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Russia To Launch Its First Weather Satellite
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 13, 2008Russia is set to launch its first weather satellite, Meteor-M1, in the fourth quarter of 2008, the satellite's manufacturer said on Wednesday. Russia currently has no weather satellites and gets its information from foreign sources. The Russian state research and development company VNIIEM said its specialists had assembled the satellite and launched "the final stage of complex tests ... more The Sino-Russia Il-76 Row 
Hong Kong (UPI) Jun 12, 2008 For some time, military cooperation between China and Russia has been stalled over a failed deal involving China's import of Russian Ilyushin Il-76 transport aircraft. China claims that Russia violated the terms of an agreement involving the sale of 38 aircraft. But Russia says this claim is unfair. Negotiations on the aircraft deal began seven years ago. By the time the contract was ... more Russia Defense Watch: Flexing Arctic power 
Washington (UPI) Jun 11, 2008 Russian President-turned-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has wasted no time in launching the next stage of his drive to restructure and revive the long-troubled Russian defense industry. Still settling into his second stint as Russia's prime minister -- the first was in the fall of 1999 -- Putin Tuesday announced that long-term contracts and establishing a stable price base ... more Russia Destroys 20 Ballistic Missiles In 2008 Under START Treaty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 12, 2008Russia has destroyed and sent for scrap about 20 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) and 12 mobile missile launchers since the start of 2008, the Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) said on Monday. "Since January 2008, the SMF have destroyed and sent for scrap about 20 ICBMs whose service life has expired," the SMF said in a statement, adding the missiles were scrapped as part of the ... more New Russian Nuclear Icebreaker Will Be Built By 2015
Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 12, 2008A new nuclear icebreaker will be built in Russia by 2015, the head of the state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Monday after signing an agreement with the leadership of the northern Murmansk Region. "It is important to not only use the existing fleet of icebreakers, but also to build new ships, and the first nuclear icebreaker of a new generation will be built by 2015," Sergei Kiriyenk ... more |
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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 |
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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 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
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