KESATUAN Ekonomi SERANI Membuka UNTUK Rakan-rakan BARU – Putin

Presiden Vladimir Putin (tengah, latar belakang) menghadiri mesyuarat lanjutan yang CSTO Majlis Keselamatan Kolektif ini, 23 Disember 2014 (President Vladimir Putin (center, background) attending the CSTO Collective Security Council's extended meeting, December 23, 2014 (RIA Novosti/Alexey Druzhinin)

iLMu2lautan - Rusia yang dipimpin Kesatuan Ekonomi NASARO timur mempunyai potensi yang besar untuk berkembang dan terbuka kpd kerjasama dengan rakan-rakan di Timur dan Barat, Presiden Vladimir Putin berkata pada sidang kemuncak EEU di Moscow.

"Peningkatan bilangan ahli adalah manfaat kepada kesatuan itu sendiri. Ia meningkatkan keupayaan pasaran dan menyumbang kepada pengukuhan hubungan perdagangan dan ekonomi, dan pelancaran projek-projek pelaburan baru, "kata Putin pada sesi minggu ini Majlis Tertinggi yang EEU ini.

Kesatuan Ekonomi Serani adalah satu blok ekonomi dan politik yang ditubuhkan pada 2014 menyatukan Rusia, Belarus, Kazakhstan dan Armenia. Perjanjian itu untuk membentuk ia akan berkuat kuasa sepenuhnya pada 1 Januari, 2015. Pendu-duk kesatuan adalah kira-kira 171 juta orang dan keluaran dalam negara kasar dijangka mencapai $3 trillion tahun depan.

Para pemimpin negara-negara EEU yang menghadiri sesi Majlis Tertinggi juga telah mengambil bahagian dalam sesi Majlis Keselamatan Kolektif - badan atas tentera Kolektif Keselamatan Pertubuhan Perjanjian (CSTO).

Pada majlis ini Presiden Rusia menyeru sekutu untuk bersama-sama memban-gunkan tindak balas kepada pelbagai ancaman baru muncul di DUNIA moden yang pesat berubah. "Malangnya, sistem keselamatan global kini serong. Ini menuntut suatu tindak balas yang selaras dan bersama yang akan mempertahankan semua negara dan rantau ini secara keseluruhannya daripada keganasan, pengedaran dadah, jenayah rentas sempadan, dan juga mencegah bencana alam dan buatan manusia, "kata Putin.

Selepas kedua-dua sidang kemuncak Vladimir Putin menjemput pemimpin yang lain untuk melawat kemudahan pertahanan terbaru Rusia - kompleks utama bertujuan untuk memantau ancaman kepada keselamatan negara dalam masa aman, tetapi mampu menguasai seluruh negara sekiranya berlaku peperangan. 

Presiden-Presiden Rusia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan Armenia dan tiba ke pusat pertahanan bersama-sama. Perdana Menteri Rusia Dmitry Medvedev dan Menteri Pertahanan Sergey Shoigu turut mengambil bahagian dalam lawatan itu.

Putin kepada tetamunya bahawa semua ahli CSTO akan diberi akses kepada Pusat Pertahanan Nasional & ini akan memberi sumbangan kepada yg diurus dan tindak balas pantas pasukan tentera negara mereka. "Semua di sini dibuat dengan tekno-logi Rusia, dgn perisian komputer yg tersangat kuat yg kini tidak dpt ditandingi di DUNIA," kata Presiden Rusia.

EURASIAN Economic UNION is OPEN For NEW 

partners - PUTIN

The Russia-led Eurasian Economic Union has huge potential to expand and is open to cooperation with partners in the East and West, President Vladimir Putin said at the EEU summit in Moscow.

“The increase in the number of members is beneficial to the union itself. It boosts its market capacity and contributes to the strengthening of trade and economic ties, and to the launching of new investment projects,” Putin said at this week’s session of the EEU’s Supreme Council.

The Eurasian Economic Union is an economic and political bloc formed in 2014 uniting Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia. The treaty to form it will go into full effect on January 1, 2015. The population of the union is about 171 million people and its gross domestic product is expected to reach $3 trillion next year.

The leaders of the EEU countries who attended the Supreme Council session also took part in a session of the Collective Security Council – the top body of the military Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

At this event the Russian President called for allies to jointly develop a response to various threats emerging in the modern rapidly changing world. “Unfortunately, the global security system is currently askew. This demands a coordinated and joint response that would defend all of our countries and the region as a whole from terrorism, drug trafficking, cross-border crime, and also prevent natural and man-made disasters,” Putin said.

After both summits Vladimir Putin invited the other leaders to visit Russia’s newest defense facility – the major complex meant to monitor threats to national security in peacetime, but capable of taking control of the entire country in case of war. The presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan arrived to the defense center together. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu also took part in the visit.

