Friday, August 29, 2008

Cold War tension rises as Putin talks of Black Sea confrontation

A new Cold War between Russia and the West grew steadily closer today after the Kremlin gave a warning about “direct confrontation” between American and Russian warships in the Black Sea. Dmitri Peskov, a spokesman for Vladimir Putin, the Prime Minister, declared that Russia was taking “measures of precaution” against American and Nato naval ships.

“Let’s hope we do not see any direct confrontation in that,”
he said.

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