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Thousands celebrate first Korean astronaut
Seoul (AFP) April 8, 2008Thousands of South Koreans led by President Lee Myung-Bak gathered here Tuesday to celebrate the launch of the country's first astronaut from a space center in Kazakhstan. A festive crowd of 3,000 citizens and invited guests watched on a giant outdoor TV screen as Yi So-Yeon blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, bound for the International Space Station. "Hurray!" shouted the crowd a ... more Russia sees US missile shield as inevitable: report 
Moscow (AFP) April 8, 2008Russia believes the United States will build a European missile defense system against Moscow's objections, yet is pleased with recent US attempts at confidence-building, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a newspaper Tuesday. "We were offered measures aimed at transparency and trust," said Lavrov in an interview with daily newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. "As the United States intends ... more Outside View: Bush, Ukraine look westward 
Moscow (UPI) Apr 08, 2008 Why are President Bush and his administration suddenly interested in Ukraine just nine months before the end of his term? Pushing Ukraine or Georgia into NATO in his remaining months in office is Bush's only chance at scoring a major success in Eastern Europe. This is why he was so determined to go there, ignoring Russia's objections and doubts of U.S. traditional European allies. ... more US says Central Asian bloc not turning into military alliance 
Washington (AFP) April 8, 2008The United States said Tuesday a Central Asian bloc dominated by Russia and China was unlikely to turn into a military alliance but expressed concern over Iran's potential membership. The six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) -- comprising China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- seemed to have returned to its original goals of mostly improving border ... more Russian mayor urges closure of own town: report 
Moscow (AFP) April 8, 2008A Russian mayor has taken the unusual step of calling for his own town to be shut down due to toxic weapons waste, a daily newspaper reported on Tuesday. Nikolai Malakhov, mayor of the southwestern town of Chapayevsk, formerly home to Soviet arms factories that produced toxic agents, had told a meeting with visiting officials that closing the town and resettling its residents would be the "i ... more |
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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 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 US-Russia Strategic Framework Declaration 
Sochi, Russia (SPX) Apr 07, 2008The United States and Russia, in their Joint Declaration of May 24, 2002, have reaffirmed that the era in which the United States and Russia considered one another an enemy or strategic threat has ended. We reject the zero-sum thinking of the Cold War when "what was good for Russia was bad for America" and vice versa. Rather, we are dedicated to working together and with other nations to a ... more |
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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 Missile defence at heart of Bush-Putin swansong on Black Sea 
Bucharest (AFP) April 4, 2008US President George W. Bush goes into summit talks this weekend with Russian leader Vladimir Putin armed with NATO's ringing endorsement of a Europe-based missile defense system that will be at the heart of their talks by the Black Sea. It remains to be seen if NATO's backing for the project -- vigorously opposed by Moscow -- will lead Putin to be more conciliatory at what will be his last ... more
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