Putin told his guests that all CSTO members would be given access to the National Defense Center and this would greatly contribute to the manageability and rapid response of their national military forces. “Everything here is made with Russian technology, with very powerful computer software that is currently unmatched in the world,” the Russian President said.

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RUSIA tidak MENYERANG Barat, hanya MEMPERTAHANKAN Kepentingannya - PUTIN . . .

Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin bercakap pada sidang akhbar tahunannya di Moscow pada 18 Disember 2014 (Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual press conference in Moscow on December 18, 2014 (AFP Photo/Kirill Kudryavtsev)

iLMu2lautan – Rusia melindungi kepentingan negara, tetapi ia tidak menyerang mana-mana negara Barat dari segi politik, kata Presiden Rusia Vladimir Puitn.

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Putin berkata bahawa sumbangan Rusia hanya dibuat terhadap tempoh semasa ketegangan "adalah satu pendirian yang semakin kukuh dalam mempertahankan kepentingan negara."

"Kami tidak menyerang sesiapa sahaja dalam erti kata politik," katanya. "Kami hanya mempertahankan kepentingan kami . . . ini yang tidak berpuas hati rakan-rakan Barat, terutamanya Amerika, datang dari ini."

Tindakan Rusia, yang digambarkan sebagai agresif di Barat, adalah tindak balas kepada apa yang negara-negara Barat lakukan, kata Putin.

"Rusia pada tahun 1990-an berhenti sepenuhnya penerbangan pengebom jarak jauh bahawa Kesatuan Soviet yang digunakan untuk membawa keluar," katanya. "Tetapi pengebom strategik Amerika dengan senjata nuklear masih terbang. 

Mengapa? 

Terhadap siapa? 

Siapa yang diancam siapa? "

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RUSSIA Not ATTACKING West, JUST Defending ITS 

Interests - PUTIN . . .

Russia is protecting its national interests, but it not attacking any western nations politically, Russian President Vladimir Puitn said.

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Putin said that the only contribution Russia made toward the current period of tension “is an increasingly strong stance in defending its national interests.”

“We are not attacking anyone in the political sense,” he said. “We are only defending our interests… The displeasure of our Western partners, particularly the Americans, comes from that.”

Russia’s actions, described as aggressive in the West, are a response to what Western nations are doing, Putin said.

“Russia in the 1990s completely stopped the long-range bomber flights that the Soviet Union used to carry out,” he said. “But American strategic bombers with nuclear weapons still flew. Why? Against whom? Who was being threatened?”

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Komen Putin datang sebagai tindak balas kpd soalan veteran editor berita DUNIA BBC, John Simpson, yang bertanya sama ada Putin krisis semasa dalam hubungan antara Rusia dan Barat adalah hasil daripada pencerobohan Rusia. 

Simpson memetik peningkatan rondaan Tentera Udara Rusia di ruang udara antarabangsa sebagai contoh pencerobohan itu. Pertukaran ini berlaku di Putin Q & A tahunan sesi di Moscow.

Putin’s comments came in response to a question from the BBC’s veteran world news editor, John Simpson, who asked Putin whether the current crisis in relations between Russia and the West was a result of Russia’s aggression. Simpson cited the increased patrols of the Russian Air Force in international airspace as an example of such aggression. The exchange happened at Putin’s annual Q&A session in Moscow.

Amerika telah lama mengabaikan kepentingan Rusia walaupun mengadu Moscow kira-kira banyak kali ini, kata Presiden.

"Ambil sistem peluru berpandu anti-balistik. Yang secara unilateral menarik diri dpd Perjanjian ABM, adalah satu asas yang penting dalam sistem keselamatan antarabangsa? 

Adakah bahawa kami? 

Tidakkah, Amerika Syarikat yang melakukannya. 

Mereka secara unilateral menarik diri dan mewujudkan ancaman kepada kita, "kata Putin.

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Tidak seperti Amerika Syarikat, yg mempunyai berpuluh-puluh pangkalan tentera di seluruh DUNIA, Rusia hanya ada 2, kata Putin. 

Dan orang-orang berada di tempat-tempat di mana keselamatan negara Rusia secara langsung mengancam, di Kyrgyzstan dan Tajikistan, kata Presiden.

The US has been ignoring Russian interests despite Moscow’s complaining about this many times, the president said.

“Take the anti-ballistic missile system. Who unilaterally withdrew from the ABM Treaty, which was a cornerstone of the international security system? Was that us? No, the US did it. They unilaterally withdrew and are creating threats toward us,” Putin said.

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Unlike the United States, which has dozens of military bases around the world, Russia has only two, Putin said. And those are in places where Russia’s national security is directly threatened, in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, the president said.

