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Arctic Wealth And Why Countries Are Jockeying Over The Roof Of The World
Paris (AFP) Aug 02, 2007Global warming and, ironically, its main cause -- fossil fuels -- explain the intensifying squabble to claim rights over the Arctic seabed. Around a quarter of the world's oil reserves are locked up below the Arctic Ocean, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS). The Arctic floor is also home to massive gas fields which are virtually unexploited, including those in the Barents Sea and in pa ... more Russia Plants Flag At North Pole To Claim Arctic Seabed Riches 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 02, 2007A Russian expedition planted the country's flag on the seabed under the North Pole on Thursday, capping a mission to claim the mineral riches of the Arctic and drawing ridicule from abroad. "The Mir-1 submarine successfully reached the bottom of the Arctic Ocean... at a depth of 4,261 metres (13,980 feet)," veteran Arctic explorer and expedition leader Artur Chilingarov told the Vesti television ... more A Future Natural Gas Cartel 
Doha, Qatar (UPI) Aug 02, 2007The April 9 meeting in Doha, Qatar, of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum attracted intense media scrutiny. Pundits speculated that the hidden agenda of the meeting, the first in two years, was to explore the possibility of developing a natural gas cartel along the lines of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Such a cartel would have immense financial and political clout in the glo ... more Russian Space Cargo Ship Progress Undocks From ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 02, 2007Russia's Progress M-59 space cargo ship carrying garbage from the International Space Station has undocked, and its unburned fragments will land in the Pacific Ocean at 23:26 Moscow time (7:26 p.m. GMT). "The ship has undocked from the ISS in normal mode," a Mission Control spokesman said. Mission Control is preparing another cargo ship - Progress M-61 - for launch to the orbital station in line ... more 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 |
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Washington (UPI) July 30, 2007As disagreements over NATO's eastward expansion, ballistic missile defense deployments in Eastern Europe, the status of Kosovo and others continue to strain NATO-Russian relations, Russia has shown an increasing willingness to re-examine its arms-control obligations with the alleged intent of guarding its national interests. Most recently, Russia has suspended participation in the Conventional F ... 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 Shanghai Pact Plans 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) July 30, 2007The Russian Armed Forces have been rather active this summer. So far this year large-scale troop exercises have been held in the Leningrad and North Caucasus Military Districts, as well as in the Russian Far East and in the Northern Fleet. Strategic bombers flew simulated long-range combat missions; 2,500 Russian paratroopers performed group jumps alongside their German counterparts; and another ... more Police Seize Three More Suspects In Attack On Nuclear Protesters 
Irkutsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007Police in Siberia have detained another three suspects in an attack on an anti-nuclear protest camp that left one person dead and 21 injured July 21, the first assistant prosecutor in Irkutsk said Tuesday. Alexander Semyonov said the detention brings the total number of detainees to 16 after masked assailants carrying baseball bats and metal rods attacked the camp in Angarsk, near Lake Baikal, w ... more |
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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 France And India Hold Nuclear Cooperation Talks 
New Delhi (AFP) Jul 30, 2007Indian and French officials held talks on nuclear energy cooperation Monday and pledged to work on an accord similar to ones New Delhi has signed with the United States and Russia. French President Nicolas Sarkozy's diplomatic adviser met with India's national security advisor M.K. Narayanan and exchanged invitations for state visits to each country, a statement from the French embassy said. "Bo ... more Ukraine Forgets About Chernobyl 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 31, 2007Politicians in Kiev are busy looking for an alternative to Russia as a builder of nuclear power plants. At any rate, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk hastened to announce after a meeting last week with his Canadian counterpart, Peter Gordon MacKay, that Ukraine was resuming talks with Canadian companies on the construction of CANDU (Canada Deuterium Uranium) nuclear reactors in Ukrain ... 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
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