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Korolev Hosts Expert Board On Legislative Support To Develop The Defense Industrial Complex
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 16, 2008On March 11, 2008 S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia hosted the enlarged field working meeting of Expert Board on legislative support to develop Defense - Industrial Complex, of which the Chairman of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly Federal Council is in charge. Opening the meeting, S.M. Mironov, the Chairman of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly Federal Council, ... more Rocket Wreckage Removed From Siberian Shepherd Land 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 16, 2008Part of the wreckage of a carrier rocket that fell in Siberia after takeoff from Kazakhstan last month has been removed from land owned by a Russian shepherd, local officials said on Friday. Specialists from the Russian space agency Roscosmos traveled to the farm in the Altai Republic, "cut the fragment into parts and loaded it on a Mi-8 helicopter," a spokesman for the local administration said ... more US top guns head for first talks with Russia's president elect 
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2008Top US officials Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates are due in Moscow Monday for their first meeting with Dmitry Medvedev since he was elected Russia's new president, as political transitions in both countries complicate tense defense negotiations. Secretary of State Rice and Defense Secretary Gates will also meet President Vladimir Putin, who leaves his office to Medvedev in May, as well as ... more US wants to 'clarify' missile plans in Russia talks: Rice 
Santiago (AFP) March 14, 2008The United States will try to "clarify" to Russia its plans to develop an anti-missile defense system in talks next week, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday. Her two-day trip to Moscow next Monday with US Defense Secretary Robert Gates will be "to see wether or not we can clarify and develop some of the ideas that we have put on the table" concerning the system and changes to ... more Russia offers India aviation secrets in fighter contract bid 
Moscow (AFP) March 14, 2008Russia is ready to hand India military aircraft engineering secrets in a bid to win a 12-billion dollar (7.65-billion euro) aviation contract tender, Interfax agency reported Friday. "If the Indian government decides to buy the MiG-35 (fighter), we will transfer to India the key technologies used in these aircraft including fifth generation technologies," manufacturers MiG said in a statement ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) March 13, 2008The Russian prosecutor's office has launched an inquiry into a paper and pulp mill suspected of polluting Lake Baikal, the world's largest freshwater reserve, officials said Thursday. Local prosecutors in Irkutsk have been ordered "to check the legitimacy of the activities of the paper and pulp mill," said the prosecutors in a statement. The Baikal paper and pulp mill is owned by Basic ... more Rice, Gates to take missile shield talks to Russia 
Washington (AFP) March 12, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit Russia March 17-18, with Russo-US ties sorely strained by US missile defense plans, officials said Wednesday. With Iran, the Middle East, and Kosovo's declaration of independence also on the agenda, Rice and Gates will meet with their counterparts and seek talks with President Vladimir Putin and president ... more NATO urges Russia to tone down anti-alliance rhetoric 
Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2008NATO urged Russia on Wednesday to tone down its "fiery rhetoric" after repeated Moscow attacks on the growing influence of the military alliance and US plans to base parts of a missile shield in Europe. "We have seen too much rhetoric at too high a level... we would like to see it dialled down," NATO spokesman James Appathurai told the Russian press in a video-conference, speaking from Bruss ... more BMD Focus: BrahMos for Israel? 
Washington (UPI) Mar 12, 2008 India's success in co-producing the Mach 2.8 BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with Russia raises the question as to whether New Delhi would be willing or able to sell that technology to Israel -- which urgently needs it. And it also raises the question of whether Russia would allow India to sell such technology well in advance of current U.S. cruise missile systems to a close U.S. all ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Mar 11, 2008 Russia's SS-18 Satan intercontinental ballistic missile, also produced in Ukraine, was tested and put on combat duty almost at the same time as the rail-mobile RT-23 -- NATO designation SS-24 Scalpel. But it has been modernized several times and its service life was extended after trial and commercial launches -- the latter as the Dnepr boosters -- until 2020. Nikolai Solovtsov, comman ... more Putin hints at summit with Libya's Kadhafi: report 
Moscow (AFP) March 11, 2008Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday left open the possibility of a summit with Libya's Moamer Kadhafi amid Russian interest in the North African country's civil nuclear energy market. "We have a very active dialogue, and I don't exclude reciprocal visits at the highest level," Putin said during a meeting with parliament leaders at the Kremlin, according to the Interfax news agency. ... more Daimler unveils plan to sell more buses in China, India and Russia 
Frankfurt (AFP) March 11, 2008German heavy vehicle manufacturer Daimler said Tuesday it planned to expand its bus division in emerging markets such as Russia and India to boost global sales. "Daimler Buses aims in the long term to reinforce its position of number one worldwide by investing in new growth markets like Russia, India and China," a company statement said. In Russia, "we are considering local production ... more Russia Dumps Korean Astro Boy For Astro Girl In Textbook Scandal 
Seoul (AFP) March 10, 2008South Korea on Monday chose a woman to be its first astronaut in a late change after Russia's space authorities said the man initially selected for next month's mission had breached training rules. Yi So-Yeon, 29, a biosystems engineering student, will now blast off on April 8 in a Russian-made Soyuz rocket, replacing 30-year-old male computer engineer Ko San on the 27-million-dollar space fare ... more
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