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ABMs Make For Much Tension Part One
Moscow, April 18, 2008 On par with NATO's expansion, deployment of a U.S. missile defense system has already become the most sensitive issue in Russia's relations with the West. When discussing the political side of this issue, many forget about its military-technical and operational aspects, which override everything else. U.S. missile defense has two directions. The first one is theater missile ... more Analysis: Russian waterways may open 
Completely unnoticed in the Western media, a Russian transport initiative holds promise to revolutionize the maritime carriage of products throughout Eurasia, including the oil and natural gas so hungrily sought by European consumers. The good news, according to Russia's Sea and River Transport Federal Agency head Alexandr Davydenko, is the Russian Federation is preparing to open the ... more Russian Space Capsule Lands 260 Miles Away From Target Site 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 21, 2008Russia's space capsule carrying International Space Station crew landed 420 km (260 miles) away from the target site in northern Kazakhstan, but the crew are safe, Mission Control said Saturday. The Soyuz-TMA-11 capsule carried U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian flight engineer Yury Malenchenko, and bioengineer Yi So-yeon - the first South Korean that traveled to the ISS. Tests showed their h ... more Analysis: Chinese spies in Western cities 
Hong Kong (UPI) April 21, 2008 China's intelligence agency has reinforced its infiltration activities in Europe, North America, Japan and Russia in recent years. An analysis of numerous cases leads to the conclusion that China has shifted its tactics in recruiting citizens of Western countries. Beijing has abandoned the traditional approach of ideological persuasion, turning instead to the use of blackmail, women and ... more Russia Needs Billions More To Complete It's ISS Segment 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 14, 2008Russia will need an additional $5 billion to finish the construction of its segment of the International Space Station (ISS) by 2015, the head of Russia's rocket and space corporation Energia said Friday. The ISS is a joint project of space agencies from the United States, Russia, Europe, Canada and Japan. The orbital station is likely to remain operational until 2020. "So far, we have all ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2008Four volunteers will spend ten days in a compression chamber with a reduced oxygen level as preparation for Mars-500, a Russian ground-based experiment to simulate a flight to Mars. A spokesman for the Moscow-based Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Issues, which runs the project, said that four healthy men will be held in a chamber with the pressure equivalent to being five meters ... 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 EBRD says will help pay for Chernobyl sarcophagus 
London (AFP) April 17, 2008The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said Thursday it would offer 135 million euros (215 million dollars) to help finance a new sarcophagus around the Chernobyl reactor, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident. An EBRD spokesman told AFP the bank would contribute to a global fund to finance a safe enclosure at the facility, located in the former Soviet republic of Ukraine ... more Foreign powers mull 'incentives' for Iran during nuclear talks 
Washington (AFP) April 16, 2008Talks in China on Iran's nuclear program are focusing on possible "incentives" rather than purely punitive measures against Tehran, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Wednesday. Representatives for the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, China and the European Union are -- "following up on the recommendations of the foreign ministers to look at the incentive ... more |
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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 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 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 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
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