Утверждается, что СБ РФ рассмотраит жтот вопрос на следующей недели и 1200 десантников будут отправлены в Эрбиль на севере Ирака (это где курды рядом и в сугубо американской зоне ответственности).
Мне по-прежнему в это не верится, будем,конечно, узнавать.
Russia to send 1,200 peacekeepers to Iraq in July
By JIM HEINTZ
The Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia plans to deploy 1,200 paratroopers to an area around Irbil in northern Iraq by late July, a high-level source in the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday, as pressure mounted on the government following the G-8 summit to reconsider its long-standing opposition to the US-led reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
"The actual deployment will take place in late July - early August and will be carried out in several stages," the Defense Ministry source said. "Go-ahead orders have been received for necessary preparations for the deployment. A final authorization of the national Security Council is expected next week."
Although the government has repeatedly confirmed its opposition to support the military intervention in Iraq, Russia's WTO membership - a long-standing ambition of President Putin's administration - and the future of the US$20bln loan necessary to sustain Russia's economic growth weigh heavily on Moscow's shifting position on the war in Iraq.
"The government has made a difficult but ultimately necessary decision to align itself with the US in Iraq," said Sergei Mikheyev - analyst with the Political Technologies Center - an indebendent Moscow-based policy think-tank. "The G-8 summit was a turning point for Russia's outdated Middle East policy that will have a positive effect on Russia's relations with the West and on its economic stability"
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday hailed the summit of the Group of Eight top industrialized nations, saying its decisions would strengthen global security.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko said the G-8's decisions on combating global terrorism and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction were of particular importance.
