FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE
RUSSIAN EXPERT: U.S. WANTS OIL DOMINANCE
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/21/shebarsh.shtml
MOSNEWS - On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to establish control over the world's richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company, said in an interview for the Vremya Novostei newspaper. Using the anti-terrorist cause as a cover the United States has occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and will soon move to impose their "democratic order" on the Greater Middle East, Shebarshin said. "The U.S. has usurped the right to attack any part of the globe on the pretext of fighting the terrorist threat," Shebarshin said. . . With military bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Shebarshin said, the United States has already established control over the Caspian region - one of the world's largest oil reservoirs.
MCDONALD'S BECOMING LARGEST CORPORATE LAND OWNER IN RUSSIA
ERIN E. ARVEDLUND, NEW YORK TIMES -
The busiest McDonald's restaurant in the world is not in America but thousands of miles away in Pushkin Square. The store serves 30,000 customers a day, as busy as on opening day, January 31, 1990. The menu is essentially the same as in the United States, with the addition of cabbage pie among other traditional Russian food items. The Pushkin Square restaurant is important as well because it is the jewel in a growing real estate empire that ranks McDonald's among the largest corporate landowners in Russia. Other big companies have begun to follow its lead and are getting their foot in the door by becoming real estate developers. Still, the practice is not without its pitfalls: three of McDonald's office buildings in downtown Moscow have been for sale for well over a year.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/03/21/shebarsh.shtml
MOSNEWS - On the pretext of fighting international terrorism the United States is trying to establish control over the world's richest oil reserves, Leonid Shebarshin, ex-chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service, who heads the Russian National Economic Security Service consulting company, said in an interview for the Vremya Novostei newspaper. Using the anti-terrorist cause as a cover the United States has occupied Afghanistan, Iraq and will soon move to impose their "democratic order" on the Greater Middle East, Shebarshin said. "The U.S. has usurped the right to attack any part of the globe on the pretext of fighting the terrorist threat," Shebarshin said. . . With military bases in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, Shebarshin said, the United States has already established control over the Caspian region - one of the world's largest oil reservoirs.
MCDONALD'S BECOMING LARGEST CORPORATE LAND OWNER IN RUSSIA
ERIN E. ARVEDLUND, NEW YORK TIMES -
The busiest McDonald's restaurant in the world is not in America but thousands of miles away in Pushkin Square. The store serves 30,000 customers a day, as busy as on opening day, January 31, 1990. The menu is essentially the same as in the United States, with the addition of cabbage pie among other traditional Russian food items. The Pushkin Square restaurant is important as well because it is the jewel in a growing real estate empire that ranks McDonald's among the largest corporate landowners in Russia. Other big companies have begun to follow its lead and are getting their foot in the door by becoming real estate developers. Still, the practice is not without its pitfalls: three of McDonald's office buildings in downtown Moscow have been for sale for well over a year.
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