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Russian Rocket Company Meets To Fire And Hire The Bosses
Korolev, Russia (SPX) Aug 02, 2007A special shareholders' meeting of the open joint stock company (JSC) S.P.Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, convened by a resolution of the Board of Directors, has taken place Monday August 1. 3427 participants registered at the meeting to represent the interests of the Corporation shareholders who own the total of 885414 shares, which amounts to 78.79% of the total number of the vot ... more Climate Change Threatens Siberian Forests 
Leicester UK (SPX) Aug 01, 2007In Central Siberia alone, fires have destroyed 38 000 km2 in the extreme fire year of 2003. In that year the smoke plumes were so huge that they caused air pollution as far as in the United States. An international team of scientists believes that Siberian fires are influenced by climate change. The study was led by the Professor Heiko Balzter of the Department of Geography at the University of ... more Senior Official Of Energia Space Appointed President 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007Vitaly Lopota, formerly first vice president of the Energia space corporation and its chief designer, has been appointed the company's new president. Earlier, Energia's shareholders voted to dismiss Nikolai Sevastyanov from the post by a 97% majority, and voted 97.5 percent in favor of Lopota, 57. The decision to suspend Sevastyanov's mandate was made in late June by the board of directors of st ... more Russia To Conduct Strategic Wargames Above And Below Arctic Ocean 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 01, 2007The Russian strategic aviation will fly over the North Pole and conduct test launches of cruise missiles during a series of exercises in August, the Defense Ministry said on its website Tuesday. Units of the 37th Air Army of the Strategic Command will conduct a total of six tactical exercises in August as part of an annual training program, the ministry said in a statement. "During the exercises ... more The Russian Navy Gets Ambitious 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 01, 2007The Russian Navy will become the world's second largest in 20 years' time, said its commander-in-chief, Admiral Vladimir Masorin, speaking ahead of Navy Day. He said the navy's core would consist of the newest strategic nuclear-powered submarines and six squadrons of aircraft carriers. For Russia's navy, this will be its third modernization program, said the admiral. The previous two, although g ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jul 31, 2007A new Progress cargo carrier is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station at 1:34 p.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 2, with more than 2.5 tons of fuel, air, water and other supplies and equipment aboard. The station's 26th Progress unpiloted spacecraft will bring to the orbiting laboratory almost 1,600 pounds of propellant, more than 100 pounds of air and oxygen, more than 465 pounds of water ... more 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 Russian Explorers And MPs Prepare Descent To Polar Depths 
Moscow (AFP) Jul 29, 2007A Russian exploration team led by two members of parliament was carrying out tests on Sunday before an epic descent to the North Pole seabed, amid heightened international rivalry in the region. The Arctic 2007 expedition led by veteran explorer and parliament member Artur Chilingarov is aimed at advancing Russia's claims to a swathe of Arctic seabed thought to be rich in oil and gas. "We ... more |
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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 Russia To Deploy S-400 Air Defense Systems Around Moscow 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 26, 2007Russia will deploy the first air defense battalion equipped with new S-400 missile systems around Moscow on August 6, an Air Force spokesman said. The S-400 Triumf (NATO codename SA-21 Growler) is a new air defense missile system developed by the Almaz Central Design Bureau as an upgrade of the S-300 family. "A battalion equipped with S-400 Triumf air defense systems and a command post will be p ... more Drip, Drip Of Global Warming Spells Change In Northern Russia 
Kanchalan, Russia (AFP) July 25, 2007It is summer in this reindeer-herding village in northern Russia and with not an iceberg in sight, residents are acquiring a taste for bathing in the local river. "We used to have ice on the river all year round. The warming process is speeding up," said the worried head of the state-controlled reindeer company at Kanchalan, Arkady Makhushkin. "The reindeers' health is suffering. Their meat isn' ... more
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