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Russia to export six billion dollars in weapons in 2008
Moscow (AFP) June 8, 2008Russia's public arms export agency, Rosoboronexport, will ship at least six billion dollars worth of weapons abroad this year, a Russian official told Interfax agency on Sunday. Rosoboronexport has received weapons orders nearing 20 billion dollars (12.5 billion euros) for the next five to seven years, said Alexei Alyoshin -- head assistant to the public Russian company Rostekhnologyi ... more Outside View: Space race warnings 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 The Americans seem determined to flood outer space with weapons. In early April U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Lt. Gen. Henry Obering again called for the early deployment of space-based missile defense systems, a universal means of hitting either ground or space targets. His Russian counterpart and longtime opponent on this issue, Space Forces Commander Col. Gen. Vladimir ... more Analysis: Medvedev's trip to the West 
Berlin (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, in his first official visit to the West, on Thursday in Berlin vowed to bring Russia closer to Europe, but warned that NATO's relations with Russia would be "ruined" if the alliance expanded further east. Does Medvedev read spy novels? His predecessor, Vladimir Putin, certainly didn't have to -- he was trained as a KGB agent. While one ... more A New Mission For Russian Armed Forces Chief Part One 
Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 Gen. Nikolai Makarov has replaced tough, old Gen. Yury Baluyevsky as the chief of staff of Russia's armed forces and has been tasked with rapidly modernizing them -- but the odds are against him. Despite all the stories of gloom and doom about them that regularly appear in the Western media, the Russian armed forces are still one of the most formidable and important factors of military ... more Poland would let Russia inspect missile site: report 
Moscow (AFP) June 5, 2008Poland is ready to give Russian inspectors access to a missile defence site that Washington hopes to build on Polish soil, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was quoted on Thursday as saying. Sikorski was speaking to the Russian daily Gazeta as negotiations continue over the US plans to site missile defence facilities in both Poland and the Czech Republic, plans that have prompted ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 6, 2008 The peaceful implosion of the Soviet Union in December 1991 completely changed the geography of the Caspian Sea region: Where Iran had previously shared the Caspian with the Soviet Union, in its place arose four new states -- the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Ever since then, the world's largest inland sea has been subjected to a relentless covert conflict ... more Walker's World: A NATO test for Bush 
Washington (UPI) Jun 4, 2008 President Bush's European tour next week was supposed to be an almost ceremonial event, a farewell tour to old allies with whom most broken fences had been patched up and mended. But NATO's new warning to Russia over the looming crisis with the former Soviet republic of Georgia puts the Bush trip into an ominous new context. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has demand ... more 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 |
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Washington (UPI) May 28, 2008 The new series of live-firing exercises by the Russian missile cruiser Varyag in the Pacific Ocean this week offers a revealing look at the current balance of competing weapon systems in surface warfare. The Varyag is nearly 20 years old, but following an extensive refit it is once again a formidable, state-of-the-art, world-class warship excellently designed and armed for its mission, ... more Russia And Europe To Build New Manned Spacecraft 
Berlin (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2008Russian and European space agencies are due to discuss the joint development of a manned spacecraft at a Berlin air show taking place May 27 to June 1, the head of Roscosmos said on Tuesday. A spokesman for the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) said earlier that it had agreed with the European Space Agency (ESA) to jointly build a manned spacecraft for flights to near-Earth orbits and the M ... more Medvedev To Discuss Space Center And Some Arms Dealing During Kazakh Visit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 28, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is expected to discuss space exploration and military cooperation with his Kazakh counterpart, Nursultan Nazarbayev, during his first trip abroad as president on May 22-23. Medvedev's visit to Kazakhstan 'reaffirms the maturity of the Russian-Kazakh strategic partnership,' Russian presidential aide, Sergei Prikhodko, said. The two-day talks will see ... more Rokot Carrier With Three Military Satellites Blasts Off From Plesetsk 
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
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