To Konyok:
I wish I could “make international news”, but the things, you seem to be not aware of, are well known to the world and had been published million times. Just make search on “USA, Iraq chemical weapon”. I just picked a few links:

http://www.counterpunch.org/boles1010.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/12/31/world/main534798.shtml

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0908-08.htm

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=980DE5DE1F3DF932A15751C1A9649C8B63

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/nov/15/usa.iraq

The USSR had a planned economy, which was not competitive in quality of the goods. And the economy they had was totally destroyed in 1990-th. So, Russia almost started her market economy from scratch. Russian businessmen do what is profitable. This is market after all. Nobody can say: “You, Ivan open a factory to make this, and you Misha have to produce that!” This is why Russia has to sell the raw materials and weapons. She sells what she has to sell.