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Outside View: BMD deal lessons -- Part 2
Moscow (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 The hopes of the Russian people for close association and even partnership with the West during the eras of the last Soviet president, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the first Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, have long since given way to embarrassment and then to disillusion. I hope the Russian people have now come to their senses. I have said this before, but I have to say it again: The ... more Defense Focus: Betting on Blackjack 
Washington (UPI) Jul 29, 2008 Russia is betting on Blackjack and upping the odds: It may be a bluff, or Kremlin policymakers may believe they already are holding an inside straight. Russian policymakers Thursday boosted their threat to deploy supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 "White Swan" -- NATO designation Blackjack -- nuclear bombers in Cuba to say they might put them in Venezuela and Algeria, too. Like the origin ... more UN AIDS chief concerned about Russia, eastern Europe 
United Nations (AFP) July 29, 2008The UN AIDS chief said Tuesday that the global fight against the disease has made progress but voiced concern over rising cases in parts of the world, including Russia and Eastern Europe. "The overall finding of the report is that we've made enormous progress, that there are real results," Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS, told a press conference as he released the agency's 2008 ... more Russian subs explore world's deepest lake 
Lake Baikal, Russia (AFP) July 29, 2008Two Russian mini-submarines on Tuesday dove to the bottom of the world's deepest lake to draw attention to its fragile environment but failed in a record-setting attempt, organisers said. Six crew members descended over 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) to the floor of Lake Baikal in Siberia in a bid to find new life-forms and encourage Russian authorities to take greater care of its pristine waters ... more China and Russia to hold energy talks later this year: Beijing 
Beijing (AFP) July 29, 2008China and Russia will hold their second round of talks on energy cooperation in Moscow later this year, the Chinese foreign ministry said Tuesday. The news follows a visit by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin to Beijing over the weekend, where he met with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice Premier Wang Qishan to launch a dialogue on energy cooperation. "We hope the two countries ... more |
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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 Analysis: Russia behind Georgia cyberwar? 
Washington (UPI) Jul 25, 2008 The Web site of President Mikheil Saakashvili of Georgia was brought down this week by hackers apparently based in Russia, the latest in a string of cyberattacks directed against neighboring countries experiencing friction with the newly resurgent bear. The attack was monitored by several U.S. Internet watch operations, including the center run by the Department of Homeland Security kn ... more |
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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 Whale playground offers glimpse into Russia's melting Arctic 
Solovetsky Islands, Russia (AFP) July 24, 2008A young whale pokes its melon-shaped head into the cool morning air near this remote island, a sign its herd is thriving despite mounting threats in Russia's melting Arctic. Cameras and microphones capture the whale's every move as scientists use the species' only shore-side breeding ground to see how they are coping as fleets of oil tankers replace melting ice in their traditional feeding ... more
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