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Venezuela To Buy More Weaponry From Russia
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 29, 2008Venezuela may purchase man-portable air defense systems, Il-76 transport planes and T-90 tanks from Russian in the near future, a Russian political analyst said Thursday. According to unofficial reports, Russia and Venezuela signed a new framework agreement Wednesday on delivery of Russian air defense systems, tanks and military transport planes to the Latin American country. ... more Disaster warning after floods kill 26 in Ukraine and Romania 
Kiev (AFP) July 28, 2008Storms and floods in western Ukraine and neighbouring Romania have killed 26 people, forced the evacuation of tens of thousands and damaged scores of bridges, officials said Monday. Romanian President Traian Basescu warned the region faced an "ecological disaster" if lakes containing potentially lethal mining waste were allowed to overspill in the north of his country. Fifteen people ... more Russian scientists head for bottom of the abyss 
Tourka, Russia (AFP) July 28, 2008Russian scientists will on Tuesday attempt to reach the bottom of the world's deepest freshwater abyss in a bid to find unknown life forms as well as claim a new record. "We want to study, observe Lake Baikal" in order to "preserve it," said expedition leader Artur Chilingarov, a pro-Kremlin member of parliament who led a team of scientists that planted a Russian flag at the bottom of the ... more Success Of The 1734th launch Of Soyuz 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jul 28, 2008The 1734th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed Saturday, July 26, 2008 from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia at 10:31 pm Moscow time (08:21 pm Paris time). Arianespace and its Russian partners report that the governmental spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit. This was the fifth Soyuz family mission in 2008. This mission was marked by the seamless use of ... more Russian Navy Aircraft Test New Weapons In Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 25, 2008Russia's Northern Fleet Tu-142 Bear and Il-38 May anti-submarine aircraft have tested new electronic equipment and precision-guided weapons over the Barents and Norwegian Sea, a Navy spokesman said on Thursday. "Advanced onboard electronic equipment and weapon control systems were tested during the flights. The tests have shown their high effectiveness," Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo said. ... more |
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Farnborough, UK (RIA Novosti) Jul 28, 2008Russia may launch a joint venture with China to continue the development of a new passenger airliner, MS-21, the head of a Russian state-run aviation corporation said on Monday. "We will come to a decision with Chinese manufacturers next year on the possibility of setting up a joint venture to design a new mid-range passenger aircraft, MS-21," Alexei Fyodorov, the CEO of the United Aircraft ... more GOCE Prepares For Shipment To Russia 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 25, 2008Launching in just two months' time, GOCE - now fully reconfigured for launch in September, is currently being prepared for shipment on 29 July 2008 from ESA's test facilities in the Netherlands to the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. Originally, the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) mission had been scheduled for launch in May 2008, but as a result of ... more Russia denies planning to base bombers in Cuba: reports 
Moscow (AFP) July 24, 2008Russia's defence ministry on Thursday denied a report it was considering basing bomber aircraft in Cuba in retaliation for US missile defence plans in Eastern Europe, a news agency reported. "We regard these sorts of reports from anonymous sources as disinformation," RIA Novosti quoted defence ministry spokesman Ilshat Baichurin as saying. Baichurin was referring to an article published ... more Outside View: Sukhoi soars again -- Part 2 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 24, 2008 The Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker is not quite a fifth-generation combat fighter, but it comes very close to being one. Under current plans, Russia will not be producing a fifth-generation air superiority fighter until 2015. However, the technical characteristics of the Sukhoi Su-35BM are high enough to fulfill this task, outmatching all the modern American, French and European Union generation ... more |
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Severodvinsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 25, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called Friday for a major technological overhaul in the oil and gas sector, as well as more exploration to find new strategic deposits. "It is obvious that Russia's oil industry and gas sector have reached a crucial juncture, where their growth potential with available sources of raw materials and outdated technology has been almost exhausted," Putin ... more Outside View: Russian-Venezuelan oil pacts 
Moscow (UPI) Jul 24, 2008 Many analysts expected Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who visited Moscow on July 22, to sign new agreements in military-technical cooperation, but this did not happen. Instead, a number of Russian oil giants signed promising contracts with Venezuela. They would replace their American counterparts, previously ousted by Hugo Chavez. Although the flamboyant Venezuelan president ... more Arctic holds 90 billion barrels of oil, mostly offshore: report 
Washington (AFP) July 23, 2008Within the Arctic circle there are 90 billion barrels of oil and vast quantities of natural gas waiting to be tapped, most of it offshore, the government-run US Geological Survey said Wednesday. The top of the world, shared by half a dozen countries including the US, Russia, Canada, Sweden, Norway and Greenland, holds an estimated 90 billion barrels of crude, 1,670 trillion cubic feet of gas ... more Soyuz-ST To Be Launched From French Guiana In First Half Of 2009 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 24, 2008The first Soyuz-ST carrier rocket will be launched from French Guiana in the first half of 2009, the Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday, citing the French satellite launch firm Arianespace CEO. A Russian launch pad is currently being built at the Kourou space center in French Guiana as part of a recent contract between Roscosmos and Arianespace. "The Russian team of ... more
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