EU Butmir Package and saw it as new conditionality to the Office of High Representative's (OHR's) transition and beyond the scope of international consensus. He challenged our assessment on the i [...]	2009-11-03 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BK RS
09MOSCOW2729	PAPER DELIVERED: MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-05 05:21:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MTCRE ETTC KSCA MNUC PARM TSPA FR RS
09MOSCOW2731	MEDVEDEV'S TEAM REMAINS SMALL, CONSIDERING RISKY [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev's recent reorganization of the Presidential Administration (PA) was a tiny step toward strengthening his team, but the possible creation of a separate, presidentially-controlled "parallel vertical of power" risked damaging the established balance of power betw [...]	2009-11-05 12:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2732	GM'S DECISION TO RETAIN OPEL STUNS THE RUSSIANS [...] (C) The GM Board's decision to retain Opel and not sell to the Sberbank/Magna consortium has come as an unpleasant surprise to the Kremlin. Some GOR officials believe the USG, not GM, made the decision for political rather than economic reasons. Sberbank and Russian labor unions have not yet [...]	2009-11-05 12:55:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2734	RUSSIA: MOVING BEYOND BILATERAL ISSUES, MILIBAND [...] (C) During Foreign Secretary Miliband's November 1-2 visit, he put an end to the "period of standoff," but had little concrete to show for his visit. In pushing a new framework for cooperation, he set aside the most contentious issues and focused primarily on the international agenda during his mee [...]	2009-11-05 17:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD SENV IR AF UK RS
09MOSCOW2735	GOR CONTINUES STOP-GAP BUSINESS MODEL [...] (C) Recent interventions in Pikalevo and Tolyatti demonstrated the GOR's commitment to preventing social unrest but also highlighted its failure to address the underlying problems facing Russian industry. After the enterprises of the Pikalevo production chain were unable to reach a new produc [...]	2009-11-06 06:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EIND ELAB PGOV RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2737	RUSSIA-GEORGIA: FAILED BORDER CROSSING TALKS, [...] (C) Summary. Georgian Charge Shugarov said the Russia-Georgia talks on opening the Qazbegi-Larsi border post between Russia and Georgia failed because Russia insisted all legal documents governing Georgian border traffic had to be redone because Georgia had departed the CIS. Shugarov could [...]	2009-11-06 08:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV GG RS AM
09MOSCOW2738	A POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH ON SCHNEERSON COLLECTION [...] (C) Summary: Russian MFA Special Culture Representative Mikhail Shvydkoy told us that the GOR might be willing to consider a compromise solution to the bilateral impasse over the Schneerson Collection. According to the compromise, the Library of Congress would write a letter requesting Schnee [...]	2009-11-06 11:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI SCUL KIRF KJUS RS
09MOSCOW2747	RUSSIA: POLISH PM SIKORSKI REOPENS OLD FIGHTS [...] (SBU) Russian media and officials are concerned with Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski's November 4 comments to the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. In particular, they noted Sikorski's request for U.S. forces on the ground in Poland to "protect against Russian aggression" a [...]	2009-11-06 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PL RS
09MOSCOW2748	ARRESTS IN MARKELOV MURDER BOOST GOR [...] (C) Summary: Authorities have arrested two suspects in the January 20 murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova. The suspects were allegedly members of an ultranationalist group known as Unified Brigade 88, who murdered Markelov as revenge [...]	2009-11-06 15:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS RS
