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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 7, 2008South Korea's first astronaut said Monday on the eve of her launch to the International Space Station (ISS) that she will celebrate arrival in space by singing for her fellow crew. Yi So-Yeon was set to blast off Tuesday on a Russian Soyuz rocket with two Russian cosmonauts from the same desert launch pad where Soviet hero Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, began his historic mission in ... more Russia's Satellite Navigation Market May Be Worth 6 billion Dollars By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 08, 2008Russia's satellite navigation services market will be worth 160 billion rubles ($6.6 billion) by 2015, the general director of the Russian Institute of Radio Navigation said on Monday. Sergei Pisarev said Glonass users would make up around 7% of Russia's population. Glonass is the acronym for the Global Navigation Satellite System, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System ... more Second satellite to be launched for EU Galileo satnav project 
Luxembourg (AFP) April 7, 2008A second experimental satellite for the EU's Galileo satellite navigation project will be launched from Kazakhstan on April 27, the European Commission announced Monday. The "Giove B" satellite, propelled by a Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the early hours of the morning but a year late. The long-delayed European project is meant to challenge the ... more China Goes Berserk In Russian Arms Bazaar Up Part One 
Stockholm, Sweden, April 7, 2008 Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 90 percent of China's imports of major conventional weapons have been supplied by the Russian Federation. In this period China has become one of Russia's most valued customers, accounting for 39 percent of Russian exports of major conventional weapons. However, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute online Arms Transfers ... more Walker's World: Bush's last summit 
Washington, April 7, 2008 Russian President Vladimir Putin is not a man to wear his heart on his sleeve. He is matter of fact and businesslike, adept at concealing his emotions and sticking to the point. So the occasional touches of a rare warmth on display in his farewell news conference Sunday with his American counterpart, the man he calls "George," were noteworthy. It is not as though this meeting was farewell ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 6, 2008The Soyuz rocket due to take South Korea's first astronaut into space was rolled out of its hangar on Sunday as dawn broke over the steppes surrounding Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome. A locomotive dragged the 50-metre (160-foot) rocket bearing the South Korean and Russian flags to the same launch pad from which Soviet icon Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, blasted off on his historic mission ... more Russia's Satellite Navigation System Delayed Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 07, 2008The council of chief designers responsible for commissioning Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) has said it will only become operational in late 2008, whereas the previous deadline was December 31, 2007. Something is obviously amiss in this ambitious project, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS). According to the Russian Space Agency ... more Outside View: Russia's top general quits 
Moscow (UPI) Apr 04, 2008 It was reported last month that chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, four-star Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky was going to retire. There was no official denial of this report, and political analysts have interpreted it as valid. There was another telltale detail. Baluyevsky always took part in strategic security talks with the United States on a par with Russian Foreign ... more Russia's Putin stands firm against NATO 
Bucharest (AFP) April 4, 2008President Vladimir Putin on Friday maintained Russian opposition to a US missile defence system and NATO's enlargement during talks with alliance leaders, officials said. No progress was reported from the summit but Putin, in his last major international appearance before stepping down in May, and NATO leaders said the talks had been positive. Putin complained that NATO was talking of ... more |
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Bucharest (AFP) April 3, 2008NATO leaders ordered experts Thursday to draw up options for a missile system that would complement the US anti-missile shield and provide cover to some allies left out in the cold, a statement said. They also urged Russia to consider linking up its missile defences to the US shield -- despite Moscow's hostility towards it -- and to the system the alliance plans to develop. The leaders ... more Putin triumphs against NATO expansion 
Bucharest (AFP) April 3, 2008President Vladimir Putin joined the NATO summit Thursday after triumphing in a bitter campaign to scupper the membership hopes of pro-Western Georgia and Ukraine. Putin arrived in the Romanian capital Bucharest for dinner and was to deliver an address on Friday with expectations high that he will invite the alliance to use Russia for transit to the war in Afghanistan. The ex-KGB officer ... more Analysis: Showdown in Bucharest 
Berlin (UPI) April 2, 2008 At the NATO summit Bucharest, Romania, U.S. President George W. Bush will try to finalize his legacy of promoting democracy by heaving Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics, into the alliance. It will be tough to convince his European allies, however, that expanding NATO eastward is such a good idea. Bush visited Ukraine on the eve of the summit, thus underscoring that the ... more US, Czech Republic agree on missile defense radar 
Bucharest (AFP) April 3, 2008The United States and the Czech Republic said they reached agreement Thursday on the stationing in the Czech Republic of a US missile defense radar strongly opposed by Russia. "This legally-binding agreement calls for the stationing of a US radar in the Czech Republic to track ballistic missiles," they said in a joint communique. "The radar will be linked to other US missile defense ... more
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