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Russia Defense Watch: Missile engine offer
Washington (UPI) Jul 8, 2008 Despite strained political relations, Ukraine is still trying to sell new advanced missile engines to Russia./hl2> Motor Sich, described as the main company in Ukraine making aircraft and missile engines, is seeking a new contract to produce a new, more efficient engine for Russia's cruise missiles, already the fastest and most effective in the world. "We have developed a ... more Korean Nuclear Diplomacy Continues As Ever Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 8, 2008 With a six-month delay, North Korea presented a list of its nuclear programs to China, which chairs the six-nation talks aimed at ridding the Korean Peninsula of nuclear weapons. Last year diplomats from Russia, the United States, China, South Korea, Japan and North Korea agreed it was essential to establish trust between all partners in dialogue in order to reach the final goal of the ... more Bush, Medvedev clash on missile defence 
Toyako, Japan (AFP) July 6, 2008US President George W. Bush praised Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Monday as a "smart guy" who means what he says, even as they clashed on US missile defence plans. The two leaders, holding their first face-to-face meeting since Medvedev took the reins from Vladimir Putin in May, also highlighted their cooperation in diplomatic efforts to resolve nuclear disputes with Iran and North Korea ... more Iran appears to debate international offer on nukes: US 
Washington (AFP) July 7, 2008Iran appears to be gripped in a debate over how to respond to an international offer to stop its sensitive nuclear work, a senior US official said Monday. Iran is sending mixed messages to a package of incentives from Germany and permanent UN Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. It appears ... more Analysis: Climate study criticizes G8 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 7, 2008 None of the leading industrialized nations has come close to meeting its promises on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with the United States, Canada and Russia trailing especially far behind, according to a study released shortly before the Group of Eight summit in Japan. Roughly a year ago, at the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, leaders of the eight most industrialized economies ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jul 2, 2008 It is easy to understand why Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said he is considering ending Russia's arms production cooperation with the former Soviet republic of Ukraine. Ukraine's uncertain policy, its possible membership in the U.S.-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization and its anti-Russian rhetoric force Russian leadership to seek other options. But does Russia ... more Europe must end energy dependence on Russia: ex-IEA chief 
Paris (AFP) July 5, 2008The European Union should free itself from its dependence on Russian gas by developing renewable and nuclear energy, the former head of the International Energy Agency told EU ministers Saturday. "We need to give ourselves a flexibility that we are missing," Claude Mandil told the European bloc's 27 energy ministers at an informal meeting on the outskirts of Paris. "We need more energy ... more Russia seals agreement with private investor for space tourism 
Moscow (AFP) July 2, 2008The Russian space agency has sealed a deal with a private investor to build a Soyuz spacecraft specially for tourist hire and operational in 2011, a statement said Wednesday. "We have concluded an agreement with an investor to begin financing such a Soyuz vessel with an anticipated launch date of 2011," the Roskosmos website stated. The craft, piloted by a professional astronaut, is ... more NASA plans two ISS spacewalks next week 
Houston (UPI) Jul 2, 2008 The U.S. space agency has detailed the activities to be included during two International Space Station cosmonauts' spacewalks next week. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Expedition 17 Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko will conduct the first spacewalk July 10 from the Pirs docking compartment's airlock. As part of the inquiry into ballistic ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) Jul 03, 2008International Launch Services (ILS) has scheduled its next Proton Breeze M commercial mission for August 14 (August 13 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, with the launch of the Inmarsat-4 F3 satellite. The satellite is scheduled to be shipped to Baikonur in early July for a six-week launch programme. The satellite, an EADS Astrium Eurostar 3000 model, will weigh approximately ... more Medvedev hails 'progress' in North Korean nuclear talks 
Moscow (AFP) July 3, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday hailed "progress" in resolving the North Koean nuclear crisis, in an interview with reporters from G8 countries. "There is progress. The international community naturally must not change its stance, we should create a system of positive motivation for our North Korean partners, help them," Medvedev said. "The decisions that were made recently ... more Analysis: Gazprom's expansion plans 
Washington (UPI) Jul 2, 2008 At the height of the Cold War, the West feared the Soviet military. Now, it fears Russian energy companies, and the 800-pound gorilla of them all is Gazprom, Russia's natural gas monopoly, currently the world's third-largest company by capitalization. Having absorbed capitalism with a rapacity that would make Lenin blush, Gazprom does not intend to rest on its laurels. On June 27 Gazpro ... more Maverick scientists probe Siberian forest mystery 
Moscow (AFP) July 1, 2008Was it a gigantic meteorite? A tremendous bolt of lightning? Perhaps the crash of a UFO the size of Tokyo? No one is certain of the answer to one of the 20th century's greatest scientific mysteries -- the "Tunguska Event" 100 years ago this week. But a group of maverick Russian scientists gathered in Moscow this week left no doubt that they share a singular passion to find out what cause ... more
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