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Gasps, nervousness greet total solar eclipse
Moscow (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Thousands of people gathered across Arctic regions, Siberia and China on Friday to see a total eclipse of the sun, despite Chinese warnings that it could augur bad luck. Tourists and local residents lined the banks of the River Ob in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, screaming with delight as the Moon fully obscured the Sun and the sky went dark, Russian television stations reported. ... more Russia test fires strategic missile: navy 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 1, 2008Russia on Friday successfully test fired a strategic missile from a nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, hitting a target on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, a navy official told AFP. "The missile head section, launched from the Barents Sea, reached its target at the Kura exercise ground in Kamchatka," said Igor Dygalo, an officer at Russia's naval command centre. He said the ... more Chavez gets Russian fighter jets, warns US Fourth Fleet 
Caracas (AFP) Aug 3, 2008President Hugo Chavez on Sunday said 24 missile-firing Russian Sukhoi fighter jets have been delivered to Venezuela, and warned the recently reactivated US Fourth Fleet to steer clear of Venezuelan waters. "We've received the 24 Sukhoi aircraft" complete with pilots, crews and missiles, Chavez said on his weekly radio program. "They're for defensive purposes, we're not going to attack ... more New US defense strategy centers on 'long war' 
Washington (AFP) July 31, 2008A new defense strategy released Thursday places the "long war" against extremism above potential conventional challenges from China and Russia as the top priority of the US military in the coming years. "For the foreseeable future, winning the Long War against violent extremist movements will be the central objective of the US," the strategy paper said. The document encapsulates a shift ... more Libya Negotiates Weapons Deal With Russia 
Moscow (AFP) July 31, 2008Libya is negotiating with Moscow to buy Russian weapons and for the construction of a nuclear power station, the countries' prime ministers said on Thursday. "The Libyan leadership confirmed its interest in acquiring high-quality products from the Russian defence industry," Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying by Interfax and ITAR-TASS after a meeting with Libyan Prime ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 30, 2008GOCE, the first of a series of Earth Explorer satellites to be launched into orbit, has taken off aboard an Antonov-124 cargo aircraft for its flight to the Arkhangelsk Airport in Russia, en route to Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome, about 800 km north of Moscow. Preparations for the transport of the spacecraft began on 23 July when it was packed in its own nitrogen-pressurised container ... more 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 |
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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
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