09MOSCOW2749	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER TO [...] (C) Summary. Director Mueller: Your engagement with Russia's top law enforcement and security service officials is a tangible sign that U.S.-Russian relations are improving markedly after hitting bottom in the summer of 2008. Recent visits by President Obama and Secretary Clinton have demonstrated [...]	2009-11-09 05:18:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PINS PREL PTER SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2751	EXBS: RUSSIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - OCTOBER [...] Begin summary: BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: EXBS has been approached by Russian Central Customs Administration (Moscow) to support an IVP to US ports of entry. EXBS is working with CBP and ICE on this visit. A new Russian federal agency, Rosgranitsa, has also asked [...]	2009-11-09 13:03:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW2754	INFORMATION ON SECURITY DIALOGUE WITH RUSSIA [...] (SBU) The USG and GOR have four existing, formal mechanisms for conducting security dialogues with the Russian Federation; all four are scheduled yearly. 1) Joint Staff Talks (JSTs): This event is hosted annually by U.S. Joint Staff J-5 or the GOR Chief of the Main OPS Directorate on a rotational [...]	2009-11-09 15:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR
09MOSCOW2755	RUSSIAN MFA ON MOLDOVA ELECTIONS, TRANSNISTRIA, [...] (C) Summary. The MFA said that in late October, Moscow had urged Moldovan Communist Party leader Voronin and presidential hopeful Lupu to compromise in the November 10 Moldovan presidential election, without proposing specific details for any agreement. Still, Russian officials believed the [...]	2009-11-09 15:52:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN RS MD
09MOSCOW2756	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NII PM, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, NII PM (The Research Institute of Applied Mechanics named after Academ [...]	2009-11-10 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW2757	NIZHNIY NOVGOROD: TRANSFORMING RUSSIA'S DETROIT [...] (C) Summary: This year's Nizhniy Novgorod Scientific and Industrial Forum focused on President Medvedev's "Five I's" (innovation, investment, intellect, infrastructure and institutions). Nizhniy Novgorod Governor Shantsev, perceived to be business friendly and well connected to the Kremlin, [...]	2009-11-10 13:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EIND RS
09MOSCOW2764	RUSSIA ON DONATIONS TO AFGHANISTAN: WE ALREADY [...] (C) Summary: Embassy Moscow met with Ali Mustafabeily, Deputy Director of the MFA's Second Asia Department, to discuss Russia's contributions to stabilizing Afghanistan. Mustafabeily stressed that the GOR was doing what it could financially and reiterated Moscow's preference for commercial t [...]	2009-11-10 14:53:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AF RS
09MOSCOW2765	DESPITE USD 6 BILLION 2Q09 PROFITS, GAZPROM FACES [...] (C) Gazprom announced a doubling of its profits in the second quarter of 2009 following anemic first quarter earnings. However, falling demand as well as rising operational costs and debt pose longer-term challenges to the company's competitiveness. Experts warn that more efficient companies [...]	2009-11-10 14:57:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2766	NONPAPER DELIVERED: NEXT ROUND OF U.S.-RUSSIA [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-10 15:06:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	MTCRE PARM ETTC TSPA IR KN RS
09MOSCOW2767	PAPER DELIVERED: COMMEMORATING THE SUCCESS OF THE [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-10 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START RS US KZ UP BO
09MOSCOW2768	U.S. PROPOSED TEXT FOR A U.S.-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT ON [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-10 15:09:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM KACT START RS US KZ UP BO
09MOSCOW2772	SMOOTH RUNNING VERTICAL OF POWER IN KRASNODAR [...] (C) Summary: Longtime Governor Aleksandr Tkachev's efficient, heavy-handed control of Krasnodar Krai has helped the conservative region achieve and preserve political and economic stability, partially by undermining competitors during his first few years in office and preventing potential ch [...]	2009-11-10 15:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAGR PINR PHUM ETRD KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2778	CRIME(FIGHTING) DOESN'T PAY FOR BLOGGING POLICEMAN [...] (C) Summary: Novorossisk police Major Aleksey Dymovskiy's November 5 and 10 online video postings, where he accused local police chiefs of illegal and immoral actions, has touched a raw nerve in Russia, where trust in police is already low. Police officials, human rights activists, and journ [...]	2009-11-12 12:15:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	KCOG KDEM KJUS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS
