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...sticking point is democratic freedoms, particularly the right of journalists to report the news. Prime Minister Tsvangirai declared that all the banned foreign media organizations - such as CNN and BBC - were now free to operate from Zimbabwe. But Mugabe's faction has not made operating easy, especially for the local reporters the foreign media often hire to help gather information...
...While the site implied that Russia was not ready to budge on any of the issues on the table, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev made the point exceedingly clear. "The Russian Federation has not given any assurances and will not give any," he said after requests from the European side that the January gas crisis - when Russia cut off supplies to Ukraine for over a payment dispute - not be repeated. Although smiles abounded and the talks were held at the Musical Comedy Theatre, just off Khabarovsk's main Karl Marx Prospekt, the tone was one of disagreement. (See pictures of Russians...
...major sticking point was Ukraine's place in the gas supply chain between Russia and Europe, and the country's role in the January gas war. In the coming months, Ukraine will have to spend $4 billion to buy the 19.5 billion cubic meters of gas it requires to fill its storage reservoirs before the cold comes again. But how it will afford the purchase from Russia remains unclear. "We have doubts about the solvency of Ukraine," Medvedev said, according to Russian news agency Interfax. "We are ready to help Ukraine, but we would like to see much of this...
...also lost its bid to convince Russia that a consortium to manage Ukraine's pipeline system should be exclusively controlled by the E.U. Another sticking point was the Energy Charter Treaty, adopted in 1991, that integrated the energy sectors of the former East Bloc into Europe. Russia has sought to "ensure that the Energy Charter ceases to be the basis for the energy dialogue between the E.U. and Russia in the future, and to emphasize the need for new ad hoc arrangements in the format proposed by Russia," says Dmitry Orlov, head of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications...
...that point, experts say, officials in most U.S. cities would have arrested Cromitie and his fellow conspirators. But because of New York's superior resources, authorities were able to take more time - months, as it turns out - using intensive surveillance to map out the full details of the plot and to see if the plotters had connections to other domestic or international groups. "In the U.S. we tend to roll up the conspirators quickly, but in the U.K. they allow the conspiracies to run a long way, so they can scoop up as much more intelligence," says Bill Rosenau...