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US Envoy Would Like To See Russia As NATO Member
Brussels (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2008The permanent U.S. representative to NATO said on Monday she would like to see Russia as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. "Speaking as a mom and as a strategist and a lifetime student and friend of the Russian people, I would love to live in a world where Russia wanted to be a NATO member and Russia had met the very high standards that NATO sets for openness, democracy ... more Walker's World: Bush's Europe problem 
London (UPI) Jun 10, 2008 There are two remarkable ironies about President George Bush's weeklong visit to Europe this week. The first was that he was upstaged by Russia's new president, Dmitry Medvedev, who announced in Berlin on the eve of Bush's arrival that "Atlanticism has had its day and we need to talk about unity between the whole Euro-Atlantic area from Vancouver to Vladivostok." In short, the Atlantic ... more Outside View: Russia's new top general 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 10, 2008 On June 3, 2008, a serious reshuffle took place in Russia's military establishment: Army Gen. Yury Baluyevsky stepped down as chief of the General Staff to become deputy secretary of the national Security Council. He was replaced by Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, who until then had held the post of chief of procurement, to which he was appointed in April 2007, soon after Anatoly Serdyukov ... more Ukraine reactor stopped after water leak: officials 
Kiev (AFP) June 10, 2008A leak of radioactive water on Tuesday caused the shutdown of a nuclear reactor in western Ukraine but posed no risk to the environment, officials said. A senior official at the Rivne nuclear power plant who declined to give his name said 1.3 cubic meters of water escaped from the pipe used to cool the reactors, but remained within a sealed area. The leakage "did not exceed permitted ... more Russia Eyeing New Launch Services Deal With US 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 09, 2008Russia and the United States will announce a preliminary deal on Russian transport services to the International Space Station for the U.S. by the end of the week, NASA said. Russian space specialists are currently in Houston to discuss contracts for 2011-2013, Mark Bowman, the manager of NASA'S Moscow Technical Liaison Office, said after the U.S. Discovery shuttle's launch to the ISS on ... more |
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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 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 Russian Glonass GPS Satellite System To Be Fully Operational In 2010 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 09, 2008Russia's Glonass satellite system is expected to become fully operational in 2010, if it receives sufficient financing, the head of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) said on Saturday. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), which is designed for both military and civilian use, and allows users to identify their ... more |
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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 Analysis: Kashagan, Kazakhstan's jewel 
Washington (UPI) Jun 5, 2008 Kazakhstan's offshore Kashagan Caspian Sea field, discovered in 2000, is the largest oil field uncovered in the last 30 years, with potential reserves estimated to be as high as 70 billion barrels. For a comparison, the Norwegian sector of the joint British-Norwegian North Sea oil fields contains approximately 30 billion barrels of recoverable crude. While North Sea oil was discovered in the ... more Analysis: Gazprom wants Azeri gas 
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
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