NATO intends to prohibit Russia’s and China’s Development

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In this scenario they (G+J) would no longer be occupied states.

Not likely to happen this decade, nor the next at least.

Specially for Japan, I doubt there is enough critical mass for a national rebirth, and the country will only get weaker and weaker over time, thanks to the deadly cocktail of fiat currency, low birth rates and complete consumerism so proudly provided by the US and the West.

Only the complete downfall of the West, specially of the United States and the United Kingdom (+maybe also requiring the weakening of Commonwealth States) will allow Europe and Japan any chance to become independent poles of development.

Yet, that's all too vaporous and abstract, I prefer to stick to today and now. And the question today and now, is if NATO will be able to crush the countries resisting its rule, or if it will be repelled.

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While the Western sanctions remain place, following a statement from Angela Merkel that they're likely to remain in place for a while; the Russian government has announced that the contractor for the planner bridge that will connect Crimea (now belonging to Russia), with Krasnodar will be selected shortly.

The bridge's construction would take about 3 years and be open to traffic by 2018.

Contractor for Crimea bridge construction to be chosen within month
http://en.itar-tass.com/russia/751874

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ASTRAKHAN, September 29. /ITAR-TASS/. The Russian government will decide within a month on a contractor company to build a bridge across the Kerch Strait, Russian Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov said.

“The Russian government is considering the issue. A decision will be taken within a month,” Sokolov told reporters.
The chief of the Russian federal road agency Rosavtodor, Roman Starovoit, said on Monday that talks are held with seven leading companies, including foreign ones, competing to be a contractor.

“For the present, Stroitransgaz more than others pays attention to the participation in the project,” Starovoit said.

There is no government decision yet, he said, adding that a document may be ready within a month.
Feasibility study of the project is not completed yet, but preparation of the territory is underway, as sappers examine the area, and engineering study goes on, the agency chief said.

The maximum cost of the project till 2019, including design and study work, totals 228.3 billion rubles (around $6 billion).
The length of the crossing will total 19 km. It will consist of sections - a six-km bridge across the channel, 6.5 km of sections across the Tuzla land area, the dike and 6.5 km across the strait. The project also includes construction of railway and highway infrastructure on the side of the Krasnodar Territory and on the Crimean peninsula.

The bridge is planned to be built before 2018

Rosavtodor is in charge of the project implementation.

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Iran and Russia continue deepening their ties:

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Iran, Russia Finalizing Contract to Construct 2 New N. Power Plants
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext...13930728000798

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi announced on Monday that Tehran and Moscow are taking the final steps in preparing a deal on the construction of two more nuclear power plants in the Southern Iranian port city of Bushehr.

"The capacity of each of the two power plants whose construction is under negotiation by Iran and Russia now will be 1,000-megawatt," Salehi said on Monday.

The Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) further added that one of the power plants will be built in the current Iranian year (ends March 20, 2015) and the construction of the second one will start after two years.

Salehi has on different occasions announced that Iran is ready to continue its mutual cooperation with Russia in peaceful nuclear energy.

Salehi had first announced on February 3 that Iran is in talks with Russia on the construction of new nuclear power plants to produce 4,000 megawatts of electricity.

On January 16, Zarif said he had exchanged views with senior Russian officials on the construction of new nuclear power plants in Iran during his visit to Moscow.

In March, Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation and the AEOI reached an agreement to construct at least two more nuclear power plants in Bushehr.

Under the agreement, the new facilities will be built next to the first unit of the Bushehr nuclear power plant and each will have the capacity to produce at least 1,000 megawatts of electricity.

The Islamic Republic signed the Bushehr contract with Russia in 1995 and the nuclear power plant reached its full capacity by August 2012. It is located about 18 kilometers South of the provincial capital.

Last month, AEOI Spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi announced that Iran will start building two new nuclear power plants in Bushehr this year.

"We reached agreements in our (recent) talks with the Rosatom (the Russian contractor) Chief on the construction of two power plants with a minimum capacity of 1,000-megawatt and equipped with water sweetening systems beside Bushehr's first nuclear power plant," Kamalvandi said.