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Azerbaijan releases Russian shipment for Iran nuclear plant
Baku (AFP) May 1, 2008Azerbaijan on Thursday released a shipment of Russian equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant after holding it for a month out of concern it might violate UN sanctions, the foreign ministry said. Azerbaijan had been holding a truck containing insulation equipment for the plant at the Azerbaijani-Iranian border since March 29, insisting that Russia had not provided proper transit documents ... more Outside View: Nuke power future -- Part 1 
Moscow, April 30, 2008 On April 22 in Yerevan, Russia and the former Soviet republic of Armenia signed a treaty to set up a joint venture for the exploration and mining of uranium and other minerals in Armenia. The company is being established on parity lines and will be registered within the next three months. It was signed by Vadim Zhivov, general director of the Atomredmetzoloto uranium holding ... more Zenit Rocket Puts Israeli Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2008A Ukrainian-Russian carrier rocket has successfully put an Israeli communications satellite into orbit, Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Monday. The Zenit-3SLB rocket was launched earlier on Monday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan for the first time under the Land Launch program and after a number of delays. "The separation of the foreign spacecraft from a ... more NATO chief would 'eat tie' over Russia drone claim: spokesman 
Brussels (AFP) April 30, 2008NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has offered to eat his tie if Russia can prove that an alliance war plane recently shot down a Georgian drone, his spokesman said Wednesday. "The secretary general said that he would eat his tie if it turned out that a NATO Mig-29 had magically appeared in Abkhazia and shot down a Georgian drone," spokesman James Appathurai told reporters in ... more Dispute over Russian shipment to Iran to be resolved soon: Baku 
Baku (AFP) April 30, 2008Azerbaijan's blocking of a shipment of Russian equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant will be resolved "in the nearest future" after Russia provided information on the cargo, Azerbaijan's foreign ministry said Wednesday. Azerbaijan has been holding a truck containing insulation equipment for the plant at the Azerbaijani-Iranian border since March 29, questioning whether the cargo ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2008The nuclear powered missile cruiser Pyotr Velikiy of Russia's Northern Fleet has completed a missile firing exercise in the Barents Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Wednesday. "The live fire exercise was carried out as part of a tactical drill at a test site in the Barents Sea," Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said. He said, in particular, the battle-cruiser had successfully engaged a mock target ... more Iran president says peace proposal to Russia is 'comprehensive' 
New Delhi (AFP) April 30, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday said that a "comprehensive" package offered to Russia was aimed at "eradicating" the threats of war. The comments follow statements by Tehran's top national security official that he had held talks with his Russian counterpart on a new Iranian proposals to solve world problems, including the nuclear standoff with the West. Ahmadinejad ... more Analysis: Future of EU-Russia relations 
Berlin, April 29, 2008 The European Union hopes to soon finish weaving the fabric of a new partnership agreement with Russia amid continuing differences with Moscow over energy security and foreign policy. Tuesday's meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg is expected to see the adoption of "negotiating directives" for a new EU-Russia cooperation agreement, the existing one having been in dire need of ... more China looks abroad amid global grain shortage: report 
Beijing (AFP) April 29, 2008China is looking at farms in places like Russia and South America as it seeks new ways to feed the world's largest population amid a global grain supply shortage, state media said Tuesday. Chinese companies exploring overseas agricultural resources that are in short supply will help balance domestic demand and supply, the Beijing Morning Post reported, citing the agriculture ministry. ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) April 27, 2008A second experimental Giove-B satellite for the EU's Galileo satellite navigation project was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan early Sunday. The Soyuz rocket carrying the satellite was launched at 4:16 a.m. local time (2216 GMT Saturday) and placed the Giove-B into its projected orbit shortly after 0200 GMT, Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of Starstem, the Russo-European comp ... more Outside View: Iran's nuclear fuel stalled 
Moscow (UPI) pril 25, 2008 Azerbaijani customs officials have been keeping a single Russian trailer -- which they describe as a truck convoy -- carrying absolutely safe heat-insulating equipment for Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant at the Astara checkpoint on the Azerbaijani-Iranian border since March 29. Russia sees no reason for this. "We have an agreement on the transit of the cargo across Azerbaijan ... more Outside View: Overcoming nuclear legacy 
Los Angeles (UPI) April 25, 2008 Perhaps it says something about the "positive" state of Russian-American relations that the recent Bush-Putin Sochi summit could take place at all against the backdrop of Moscow's strenuous opposition to NATO expansion and Washington's plans to build a ballistic defense in neighboring countries. So it ought to come as no surprise that, despite the happy face the two leaders put on at the end o ... more Outside View: Russia-Armenia uranium pact 
Moscow (UPI) April 23, 2008 Russia and Armenia signed a treaty Tuesday in Yerevan to set up a joint venture for the exploration and mining of uranium and other minerals in Armenia. A joint company is being established on parity lines and will be registered within the next three months. The treaty was signed by Vadim Zhivov, general director of the Atomredmetzoloto uranium holding, and Armenian Environmental ... more
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