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Russia missile test heightens stand-off with West
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russia on Thursday tested an inter-continental missile, heightening tensions with the West as France said the European Union could impose sanctions on Moscow over the Georgia conflict. Russia also sought international support at a summit with China and Central Asian nations. The missile test in northern Russia came barely a week after the United States completed an accord with Poland on ... more Russia tests ICBM designed to overcome missile shield 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russia on Thursday said it test-fired an intercontinental missile designed to avoid detection by missile-defence systems, raising the temperature in a tense stand-off with the West over Georgia. The Topol RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in northern Russia and flew 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) to hit a target on Kamchatka Peninsula in the ... more Putin assails US over Georgia conflict 
Moscow (AFP) Aug 28, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused Washington on Thursday of manufacturing the Georgia conflict as tensions mounted with the United States threatening to scrap a nuclear deal in protest at Moscow's actions. Russia tested an inter-continental missile before Putin, the powerful former Kremlin leader who now heads the government, said the US administration had a hand in the five-day ... more Packing A Punch With The T-72 Part One 
Washington (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 The effective use of decades-old Russian T-72 Main Battle Tanks in the brief Georgia conflict again shows how supposedly obsolete weapons can still play a potent and even decisive role in modern war. The Russian army did not rely exclusively on its 30-year-old T-72s. State-of-the-art T-90 Main Battle Tanks were also identified during Russia's brief but highly effective five-day drive in ... more US mulls scrapping nuclear pact with Russia 
Washington (AFP) Aug 28, 2008The White House said Thursday that it was considering scrapping a US-Russia civilian nuclear cooperation pact in response to Moscow's actions in Georgia. "I don't think there's anything to announce yet, but I know that that is under discussion," spokeswoman Dana Perino said when asked whether Washington might drop the May 6 accord over the conflict in the former Soviet republic. ... more |
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Bremen, Germany (UPI) Aug 28, 2008 Shipping companies want to send ships through the Arctic's Northwest and Northeast Passages now that they're free from ice, a German newspaper said. The Northeast Passage from the Russian island Novaya Zamlya through the Bering Strait could cut the trip from Hamburg, Germany, to Yokohama, Japan, by 40 percent, Spiegel Online reported Thursday. Data from the NASA satellite Aqua show the ... more Rapideye Constellation Ready For Launch 
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Aug 28, 2008The 5-satellite RapidEye constellation is ready for launch from Baikonur on August 29, 2008. All five satellites have been integrated with the Dnepr launch vehicle at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in readiness for launch at 0715 UTC (0815 BST, 0915 CEST). An MDA/SSTL launch team arrived in Baikonur early July to conduct final tests and integration of the spacecraft with the Dnepr ... more Outside View: Playing nice with Russia 
College Park, Md. (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 Russia's invasion of Georgia should compel the United States and Europe to alter their policies of economic engagement to promote democracy. After the Cold War, the United States and Europe sought to integrate Russia, China and their satellites into the Western market economy. Policymakers believed this would encourage democracy, human rights and a peaceful demeanor toward their ... more Walker's World: The price of Putin
Paris (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 The extraordinary European summit to be convened Monday by French President Nicolas Sarkozy is intended to agree on a common policy toward Russia in the wake of its short, sharp war with Georgia. Given the divisions of interest between those who depend on Russian oil and gas and those more concerned with a resurgence of Russian bullying, only optimists think it is likely to succeed. ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Aug 27, 2008 The five-day military conflict between Russia and Georgia over the disputed enclave of South Ossetia has thrown into the spotlight a nearly forgotten 72-year-old treaty governing the passage of both merchantmen and warships between the Mediterranean and Black seas through the Bosporus and Dardanelles, collectively known as the Turkish Straits. The 1936 Montreux Convention roiled ... more A Very Small Pond For Superpower Games Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Aug 26, 2008 The issue of maintaining the historic port city of Sevastopol on the Ukrainian-controlled Crimean Peninsula as an operational base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet is largely an illusory one for Russia: It does not match with present-day realities. However, there are also strong emotional factors involved in the current controversy between Russia and Ukraine over the future of the ... more NATO - The Paper Alliance 
Paris, France (RIA Novosti) Aug 27, 2008As the dust settles on the conflict in South Ossetia - and as it vanishes progressively from the headlines in the Western press - one thing has become overwhelmingly clear. It is that Georgia will now never join NATO and that the balance of power in the world has therefore shifted radically as a result of this little six-day war. During the conflict, many people in the Russian media ... more Russian official warns NATO transit to Afghanistan at risk 
London (AFP) Aug 26, 2008NATO should not be able to use Russian routes to transit supplies and equipment to Afghanistan because Russia has suspended military co-operation with the Western alliance, the country's ambassador to Kabul argued in an interview published Tuesday. Speaking to The Times from the Afghan capital, Zamir Kabulov said increased tensions between Russia and West over the former's recent assault on ... more
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