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Russia Says US Cannot Have Both Gabala And Czech Radar Stations
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007The United States cannot deploy a missile shield in Central Europe and at the same time accept Russia's offer for the use of the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday. "Russia's proposals are an alternative, rather than a complement, to U.S. plans to deploy elements of its missile defense system in Europe," ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said. In Kamynin's comment ... more Chinese Navy To Build Two Carriers With Russian Help 
Hong Kong (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007Kanwa, a Hong Kong defense news agency, said Friday purchases by China of Russian aircraft carrier components suggested that Beijing was planning to build one or two aircraft carriers, possibly by 2015. The agency cited a senior source in the Russian Navy, saying that Russia and China have an agreement to purchase four deck landing systems capable of handling heavy deck-based fighters such as th ... more Exploring The Comets Of Sol 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2007Since 1986, four different comets -- Halley, Borrelly, Wild 2 and Tempel 1 -- have been examined in impressive detail by a wide variety of American, European and Russian spacecraft, including one that has actually returned a small dust sample to Earth and another that crashed a large piggyback spacecraft into a comet's nucleus to try and reveal some of its subsurface structure. And in 2014, the ... more Russia To Have Integrated Radar System By 2010
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 27, 2007Russia's unified automated radar system will be up and running by 2010, the commander of the Air Force Radiotechnical Troops said Thursday. "The integrated automated radar system will be finalized by 2010," Maj. Gen. Anatoly Boyarintsev said, adding that it will integrate the technical and financial capacities of all Russian agencies that have radar facilities. He said about 4.5 billion rubles ( ... more Arctic Crisis -- Part 2 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 26, 2007In order to legally claim that Russia's economic zone in the Arctic extends far beyond the 200 mile zone, it is necessary to present viable scientific evidence showing that the Arctic Ocean's sea shelf to the north of Russian shores is a continuation of the Siberian continental platform. In 2001 Russia submitted documents to the U.N. commission on the limits of the continental shelf seeking to p ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007The United States, Japan, China, Germany...Russia? Strange as it may seem, the world's largest country might soon also be one of its five biggest economies. On Tuesday, Russia's Economic Development and Trade Ministry submitted a remarkable document to the government - a plan for Russian social and economic development until the year 2020. With ambitious targets, it attracted the attention of ex ... more The Arctic Crisis Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) July 25, 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 Russia Hopes To Win Back The North Pole 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007Santa Claus might soon be a Russian citizen. At least, that is the hope of well-known Arctic explorer Artur Chilingarov, who will lead Arctic 2007, one of the biggest expeditions in the history of polar research. The nuclear-powered ice-breaker Rossiya will escort the Academician Fedorov, the flagship of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environment Monitoring, which will take about a ... more Russia Puts Off Bushehr NPP Launch Until Fall 2008 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007The Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran cannot be completed by the fall of 2007 as suggested by Iranian authorities and will only be commissioned a year later, a Russian subcontractor said. Russia is building the $1-billion facility, Iran's first nuclear power plant, in the south of the country in accordance with a 1995 contract, and under UN supervision as Iran is under international scrutiny o ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) July 23, 2007Russian activists on Monday denounced what they said was a police cover-up over the killing of a protester near a Siberian nuclear facility over the weekend. The activist group Autonomous Action, which organised the protest, said in a statement there had been "insistent requests from police and prosecutors to camp participants ... not to make a fuss and to avoid speaking to journalists" group sa ... more Scientists Fear Impact Of Noise From Sakhalin Energy Project On Whales 
Geneva (AFP) July 20, 2007An independent scientific panel is concerned that oil and gas companies developing Russia's Sakhalin II offshore fields are ignoring noise limits aimed at preserving whales, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) said Friday. The international panel set up by the IUCN said a decision by the Gazprom led consortium -- which includes Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell, Japan's Mitsui and Mistubishi -- to rej ... more Russia Opens The Door To Foreign Nuclear Investment And Technology 
London UK (SPX) Jul 23, 2007While investment opportunities still exist in the liquefied natural gas (LNG) sector of the Russian energy industry for the construction of gas liquefaction plants, the Government has turned its focus on the nuclear power generation sector. The idea is to attract significant foreign investment by diversifying and transmitting nuclear energy through the establishment of various nuclear plants and ... more New NASA System Will Help Space Station Crews Breathe Easier 
Houston TX (SPX) Jul 20, 2007A new oxygen generation system tested between July 11 and 14 aboard the International Space Station will allow the orbiting laboratory's crew size to increase in 2009. The hardware is part of the station's environmental control and life support system and will be used to augment the Russian Elektron oxygen generator. With the increased capability to produce oxygen, the station can better support ... more
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