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Analysis: New cyber chief faces Hill anger
Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2007 The new job of Scott Charbo, the man President Bush has picked to head up the protection of U.S. computer networks, involves countering threats from Russian hackers, Chinese cyber spies and Internet Jihadis. But perhaps his most immediately dangerous adversary is the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee. The two men will be face to face Thursday, when Charbo, the deputy ... more Analysis: Russia's northern oil exports 
Washington (UPI) Feb 28, 2007 The good news for Russia is that energy prices are at a world record, and that Russia is now tied neck and neck with Saudi Arabia as the world's leading oil producer, producing around 9 million barrels per day to a world consuming about 84 million bpd. Russia is the largest non-OPEC oil producer and now generates 12 percent of global production. The bad news is that Russia's major ... more Russia's Proton-M To Orbit Another UAE Telecoms Satellite 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 28, 2008A Russian-American joint venture has signed a contract to orbit another satellite for the United Arab Emirates by a Russian Proton-M carrier rocket, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said on Tuesday. Proton-M launch services are provided by Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS), owned by the Khrunichev Center, RSC Energia, and U.S. firm ... more US, Czech on cusp of missile shield deal 
Washington (AFP) Feb 27, 2008US President George W. Bush and Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said Wednesday they were on the cusp of reaching agreement on a radar for a planned US missile shield that has angered Russia. "There are only three words remaining to resolve," Topolanek said through an interpreter as they met in the Oval Office. He later explained the hold-up related to environmental guidelines for any US ... more The Algeria MiG Row And Russian Quality Assurance 
Moscow (UPI) Feb 26, 2007 Algeria will return 15 MiG-29SMT -- Fulcrum -- fighters purchased from the MiG Corp. in 2006-2007 to Russia. The deal on the return was signed shortly before Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika visited the Russian Federation. The ensuing scandal was picked up by the Russian press. This is an unpleasant incident not only because Algeria has thereby expressed its dissatisfaction ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2008Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek insisted a planned US missile defense radar in his country is crucial for security and accused its ex-Soviet master Russia of scrambling to retain influence by opposing the scheme. Russia "will probably not like to give up their sphere of influence over central Europe which I believe personally is the main reason of their protest against the missile ... more Joint ESA And Russian Team In Moscow Ready To Support Jules Verne 
Moscow (ESA) Feb 25, 2008When the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle is launched in early March it will use several key spacecraft hardware items such as the docking and refuelling systems, and the Kurs radar, procured in Russia. European and Russian engineers have worked together to adapt them from their previous use on the Russian spacecraft Progress and Soyuz to the much larger 20-tonne ATV vessel. ... more Czech, Poland close to deal on US anti-missile shield: officials 
Prague (AFP) Feb 25, 2008The Czech Republic and Poland said Monday they were both on the verge of striking a deal with Washington on hosting elements of an US anti-missile shield, despite Russian anger over the project. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek is to finalise a deal on siting an anti-missile radar on Czech soil during a two-day visit to the United States starting Tuesday, his government said in a statement ... more Analysis: China imitates Su-27SK 
Hong Kong (UPI) Feb 25, 2007 Based on the design of the Russian Sukhoi Su-27SK fighter, China has come up with its own domestic version, the J-11B multi-function fighter. Three J-11B prototypes have been manufactured since 2006. After their factory flight tests, they have been evaluated by the People's Liberation Army Air Force 1st Fighter Division, based in Anshan in China's northeast Liaoning province. A Chinese ... more |
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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 Needed but shunned: Chinese toil in Russia's Far East 
Komyshovka, Russia (AFP) Feb 21, 2008Beside well-tended fields in the deserted reaches of the Jewish Autonomous Republic in far eastern Russia, makeshift greenhouses await the return of the Chinese agricultural workers. Like their compatriots selling cut-rate clothes in the markets of Khabarovsk or labouring in the logging camps of the region's forests, the workers see in Russia a livelihood more difficult to come by in their ... more
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