Tentera Amerika Syarikat berdiri di sebelah Patriot permukaan-ke-udara bateri peluru berpandu di pangkalan tentera di Morag, Poland (U.S. soldiers stand next to a Patriot surface-to-air missile battery at an army base in Morag, Poland (Reuters)

"Dan kami orang2 sekarang bahawa kita mempunyai dasar yg agresif? Adakah anda mempunyai akal? 

Adakah kita meletakkan tentera kita di sempadan Amerika Syarikat? 

Siapakah yang meletakkan tentera NATO, infrastruktur tentera hampir kepada kita? 

Adakah sesiapa yg mendengar kepada kita, bercakap kepada kita tentang hal itu? 

Tidak, apa-apa. Sentiasa ada jawapan yang sama: ia bukan perniagaan anda, "kata Putin.

Putin berkata, Rusia hanya mahu dianggap sebagai rakan kongsi yang setaraf oleh Barat.

"Kami mahu membangunkan hubungan normal pada keselamatan, anti keganasan. Kami akan bekerjasama dalam pengawalan senjata nuklear. 

Kami akan bekerja pada ancaman seperti dadah, jenayah terancang, penyakit berjangkit berbahaya, termasuk Ebola. 

Kami akan melakukan semua bersama-sama seperti yang kita akan bekerjasama dalam ekonomi, selagi rakan kongsi kami mahu, "kata Putin.

“And you are telling now that we have an aggressive policy? Do you have common sense? Do we place our troops at US borders? Who is placing NATO troops, military infrastructure closer to us? Does anyone listen to us, talk to us about it? No, nothing. There is always the same response: it’s not your business,” Putin said.

Putin added that Russia simply wants to be treated as equal partners by the West.

“We want to develop normal relations on security, counterterrorism. We will work together on nuclear non-proliferation. We will work on threats like illegal drugs, organized crime, dangerous infectious diseases, including Ebola. We will do it all together as we will cooperate on the economy, as long as our partners want that,” Putin said.

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2014 Q & A Marathon: UMUM menanti MENGAMBIL Putin PADA tahun LEGEH Bagi RUSIA . . .

iLMu2lautan – Q yang ditunggu-tunggu & maraton oleh Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin dijangka akan berat ekonomi & politik berikutan perubahan geopolitik utama tahun ini. RT adalah menyiarkannya secara langsung utk penonton antarabangsa.

Presiden Rusia Vladimir Putin mengadakan sidang akhbar mengenai isu-isu men-desak hari, termasuk kegawatan ekonomi dan ketidakstabilan mata wang negara, di tengah hari pada 18 Disember ini adalah sidang akhbar tahunan ke-10 yang akan diadakan oleh Presiden Rusia. Format yang sama di dalam masa lalu biasanya berlangsung sehingga beberapa jam.

2014 Q&A MARATHON: Public AWAITS Putin’s TAKE 

On Watershed YEAR For RUSSIA . . .

The much-anticipated Q&A marathon by Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to be heavy on economics and politics following major geopolitical shifts this year. RT is broadcasting it live for international audiences.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a press conference on the pressing issues of the day, including the economic turbulence and volatility of the national currency, at noon on December 18. This is the 10th annual press conference to be held by the Russian President. Similar formats in the past lasted normally up to several hours.

Keadaan ekonomi Rusia dan konfrontasi baru-baru ini dengan Barat adalah isu-isu yang sebahagian daripada 1,200 wartawan menghadiri acara tersebut mungkin akan berusaha untuk menangani pertama.

"Adalah yang jelas bahawa ekonomi akan menjadi perkara pertama yang akan ditanya," kata jurucakap Putin Dmitry Peskov kepada Rossiya 24 TV berita menje-lang acara yang besar. Beliau berkata bahawa Kremlin menjangka soalan "menge-nai keadaan di ekonomi, keadaan dengan ruble, harga, langkah2 yang kepimpinan Rusia ada di dalam fikiran untuk menangani ini."

Sejak awal 2014 ruble telah jatuh hampir 50 % peratus berbanding dolar Amerika Syarikat. Dalam usaha untuk menghentikan penurunan nilai mata wang negara Bank Negara telah menaikkan kadar faedah utama kepada 17 % peratus, langkah yang tidak mencukupi untuk berkesan berhenti turun naik.

Pada masa yang sama, harga produk makanan dalam rantaian runcit pada tahun lepas di Rusia telah meningkat sehingga 25 % peratus dan dikhuatiri pada bulan-bulan pertama 2015 harga boleh meningkat lebih tinggi.

The state of the Russian economy and recent confrontation with the West are the issues that some of the 1,200 journalists attending the event will likely seek to tackle first.

