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Outside View: Russtech eats arms firm 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 1, 2008 It was announced on June 20 that Russian Prime Minister and former President Vladimir Putin had signed a resolution transferring Russia's only authorized arms exporter, Rosoboronexport, to Russian Technologies Corp. The Russian government also coordinated a draft presidential decree on transferring state-held shares in 480 other enterprises to the corporation. ... more Helos For Jakarta Sets Future Tone For Arms Deals Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Jul 1, 2008 The delivery of six Russian Hind Mi-35 helicopters to Indonesia this month is neither a large arms deal nor an unprecedented one -- but it is still a highly significant event. For the deal is just a small part of a huge $1 billion plus arms deal that then-Russian President and current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin nailed down last year. Within that overall package, Russia is also ... more Russia Says Nuclear Sector Open To Foreign Investment 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 02, 2008Russia's nuclear industry is open to both domestic and foreign investors, a Russian deputy prime minister told an international nuclear forum on Wednesday. "In addition to large-scale investment of state funds, we have grounds to count on substantial private investment. The Russian nuclear sector is now open to cooperation. Furthermore, not only with domestic businesses, but also with ... more Russia Launches Military Satellite On Proton-K 
Moscow (RIA) Jun 27, 2008Russia successfully launched Friday a military satellite from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Russian news agencies reported. The Kosmos satellite was put into orbit by a Proton-K rocket, the Interfax news agency cited as saying the spokesman for the Russian military space forces, Alexei Zolotukhin. Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov and the head of the military space force ... more 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 |
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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 Russia, India To Share Experience In Training Mountain Troops 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 30, 2008Russia and India have agreed to exchange knowledge in the training of mountain troops as part of an extensive military cooperation program, an aide to Russia's Ground Forces commander said on Tuesday. India's Chief of Army Staff, General Deepak Kapoor, arrived in Moscow on Monday on a five-day visit to Russia. He met Tuesday with Russia's Ground Forces commander, Gen. Alexei Maslov, to ... more Outside View: Fighting pirates -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 27, 2008 The ongoing hijacking of ships off the Somalia coast long ago became a routine part of maritime life in the Arabian Sea. One of the most recent incidents was the seizure of the tanker Amiya Scan, which is owned by Dutch company Reider Shipping. Pirates are still holding the crew, consisting of four Russian officers -- including the captain -- and five Filipino sailors, hostage. But the ... more Putin says central Asia wants to raise gas price for Ukraine
Moscow (AFP) June 28, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Saturday told his Ukrainian counterpart that Central Asian countries were urging Moscow to increase gas prices for Ukraine. Putin made the comments at the end of talks in Moscow with Ukranian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko during which he also threatened to restrict military cooperation if the neighbouring country joined the NATO military alliance. ... more |
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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 Russia Investing In Nuclear Capabilities Not Regular Forces 
Moscow (UPI) Jun 25, 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said in his recent address to officers at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia that Russia was focused on strengthening its nuclear capabilities rather than building up its regular armed forces, which makes maintaining the U.S. nuclear arsenal increasingly important. The two nuclear superpowers may be building up their nuclear capabilities, but no reas ... more Russian businessmen book spaceship rides: report 
Moscow (AFP) June 23, 2008A Russian businessman has paid 200,000 dollars to take his parents miles above Earth on a ride in a space ship, the Interfax news agency reported Monday. "When I told my mother we were going to fly in space, she asked me just one question: 'When?'," the man, Igor Kutsenko, was quoted as saying. He bought the tickets (worth 130,000 euros) to take his parents and a friend. "We booked a ... more Options For Space Tourists 
Moscow (RIA) Jun 24, 2008What we have here is a typically Russian paradox: although this country was the first to try out space tourism, it has failed to develop it further, letting other countries reap the fruits of this endeavor. Furthermore, the ways in which Roskosmos (Russian Federal Space Agency) has been trying to branch out into tourism has no benefits for our national space program. So far nine Russians have signed up for space flights ... ... more
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