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Russian Rocket To Launch US Commercial Satellite August 19
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 18, 2008A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying an Inmarsat communications satellite will be launched August 19, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Friday. The rocket is to be launched by the Russian-American joint venture International Launch Services from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The agency earlier said an onboard computer failure was discovered in the Breeze M booster ... more Russia vents fury over US missile plan 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 15, 2008Russia expressed its fury Friday over US plans to place a new missile system in eastern Europe, saying it was clear the weapons were pointed at Moscow and would be a fair military target to strike. Speaking at a news conference in southern Russia, President Dmitry Medvedev stated that, despite Washington's denials, the United States had Russia in mind in basing elements of the system in ... more Georgia 'will join NATO': Merkel 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 17, 2008German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday assured Georgia would join NATO as she strongly backed the ex-Soviet republic's President Mikheil Saakashvili in his conflict with Russia. "Georgia will become a member of NATO if it wants to -- and it does want to," she told reporters before talks with Saakashvili in Tbilisi. It was one of the strongest statements yet of support for Georgia's ... more Blown away: Georgian soldiers say Russian planes destroyed army 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 17, 2008As he lies in a Tbilisi hospital, his leg missing from the knee down, Lieutenant Roman Abashidze reflects on the reason for Georgia's crushing defeat to Russian forces. "I think that if there had not been Russian air forces, then yes, we had a chance," he says as he shifts his body by grabbing a steel bar running above his bed. Like others recovering in the Georgian capital after their a ... more Tougher Russia could complicate UN work 
United Nations (AFP) Aug 16, 2008A more assertive Russia as shown in the Georgia conflict could complicate the diplomatic resolution of hot issues on the UN Security Council's agenda, such as Iran's nuclear activities, diplomats and experts say. As the 15-member council scrambled Saturday to craft a revised draft resolution to formalize the French-brokered ceasefire between Moscow and Tbilisi, a Western diplomat said any ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2008Russia's military exports will exceed $8.5 billion in 2008, a senior government official said on Tuesday. Russia has doubled annual arms exports since 2000 to $7 billion last year, becoming the world's second-largest exporter of conventional arms after the United States. Military exports "are planned at $8.5 billion this year [2008], and I think we will fully meet the plan, and even exceed ... more Indian Army Orders Additional BrahMos Cruise Missiles 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2008The Indian army has ordered an additional batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles from the Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture, the company's CEO said Tuesday. "The army leadership realizes that weaponry such as the BrahMos missiles will ensure victory to the country which posses it in any conflict," Sivathanu Pillai, who is also the managing director of BrahMos Aerospace ... more Turkey Set To Create Missile Shield In Ankara, Istanbul 
Ankara, Turkey (RIA Novosti) Aug 13, 2008Turkey plans to buy eight missile defense systems abroad to protect itself against possible missile attacks, an undersecretary for the Defense Ministry said on Monday. Murat Bayar said two missile shields are to be deployed in and around Ankara and Istanbul by 2010, and that Turkey is currently negotiating a deal with four countries: Russia, the United States, China and Israel. ... more Russia-Georgia border awash with troops, militiamen, refugees 
Nar, Russia (AFP) Aug 11, 2008Riding in a dusty convoy of tanks and mobile missile launchers snaking through the mountains, Russian troops kept streaming into Georgia's rebel province of South Ossetia on Monday. A howitzer flying a Russian flag rumbled past, followed by dusty T-62 and T-72 tanks, armoured personnel carriers, missiles and mobile pontoon bridges on the mountain pass leading to the Roki Tunnel, which ... more |
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Brussels (AFP) Aug 9, 2008Georgia must withdraw its troops from South Ossetia if it wants to begin negotiations, Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, told AFP on Saturday. "Before the negotiations commence, Georgia must withdraw its forces from the zone of conflict," Rogozin said. By burning several villages in South Ossetia and allegedly killing 1,500 civilians in the course of one day, he said Georgia ... more Georgia fears 'annihilation' after Russian assault 
Tbilisi (AFP) Aug 9, 2008Russian warplanes staged bombing raids across Georgia on Saturday as the conflict over South Ossetia escalated and diplomatic efforts mounted to halt what Tbilisi called a policy of "annihilation." "What they are doing is nothing to do with conflict, it is about annihilation of a democracy on their borders," Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said in an interview with the BBC. ... more A Tale Of Russian Aircraft Carriers 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 11, 2008Sealed and decided: Russia will build aircraft carriers. After years of debate the naval command and the national leadership seem to have agreed that the navy should have such ships. But this has not always been the case. To understand current thinking, it is necessary to take a look at the history of aircraft carrier building in Russia. The Russian navy first used seaplanes in World War I ... more German minister says Georgia 'breaking international law': report 
Berlin (AFP) Aug 9, 2008The number two at the German foreign ministry on Saturday said Georgia is breaking international law by launching military action to reclaim South Ossetia. Gernot Erler said Tbilisi had breached a 1992 ceasefire agreement struck with Russia over the renegade Caucasus enclave, monitored essentially by Russian peacekeepers. "In this sense, it is also a question of a violation of ... more
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