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Malaysia To Receive Brand-New Russian Fighters
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 19, 2007Malaysia will receive the first 12 of its order of 18 Sukhoi Su-30-MKM Flanker fighters, the most advanced versions of the Su-27 warplane, before the year is out. The Su-30-MKM embodies the best achievements of the Russian aircraft industry and has the most advanced European avionics. The Malaysian version is based on the Su-30-MKI, earmarked for India, but features different equipment and an e ... more Russia Ready To Consider Dismantling North Korea Reactors 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) Jul 19, 2007Russia is ready to discuss assisting in deactivating North Korea's nuclear facilities, a Russian envoy said Wednesday at six-party talks in China, aimed at pressing the Communist state to take further denuclearization measures. "Russian specialists are ready to discuss issues concerning the closing down of nuclear facilities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," said Vladimir Rakhmanin ... more Russia Rejects NATO Offer As Crisis Looms Over CFE 
Moscow (AFP) Jul 19, 2007Russia rejected a NATO offer for consultations on a key European arms treaty Wednesday, but said it would continue talks with the United States on the treaty and dismissed the idea of a new Cold War. Russia last week announced it would suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) arms control treaty after months of tensions over US plans to deploy an anti-missile system in ce ... more The Trouble With Sarkozy 
Paris (UPI) July 18, 2007With nearly three weeks left to go of his first hundred days, the honeymoon of France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy has been more like a whirlwind. His latest coup this week resolved the decade-long dispute over of the divided leadership of the Franco-German EADS group that builds Airbus jets and runs one of Europe's top aerospace and defense groups. Last week, after a long telephone call to h ... more Bush And Putin Still Partners 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 18, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin's two-day stay at the Bush family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, was more fruitful than the press and political analysts expected. They thought the two presidents would mainly discuss ways to maintain good relations between the United States and Russia after they step down. They thought Putin and U.S. President George Bush would at best prevent them from going sou ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jul 17, 2007The United States denied Monday any cause and effect between Russia's suspension of a treaty limiting conventional forces in Europe and US plans for an anti-missile shield in Europe. "I am not sure I get the linkage between the CFE and missile defense," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. "I would put to you that the Russian issue, shall we say, with the CFE treaty extends ... more Russia Will Build Floating Nuclear Power Plants 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007Since 2006, Sevmash, the main company of the Russian State Nuclear Shipbuilding Center, has been working to complete a floating nuclear power plant in northern Russia that will be launched in 2010 and moored in a nearby harbor. This technological marvel will raise quite a few eyebrows and cause widespread apprehension, because the world still fears everything connected with nuclear power. ... more Sukhoi Super Jet: The Great White Hope Of The Russian Aircraft Industry 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2007Russia's civilian aircraft industry collapsed with much of the rest of its economy after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Now, the country is hoping to gain a foothold on the global market for short-haul passenger aircraft, competing with the industry's two current titans, Canada's Bombardier and Brazil's Embraer. Of all the projects it has to choose from, the Russian government has opted ... more The Coming Conflict In The Arctic 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 17, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush spent most of their time at the "lobster summit" at Kennebunkport, Maine, discussing how to prevent the growing tensions between their two countries from getting out of hand. The media and international affairs experts have been portraying missile defense in Europe and the final status of Kosovo as the two most contentious issues ... more |
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Houston (UPI) Jul 13, 2007The International Space Station crew is preparing for the arrival of another Russian cargo spacecraft by discarding no longer needed items. The discarded hardware and miscellaneous items are being loaded into the Progress 24 cargo craft that will be cast off Aug. 1, to eventually be incinerated when it enters the Earth's atmosphere. With all trash gathered and stowed from the U.S. side, cosmonau ... more Russia Gives Up Ukraine Missile Radars, US Says Azerbaijan No Substitute For Poland 
Moscow (AFP) July 12, 2007Russia plans to abandon two missile defence bases in Ukraine, including one 700 kilometers (430 miles) away from a planned US radar site that Moscow opposes, a top Russian daily reported Thursday. The Russian government has submitted a draft bill to the lower house of parliament that would end an agreement under which Moscow finances the bases for around 1.3 million dollars (940,000 euros) per y ... more Bush Names Deputy EUCOM Commander To Lead AFRICOM 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 13, 2007President Bush named Army Gen. William E. "Kip" Ward today to help stand up U.S. Africa Command as its first commander. Ward has served as deputy commander of U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, since May 2006. In that role, he has been responsible for the day-to-day activities for U.S. forces operating across 92 countries in Europe, Africa, Russia, parts of Asia and the Middle East, t ... more US Spy Master Says Intrigue Over The Kremlin Successor Deepens 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jul 12, 2007A senior U.S. intelligence analyst said political maneuvering in Russia is intensifying as the country approaches presidential elections in March 2008. Speaking before U.S. lawmakers, Thomas Fingar, National Intelligence Council deputy director for analysis, gave an analytical assessment of the current situation in Russia as part of a report about global security threats facing the United State ... more
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