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Russian planes in Venezuela a warning to US: Chavez
Caracas (AFP) Sept 11, 2008The presence of two Russian Tu-160 strategic bombers in Venezuela is a "warning" to the US "empire," President Hugo Chavez said Thursday, as Washington said it was monitoring the deployment. "It's a warning. Russia is with us ... we are strategic allies. It is a message to the empire. Venezuela is no longer poor and alone," Chavez said during a public event Thursday. The Venezuelan ... more Outside View: Mideast arms sales -- Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 11, 2008 In recent years Jordan has bought from Russia two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transport planes worth a combined $100 million and six light multirole Kamov Ka-226 helicopters at an estimated cost of $25 million, which will be assembled in Jordan under license. The two countries have even set up a joint venture, Oboronprom Middle East, to assemble 15 to 20 Kamov Ka helicopters a year. ... more Russia lowers official death toll from Georgia conflict 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 11, 2008The official death toll from Moscow's military operation in Georgia was Thursday revised to 66 soldiers, five less than previously announced. "During the fighting to counter the Georgian army's attack, 66 Russian soldiers were killed," Vladimir Markin from the public prosecutor's office said in a statement. The previous official death toll, issued September 3 by the Russian army, put the ... more Obama says missile shield cannot target Russia: Poland's Sikorski 
Warsaw (AFP) Sept 11, 2008US Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has said he will only proceed with installing a US missile shield base in Poland if it does not target Russia, Poland's foreign minister said Thursday. "In talks with me, senator Obama made the realisation of our (missile shield) agreement conditional on whether he will be certain that the system is not aimed against Russia," Radoslaw Sikorsky ... more Military Matters: Baltic defense realities 
Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2008 I recently returned from Estonia and the Baltic Defense College, where the Russian counterattack on the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the Caucasus had left a residual case of nerves. They have little to fear in the short run, unless they duplicate Georgia's folly and attack Russia. But the question of how the three Baltic states of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia might be defended ... more |
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New Delhi (AFP) Sept 11, 2008India is finalising bilateral pacts with countries including France and Russia for the import of civilian atomic power plants and technology, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday. The announcement comes days after the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which controls the export and sale of nuclear technology worldwide, amended its rules to allow India to buy equipment and expertise to fuel ... more Russia's Progress Spacecraft Buried In Pacific Ocean 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008The Russian space freighter Progress M-64 reentered the atmosphere and was 'buried' early on Tuesday at a 'spaceship cemetery' in the southern Pacific, a Mission Control spokesman said. The spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on September 2 and was turned into an orbital laboratory as part of the Plasma-Progress program to explore the reflective properties ... more 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 |
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Gelendzhik, Russia (RIA Novosti) Sep 11, 2008Russia's new carrier-based fighters will replace the Su-33 naval fighter in service with the Russian Navy after 2016, a senior military official said on Sunday. The Su-33 (NATO reporting name 'Flanker-D') is a carrier-based multi-role fighter, which can perform a variety of air superiority, fleet defense, air support and reconnaissance missions. The aircraft entered service with the Russia ... more Analysis: EU works on detente with Russia 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 10, 2008 The European Union team scored the first tension release points in Moscow, but the diplomatic crisis between Russia and the West is far from over. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, sat over dinner negotiations, with the Frenchman not leaving until "sweet dessert" had been served, according to the Kremlin. The four hours Sarkozy sat with Medve ... more A New Russian War Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 10, 2008 In parallel with the Russian military operations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia last month, an information and diplomatic war was unfolding, as the Russian representatives at the United Nations and NATO, Vitaly Churkin and Dmitry Rogozin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the Russian prime minister and president appeared on all channels defending Russia's position and substa ... more Russia To Build Baltic Nuclear Power Plant 
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
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