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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 15, 2008Visiting the Baikonur space cosmodrome deep in the steppes of Kazakhstan is like taking a trip back into Soviet times - and that's just the way many here want it to stay. There are no Internet cafes, no advertising billboards and - to hear it from proud residents - none of the social problems that afflict large Russian cities like hooliganism and xenophobic violence. A statue of Lenin ... more Roskosmos supports space tourism 
Moscow, April 12, 2008 The Russian Federal Space Agency supports space tourism as long as the activity doesn't interfere with its operations, an agency official said. Vitaly Davydov deputy head of the agency, called Roskosmos, said if space tourists on board Russia's Suyoz spacecraft do not interfere with the International Space Station, he has no opposition, ITAR-TASS reported Saturday. Currently, any ... more Outside View: ABMs for Europe -- Part 1 
Moscow, April 15, 2008 The results of the Bucharest NATO summit, the NATO-Russia Council meetings, and talks between U.S. President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi have been summed up in what has now become a standard comment: The NATO summit made up for suspending the Membership Action Plan for Ukraine and Georgia with the full support for the deployment of an American missile shield in Europe. ... more Expedition On Drifting Ice Floe Produces Unique Data About Hibernal Atmosphere Above Central Arctic 
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Apr 15, 2008For the first time, a German has taken part in a Russian drift expedition and has explored the atmosphere above the central Arctic during the polar night. Jurgen Graeser, a member of the Potsdam Research Unit of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research in the Helmholtz Association, has just returned home to Germany. As a member of the Russian expedition NP 35 (35. North ... more Five Orphaned Bears Get A New Life In Russia - Satellite Tracking Will Monitor Survival 
Bubonitsy, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2008In the forest of the Tver region of Russia, researchers from IFAW (the International Fund for Animal Welfare) and veterinarians from the Moscow Zoo have returned five orphaned bear cubs to the wild. Prior to the release, the team performed veterinary checks and tagged the bears for monitoring. One of these bears will be monitored using a satellite collar, a step forward in evaluating post ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008A bronze monument to a former street dog called Laika, which was the first living creature in space and paved the way for manned flights, was unveiled in northwest Moscow on Friday. The monument, erected a day before Russia's Cosmonautics Day celebrated on April 12, is a two-meter (6.5 feet) high space rocket with Laika proudly standing on top. The three-year-old mongrel, originally named ... more US push for new security mechanism irks Southeast Asia 
Washington (AFP) April 13, 2008US-led moves to turn a forum grappling with the North Korean nuclear crisis into a permanent security mechanism are frustrating Southeast Asia's bid to become a key player in regional security, experts say. The United States is pushing for the six-party nuclear talks, also involving China, Russia, Japan and the two Koreas, to be transformed into a permanent Northeast Asian mechanism for ... more Japan Reassures Russia Over ABM Plans As Czechs Demand Cash For Radar Deal 
Moscow (AFP) April 14, 2008Japan on Monday reassured Moscow that an anti-missile shield planned with the US military was no threat to Russia and was aimed only at North Korea. Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow that the missile shield was needed in response to communist North Korea's missile and nuclear programmes. "Concerning cooperation with the United ... more Russia to call for extending ISS use 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia will ask its foreign partners in June to extend the exploitation of the International Space Station (ISS) until 2020 as the station's Russian segment would take longer to complete, Russian space officials said. "We can do what we planned to do by 2010 only in 2015, and so we will have to appeal to our foreign partners to use the ISS until 2020," the chief of Russia's space RKK Energiy ... more |
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Kiev (AFP) April 12, 2008Kiev accused Moscow Saturday of meddling in its internal affairs, a day after Russia's armed forces chief warned of military steps in reaction to Georgia's and Ukraine's desire to join NATO. "The declarations of high Russian officials have an openly anti-Ukrainian nature, questioning the territorial integrity of Ukraine and constitute meddling in the internal affairs" of the country, the for ... more Russia, Mongolia sign uranium accord: reports 
Moscow (AFP) April 11, 2008Russia and Mongolia signed on Friday an agreement on cooperation in the uranium sector, as Moscow pushes to develop nuclear power in the neighbouring state, Russian news agencies reported. "The signing of this document ensures a multi-faceted approach to developing aspects of atomic energy in Mongolia," the head of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom, Sergei Kiriyenko, was quoted by ... more Analysis: India eyes Kazakh energy 
India may be a relative latecomer in the rush for Caspian hydrocarbon riches, but its booming economy and stable democratic traditions make it an attractive market for Central Asian energy producers, particularly Kazakhstan. Bishkek it adroitly seeking to diversify is markets, as Russia takes 33 percent of the country's exports. To bolster India's presence in the Caspian and ... more Analysis: EU eyes Gazprom's Nigeria play 
Berlin, April 11, 2008 Russia's Gazprom is making sure it keeps its dominance of the European gas market, observers say, by trying to influence a potential alternative supplier to Europe -- Nigeria. Europe's dependence on Russian gas has worried officials in Brussels ever since Russia in 2006 temporarily shut off Ukrainian gas supplies until the country agreed to pay higher prices. What followed were a string ... more
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