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Russia To Conduct 28 Space Launches From Baikonur In 2008
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) Apr 10, 2008The number of spacecraft to be launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan will increase 33%, year-on-year, in 2008 to a total of 28, the local mayor said on Tuesday. Baikonur, built in Kazakhstan in the 1950s, was first leased by Russia from Kazakhstan under an agreement signed in 1994 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russian officials have repeatedly said Russia will continue ... more Outside View: Ukraine fears of nuke safety 
Moscow, April 9, 2008 Global utility giant Westinghouse Electric Co. and Ukraine's power utility Energoatom have signed a deal to supply Ukraine's nuclear power plants with fuel from 2011-2015. Under the contract, concluded on March 31, 630 fuel assemblies will be loaded inside three local reactors. "This contract represents a major commitment from both Westinghouse and Ukraine in ensuring that alternative ... more Analysis: Hurdles for Siberia oil to Asia 
Washington, April 10, 2008 The Russian Federation's vast geography has made the issue of supplying the lucrative eastern Asian markets problematic, but that is about to change as Russia has undertaken a massive pipeline project to supply crude to Asian markets. Russia's Soviet-era pipeline network was designed to bring western Siberian crude westward to the Soviet Union's industrial heartland. Since independence, ... more Outside View: Problems with GLONASS 
Moscow, April 9, 2008 The council of chief designers responsible for commissioning Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System has said it will only become operational in late 2008, whereas the previous deadline was Dec. 31, 2007. Something is obviously amiss in this ambitious project, the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Navstar Global Positioning System. According to the Russian Space Agency ... more First Korean astronaut docks with space station 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 10, 2008South Korea's first astronaut safely arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian officials said, in a landmark mission for the Asian country's space programme. Yi So-Yeon, 29, arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and after lengthy checks stepped through a hatch to be greeted by the orbiting station's crew, a ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 9, 2008South Korea's first astronaut closed in on the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday and was "preparing for docking," an official for Russia's Federal Space Centre said. "They are gradually getting closer to the International Space Station. They will be docking tomorrow," said Oleg Urusov, spokesman for the space centre at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Yi So-Yeon and tw ... 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 |
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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 Korea's singing astronaut set for space launch 
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
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