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South Korean Equipment Allowed To Be Used In Space Research
Seoul, Korea (SPX) Apr 01, 2008South Korean scientific equipment was approved by Russian authorities to be used in a space research helped by Russia, the South Korean government said Monday. "The green light given by the rocket company and state-run laboratory will permit all 18 experiments to be conducted according to plan," said the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, adding that the Energia Rocket and ... more New ISS Crew To Conduct 47 Experiments At Space Station 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 01, 2008Members of the 17th International Space Station expedition will conduct up to 47 scientific experiments during their stay on board the orbital station, Russia's Federal Space Agency said Monday. The main crew, scheduled to lift off on April 8 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on board the Soyuz TMA-12 craft, will comprise Russian astronauts, Commander Sergei Volkov and ... more Outside View: Russia's tank woes -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 Although warfare featuring tank armadas over vast territories is already a thing of the past, armor still remains the main striking force of modern armies. Requirements for any new tank are protection, mobility and firepower. Historically, Russia has always tackled these problems by developing new models and continuing to exploit existing ones. For that reason its armed forces today ... more Walker's World: Bush's personal summitry 
Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 There are two serious splits in the alliance ahead of this week's NATO summit in Bucharest, Romania, and the Russians are cleverly playing one against the other to exploit the differences between the United States and its European allies. Managing this will be one of the most complex international challenges President George Bush has faced because everything will hinge on his own personal ... more Outside View: Old, new Europe clash 
Washington (UPI) Mar 31, 2008 President Bush's two-day visit to Kiev on the eve of NATO's April 2-4 summit in Bucharest, Romania, is his first visit to Ukraine and therefore long overdue. His predecessor, Bill Clinton, visited Ukraine on three occasions. Bush's visit to Ukraine ahead of the NATO summit is seen as a strong show of U.S. support for NATO enlargement to Ukraine and Georgia. Bucharest will be dominated ... more |
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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 Analysis: U.K. firm to audit Turkmen gas 
Washington (UPI) Mar 28, 2008 Since the death in December 2005 of Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov, Western energy firms have longingly eyed Turkmenistan's vast natural gas reserves, which even during the Soviet era were estimated at 10 trillion to 14 trillion cubic meters, exceeded only by those of the Russian Federation. Among the potential suitors for Ashgabat's favor, no firms were more ardent than U.S. companies. ... more |
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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 Russia Postpones Launch Of German Spy Satellite 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 27, 2008The launch of a Russian carrier rocket with a German satellite from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia has been postponed until March 26 due to poor weather, a spokesman for Russia's Space Forces said on Tuesday. The German SAR-Lupe satellite is designed to provide high-resolution radar images to NATO military commanders in Europe. It offers spatial resolution of less than 1 meter, and ... more
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