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BMD Focus: Medvedev's missile pledge
Washington (UPI) May 20, 2008 It's not exactly a surprise, but it's important news anyway. Russia's new President Dmitry Medvedev has pledged to maintain the top-priority modernization of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces designed to be able to swamp America's ballistic missile defense systems. Speaking in the town of Teikovo in the Ivanovo region 150 miles northeast of Moscow Thursday, Medvedev, the hand-picked ... more Outside View: Russia pipeline reach grows 
Moscow (UPI) May 19, 2008 On May 14 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin ordered the construction of the second stage of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS-2), an offshoot of the Druzhba pipeline built in Soviet times to pump oil to Europe through Belarus and terminals in the Baltic countries. BPS-2, which will run across Russia to the port of Ust-Luga on the Gulf of Finland, is Putin's way to enhance Europe's ... more Russian Cargo Spacecraft Docks With ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 18, 2008The Russian Progress M-64 cargo spacecraft has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), a Mission Control spokesman said on Saturday. The spacecraft docked at 1:39 a.m. Moscow time (21.39 GMT Friday) and delivered more than 2.3 tons of fuel, food, water, and other supplies to the ISS. Progress M-64 was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 00 ... more Russian cargo ship docks with the ISS: report 
Moscow (AFP) May 17, 2008A Russian Progress M-64 cargo ship docked Saturday with the International Space Station, the Interfax news agency reported. The cargo ship, launched early Thursday, docked with the ISS automatically, the report added. The station's three-man crew, Russians Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and American Garrett Reisman, were expected to open the hatch to the cargo ship within a couple of h ... more World powers work out details of new offer to Iran 
Washington (AFP) May 16, 2008Six world powers have completed the details of a "refreshed" offer they will present to Iran in an effort to persuade it to halt its controversial nuclear activities, a US official said Friday. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China agreed earlier this month to make a new offer to Iran, but a date has yet to be set for it to be delivered to the Islamic republic. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 15, 2008Commercial satellite imagery has revealed an extensive nuclear missile site in central China with nearly sixty launch pads for medium-range missiles capable of striking Russia or India, a researcher said Thursday. The images from Google Earth show different types of launch pads, command and control facilities, and missile deployment equipment at a large facility in downtown Delingha, said ... more Russia's Medvedev inspects nuclear missiles 
Moscow (AFP) May 15, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev inspected a nuclear missile site outside Moscow on Thursday as his powerful Prime Minister Vladimir Putin moved to streamline his administrative base. Medvedev promised to ensure adequate financing of Russia's missile forces as he made the visit to the nuclear base at Ivanovo, east of Moscow, and inspected a column of Topol-M rockets. The intercontinental ... more China okays rescuers from Russia, SKorea, Singapore: state media 
Beijing (AFP) May 16, 2008China has accepted offers from Russia, South Korea and Singapore to send rescue teams to earthquake-hit Sichuan province, state media reported early Friday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang was quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying that the Chinese government had accepted the offers, taking into consideration their proximity to China, which may ensure prompt aid. The announcement was ... more Analysis: Mongolia, coal and inflation 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2008 Rising fuel and food costs are hitting Mongolia hard, with foreign investors exploiting the situation to pressure the country to open up its economy. Given the country's political isolation, sandwiched between China and Russia, its two major trading partners, Ulaanbaatar is being held over the proverbial barrel in negotiations with its giant neighbors, leaving its population of 2.9 million ... more |
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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 First Korean Astronaut Yi So-Yeon Leaves Hospital After Soyuz Hard Landing 
Seoul (AFP) May 14, 2008South Korea's first astronaut has left hospital after treatment for severe back pain caused by her unexpectedly rough return to earth, officials said Wednesday. Yi So-Yeon, 29, had been admitted to an air force hospital in late April with dislocation and bruising of the vertebrae caused during her return from the International Space Station on April 19. Yi's Russian-designed Soyuz ca ... more
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