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Russian strategic bombers in Venezuela for 'training': Chavez
Caracas (AFP) Sept 10, 2008Two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers were in Venezuela on Wednesday for "training flights," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said, adding he would be piloting one of the aircraft. "I hope that stings, 'pitiyanquis'," he said, using a derogatory term for Venezuelan opponents who have perceived US sympathies. "What's more, I'm going to take the controls of one of these monsters," boasted ... more Russia threatens to target US sites in Europe 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 10, 2008A top Russian general threatened Wednesday to target planned American missile shield sites in Poland and the Czech Republic with ballistic missiles amid icy US-Russia relations over Georgia. General Nikolai Solovtsov, head of strategic missile forces, said if Washington pushes forward plans to build installations in Central Europe the Kremlin would act to ensure Russia's vast nuclear arsenal ... more Russian Navy To Receive 4 New Amphibious Planes By 2013 
Gelendzhik, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Russia's Navy will put into operation four new A-42 amphibious planes by 2013, a senior military official said on Friday. The A-42 (Be-42) amphibious plane is the search and rescue variant of the A-40 Mermaid ASW aircraft, which can be used for reconnaissance and target designation during patrols over coastal and international waters. It is the largest amphibious aircraft in the world. ... more Russia To Deliver Admiral Gorshkov To India After 2011 
Gelendzhik, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Russia will deliver the modernized Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier to India after 2011, Russia's state-run arms exporter said on Friday. "We are planning to deliver the aircraft carrier to India after 2011, but an addendum to the original contract must be signed," Mikhail Zavaliy, a Rosoboronexport official told reporters at an air show in the Krasnodar Region. The original $750 ... more Mideast Arms Sales Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 10, 2008 Three events have come together independently. But they produced an intrigue that has hooked both politicians and media in the Middle East. Here is what happened. First, Moscow hosted MVSV-2008, an international show of weapons and military equipment. Then King Abdullah II of Jordan visited the show, met with designers and producers, and had a discussion with Russian President Dmitry ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Power (Rosatom), has signed the order on the construction of a nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad Region, Russia's exclave on the Baltic Sea. Preliminary work for the project is to start in 2009. Russia decided to build a nuclear power plant in its westernmost region to ensure its own energy security, but the new power plant will ... more Slovakia wants to cooperate with Russia in nuclear energy 
Bratislava (AFP) Sept 10, 2008Slovakia is seeking "friendly and mutually favourable" economic cooperation with Russia, notably in nuclear energy, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said Wednesday after meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin. "It's mostly cooperation in the field of energy, especially regarding construction of the third and fourth stations of the Mochovce nuclear power plant," in the west ... more Over 700 Russian Scientists Part Of LHC Project 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 10, 2008The development of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, has involved over 700 Russian physicists from 12 research institutes, a project coordinator said Monday. The $5.8 billion international project, which will be officially unveiled on October 21 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN ... more Russia to seek UN arms embargo against Georgia - envoy 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 9, 2008Russia pressed Tuesday for a UN arms embargo against Georgia as a US team prepared to travel to Tbilisi to assess the needs of its military, which was routed in a Russian blitzkrieg for control of South Ossetia. "It is in everybody's interest to have an arms embargo against Georgia," Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters after he introduced a draft resolution in the UN ... more |
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Ilulissat, Denmark (AFP) Sept 9, 2008Representatives from the European Union, Canada, Russia, China and South Korea met Tuesday in Greenland to put the spotlight on the Arctic, which is hard hit by global warming and home to vast untapped natural resources. In Ilulissat, at the foot of one of Greenland's biggest glaciers, some 100 delegates gathered to discuss ways of encouraging "stronger international commitment to the Arctic ... more End to India nuclear isolation opens huge market 
New Delhi (AFP) Sept 9, 2008The end to India's nuclear pariah statuspaves the way for atomicfuel and technology sales worth tens of billions of dollars and companies are racing to exploit the market, officials say. A host of companies -- from Westinghouse Electric Co and General Electric of the United States, France's state-controlled Areva to Russia's atomic energy agency Rosatom -- have been jockeying for a slice of ... more Outside View: Russia changes nuke plant 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 9, 2008 The birthplace of the first-ever floating nuclear power plant will be the Baltic Sea instead of the White Sea. The formal keel-laying ceremony took place in April 2007 at the Sevmash shipyard of the Russian State Center for Nuclear Shipbuilding in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region. After about a year and a half, the state-owned corporation Rosatom revoked the general contract, handing it ... more Outside View: Russia may lose nuke fuel 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 8, 2008 Australia has not remained immune to the "Georgian incident." Canberra reportedly has warned Moscow that it may put on hold agreements on uranium supplies to Russia. Meanwhile, the Kremlin has not received any Australian diplomatic note, oral or written, and neither has Russia's Nuclear Power Agency, Rosatom. And will they? If the agreement in question is heading for cancellation, both ... more
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