09MOSCOW2779	UNITED RUSSIA'S NEXT STEPS AFTER TAINTED REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-12 12:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW278	RUSSIA WELCOMES PRESIDENT OBAMA BUT FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary. Russia will not change its foreign policy goals because of the financial crisis or difficulties in relations with the West and neighbors, according to FM Lavrov in his annual press conference on January 16. Blaming the conflicts in 2008 mostly on the West, Lavrov nonetheless e [...]	2009-02-05 14:14:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2780	LAVROV CALLS FOR OHR TRANSITION, LEAVES [...] (C) Russian FM Lavrov pressed for completion of outstanding "5 plus 2" conditions, and discussed trade and Soviet-era debt during his November 5 visit to Sarajevo. Lavrov was very critical of the Butmir package, and told the parties that it was outside of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC [...]	2009-11-12 14:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD BK RS
09MOSCOW2781	MEDVEDEV'S ANNUAL ADDRESS: POLITICAL FOCUS ON [...] (C) Summary: President Medvedev's second annual address to a joint session of the State Duma and Federation Council today built upon the intellectual foundation he had already laid in his September article "Russia, Forward!" (Ref A). Repeatedly citing the article and specific proposals from the [...]	2009-11-12 15:31:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2782	MEDVEDEV'S ANNUAL ADDRESS: ECONOMIC FOCUS SHOWS [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to his 2008 address, in which he focused first and foremost on foreign policy, the war with Georgia and harsh criticism of the United States, the overwhelming focus of Medvedev's November 12 annual address was on domestic shortcomings and the need to take steps to addr [...]	2009-11-12 15:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2784	"NO TANGIBLE RESULTS" ON SOUTH STREAM DURING [...] (SBU) Following Prime Minister Putin's meeting with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, media reports cited Austrian "backing" of the proposed South Stream gas pipeline project. As is often the case, however, the reports appear to have been overblown. The visit did not produce any f [...]	2009-11-13 10:32:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS AU
09MOSCOW2787	IPR WORKING GROUP MEETING: MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) Emboffs recently met with Ministry of Economic Development (MED) Deputy Minister Stanislav Voskresenskiy to discuss the upcoming U.S. ) Russia IPR Working Group meeting, scheduled to take place in Washington, DC on November 16. Voskresenskiy emphasized that over the last year, Russia's re [...]	2009-11-13 14:46:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KIPR RS WTO
09MOSCOW2788	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF SRAP HOLBROOKE, NOVEMBER [...] (C) Ambassador Holbrooke, your visit to Moscow provides an opportunity to gain buy-in on our Afghan strategy with a key partner with both close-in experience and wide-ranging interests in Afghanistan. The GOR is looking for genuine consultations on regional strategy and needs to be convinced [...]	2009-11-13 15:16:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID AF RS
09MOSCOW28	TALKS RESUME ON GAS IMPASSE; STILL NO AGREEMENT ON [...] (C) Gazprom's Aleksei Miller and Naftohaz's Oleh Dubyna met January 9 Sochi and will continue talks in Moscow January 10 (with participation of EC reps) on steps to resume Russian gas deliveries to Europe. The Russian and Ukrainian sides have agreed in principle to establishing a multilateral [...]	2009-01-12 07:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW280	RUSSIA'S CANDIDACY FOR RE-ELECTION TO UN HUMAN [...] (SBU) U.S. Embassy Moscow has received a diplomatic note dated February 2 requesting U.S. support for Russia's reelection to the UN Human Rights Council UNHRC) for a second three-year term. The note pointed out that the five permanent members of the Security Council generally support each ot [...]	2009-02-05 15:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR RS
