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Outside View: India's new sub -- Part 1
Moscow (UPI) Jul 17, 2008 The leasing by India of a Russian Project 971 nuclear submarine built in Komsomolsk-on-Amur is the latest hot news. The agreement, whose significance for Russian-Indian cooperation has yet to be assessed, could have a profound impact on the balance of forces in the region. Russia's role in creating the Indian submarine fleet is hard to overestimate -- Soviet/Russian-built ... more Court Orders MSF Aid Group To Pay Over Hostage Release In Russia 
Geneva, Switzerland (RIA Novosti) Jul 18, 2008A Swiss court ordered Monday the aid group Medecines Sans Frontieres (MSF) to pay 270,000 euros ($428,000) to the Dutch government over the release of an aid worker in Russia's North Caucasus six years ago, local media said. Arjan Erkel, 38, a former head of the aid organization's branch in Daghestan, was taken hostage in the republic's capital of Makhachkala in August 2002. Erkel was held ... more Scientists to explore Russia's Lake Baikal 
Moscow (AFP) July 17, 2008Russian scientists on Thursday outlined plans for a submarine expedition this month that will for the first time probe the depths of Lake Baikal, a unique ecosystem and the deepest lake in the world. The expedition is being organised by Artur Chilingarov, a pro-Kremlin member of parliament and an Arctic explorer who led the team of scientists that planted a flag at the bottom of the North ... more Tunguska Catastrophe: Evidence Of Acid Rain Supports Meteorite Theory 
Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jul 18, 2008The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region. In peat samples corresponded to 1908 permafrost boundary they found significantly higher levels of the heavy nitrogen and carbon isotopes 15N and 13C. The higher ... more Russia Space Agency Finds A New Sponsor For Soyuz Mission 
Moscow (SPX) Jul 17, 2008The Russian Space Agency (RSA) has found a sponsor for constructing a spacecraft that will deliver tourists to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011, as Agency's Deputy Chief Vitaly Davydov reported at the Farnborough Air Show on Tuesday. Mr. Davydov reminded that not long ago RSA could send only one tourist to the orbit on the three man Soyuz spacecraft. However, in 2009 ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 Russia's main partners in the process of dismantling old Soviet navy nuclear submarines are Britain, Germany, Norway, Sweden and France. The program was supported by the Northern Dimension fund, the TACIS program -- an EU program for technical assistance -- and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Today Russia has agreements with the United States, Canada, Italy and Japan. Rosatom ... more Russia's Uranium Breakthrough 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2008Russia has overtaken Niger to become the world's fourth largest uranium producer, after Canada, Australia, and Kazakhstan. Russia received its new rating in 2007, when it produced 3,527 tons of uranium. It has ambitious plans to mover even further up the league, based on promising deposits in Eastern Siberia and other regions, and opportunities for mutually advantageous cooperation with ... more Analysis: Nuclear revival without Germany 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 Global warming and rising energy prices have sparked a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy -- but not in Germany, where the grand coalition government is still bickering over the planned phase-out of nuclear power by 2021. The United States, China, India, Russia, France, Canada, Britain, Finland, Sweden -- the list of countries aiming to build new nuclear power plants or at least ... more Two Russian cosmonauts begin new space walk 
Moscow (AFP) July 15, 2008Two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) began a new space walk Tuesday to finish off work begun during an earlier operation last week, the Russian space centre said. ISS commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineer Oleg Kononenko will remain outside the space station for six hours at the most, the Interfax news agency cited space officials as saying. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) July 14, 2008Russia's military is ready to "neutralise" any threat to its nuclear deterrent from US missile defence sites in Europe, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak said Monday, according to Interfax news agency. "If we see the development of systems that could reduce our deterrent potential, our military will have to take steps to neutralise the threat," Kislyak was quoted as saying at a briefing ... more Russian navy boosts combat presence in Arctic 
Moscow (AFP) July 14, 2008The Russian Navy on Monday said it was boosting its combat presence in the Arctic, including near the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, amid increased international interest in the region. "The Russian Navy has restored the presence of combat ships of the Northern Fleet in the Arctic region, including in the region of Spitsbergen," the Navy said in a statement. Navy spokesman Igor Dygalo ... more Outside View: Nuke force plans 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 14, 2008 If the Russian Defense Ministry sticks to its plans to devote three-fourths of this year's booster rocket launches to placing new satellites in orbit, Russian officials hope that our future strategic nuclear missile forces will be not only the sword but also a strong shield for their country. Besides missiles, silos and submarines, modern nuclear weapons systems also depend on a space ... more Russian Pipeline Monopoly Denies Czech Oil Cut Political 
Moscow (AFP) July 14, 2008Russia's pipeline monopoly on Monday denied a cut in oil supplies to the Czech Republic was retaliation for that country's decision to host a US missile-defence system, Interfax news agency reported. The cut in Russian oil supplies was the result of a decision by two Russian companies to refine more oil at home instead of exporting it, the deputy head of state-owned Russian pipeline monopoly ... more
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