{"id":5345,"date":"2015-02-06T06:54:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2015-02-06T06:54:59","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T11:54:59","slug":"shunned-greece-agrees-to-boost-economic-cooperation-with-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-02-05\/shunned-greece-agrees-boost-economic-cooperation-russia\" target=\"_blank\">Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s been an odd few days for Greece&#8217;s new PM Alexis Tsipras.\u00a0<\/strong>From being lambasted by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, shunned by Angela Merkel&#8217;s henchmen, holding hands with Jean-Claude Juncker, and losing a key funding channel from Mario Draghi; Tsipras&#8217; anti-austerity platform has been &#8216;supported&#8217; by Barack Obama and he has been invited for a visit to Russia by Vladimir Putin, and reminded that Russia is willing (and able) to provide financial aid if asked by finance minister Anton Siluanov.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/4dcgi\/_w_articles_wsite1_1_05\/02\/2015_546951\">So headlines this evening from ekathimerini<\/a>\u00a0should not be entirely surprising that\u00a0<strong>Putin and Tsipras have agreed to boost cooperation<\/strong>\u00a0in the economy and energy, tourism, culture and transport sectors; and discussed the\u00a0<strong>possible creation of a pipeline to carry natural gas from Russia to Europe via Turkey and Greece<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/4dcgi\/_w_articles_wsite1_1_05\/02\/2015_546951\"><em>As ekathimerini reports,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"quote_start\"><strong>Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday agreed to boost bilateral ties<\/strong>\u00a0in a telephone conversation during which the latter invited the new Greek premier to an event in Moscow in May to mark the victory over Nazism.<\/div>\n<p><strong>The two men agreed to boost cooperation in the economy and energy, tourism, culture and transport sectors.\u00a0<\/strong>They also agreed on the need to \u201csecure peace and stability in Ukraine,\u201d according to a statement from Tsipras\u2019s office. Putin expressed satisfaction at Greece\u2019s stance at a recent summit in Brussels where Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias conveyed concerns over the prospect of additional sanctions against Russia over Ukraine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shunned Greece Agrees To Boost Economic Cooperation With Russia It&#8217;s been an odd few days for Greece&#8217;s new PM Alexis Tsipras.\u00a0From being lambasted by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, shunned by Angela Merkel&#8217;s henchmen, holding hands with Jean-Claude Juncker, and losing a key funding channel from Mario Draghi; Tsipras&#8217; anti-austerity platform has been &#8216;supported&#8217; by Barack Obama and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[2872,3256,1167,694,821,857],"class_list":["post-5345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-alexis-tsipras","tag-bilateral-ties","tag-greece","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}