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BMD Watch: Russia test-fires Topol
Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 Russia announced another successful test launch of its RS-12M Topol intercontinental ballistic missile last week./hl2> The road-mobile Topol ICBM was test-fired from Russia's most modern Plesetsk space center Thursday and covered a distance of 3,700 miles to strike its preplanned target on the Kamchatka Peninsula facing the North Pacific Ocean, RIA Novosti reported Thursday. ... more Russia May Push Forward With S-300 Sales To Iran 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 04, 2008Russia may proceed with plans to sell advanced S-300 air defense systems to Iran under a secret contract believed to have been signed in 2005, a Russian analyst said on Monday. Commenting on an article in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper saying Russia is using the plans as a bargaining chip in its standoff with America, Ruslan Pukhov, director of Moscow-based Center for Analysis of ... more Russia Defense Watch: Black Sea standoff 
Washington (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 Watch for possible tensions and dangerous taunting close encounters between Russia's Black Sea Fleet with U.S. and other NATO warships bringing relief or watching guard over the embattled former Soviet republic of Georgia. Adm. Eduard Baltin, a former Russian fleet commander, warned last week that all NATO and U.S. warships currently operating in the Black Sea could be sunk ... more Outside View: BMD dilemmas -- Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 Russia does not want to be dragged into another arms race, but it should not ignore the emerging threats. The Kremlin's most obvious reply to the U.S. missile defense deployment plans to build a Ground-based Mid-course Interceptor base in Poland would be to equip the Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missiles of Russia's Strategic Missile Force with supersonic maneuverable warheads ... more Outside View: BMD blowback -- Part One 
London (UPI) Sep 3, 2008 The agreement concluded between the United States and Poland on Aug. 20 on the deployment of 10 interceptor missiles, part of America's planned Ballistic Missile Defense system, was an inadvertent -- and possibly unanticipated -- result of the Russian-Georgian conflict. After months of prevarication, the Poles stopped increasing the level of military aid they demanded in return for ... more |
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Tehran (AFP) Sept 2, 2008The Russian company building Iran's first nuclear power plant has renewed a commitment to complete the project, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. Russia, one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, is building the plant at Bushehr on the Gulf coast of Iran despite a long-running standoff over Tehran's controversial nuclear drive. A visiting delegation ... more Russia-NATO: Return Of The Great Game 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008After the breakup of the Soviet Union, many intellectuals in Russia and the West announced "the end of history." It seemed that the United States' complete domination of the world was not disputed by anyone. The subsequent decade, during which Russia lost its foreign policy positions, and its former satellites and even provinces became U.S. and NATO allies, seemed to have buttressed this ... more Outside View: Russia's war -- Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 Russia has completed its "peace enforcement" operation on the territory of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia. The country's political leaders and military commanders have announced that they are withdrawing troops from the conflict zone. It is still too soon to speak about an end to the conflict between the former Soviet republic of Georgia and the unrecognized republics of South ... more Russia Could Destroy NATO Ships In Black Sea Within 20 Minutes
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008Russia's Black Sea Fleet is capable of destroying NATO's naval strike group currently deployed in the sea within 20 minutes, a former fleet commander said on Friday. Russia's General Staff said on Tuesday there were 10 NATO ships in the Black Sea - three U.S. warships, the Polish frigate General Pulaski, the German frigate FGS Lubeck, and the Spanish guided missile frigate Admiral Juan de ... more |
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Sochi (RIA Novosti) Sep 03, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev outlined on Sunday the five points upon which Moscow's future foreign policy will be based, and also said that it could if necessary introduce sanctions against other states. Speaking near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Medvedev also said that Russia would not alter its decision to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia. He also said that Moscow's agreements ... more Analysis: Russia's second chance 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 2, 2008 EU leaders condemned Russia's military moves in Georgia but decided against sanctions Monday at an emergency summit on the Caucasus crisis. Leaders did, however, postpone talks on a long-overdue new partnership agreement with Russia until Moscow withdraws its troops from Georgian territory. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who was leading the summit, said he and his colleagues " ... more Russia warns Australia against scrapping uranium deal: report 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 2, 2008Any decision by Australia to scrap a deal to sell uranium to Russia to protest its action in Georgia would be "politically biased" and economically harmful, Moscow's envoy to Canberra has reportedly warned. Fairfax newspapers on Tuesday quoted Ambassador Alexander Blokhin, as issuing the caution a day after Australia's foreign minister said Canberra was reconsidering whether to ratify a 2007 ... more Russian bombers again cloud skies in Europe's far north 
Bodoe Airbase, Norway (AFP) Sept 1, 2008In scenes reminiscent of the Cold War, Russian bombers have returned to the skies in Europe's far north after years of absence, putting NATO's jet fighters on alert once again. At the Bodoe airbase, above the Arctic circle, two F-16s are always on call, ready to take off in less than 15 minutes for stand-offs with surprise visitors from Norway's eastern neighbour. "We have noticed a ... more
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