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Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2008The Russian and European space agencies have signed a deal to build a six-seat manned spacecraft to travel to the Moon, a Russian space official said Wednesday. Russian space agency Roskosmos and the European Space Agency "on Tuesday signed an accord on the creation of a manned vessel to transport up to six people around the Earth and to the Moon," Roskosmos spokesman Alexander Vorobyev told ... more Walker's World: Building with BRICs 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 The concept of the BRIC countries -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- was coined five years ago in a research paper from the Goldman Sachs investment bank. This week, reality takes over from theory as the foreign ministers of the BRIC countries hold their first formal meeting in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg. They convene with an agenda that includes the issue of biofuels, food ... more Analysis: China copter deal -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 Why has Russia changed its long-established policy and agreed to sell Mi-171 military transport helicopter assembly kits to China? The Moscow business newspaper Vedomosti gave an important reason for the Kremlin's significant policy shift on the issue Tuesday when it said that some Russian analysts thought it was preferable to let the Chinese make Russian helicopters in the framework of ... more NATO launches cyber defence centre in Estonia 
Brussels (AFP) May 14, 2008NATO launched Wednesday a new cyber-defence training centre in Tallinn to defend against attacks over the Internet, a year after Estonia fell victim to a "cyber-war" blamed on Russian hackers. At NATO headquarters in Brussels, seven member nations -- Estonia, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia and Spain -- signed documents formally establishing the Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence ... more Outside View: Georgia civil war -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) May 14, 2008 Analysts are actively debating the possible outcomes of an armed conflict between Georgia and the self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia, which seceded from Georgia in 1992. Without looking into the most pessimistic scenarios envisioning a nuclear conflict between Russia and NATO, let's try to predict the possible outcomes of a Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. In late 2007 the ... more |
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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 Russian general slams NATO practice 'attacks' over Arctic: report 
Moscow (AFP) May 10, 2008NATO planes regularly undertake "dangerous" practice attacks against Russian bombers patrolling the Arctic Ocean, the head of the Russian air force was quoted as saying Saturday. "Regularly as our flights are fulfilling combat patrols, we are tracked by planes from the patrol forces of both NATO and other countries," General Alexander Zelin was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency. ... more |
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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 NASA-TV to televise ISS cargo ship arrival 
Houston (UPI) May 7, 2008 The U.S. space agency says it will televise the arrival of an unpiloted cargo spacecraft when it docks at the International Space Station. NASA controllers in Houston said the Progress 29 Russian spacecraft carrying a shipment of food, fuel and supplies is to automatically dock with the ISS at 5:37 p.m. EDT, May 16. ... more
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