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Eyeing The Shanghai Group In 2007
Sapporo, Japan (UPI) Jul 03, 2007The annual summit of the presidents of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will take place this coming August in Kyrgyzstan. The SCO groups together Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. The U.S. government has reacted warily to the SCO for several reasons. First, when Washington asked to send observers to the SCO summit meetings, its request was refused. Late ... more US And Russia Begin Nuclear Reduction Talks 
Washington (AFP) Jul 03, 2007The United States and Russia on Tuesday pushed for peaceful nuclear energy use and said they had begun talks to trim their nuclear arsenals "to the lowest possible level" ahead of the expiry of a landmark strategic weapons agreement. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which led to the reduction and limitation of strategic offensive weapons under the largest arms control accord in histo ... more India Ready To Offer 7 Billion Dollar Jet Fighter Contract 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007India has completed the preparation for its largest-ever international defense tender to acquire 126 multi-role combat aircraft, estimated at $7 billion, the Defense Ministry said Friday. A meeting of the Defense Acquisition Committee (DAC), headed by Defense Minister A.K Antony, passed Friday the criteria for the selection of the best proposal submitted by foreign bidders. "Considering th ... more US Wants To Go It Alone On Missile Defense 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to join President George W. Bush at Walker's Point, the Bush family's seaside estate, in Kennebunkport, Maine, this weekend for a short summer retreat. Both leaders will focus on the deployment of elements of a U.S. missile defense system, namely 10 missile interceptors in Poland and an early-warning radar in the Czech Republic. President Putin, mean ... more Russia Test Launches Sea-Based Ballistic Missile 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russia's Navy has successfully tested a new Bulava sea-launched ballistic missile in the White Sea, a Navy spokesman said Thursday. "A [simulated] warhead reached the testing grounds [on the Kamchatka Peninsula] on schedule," Igor Drygalo said. The scheduled launch was conducted from the submerged Dmitry Donskoi, a Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, in the northern Russia's White ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russia's South Stream pipeline project is not politically motivated and does not threaten Nabucco, Europe's $6-billion gas pipeline project linking the energy-rich Caspian to Europe, bypassing Russia, the Gazprom head said Friday. The Russian energy giant and the Italian gas company Eni SpA signed June 23 a memorandum to construct the South Stream gas pipeline, which will stretch for 900 kilomet ... more Belarus To Announce Nuclear Power Planet Tender Soon 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Belarus will soon announce a tender for the construction of its first nuclear power plant, the prime minister said Friday. "The amount of finance will be determined shortly, and a tender will be announced," Sergei Sidorsky said after a ministerial Russia-Belarus union session in Moscow, adding a potential construction site was already being selected. Belarusian officials have said that Rus ... more Russia Launches Genesis 2 On Converted SS-18 ICBM Launcher 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Jun 29, 2007Bigelow Aerospace has established contact with its second pathfinder spacecraft, Genesis II. Launched earlier Thursday from Yasny, Russia, Mission Control in North Las Vegas, Nev., made first contact at 2:20 p.m. PDT. Initial data suggests sufficient voltage powering up Genesis II's batteries as well as expected air pressure. While the actual confirmation of solar panel deployment and spacecraft ... more Experts Survey Sunken Russian Nuclear Sub For Radiation 
Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007A group of Russian and foreign experts Thursday began monitoring radiation levels at the site of a 2003 incident involving a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, a Russian Navy official said. The K-159, a November class nuclear submarine with 800 kilograms (about 1,700 pounds) of spent nuclear fuel onboard, sank in 2003 while being towed to Polyarny, in northwest Russia, for decommissioning ... more |
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Vladikavkaz, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007A natural gas pipeline being built in the Caucasus mountains linking Russia and Georgia will gain the honor of being the world's highest pipeline, the project chief said Thursday. The high-altitude pipeline will link Russia and South Ossetia, a secessionist republic in Georgia, and is expected to end the region's gas dependence on Tbilisi. "The pipeline will be laid at an altitude of 3,150 ... more Gazprom Neft Says Pipeline Bypassing Bosporus Will Cost A Billion More 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007A planned oil pipeline to bypass Turkey's strait linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean would cost over $1.2 billion, a Russian contractor from Gazprom's oil-producing arm, Gazprom Neft, said Wednesday. Nikolai Seryogin told the Fifth Russian Petroleum and Gas Congress that the planned $900-million pipeline between the Bulgarian port of Burgas and Greece's Alexandroupolis would be more expen ... more What Is Happening At The Russian Rocket Corporation 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 28, 2007A tough unseen scramble is currently unfolding for the top post at the Energia Corporation, one of Russia's largest rocket and space centers. In Russia, the company is a legend. It was here, in Podlipki, a town outside Moscow, that Sergei Korolyov directed the team that built, under strict secrecy more than 50 years ago, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, first man-made satellite and ... more Russia Ratifies Deals On ITER Research Reactor 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 28, 2007Russia's lower house of parliament ratified Wednesday two agreements regulating the ITER project, an experimental reactor in France being built with Russia's involvement, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion. Under the document now ratified by the State Duma, which was first signed in Paris on November 21, 2006, Russia, South Korea, China, Japan, India, the European Union and t ... more
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