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Analysis: China to get SAMs from Russia
Hong Kong (UPI) May 2, 2008 Russia will deliver to China four battalions of 200-kilometer-range S-300PMU2 surface-to-air missiles this summer, the last batch in a series ordered by China. The first batch of four battalions of the same missiles was delivered in July 2007. Starting in 1993, China received 12 battalions of S-300 SAMs, four of them S-300PMUs and eight S-300PMU1s. This means there are a total of 20 ... more Outside View: China's obsolete fighters 
Moscow (UPI) May 2, 2008 Earlier this year reports appeared in the media that China had copied Russia's Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker fighter and that its J-11 version, now manufactured in China, would be sold to third countries, undermining Russia's positions on the global arms market. Although China has made some progress in adapting Russian designs and technology, it is still far from posing either a military or ... more Georgia denies Abkhaz, Russian claims over spy planes 
Sukhumi, Georgia (AFP) May 4, 2008The war of nerves between Georgia, Russia and the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia stepped up a notch Sunday, as Abkhaz officials claimed to have downed two unmanned Georgian spy planes. As Russia issued a statement accusing Georgia of escalating tension in the region, Tbilisi categorically denied it had lost any drones -- but vowed it would continue flying the unmanned aircraft over ... more Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater Lake 
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2008Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming. Drawing on 60 years of long-term studies of Russia's Lake Baikal, Stephanie Hampton, an ecologist and deputy director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa ... more SKorea's first astronaut suffers back injury: doctor 
Seoul (AFP) April 30, 2008South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon is suffering from back injuries after a gruelling descent to Earth, a doctor said Wednesday. Yi's Russian-designed Soyuz capsule landed hundreds of kilometres off target on April 19 in an irregular landing that subjected the crew to huge gravitational forces. She was admitted to an air force hospital Tuesday after cancelling television interviews ... more |
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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 Israeli communications satellite launched 
Moscow (AFP) April 28, 2008A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite was successfully launched Monday from a Russian base in Kazakhstan, television footage showed. State Russian television showed a Zenit rocket carrying the Israeli AMOS-3 satellite blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome four days after technical problems delayed the original launch. "The decoupling of the rocket's second stage... wa ... more Analysis: Azeris seize Iran nuke material 
Washington, April 29, 2008 Amid increasingly rancorous U.S.-Iranian relations over Tehran's nuclear energy program, the U.N. sanctions regime scored a small victory March 29 when Azerbaijan's customs and frontier officials detained a Russian cargo bound for Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility. Khazar Ibragim, a spokesman for Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry, said the convoy of trucks carrying the shipment, sent from ... more |
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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 AMOS-3 Communications Satellite Launched 
Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 29, 2008Spacecom has announced that its newest satellite, AMOS-3, has been successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch site in Kazakhstan. AMOS-3 roared into the atmosphere onboard a Zenit-3SLB launcher this morning at 08.00 Israel local time (05.00 GMT). The launcher's first and second stages have already been successfully separated. The last stage will be separated a few hours ... more Global giants bid for 12-bln-dlr Indian fighter deal 
New Delhi (AFP) April 28, 2008Global aviation giants on Monday submitted bids to sell 126 warplanes to India -- the world's richest fighter aircraft deal worth 12 billion dollars. Six aeronautical companies from Russia, the United States and Europe offered their proposals to the Indian defence ministry well before an official deadline ended, the companies said. US-based Lockheed Martin said its proposals, which run ... more
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