09MOSCOW2800	RUSSIA SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL ON IRAN, [...] (C) Deputy Russian Security Council Secretary Vladimir Nazarov told NSC Russia Director Solomon November 5 the Russian leadership is committed to concluding the START follow-on negotiations before the treaty expires in December. On Iran, Nazarov believes the U.S. and Russia have a "common la [...]	2009-11-18 11:07:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PARM PGOV PREL MNUC IS RS IR
09MOSCOW2809	RUSSIAN REACTION TO NON-PAPER ON U.S.-RUSSIA SPACE SECURITY [...] (U) ESTH Counselor met with the representatives of the Security and Disarmament Division of the MFA on November 12 and delivered the non-paper and talking points conveyed reftel B. Our interlocutors were pleased by the interest of the USG in advancing the space security dialogue, requested mo [...]	2009-11-18 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPA NASA TSPL PREL RS UNPUOS
09MOSCOW281	CSTO ESTABLISHES RAPID REACTION FORCE [...] (U) On February 4 the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) agreed at a summit in Moscow to establish the Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF),to be based in Russia and under a single command. Medvedev proclaimed the CRRF would be "well-trained" and receive the most modern equipme [...]	2009-02-05 16:10:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PTER MARR MCAP ECON RS ZK XG
09MOSCOW282	MOSCOW CHABAD NOT INTERESTED IN SCHNEERSOHN [...] (SBU) Summary. In a February 2 visit to the Russian State Library to view the Schneersohn Collection of sacred religious texts of the Chabad Lubavitch branch of Judaism, Director of the Library's Oriental Center Sergey Kukushkin told us that Moscow Chabad leaders had not visited the Collecti [...]	2009-02-05 16:12:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2821	RUSSIANS APPRECIATIVE OF USG SUPPORT FOR ANGARSK [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-19 14:56:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY RS
09MOSCOW2823	EXPERTS REMAIN SKEPTICAL OF GOR'S ABILITY TO [...] (C) In a nod to President Medvedev's 2008 anti-corruption legislation, Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index ranked Russia at 146, up one spot from its 2008 147th ranking. This general lack of progress confirms what analysts have told us. Corruption in Russia remains a serious [...]	2009-11-19 15:07:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR RS
09MOSCOW2833	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: LASER SYSTEMS LTD, SAINT [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Laser Systems Ltd., Saint Petersburg, Russia. The organization is lis [...]	2009-11-20 13:16:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS
09MOSCOW2834	RUSSIA MAINTAINS POSITIVE ATMOSPHERE AT EU SUMMIT, [...] (C) Swedish diplomats in Moscow concluded that EU-Russia relations were "stuck on the major issues" at the November 18 EU-Russia Summit in Stockholm (ref A). However, they and European Commission (EC) contacts welcomed "surprise" positive GOR pronouncements on climate change and WTO accession [...]	2009-11-20 13:41:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS SW EUN
09MOSCOW2838	MEETING OF DOE/ROSATOM CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY EXPERTS IN [...] (SBU) On November 17 and 18, 2009, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) representatives met with technical experts from the Russian State Corporation for Atomic Energy (Rosatom) to discuss next steps in meeting the timelines for preparing a "60 Day Study" to identify specific areas for civil nuclear [...]	2009-11-20 15:00:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENGR EU KNNP IAEA RU KU NO AE SW
09MOSCOW2839	DELIVERY OF MD AND NON-PRO NON-PAPERS TO DFM [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-20 15:08:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	KACT KNNP KTIA MARR PARM PREL RS
09MOSCOW2840	INVITATION PASSED: PSI EXERCISE LEADING EDGE 2010 [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-20 15:10:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC PARM PREL KNNP MO XD XF XG XI ZK ZR
09MOSCOW2841	GRYZLOV DRIVES INTO TREE WITH PROPOSED NEW AUTO TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 18, the Federation Council November 18 overwhelmingly rejected legislation that would have doubled the basic vehicle registration tax rate and allocated the money for transportation infrastructure projects. On November 13 all United Russia's delegates to the State D [...]	2009-11-20 16:00:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON RS
