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Russian Military Strength To Drop To One Million By 2013
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008The Russian armed forces will be slimmed down to 1 million personnel by 2013, three years earlier than previously planned, the defense minister said Monday. "We plan to do this by 2013," Anatoly Serdyukov said after meeting with President Dmitry Medvedev. He said that under the previously approved plan, the troop numbers were to have gone down to 1,100,000 personnel by 2011 and to ... more EU-Russia: Khanty-Mansiysk Engagement 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008The European Union (EU) and Russia have been so slow in starting negotiations on regulating their new relationship that now they will talk about it in Siberia. As we know, Siberia is a land of opportunity. On June 26-27, the EU-Russia summit in Khanty-Mansiysk is expected to produce a decision on the start of negotiations on a new strategic cooperation agreement. The negotiations themselves ... more Russian Technologies On The Way To Becoming Super-Corporation 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 01, 2008It was announced on June 20 that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had signed a resolution transferring Russia's only authorized arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, to Russian Technologies corporation. The government also coordinated a draft presidential decree on transferring state-held shares in 480 other enterprises to the corporation. Russian Technologies is growing into an industrial behemoth ... more Russian-US Launch Firm To Put Satellite In Orbit In August 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008The Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services (ILS) has started preparations for the first launch of a Proton-M rocket since one partially failed in March, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Center said Friday. A company review on June 16 cleared the Proton Breeze M to return to flight this summer following a failure during the March 15 launch of the U.S. AMC-1 ... more Aldrin warns US risks falling behind in space race 
London (AFP) June 29, 2008Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, warned in an interview published Sunday that the United States risked falling behind Russia and China in the space race if it did not redouble its efforts. Speaking to the Sunday Telegraph, Aldrin urged US presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to "retain the vision for space exploration" and said he would lobby both to ensure they ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 26, 2008 While U.S. experts express concern over Russia's nuclear weapons modernization program, their Russian counterparts are voicing alarm that they believe they are falling dangerously behind in the 21st century strategic arms race. Russian three-star Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov, the president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems, commenting on Russia's triad of strategic nuclear ... more Russia To Sell Six Multi Launch Rocket Systems To Turkmenistan 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2008Turkmenistan has signed a $70 million contract with Russia to buy six Smerch multi launch rocket systems (MLRS), a Russian business daily said on Tuesday. Kommersant said that under the contract, the first major military-technical deal with Ashgabat in the past decade, the Smerch manufacturer, OAO Motovilikhinskiye Zavody, will deliver the first two systems before the end of this year and ... more Medvedev Says Vital To Make Ruble Into Regional Reserve Currency 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that turning the Russian ruble into a regional reserve currency was an important strategic objective. "In a period of global financial instability, we need to press ahead with the strategic objective of making the ruble one of the regional [reserve] currencies," the president said at a meeting with the chairman of Russia's state-run VTB ... more Most Russians Believe Global Warming Is Real 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2008Most Russians believe global warming is a reality, according to a poll conducted on June 14-15 by the Public Opinion foundation. The poll said two thirds of respondents believe the climate has become warmer in recent years, while 86% of those polled "had heard about global warming occurring on the Earth." At the same time, 15% did not believe global warming was happening and 18% experience ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jun 24, 2008 China's industry is not developed enough to produce modern aircraft independently. It cannot manufacture a number of important aggregates at the level of the leading aircraft-building powers. Thus, China's engines for combat aircraft are still below their Western and Russian counterparts in economic fuel consumption and overhaul period. In order to close the gap, China will have to ... more The northern Aral Sea returns to life in Kazakhstan 
The Kokaral Dam, Kazakhstan (AFP) June 24, 2008Fisherman Khaldan Kolzhanov's eyes fill with emotion at the sound of the seagulls and the sight of the small waves lapping at the beach. Here in this corner of southwest Kazakhstan, thanks to the Kokaral dam, vast expanses of sand and salt have finally disappeared. "Seventeen of the 30 types of Aral Sea fish live there again. My 25-year-old son is learning my trade now," says Kolzhanov ... more Russia Faces Melting Ice Menace At Critical Facilities 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 23, 2008 Global warming could deal destructive blows to Russia's defense infrastructure over the next 22 years, a top official said in Moscow last week. Defense infrastructure, including key airfields, oil storage facilities and strategic oil reservoirs, could all be destroyed if the hard permafrost covering the ground year-round across Russia's far north melts by 2030, Russia's ... more Russia Delivers Six Attack Helicopters To Helos Indonesia 
Washington (UPI) Jun 23, 2008Indonesia will take delivery of six Russian-built Mi-35 Hind attack helicopters next month as part of the $1 billion deal it signed with the Kremlin last year. Indonesia's Antara news agency reported Wednesday that delivery of the six helicopters was coming soon. RIA Novosti cited Nikolai Kireyev, director of the Russian national weapons exporting corporation Rosoboronexport, Jakarta ... more
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