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Putin vows 24 billion dollars for Russian hi-tech: report
Moscow (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Russia is to invest 600 billion rubles (24.6 billion dollars, 16.7 billion euros) in hi-tech industries over two years, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Wednesday. "We have never put this kind of money into this area," Putin was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. "Between 2008 and 2010 we expect to assign 600 billion rubles to various state hi-tech programs," he told the ... more NATO Dithering On Many Battlefields 
Berlin (UPI) Aug 20, 2008 NATO has decided to suspend formal talks with Russia -- a necessary step, observers say, but one that opens yet another front in addition to the many conflicts already weighing down the alliance. On Tuesday, after meeting for hours in Brussels, NATO ministers, in a two-page statement, said they were "considering seriously the implications of Russia's actions for the NATO-Russia relation ... more Is Georgia's NATO Dream Coming True 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2008Monday saw the start of serious diplomatic discussion of all recent Caucasian troubles and entailed long bargaining and consultations, and heavy pressure on Russia. NATO and the United States are launching talks on the Caucasus. The European Union (EU) has already held them. As always, the UN will hold the longest discussions of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. In the meantime, NATO ... more India Eyes New-Generation Russian Tank 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2008India could consider plans to produce a new-generation tank jointly with Russia, the managing director of the BrahMos Aerospace joint venture said on Tuesday. Sivathanu Pillai said that while the new tank had yet to be developed, it could be built in Russia. He offered no indication of when the project could be launched, however. Russian experts earlier said Russia and India could ... more Key Georgian forests ravaged by fires: WWF 
Geneva (AFP) Aug 20, 2008Up to 280 hectares (692 acres) of forests have been burnt or are alight in Georgia after its conflict with Russia, the WWF said Wednesday, warning that key conservation areas were under threat. In a statement, it called on "all parties capable of helping put out forest fires in central Georgia to work together to extinguish them". The fires are centred in the Borjomi-Kharagauli area ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Aug 19, 2008 The war in the Caucasus, which began with a Georgian offensive into South Ossetia on Aug. 7 that prompted a major Russian military counter-operation, has ended with an overwhelming Russian victory. Uwe Halbach, a Caucasus expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, a Berlin-based think tank, talked to United Press International about Russia's motives, its delayed ... more Rice arrives in Warsaw to sign US-Polish missile deal 
Warsaw (AFP) Aug 19, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Warsaw Tuesday, ahead of the formal signing of a deal on basing an American missile shield in Poland. A plane carrying Rice and other US officials landed in Warsaw shortly before 8:00 pm (1800 GMT), for a ceremony which comes after months of negotiations coloured by strident opposition from Russia. On Wednesday, Rice is due to meet with ... more Commentary: From Tbilisi to Taliban 
Washington (UPI) Aug 19, 2008 The dog days of August suddenly became the guns of August. In Georgia, the United States and its NATO allies are learning you don't get into a resurgent Russia's space -- let alone its face -- with impunity. Russia is back, just as the United States would be back had it lost the Cold War 20 years ago and watched Russia trying to extend its Warsaw Pact security blanket to the Bahamas and Puerto ... more Analysis: Russia-Georgia cyberwar doubted 
Washington (UPI) Aug 18, 2008 The hacker networks that attacked Georgian Web sites earlier this month previously had targeted porn and gambling sites, likely as part of an extortion racket, and only launched their assault after fighting with Russia broke out, casting doubt on Tbilisi's claims it was orchestrated as part of Moscow's military offensive. The first attack started just after 2 p.m. GMT on Aug. 8 ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 18, 2008Russia has moved short-range SS-21 missile launchers into South Ossetia since fighting there halted, and has yet to give any sign of a significant pullback of its troops from Georgia, US officials said Monday. Instead, there were indications that Russia was adding ground troops and equipment to its force in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, strengthening its hold over the breakaway Georgian region ... more Is Russian Air Power Facing Up To Training Issues Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 18, 2008 Past problems with lack of funding for pilot and crew training have led to strange incidents in the Russian air force. A few years ago, a Maj. Troyanov lost orientation in the Baltic sky and, instead of Kaliningrad region, flew over Lithuania and had to eject from the aircraft when his plane ran out of fuel. It was later established that Troyanov had had just seven hours of flight ... more US: Venezuela's Russia fleet invite is 'curious' 
Crawford, Texas (AFP) Aug 18, 2008The White House said Monday that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's invitation to host a Russian fleet was "curious" and accused him of neglecting his people's problems. "The Russians and the Venezuelans can engage in whatever cooperation that they would like. But it's curious, I'm not sure what Venezuela needs or gains by a visit by the Russian fleet," said spokesman Gordon Johndroe. ... more ESA Ground Team In Simulation Training For GOCE Launch 
Paris, France (ESA) Aug 18, 2008The Mission Control Team at ESA's Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are now in intense training for the scheduled 10 September launch of GOCE, the Agency's Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer. GOCE is scheduled for lift-off at 16:21 CEST, 10 September 2008, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome; the spacecraft arrived in Russia on 29 July on board an Antonov-124 cargo aircraft. ... more
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