09MOSCOW2843	GEORGIA: RUSSIAN MFA ON GENEVA TALKS [...] (C) Summary. MFA 4th CIS Department Deputy Director Dvinyanin said there would be no more progress in the Geneva Talks on Georgia until Georgia agreed to sign non-use of force agreements with its breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In variance with DFM Karasin's public characteriza [...]	2009-11-23 07:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW285	GOR CONCERNED ABOUT UNLICENSED KALASHNIKOVS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) On February 2 MFA DVBR Third Secretary Aleksey Chumichev passed us a nonpaper that alleged a Nevada-based subsidiary of the Bulgarian company Arsenal Inc. was manufacturing Kalashnikov automatic rifles without a valid Russian li [...]	2009-02-06 12:04:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETTC ETRD MASS RS
09MOSCOW286	RUSSIAN VET SERVICE DELISTS TWO MORE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Russian Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Service (VPSS) advised via official letter that 2 more U.S. poultry facilities were delisted after tests results ostensibly showed the presence of antibiotics and food-borne pathogen Listeria. In addition, VPSS info [...]	2009-02-06 12:20:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD ECON WTO RS
09MOSCOW2865	SELECTION OF NEW TNK-BP CEO ALLOWS COMPANY TO [...] (SBU) TNK-BP confirmed on November 19th the long-rumored selection of Maxim Barskiy as its next CEO. The 35-year old Barskiy will take the reins at the oil giant beginning in 2011. Barskiy, who was proposed by BP's Russian partners (AAR),beat out Pavel Skitovich, the candidate proposed by [...]	2009-11-23 15:30:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2874	PUTIN-TYMOSHENKO GAS AGREEMENT SHOULD HELP PREVENT [...] (C) PM Putin said in a joint November 20 press conference with PM Tymoshenko in Ukraine that Russia will not penalize Ukraine for having taken less gas than contracted. He also confirmed that Gazprom and Ukraine will sign new contracts for 2010 that will call for lower Ukrainian purchase volum [...]	2009-11-24 11:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS UP
09MOSCOW2875	RUSSIA: APPRECIATIVE OF U.S. SUPPORT SEEKING [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-24 12:58:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP AORC IAEA ENRG TRGY RS
09MOSCOW2876	GOR TO CONTINUE ABSTAINING ON ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA [...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche to the MFA's International Organizations Crisis Management Section Head Viktor Alexandrovich Leplinskiy on November 23. Leplinskiy noted that the GOR will continue to abstain in most votes for anti-Israel resolutions in the UN General Assembly, citing the fa [...]	2009-11-24 13:24:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA KPAL RS IS
09MOSCOW2878	GOR NOT INTERESTED IN "TAKING THE NRC FORWARD" [...] (C) Summary: The MFA European Cooperation Desk told us the GOR remains interested in improving the NATO-Russia Council, but believes strategic-level agreement should precede reform of NRC structures, hence Russia's decision to disengage from the "Taking the NATO-Russia Council Forward" paper. [...]	2009-11-24 14:35:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR NATO RS
09MOSCOW2882	UNITED RUSSIA UNVEILS "RUSSIAN CONSERVATISM," [...] (C) Summary: United Russia's national and regional leaders met in St. Petersburg November 20-21 for their annual review of party business. The highlights of the congress were the November 21 addresses by President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. Medvedev praised United Russia for acting q [...]	2009-11-25 12:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PMAR PHUM PINR ECON EFIN RS
09MOSCOW2885	INTEGRATING RUSSIAN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION KEY TO INNOVATION [...] (SBU) Summary: At an October 8 panel during the Second International NanoForum, Russian policy makers, scientists, educators and entrepreneurs discussed how to develop Russia's high technology economy and its nanotechnology workforce. President Medvedev told Forum participants on October 6 t [...]	2009-11-27 07:25:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL TNGD KPAO OEXC SCUL SOCI PGOV RS
