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Soyuz Carrier Rocket Set To Blast Off With New Progress Space Truck To Space Station
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2008A Soyuz-U carrier rocket is due to blast off from Baikonur space center Thursday to deliver a Progress M-64 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS), a Mission Control spokesman said on Tuesday. The Russian carrier rocket is due to be launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan at 0:23 a.m. Moscow time on May 15 (20:23 GMT May 14) and the Progress is scheduled to dock with the ISS on ... more Outside View: Russian-Iran nuke moves 
Moscow (UPI) May 13, 2008 Former Russian President Vladimir Putin's last-minute decision to fulfill U.N. Security Council Resolution 1803 on Iran before handing over power to his successor, President Dmitry Medvedev, surprised many. Has Russia decided to join the U.N. sanctions against the Islamic Republic? Will the new president shift Russia's policy regarding Iran to the West? According to one version, in an a ... more Analysis: China copter deal -- Part 1 
Washington (UPI) May 13, 2008 The long freeze in Russia's enormously lucrative arms trade with China may be coming to an end as the Kremlin has agreed to sell Mi-171 transport helicopter assembly kits to Beijing. On May 12, Russia's official RIA Novosti news agency cited a report in the Moscow business newspaper Vedomosti that a manufacturing plant in southwest China had begun work on integrating Russian-designed Mi ... more Walker's World: Georgia on my mind 
Frankfurt, Germany (UPI) May 12, 2008 Overwhelmingly, the tests that face the new duopoly of power in the Kremlin are internal and obvious. But Russia's future course may well be determined by an international dispute that has seemed relatively small and distant except for those most involved. Suddenly, both the dispute and the wider implications are getting serious. Russia's saber-rattling over the small former Soviet ... more Analysis: Turks eye carrying Kazakh oil 
Washington (UPI) May 12, 2008 Besides Russia, the former Soviet republics that have hit the energy jackpot are all clustered around the Caspian Sea. While Azerbaijan, with the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, is already hardwired into the Western economy, Turkmenistan's potential has yet to be fully developed, and its natural gas exports have been locked in for the foreseeable future first by Russia and, to a lesser extent ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) May 7, 2008Newly inaugurated President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday formally assumed control of Russia's nuclear arsenal at a Kremlin meeting in which a military officer brought him a black nuclear briefcase. Medvedev, who was sworn in to succeed Vladimir Putin earlier, took command in the presence of Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov at a sombre meeting that contrasted with his glittering inauguratio ... more Defense Focus: High-tech limits -- Part 3 
Washington (UPI) May 7, 2008 The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain have all found that pushing their high-tech capabilities too far has sometimes given them weapons systems that are turkeys instead of eagles. Because the U.S. defense industry sector is the largest and most technically advanced in the world, we focused far more on both its successes and failures than on those of other nations. But in ... 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 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 |
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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 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 Walker's World: Bye-bye boomers 
London (UPI) May 5, 2008 The victory of Boris Johnson in London's mayoral election represents the emergence of a new generation of politicians into the struggle for power. The baby boomers are starting the long, sad slide into senescence. The generation X-ers are on the march. The first sign of this great shift came in Russia earlier this year when Dmitry Medvedev, at 44 just two years older than Johnson ... more
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