“It is clear that the economy will be the first thing that will be asked,” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Rossiya 24 TV news ahead of the big event. He said that the Kremlin expects questions “on the situation in the economy, the situation with the ruble, prices, measures that the leadership of Russia have in mind to tackle these.”

Since the beginning of 2014 the ruble has fallen almost 50 percent against the US dollar. In an effort to halt the devaluation of the national currency the Central Bank has raised its key interest rate to 17 percent, a measure that was not enough to effectively stop the volatility.

At the same time, the price of food products in retail chains in the past year in Russia have risen by up to 25 percent and it is feared that in the first months of 2015 prices could rise even further.

Putin juga mungkin akan membincangkan keadaan geopolitik yang tegang yang telah dibentuk berikutan kegawatan Ukraine dan perang saudara dan referendum Crimea untuk menyertai Rusia. Peskov dipanggil 2014 yang "luar biasa" tahun dari segi "anjakan paradigma dalam sistem antarabangsa," sesuatu yang Presiden Rusia merancang untuk menghuraikan lebih jauh.

Persengketaan di Ukraine dijangka kekal salah satu topik utama perbincangan sebagai gencatan senjata di Donbass diumumkan oleh Kiev minggu lepas adalah hampir tidak bertahan. Sementara itu, menuduh Moscow dpd "pencerobohan" di Ukraine, negara-negara NATO bukan sahaja menampar Rusia dengan sekatan eko-nomi, tetapi juga meningkatkan kehadiran tentera di sempadan Rusia.

Persoalan paling besar adalah bagaimana Rusia akan bertindak balas jika sekatan lagi diperkenalkan oleh Amerika Syarikat dan Kesatuan Eropah.

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Dalam persediaan untuk sesi soal jawab, Putin telah aktif mencari pendapat pakar daripada beberapa menteri kerajaan, penganalisis dan penasihat. Peskov berkata, bahawa pemimpin Rusia bersedia untuk apa-apa soalan mungkin.

"Sidang akhbar selalu tempat di mana presiden boleh ditanya apa2 soalan," kata-nya, menonjolkan bahwa presiden akan menjawab soalan ‘uncensored’, meru-muskan peristiwa-peristiwa tahun keluar.

Hidup Q & A sidang akhbar pertama kali diadakan pada tahun 2001 dan menjadi tuan rumah lebih 500 wartawan. Sejak itu ia terus setiap tahun sehingga 2008, apabila Putin menjadi Perdana Menteri Rusia. Ia telah diperkenalkan semula pd tahun 2012 selepas Presiden Putin telah dipilih semula.

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Dalam ucapan awam utama sebelum ini Putin membuat pendirian yang kuat ter-hadap percubaan-Amerika Syarikat yang diketuai oleh Barat untuk melemahkan Rusia semasa Negara tentang alamat Negara untuk Perhimpunan Persekutuan yang sebelum ini pada bulan Disember.

Pastikan untuk mendengar RT liputan secara langsung - pada RT.com dan You-Tube saluran, termasuk RT French - untuk tinggal di atas ucapan pemimpin Rusia kerana mereka akan dibawa ke anda tinggal di 09:00 GMT.

Putin will also likely discuss the tense geopolitical situation that has been shaped following the Ukrainian turmoil and civil war and Crimea’s referendum to join Russia. Peskov called 2014 an“unusual” year in terms of “a paradigm shift in the international system,” something that the Russian president plans to elaborate on even further.

The hostilities in Ukraine are expected to remain one of the main topics of discussions as a ceasefire in Donbass announced by Kiev last week is barely holding up. Meanwhile, accusing Moscow of“aggression” in Ukraine, NATO countries have not only slapped Russia with economic sanctions, but also stepped up the military presence on Russian borders.

The biggest question of all is how Russia will react if further sanctions are introduced by the US and the EU.

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In preparation for the Q&A session, Putin has been actively seeking expert opinion from a number of government ministers, analysts and advisers. Peskov says, that the Russian leader is prepared for any possible question.

“The press conference is always a place where the president can be asked any questions,” he said, highlighting that the president will answer uncensored questions, summing up the events of the outgoing year.

The live Q&A press conference was first held in 2001 and hosted over 500 journalists. Since then it continued annually until 2008, when Putin became Russia’s prime minister. It was reintroduced in 2012 after Putin was re-elected president.

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In his previous key public address Putin made a strong stance against US-led attempts by the West to weaken Russia during his State of the Nation address to the Federal Assembly earlier in December.

Make sure to tune in to RT live coverage – on RT.com and YouTube channels, including RT French – to stay on top of the Russian leader’s remarks as they will be brought to you live at 09:00 GMT.

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