09MOSCOW2886	BELYKH WANTS TO REFORM KIROV [...] (C) Summary: Kirov Oblast Governor Nikita Belykh met with Ambassador Beyrle November 18 to provide a review of his first year in office and discuss the road ahead. A former member of the opposition, Belykh declared, "I did not want power, and still do not want power, but power must be made to [...]	2009-11-27 08:23:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM EAID ECON EFIN EMIN RS
09MOSCOW2888	PUTIN'S OFFER TO HELP GEORGIA: LESS THAN MEETS THE [...] (C) Summary: In contrast to some media reports about a statement from Prime Minister Putin that Russia would be willing to help Georgia out of its "dead end," we consider the comments to be merely a gesture to try to turn Georgian elites away from Saakashvili and that they do not represent a [...]	2009-11-27 10:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW289	GOR CONCERNED AZERBAIJAN WILL RAISE [...] (C) Summary: Minsk Group Co-Chair Yuri Merzlyakov told us February 6 the GOR had learned Azerbaijan was planning to make Nagorno-Karabakh an agenda item for the March UNGA session on protracted conflicts in the GUAM area, which ran the risk of halting the conflict resolution process. If this [...]	2009-02-06 15:01:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS AJ
09MOSCOW2890	RECIPROCAL REPULSION: MOSCOW MAYOR LUZHKOV VERSUS [...] (SBU) Summary: Moscow Mayor Yuriy Luzhkov and Moscow Oblast Governor Boris Gromov are both from the ruling United Russia party. Initially close allies, hostility developed between them as they rose to power and competed for influence, attention, and resources. The two leaders not only have [...]	2009-11-27 11:29:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KCOR RS
09MOSCOW290	COMMUNIST PARTY SHOWS NEW LIFE, BROADENS [...] (C) Summary: The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) has benefited from the economic crisis by attracting increased membership and strengthening its position as a populist alternative to the party of power, United Russia. The invigorated Communists demonstrated January 31 that they [...]	2009-02-06 15:33:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2900	GOR OPEN TO NRC STRUCTURAL REFORM, BUT NOT NOW [...] (C) DFM Grushko confirmed Russia sees no urgency in completing the NRC "Way Forward" document prior to the NATO ministerial. He claimed this move should not be interpreted as a lack of interest in the NRC, but reflective of Russia's desire to "put substance first" before taking decisions on s [...]	2009-11-27 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR NATO RS
09MOSCOW2902	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DETENTION OF GEORGIAN [...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel demarche, the MFA told us that Russia was pressing for the release of the four Georgian minors in South Ossetian custody. Russia expects them to be released within the next few days. The GOR supports a South Ossetian proposal to exchange all detainees, no [...]	2009-11-27 14:58:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM RS GG
09MOSCOW2903	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF UNDER SECRETARY ROBERT [...] (C) Your visit to Moscow provides an opportunity to strengthen bilateral economic relations at a time when both our economies are beginning to show signs of recovery following an extremely difficult year. Because our economic relations with Russia were relatively stable even prior to the polit [...]	2009-11-27 14:59:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EAGR PREL PGOV RS
09MOSCOW2904	FULL GAS PRICE LIBERALIZATION UNLIKELY ANYTIME [...] (C) In 2006, the GOR planned a series of tariff increases to raise domestic natural gas prices for industrial consumers to "market levels" -- that is, European prices minus taxes and transport -- by 2011. However, full liberalization by 2011 appears to be off the table, with the Ministry of E [...]	2009-11-30 10:51:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON PREL RS
09MOSCOW2905	FAR AS A MODEL FOR CIVIL EMPOWERMENT [...] (C) Summary: As the State Duma prepared to vote on legislation that would have doubled the base vehicle registration tax November 18, the Federation of Automobile Owners of Russia (FAR) had already collected 85,000 signatures for a presidential petition against the measure. After unanimous Un [...]	2009-11-30 12:22:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON RS
