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Outside View: Sino-Russia row -- Part 1
Moscow (UPI) Jun 2, 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's recent visit to China has encouraged economic, cultural and other ties. The parties also signed a whole package of documents, including a $1.5 billion deal on Russia's contribution to China's nuclear power generation. The only issue the journalists on Medvedev's team overlooked was military technical cooperation -- an area of relations that has been ... more Defense Focus: Cruiser strategy -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 In time of war, Russia's single "aircraft carrier killer" missile cruiser in the Pacific Ocean would play a deadly game of hide and seek with the U.S. Navy. As RIA Novosti reported, the guided-missile cruiser Varyag this week is carrying out live firing exercises in the Pacific Ocean to test its weapons systems. The Varyag is one of Russia's formidable Slava-class missile cruiser ... more Outside View: CFE battles -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) May 29, 2008 General of the Army Yury Baluyevsky, chief of staff of the Russian armed forces, has returned from Brussels, where he took part in the annual summit of the Russia-NATO Council that was held earlier this month. At the summit, Baluyevsky proposed to his colleagues a way out of the deadlock over the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. Russia suspended the CFE in Europe last Dec ... more Analysis: BP's rough ride in Eurasia 
Washington (UPI) May 29, 2008 While most consumers worldwide at a time of record high gas prices would find it difficult to work up sympathy for a major oil company, British Petroleum's dolorous experiences in Russia are enough to give the most hardened driver pause. Following the 1991 collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, many energy companies saw the former Soviet republics as a potential energy El Dorado, wh ... more NASA packs new toilet parts on shuttle for ISS 
Washington (AFP) May 28, 2008NASA stowed replacement parts aboard the Discovery shuttle Thursday to be sent up to the International Space station to fix its broken Russian toilet, the US space agency said. After the main ISS toilet broke down Tuesday, forcing the three astronauts aboard to use the facility on the Soyuz capsule moored at the orbiting station, Russian and US space officials moved quickly to get the spare ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 26, 2008A Russian Rokot carrier rocket with three military satellites and one civilian satellite has been successfully launched from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia, the Russian Space Forces said on Friday. The Rokot launch vehicle, developed by the state-run Khrunichev Center, is a modification of the RS-18 (SS-19 Mod.1 Stiletto) two-stage ballistic missile that is being decommissio ... more Russia And China Against Deployment Of Weapons In Space 
Beijing (RIA Novosti) May 27, 2008Russia and China want an international agreement to be drafted banning the deployment of weapons in space, the countries' leaders said on Friday in a joint declaration after talks in Beijing. "The sides are in favor of the peaceful use of space, but are against the deployment of weapons in space or a space arms race," the declaration said. In February Russia and China presented at a ... more McCain wants nuclear talks with China, Russia 
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2008Republican presidential candidate John McCain Tuesday pledged to launch a new dialogue with China and Russia to reduce nuclear weapons and proliferation, and backed a US-India civil nuclear pact. The Arizona senator also took a fresh swipe at potential Democratic general election foe Barack Obama, over his offer to talk to the leaders of US foes like Iran, Syria and Cuba. McCain has prev ... more Walker's World: Russia's 'hypermortality' 
Paris (UPI) May 27, 2008 An alarming new word has been born. It is "hypermortality," which might be defined as an extraordinary tendency toward death. It jumps from the first page of the U.N. Development Program report entitled "Demographic Policy in Russia." "The Russian phenomenon of hypermortality comes to be observed primarily in working-age populations," it says. "Compared to the majority of countri ... more |
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Washington (AFP) May 23, 2008The United States on Friday played down China and Russia's joint denunciation of its missile defense plans in Europe, saying it reflected longstanding worries that Washington is trying to overcome. "I would not say we are 'troubled,' I would say that we are aware of their concerns and that we are working to address them," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said when asked about Beijing's ... more China, Russia sign bln-dlr nuclear deal: official 
Beijing (AFP) May 23, 2008China and Russia on Friday signed a one-billion-dollar deal to expand a nuclear energy facility in the Asian nation, a Russian official said. "We have completed negotiations on construction of a uranium enrichment factory," Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom, told reporters in Beijing. He was speaking during a visit to Beijing by new Russian President Dmitry Med ... more Analysis: Azeri-Turkmen relations improve 
Washington (UPI) May 22, 2008 For the last 17 months Russia and China have been engaged in a three-way tussle with Western energy companies to develop Turkmenistan's vast natural gas resources. Since the death of Turkmen "President for Life" Saparmurat Niyazov, his successor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, has been adroitly talking to Moscow, Beijing and Washington about exploiting the country's reserves. While Russia ... more Medvedev warns over US missile defence plans 
Moscow (AFP) May 22, 2008Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, warned on Thursday of "an adequate response" to US missile defence plans in Europe but said Moscow was still ready to negotiate with Washington. "I don't think the situation is completely hopeless but those decisions that have been taken cannot please us and we will be forced to find an adequate response," Medvedev said in an interview with Chinese ... more
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