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NATO leaders seek help in Afghanistan as Russia showdown looms
Brussels (AFP) March 30, 2008NATO leaders will seek support this week to drive a relentless Taliban insurgency out of Afghanistan despite a row over troop deployments, as a showdown looms with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a summit in Bucharest, attended by some 60 heads of state and government, the leaders will decide whether to invite in three new Balkans nations as members and assess stability in Kosovo since ... more Commentary: Afghan lament 
Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 "I don't care if it takes another 10 or 20 years, but we cannot allow Afghanistan to fail." So spoke Frank Carlucci, former U.S. defense secretary and national security adviser, at the Council on Foreign Relations. Failure, said Carlucci, would break the Atlantic Alliance and turn the world stage over to the next two global heavy hitters -- China and Russia. Most of the European members ... more Carrier Conflicts Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 With no full information available on details of the refitting of the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov for service in the Indian navy as the Indian carrier Vikramaditya, it might be of interest to take a look at the ship itself and the plans for retrofitting. The Admiral Gorshkov was laid down in 1978 in Nikolayev as Project 1143.4. It is a Kiev-class heavy aircraft-carrying ... more Outside View: A Russia-Japan nuclear pact 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 27, 2008 Paris is in shock: Nuclear giants Atomenergoprom and Toshiba have decided to form an alliance in civilian nuclear power operations, including power plant construction and fuel production. The two companies signed a framework agreement last week, under which the Russian company will enrich uranium produced in Kazakhstan, while Toshiba will produce nuclear fuel and undertake the designing ... more Westinghouse Wins Contract To Provide Fuel Supplies To Ukraine 
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008Westinghouse Electric has announced it has won a five-year contract to provide nuclear fuel supplies to three Ukrainian reactors beginning in 2011. Ukraine relies on nuclear power generation for nearly 50 percent of its energy requirements. The genesis of Westinghouse's introduction into the Ukrainian nuclear fuel marketplace was an award in 2000 by the U.S. Government for the development ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Mar 26, 2008 Sources in the Russian Defense Ministry are very dubious about the new U.S. proposals. Off the record, they insist that all proposals brought by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates to Moscow this time do not change the gist of the problem. Their aim is to alleviate Russia's grievances and show their European allies that it is impossible to ... more Differences remain with Russia on missile defense: US 
Washington (AFP) March 27, 2008US and Russian officials ended two days of meetings here Thursday without bridging the gap on Washington's plans to deploy parts of a missile shield in eastern Europe, US officials said. The two sides are intensifying efforts to end a row with echoes of the Cold War by planning more talks on missile defense at a summit in early April in Russia between US President George W. Bush and his ... more Russia calls for sturgeon fishing ban in Caspian 
Moscow (AFP) March 27, 2008Russia on Thursday proposed that Caspian Sea states impose a five-year ban on fishing for sturgeon, prized for its caviar eggs, to save stocks from collapse, a spokesman for the fisheries agency said. "We are ready to announce a moratorium," said spokesman Alexander Savelyev, adding that Russia would formally propose the ban to the other four Caspian Sea states of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan ... more Egypt consolidates lead in Arab nuclear power race 
Cairo (AFP) March 27, 2008By signing a deal this week with Russia, Egypt is pushing forward with its desire to stay at the head of a nuclear family Arab nations are creating to counterbalance Iran and Israel. A handshake between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday sealed the nuclear cooperation deal that looks set to cause some concern in the West. "Western countries ... more |
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Krasnoyarsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 26, 2008A fully operational Glonass cluster will consist of 30 Glonass-M and Glonass-K satellites by 2010, a satellite production corporation official said on Friday. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, which is designed for both military and civilian use, and allows users to identify their positions in real time. "The ... more The ABM Deadlock Petrov Version Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 25, 2008 Russia and the United States have completed talks on U.S. plans to deploy a third positioning anti-ballistic missile region in Europe. The talks were held in the two-plus-two format with the participation of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates, and their Russian counterparts Sergei Lavrov and Anatoly Serdyukov. Russian Foreign Minister ... more The ABM Deadlock Melamedov Version Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 24, 2008 There was no breakthrough on Washington's controversial missile defense plans at the recent two-day Russian-U.S. talks in Moscow in the two-plus-two format of foreign and defense ministers. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov put it after the talks on March 18, the sides have not reached agreement on the missile defense plans nor the control of strategic offensive arms, although ... more Mubarak aims for Russian nuclear technology, arms: media 
Moscow (AFP) March 25, 2008Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will seek to secure Russian nuclear technology during his current visit to Russia while Moscow is trying to revive lucrative arms sales to Cairo, newspapers said Tuesday. Mubarak, who began the visit on Monday, voiced "full satisfaction with the level of international political consultations between Cairo and Moscow," in an interview with the state-owned new ... more
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