09MOSCOW2906	AMB BEYRLE AND DFM RYABKOV DISCUSS EURO SECY [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov November 30 at the MFA and discussed, inter alia, the European Security Treaty, the Afghanistan transit agreement, and the upcoming visit to Moscow of Under Secretary Tauscher. Ryabkov thanked the Ambassador f [...]	2009-11-30 12:44:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR NATO RS AF
09MOSCOW291	AMBASSADOR'S FEBRUARY 6 MEETING WITH DFM [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Alexey Borodavkin told Ambassador February 6 that Russia was prepared to cooperate with the U.S. to "assure American success" in Afghanistan, citing economic and humanitarian assistance, the NATO transit agreement, planned SCO conference in March, infrastructure pr [...]	2009-02-06 16:05:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KG AF IR KS KN RS
09MOSCOW2912	Russia Adopts Law on Energy Savings and Energy Efficiency [...] No summary [...]	2009-11-30 14:36:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	RS EAID ECON ENRG KGHG OTRA PARM PGOV SENV TSPL
09MOSCOW2918	DFM KARASIN ON GEORGIA, N-K, MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE: [...] (C) In a November 26 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, DFM Karasin sounded alarm bells about Saakashvili's "irresponsible" escalation of Russia-Georgia tensions, warning the situation could lead to renewed conflict, partly because the U.S. is sending signals of support -- and, he claimed, weapon [...]	2009-12-01 13:08:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV RS GG
09MOSCOW2924	RUSSIAN EMPLOYERS FRET OVER WORKFORCE DECLINE [...] (SBU) By 2025, Russia will lose an estimated 14 million members of its working age population. Employers are struggling to cope with intensified competition for available workers and the divergence of labor supply and demand in various sectors and regions. While the GOR's 2025 Demographic Po [...]	2009-12-02 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB ECON EIND PGOV SOCI RS
09MOSCOW2930	NON-PAPERS DELIVERED FOR UNSCR 1540 VOLUNTARY FUND [...] We delivered reftel non-paper, draft letter and experts' input in English to MFA DVBR Department Third Secretary Leonid Kozlov on December 2. Kozlov informed us that the higher-ranked MFA officials responsible for this issue were currently in Vienna, but they would return next week and revie [...]	2009-12-02 14:39:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC EUN RS
09MOSCOW2931	INITIAL RUSSIAN REACTION TO AFGHAN STRATEGY [...] (C) Summary: In a December 1 meeting at the MFA, Ambassador Beyrle previewed the President's West Point speech with Deputy Foreign Minister Aleksey Borodavkin and Zamir Kabulov, head of the Second Asia Department. Borodavkin noted that the U.S. and Russia both had a stake in stabilizing Afghan [...]	2009-12-02 16:37:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RS AF PK
09MOSCOW2932	U.S. SCIENCE ADVISOR AND RUSSIAN SCIENCE MINISTER AGREE [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States, and Joan Rolf, Assistant Director for International Relations in OSTP, met Ru [...]	2009-12-03 04:59:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TSPL TNGD SENV KNNP PGOV TBIO CVIS KRVC
09MOSCOW2935	RUSSIA'S THOUGHTS ON THE DPRK'S RETURN TO SIX [...] (S) In a December 1 meeting with Ambassador Beyrle, Deputy Foreign Minister Alexeksey Borodavkin spoke about his recent trip to North Korea where he met with North Korean DFM Kung Sok-un. Borodavkin predicted that it would be difficult to bring North Korea back to the negotiating table; he c [...]	2009-12-03 06:41:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	PGOV PREL RS KN
09MOSCOW2937	EXBS: RUSSIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE - NOVEMBER [...] Begin summary: BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS: By mutual agreement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)and the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C. will postpone until at least March 2010 an International Visitors Program (IVP)requested by a new Russian federal age [...]	2009-12-03 13:13:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP UP RS
09MOSCOW2943	ALLEGED NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT AT THE RUSSIA-KAZAKHSTAN BORDER REF: TELEPHONE CONVERSATION BETWEEN FSN AND RUSSIAN CUSTOMS OFFICER RELAYED TO EXBS ADVISOR Classified By: DCM ERIC RUBIN FOR REASONS 1.4 (B, C, D). [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-04 14:08:00	Embassy Moscow	SECRET	ASEC KCRM KNNP KZ MNUC PARM PINR PTER RS UP
