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Military Chief Says Russia Not Obliged To Protect World From US
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007Yury Baluyevsky, the chief of Russia's general staff, said in an interview with the Russia Today TV channel on Tuesday that the Russian Armed Forces were under no obligation to protect the world from the U.S. Answering a question as to whether or not the world could count on Russia to defend it from "insidious American plans," Baluyevsky replied, "Today, there is no need to be afraid of the Russ ... more Asymmetrical Iskander Missile Systems 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007Russia may deliver its Iskander tactical missile systems to Belarus as an asymmetrical response to the deployment of American ABM components in Europe. "Under certain conditions and with the corresponding agreement of Belarus, why don't we? After all, any action triggers a counteraction." Colonel General Vladimir Zaritsky, commander of the Russian Missile and Artillery Troops, expressed th ... more Will Russia Create The World's Second Largest Surface Navy 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 19, 2007The year 2007 can safely be described as Russia's year of combat aviation. Both in July at Le Bourget in France and in August at Zhukovsky outside Moscow, thousands of spectators held their breath as they watched stunts performed by MiG and Su planes equipped with vectored-thrust engines. It was a sight to be proud of. The planes featured were all land-based, although it is aircraft carrier avia ... more Belarus To Launch Its Second Satellite In 2009 
Minsk (RIA Novosti) Nov 14, 2007Belarus plans to launch its second satellite in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences said on Tuesday. Pyotr Vityaz, the first deputy chairman of the academy's presidium, said the Belka-2 satellite would be launched by a Russian carrier rocket. Belarus launched its first satellite, Belka, in July 2006. However, a Dnepr rocket carrying the Belarusian satellite, along with several internati ... more Russia And India Sign Joint Lunar Research Deal 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 13, 2007Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) and the Indian Department of Space have signed a joint lunar research and exploration agreement, the Russian agency said on Monday. The agreement was signed by Roskosmos chief Anatoly Perminov and Madhavan Nair, secretary of India's Department of Space and chairman of the Space Commission. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is currently on an official ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 12, 2007Despite the numerous technical and medical-biological problems it would face, a manned mission to Mars is being spoken about with more and more certainty. Yet it is unclear why we should take such great risks to land astronauts on the Red Planet. Nor do we know whether the huge costs of such an expedition would ever be recouped. Yury Semyonov, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences an ... more Nukes Must Stay Within National Borders Says Russian Army Chief 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 12, 2007Any new Russia-U.S. agreement on strategic weapons reduction must eliminate the possibility that nuclear weapons could be stationed outside national borders, chief of the Russian General Staff said. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START-I) was signed by the United States and the Soviet Union on July 31, 1991, five months before the union collapsed, and remains in force between the U.S., Rus ... more The Antarctic Free-For-All 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 12, 2007Russia's 53rd Antarctic Expedition began in the small hours of November 6. The "Akademik Fyodorov" research vessel is sailing to the Antarctic in bad political weather that threatens to deteriorate into a geopolitical tornado. On October 17 the Guardian, a British newspaper, cited Foreign Office sources as saying that the U.K. government might lodge a legal claim with the UN's commission on the ... more The Dutch Want To Produce Gas On Yamal 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 12, 2007Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende proposed that Russian and Dutch companies headed by Royal Dutch Shell should jointly develop the richest gas fields on the Yamal Peninsula located above the Arctic Circle. Although the Yamal Peninsula is in the sphere of strategic interests of Russian state-controlled natural gas monopoly Gazprom, the Dutch initiative may appeal to the Russian authoritie ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007It is not surprising that military developments in one country make its opponents take similar steps. Many examples of this exist, but instances of the West's civilian industry placing orders in the Russian defense sector and helping it back to its feet are hard to remember. Yet this is what is currently taking place: Russian aircraft builders are negotiating with an unnamed Western firm about t ... more Russian Tankers Heading For The Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007Sovcomflot and Novoship, Russia's largest shipping companies, have estimated their total worth at $3.37 billion. Experts think that after the companies' merger happening by the end of this year, the new mega-company may become the world's third largest shipping company according to its assets and the second largest in terms of gross tonnage. The decision to create a powerful shipping holdi ... more China To Rule The World Economy 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007The China-Russia Friendship Year is finishing early this month with great pageantry. Economic contacts underlying the galas are asymmetrical-Russia has silently accepted the role of China's sales outlet and raw material supplier. The two countries' political and business leaders are gathering in Moscow, November 6, for a second bilateral economic forum to take stock of mutual interests. Chinese ... more Russian Air Space For Sale 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007The fact that German Lufthansa's Russia-based subsidiary has stopped using Russian air corridors for transit flights may aggravate tensions between Russia and the European Union. It is clear that we are in for a "transit war." Germany's air traffic regulator has issued a temporary ban for Aeroflot-Cargo's freight jets to land in the cargo hub near Frankfurt; this followed a hike in transit tarif ... more
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