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Russia Could Learn From US Space Program
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 10, 2008This summer will prove crucial for the Russian space program. First of all, the U.S. Congress will decide whether to buy Soyuz spacecraft for flying crews to the Space Station. In early June, NASA and Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) delegations negotiated in the United States. However, the U.S. decision will be far more important for Moscow than for the Americans. ... more Moscow Making Plans For GLONASS Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 9, 2008 The Russian displays at the ILA-2008 International Aerospace Exhibition, held in Berlin from May 27 to June 1, can be described as epoch-making. And it is not due to the space they occupied or the names present, such as Energia, the Khrunichev Center, Progress, Energomash, Lavochkin Association, and others. Should Russia's Federal Space Agency - Roscosmos - implement even some of the ... more Defense Focus: Makarov's mission -- Part 3 
Washington (UPI) Jun 9, 2008 Russia's defense minister and the nation's new armed forces chief of staff want to dramatically improve the living conditions of Russian servicemen to fulfill a vital policy plank for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov last week rocked Russia's traditionally set-in-its-ways and monolithic defense establishment by squeezing out veteran Armed Forces Chief of ... more Gates: important to maintain US nuclear deterrent 
Langley Air Force Base, Virginia (AFP) June 9, 2008Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Monday the importance of the US nuclear arsenal was likely to grow in importance in coming years as Russia moves to strengthen its nuclear forces. Gates said he made the comment in a closed door question-and-answer session with rank-and-file airmen in explaining his decision to replace the air force leadership over two major nuclear blunders. In a spee ... more 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 |
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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 EBRD grants 70 million euros to boost Russian nuclear safety 
Moscow (AFP) June 6, 2008The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) granted Russia over 70 million euros to tackle the legacy of nuclear ships and submarines in north-west Russian navy bases, the bank said in a statement Thursday. "The largest contract worth 43 million euros is related to the former service ship Lepse, which contains damaged spent nuclear fuel and radioactive waste and is moored in ... more Outside View: RAO UES liquidation near end 
Moscow (UPI) May 30, 2008 Russian electricity holding RAO UES, which will be liquidated on July 1, 2008, held its last general shareholder meeting on May 28. The only assets of the holding to be controlled by the state will be its dispatcher service, hydropower plants and nuclear power plants. The holding's thermal power plants will be privately owned. This will complete Russia's drawn-out reform of the ... more |
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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
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