09MOSCOW2944	KPRF DEPUTY HEAD MELNIKOV ON ELECTIONS, THE TANDEM [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Head of the Communist Party in the State Duma Ivan Melnikov and Andrey Petrovich Fillipov, Head of the International Department of the party's Central Committee, met with us December 4. Discussion included the October 11 elections, views of Medvedev's modernization drive, [...]	2009-12-04 14:27:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM ECON RS
09MOSCOW2945	YUKOS DECISION COULD BE MAJOR IRRITANT FOR YEARS [...] (SBU) The November 30 decision by a tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague that Russia is bound by the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) was a major blow to the GOR. According to representatives of the plaintiffs in the case, led by former Yukos shareholders now known as GML Li [...]	2009-12-04 15:03:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ECON EINV PREL RS
09MOSCOW2946	PUTIN EXUDES LEADERSHIP DURING FOUR HOUR Q AND A [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin displayed thorough knowledge of the issues facing Russia during a live, televised question and answer session which highlighted his role as Russia's dominant political figure. Most of the questions were focused on the economic situation and socio-economi [...]	2009-12-04 15:14:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON ETRD KDEM RS
09MOSCOW2947	PUTIN WAXES ELOQUENT ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ISSUES [...] (SBU) In his annual live Q&A session with the nation, Prime Minister Putin spent longer on economic and socio-economic issues (65 minutes) than on any other topic. He praised the government,s efficiency during the crisis, comparing it favorably with the 1998 crisis. He echoed President Mede [...]	2009-12-04 17:11:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ECON EFIN ENRG RS
09MOSCOW295	RUSSIA'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS CONSIDER KIRILL A [...] (SBU) Summary. At a February 4 ecumenical lunch hosted by Ambassador and Appeal of Conscience Foundation Director Rabbi Arthur Schneier, high level officials in Russia's Orthodox (ROC),Muslim, Protestant, and Jewish communities gathered to discuss religious freedom in Russia and honor Patri [...]	2009-02-09 08:46:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL RS SOCI
09MOSCOW2954	FEW LEADS ON NEVSKIY EXPRESS BOMBING [...] (SBU) Summary: Over one week after the reported November 27 bombing of the business class Nevskiy Express train from Moscow to St. Petersburg in which 27 people died and almost 100 others were injured, Russian authorities are still searching leads in the case. The neo-Nazi group Combat 18 w [...]	2009-12-08 10:25:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM PINR RS
09MOSCOW2957	RUSSIAN VIEWS OF ELECTIONS IN ABKHAZIA [...] (C) Summary: Experts do not see a strong Russian influence in the election campaign in the Georgian region of Abkhazia. This is due to Russia's negative experience from getting too involved in the 2005 elections, the dominance of domestic issues in the campaign, and a virtual agreement among [...]	2009-12-08 12:12:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR RS GG
09MOSCOW2958	SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION TALKS TRAINS, PLANES, [...] (U) November 18-20, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood led the USG delegation to the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety. Officials from the Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA),U.S. Centers for Disease Control a [...]	2009-12-08 14:04:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN ECON PREL ETRD RS
09MOSCOW2974	EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: PROTON LLC, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, [...] Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. 2. Reftel requested a pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Proton LLC, Moscow, Russia. The organization is listed on BIS license [...]	2009-12-09 12:09:00	Embassy Moscow	UNCLASSIFIED	BEXP ETRD ETTC RS

09MOSCOW2975	DUMA FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHAIRMAN WARNS START [...] No summary [...]	2009-12-09 14:43:00	Embassy Moscow	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV RS

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