This is from Pravda.ru, it happened on Oct.28th and we were told that it may be one of the factors in a smallarms/ammo ban from russia.
I don't know, but our Wolf wharehouse sales rep told us about this.....
Rosboronexport is one of Tula's parent companies or main exporter.
US sanctions against Russia may lead to the end of partnership
Front page / World / Americas
07.08.2006 Source:
Pages: 12
The introduction of sanctions by the USA’s State Department against Russian state companies Rosoboronexport and Sukhoi, results from Washington’s obvious discontent with Russian politics.
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The official justification for this step is that the companies have violated a six-year-old American law on non-proliferation with relation to Iran, which forbids collaboration with this country in the area of the provision of weapons of mass destruction. From now on, the USA State Corporation forbids sale to the sanctioned contries and the purchase of any kind of products from them.
Two Russian state companies can hardly be blamed for helping Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction. At any rate, the contract settled at the end of July by Rosoboronexport with Iran ’s Ministry of Defense for the repair and modernization of 30 front-line Su-24 bomber planes clearly does not fall under that clause. It is difficult to classify these planes, supplied to Tehran at the beginning of the 1990s, as a means of delivering weapons of mass destruction. Furthermore, this particular contract, (for the sum of 200 million dollars), made by the company Sukhoi, has become, in the opinion of the Russian defense service, a pretext for introducing sanctions against the Russian companies.
In connection with this, in Russian VPK circles, it has been suggested that in fact Russia has been punished for the recent contract agreeing to supply Venezuela with 24 Su-30 fighter planes, which are to replace American F-16 fighter planes currently to be found amongst Caracas military equipment. Russia has settled other large-scale contracts with Venezuela agreeing, for example, to supply the country with around 100 thousand Kalashnikov machine-guns and build a factory in Venezuela for their production. The total sum for all the deals made with the two countries in connection with military equipment is in the region of 3 billion dollars, which has made Moscow greatest supplier of arms for Caracas. Washington has asked Moscow multiple times to decline from making these deals, but the request has not been fulfilled.
However, the main factor that has prompted the USA to move from criticizing Moscow to punishing it is most likely more profound. According to Kommersant, it seems that the issue is not that Russia has annoyed America with any one concrete move, but rather a general discontent with Russia ’s recent policies.
I don't know, but our Wolf wharehouse sales rep told us about this.....
Rosboronexport is one of Tula's parent companies or main exporter.
US sanctions against Russia may lead to the end of partnership
Front page / World / Americas
07.08.2006 Source:
Pages: 12
The introduction of sanctions by the USA’s State Department against Russian state companies Rosoboronexport and Sukhoi, results from Washington’s obvious discontent with Russian politics.
Sukhoi
BREAKING NEWS
Ukraine angers Russia with its intention to join NATO
Russia and the USA wage a hidden political war
US Army’s Human Terrain System: Madness, Mayhem and Troughs of Cash
Penang, the Pearl of the Orient
More...
The official justification for this step is that the companies have violated a six-year-old American law on non-proliferation with relation to Iran, which forbids collaboration with this country in the area of the provision of weapons of mass destruction. From now on, the USA State Corporation forbids sale to the sanctioned contries and the purchase of any kind of products from them.
Two Russian state companies can hardly be blamed for helping Iran to produce weapons of mass destruction. At any rate, the contract settled at the end of July by Rosoboronexport with Iran ’s Ministry of Defense for the repair and modernization of 30 front-line Su-24 bomber planes clearly does not fall under that clause. It is difficult to classify these planes, supplied to Tehran at the beginning of the 1990s, as a means of delivering weapons of mass destruction. Furthermore, this particular contract, (for the sum of 200 million dollars), made by the company Sukhoi, has become, in the opinion of the Russian defense service, a pretext for introducing sanctions against the Russian companies.
In connection with this, in Russian VPK circles, it has been suggested that in fact Russia has been punished for the recent contract agreeing to supply Venezuela with 24 Su-30 fighter planes, which are to replace American F-16 fighter planes currently to be found amongst Caracas military equipment. Russia has settled other large-scale contracts with Venezuela agreeing, for example, to supply the country with around 100 thousand Kalashnikov machine-guns and build a factory in Venezuela for their production. The total sum for all the deals made with the two countries in connection with military equipment is in the region of 3 billion dollars, which has made Moscow greatest supplier of arms for Caracas. Washington has asked Moscow multiple times to decline from making these deals, but the request has not been fulfilled.
However, the main factor that has prompted the USA to move from criticizing Moscow to punishing it is most likely more profound. According to Kommersant, it seems that the issue is not that Russia has annoyed America with any one concrete move, but rather a general discontent with Russia ’s recent policies.
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