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Outside View: Russia's Blackjack power
Moscow (UPI) May 6, 2008 On April 29 representatives of the Kazan Aircraft Production Association presented the 121st Heavy Bomber Regiment of the Russian Air Force's 37th Army with a brand-new Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bomber. The warplane is named after Vitaly Kopylov, who headed the company from 1973 to1993. Russia now has 16 front-line Tu-160 bombers, each of which can carry 12 X-55 ... more Russian Military Faces Growing Budget And Constrained Bandwidth 
Newtown CT (SPX) May 07, 2008In 10 years, Russia's national defense spending has risen by more than 965 percent as its military renews strategic air patrols, reasserts its interests throughout the former Soviet space, and actively pushes back against competing security interests from the U.S. and Europe. Last year, Russian national defense spending surpassed $32 billion, compared with less than $3 billion in 1998. ... more Analysis: Storage needs for nuclear growth 
Hanover, Germany (UPI) May 6, 2008 Expanding nuclear power to meet growing energy demand worldwide may be hindered by the lack of repositories for spent nuclear fuel, but planned national underground repositories in some countries and interim storage options could sustain nuclear energy's rapid growth in the short term. Proposed international storage sites for spent nuclear fuel in Russia and other countries may ... more Russia, US sign nuclear energy deal 
Moscow (AFP) May 6, 2008The United States and Russia signed an agreement in Moscow on Tuesday for cooperation in the nuclear energy industry between the two former Cold War foes. The agreement will allow US and Russian companies to form joint ventures in the nuclear sector and gives the go-ahead for exchanges of nuclear technology between the two countries, officials said. Russia will also be able to ... more Outside View: Iran and ABMs 
Moscow (UPI) May 5, 2008 On May 2, the foreign ministers of Russia, China, the United States, Britain, France and Germany met in London to discuss a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear problem. Sergei Kislyak, a Russian deputy foreign minister who has attended all the meetings on ballistic missile defense and Iran's nuclear problem, said before the meeting they expect progress from each such meeting. ... more |
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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 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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