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Russia Builds Highly Effective Pechora Surface-To-Air Missiles
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007The final stage of the Combat Fraternity 2007 military exercise will be held at the Ashuluk firing range in the Astrakhan Region (southern Russia) on August 22. Defense ministers from ten CIS states will fly to the range after the opening ceremony of the MAKS 2007 aerospace show, which opens in Zhukovsky near Moscow on August 21. They will see the operation of the S-125 Pechora (NATO repor ... more Russia's New Research Station In Arctic To Open In Late September 
St Petersburg (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007Russia's new drifting research station in the Arctic will begin working in late September, the press spokesman of the Artic and Antarctic Research Institute said Monday. The North Pole 35 station being set up with the help of the Akademik Fedorov research vessel and the nuclear icebreaker Rossiya, which brought mini-submarines to the pole for the first ever dive to the seabed earlier in Au ... more Russia Offers New Deposits For Geological Prospecting 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2007Russia's Natural Resources Ministry is offering 93 new deposits for prospecting, including fields in East and West Siberia, the ministry's press office said Monday. "The ministry has approved new lists of deposits offered for geological prospecting in 2007 at the expense of natural resources companies," the ministry said in a statement. The ministry will offer 38 hydrocarbon deposits with ... more Rush Demand For Shanghai Cooperation Organization 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has held its seventh summit in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan. It clearly demonstrated the SCO's awareness that the time of closed blocs is over, and the 21st century is an era of cooperation. It also showed that the SCO is working hard to find its way in an avalanche of ideas about its development path and format. The SCO is a regional group ... more Russia To Export Electricity To Lithuania While Nuclear Power Plant Repaired 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 20, 2007Russia will supply up to 1,000 megawatts of electricity to Lithuania while the Ignalina nuclear power plant is being repaired, electricity monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) said Friday. European Union member Lithuania is to shut down the second reactor of its Ignalina NPP by late 2009, in line with EU nuclear safety requirements, and to build a new plant of about the same capacity of 3,600 MW ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 16, 2007Russia's Armed Forces will begin using new-generation command and communications systems by 2015, a first deputy prime minister said Wednesday. Sergei Ivanov, who supervises the defense industry, spoke Wednesday at a session of the defense industry commission, held at the Semenikhin Scientific Research Institute, which specializes in automatic equipment development. "In line with a state a ... more Russian Space Program Needs To Change 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 12, 2007If the past is any guide, we will learn about the latest plans for the Russian space program at the end of August. On the 21st, the MAKS-2007 international aerospace show will open in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow. Why such certainty that important announcements will be made? Two years ago, at the previous show, visitors admired a mock-up of Russia's Kliper reusable spacecraft developed by Energiya, ... more Is The Shanghai Cooperation Organization The New Warsaw Treaty Group
Hong Kong (UPI) Aug 10, 2007The Shanghai Cooperation Organization is holding joint military exercises this week in Russia, with all six member nations participating for the first time. However, judging from the number of soldiers taking part, the significance of the maneuvers is more symbolic than practical. Less than 4,000 troops are involved in the drills dubbed Peace Mission 2007: 1,600 from China, 2,000 from Russia, 10 ... more A Reality Show Under The Ice 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 12, 2007The much-publicized polar expedition of Artur Chilingarov, deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma, has eclipsed another event which has a direct bearing on the country's northward expansion. Nobody seems to remember that 75 years ago the ice-breaker Alexander Sibiryakov made a legendary journey along Russia's Northern Sea Route, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. He was the fir ... more |
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Izhevsk, Russia (AFP) Aug 10, 2007Light, silent and regulation black: the AK-9 is the latest model of the famous Kalashnikov assault rifle to come off production lines at the Izhmash factory in Russia. "It shoots virtually without a sound and it can go through a bullet-proof vest," said Alexei Dragunov, 52, one of the designers of the weapon, as he assembled the gun at a firing range in a Russian forest. Russian special fo ... more Russia To Commission Second Unit Of China Tianwan NPP In Sept 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 10, 2007Russia's nuclear equipment export monopoly Atomstroyexport confirmed Tuesday it will commission the second unit of China's Tianwan nuclear power plant in September. The company is building the Tianwan NPP in eastern China's port city of Lianyungang under a 1992 agreement. The plant features improved VVER-1000 reactors and K-100-6/3000 turbo generators. "Atomstroyexport will start commissio ... more Division Of The Caspian 
Washington (UPI) Aug 09, 2007Russia's recent effort to claim unilaterally its northern seabed to the North Pole has highlighted the race to divide the globe's remaining waters for nation's benefits. Besides the Arctic, these include Antarctica and the Caspian. Of the three, the Caspian is the most hotly contested, as extraction efforts are already under way, and the battle involves not only the riverain powers Russia, Iran, ... more Russia's Strategic Aviation Holds Tactical Exercises In Arctic 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Russia's strategic aviation started Wednesday an active phase of military exercises to fly over the North Pole and conduct test launches of cruise missiles, an Air Force spokesman said. During the active phase, four Tu-160 Blackjack, 12 Tu-95 Bear-H strategic bombers, and 14 Tu-22 Backfire-C theater bombers will conduct simulated bombing raids, and more than ten cruise missile launches at the Pe ... more
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