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Killing NROL-21 Part Two
Washington (UPI) Feb 22, 2007 The U.S. success in shooting down USA 193, also known as National Reconnaissance Office launch 21 spy satellite, from a decaying orbit Wednesday looks unlikely to worsen the space arms race between the United States and Russia. Both nations were and remain dependent on orbiting satellites for essential intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance and communications capabilities. China ... more Analysis: Turkmenistan, Russia and China 
Washington DC (UPI) Feb 25, 2008The most fascinating energy development of the last 14 months has been the furious, if covert, struggle involving Russia, China and the United States to develop Turkmenistan's vast natural gas deposits since the death of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov in December 2006. Turkmenistan's estimated natural gas reserves are the fourth largest in the world; according to geologic analysis ... more Outside View: Russia rearms 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 21, 2007 This year Russia will concentrate on a State Arms Program to be carried out by 2015. One of the program's priorities is to equip the armed forces with high-accuracy weapons. Last February the Russian Military-Industrial Commission headed by First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov held a special session at the Moscow Research Institute of Precision Instrument-Making. At first ... more Little Green Men Will Have To Wait For A Long Time 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 21, 2008First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov warned Roskosmos (Russian Space Agency) against becoming a "space taxi." This is a real threat and it may become reality this year. For many years, Russia has not launched spacecraft in the interests of fundamental science. The federal program's plans to put them in orbit in 2006 and 2007 were not carried out. The Spektr-Radioastron astrophysical o ... more Walker's World: Putin's heir and rival 
Washington (UPI) Feb 20, 2007 Russia's presidential election is just two weeks away, and the Kremlin's own candidate Dmitry Medvedev has been campaigning almost like a liberal. "Freedom is better than the absence of freedom. This is the quintessence of the whole experience of humanity. I mean freedom in all its manifestations: individual freedom, economic freedom and, finally, the freedom of self-expression," he told ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Feb 18, 2007 The Indians are increasingly criticizing their Russian partners for high prices and unreliable supply of spare parts in arms deals between the two countries. This situation is typical for many pre-tender PR clashes. But spare parts should be delivered on time, especially now that the character of our cooperation has changed, and our military partnership has ceased being almost exclusive ... more US satellite shoot-down part of space 'arms race': Russia 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 17, 2008Moscow fears a US plan to shoot down a damaged spy satellite in the coming weeks is a veiled weapons test and represents an "attempt to move the arms race into space," Russia's defence ministry said. The operation, which Washington says is motivated only by the desire to avoid a damaging crash on Earth, "does not look as innocent as they are trying to present it," the ministry said in a ... more India opens massive weapons fair, denies arming for war 
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 16, 2008A massive defence fair opened in India's capital Saturday, with hundreds of global weapons firms competing for billions of dollars of sales to one of the world's largest armies and biggest spenders. Some 450 firms from countries including the United States, Russia, Britain, Russia and Israel are displaying their latest hardware to technology-hungry India, the top arms buyer among emerging ... more Outside View: Russia, NATO sea moves 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 15, 2007 "The uproar in the press about Russian strategic bombers' flyover of the American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Nimitz is beyond me," said General of the Army Pyotr Deinekin, a former commander in chief of Russia's air force, 1991-1998, and Hero of Russia. I want to congratulate our pilots on an undoubted success -- the fulfillment of a very complex mission," he said. "To find a ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 15, 2008The Amur Region, in Russia's Far East, is the most favorable location for the construction of a new space center, the Russian president said on Thursday. Last November President Vladimir Putin signed a decree to construct a new space center, to be named Vostochny, in the Amur Region. Putin told his last annual news conference as Russian president that, "I do not consider the plans for the ... more Russian military's roar is hollow: analysts 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2008Dramatic encounters last weekend between Russian and US warplanes over a US aircraft carrier seemed to underline President Vladimir Putin's boast that Russia is again a world player -- but analysts are less sure. The Cold War-style incident on Saturday involved Russian TU-95 Bear bombers, US F-18 fighters, and no less than 24 Japanese F-15s, roaring through the skies in the area of the USS ... more Russia To Target New Threats As NATO Says It Will Decide Who Joins Alliance 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 14, 2008Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday he was ready to target missiles at former Warsaw Pact countries, including neighbouring Ukraine, if they join NATO or host Western military facilities. Russia "would be forced to aim missiles at those objects which we feel threaten our national security," Putin told his last major annual press conference before he stands down. Ukraine is ... more All Iranian nuclear questions must be answered: France 
Paris (AFP) Feb 14, 2008French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Thursday that the six major powers expect Iran to answer all the outstanding questions over its nuclear programme. Kouchner "stressed that the Six (Germany, Britain, France, China, Russia and the United States) want Iran to respond to all the demands of the international community as set out by" the UN's ... more
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