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Putin Orders Additional 2.6 Billion On Glonass Development
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a directive on Friday on allocating an additional $2.6 billion to develop the country's Glonass satellite system. Glonass (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS), which is designed for both military and civilian use, and allows users to identify their current location and ... more Russian Water Detector To Ride Piggyback On U.S. Lunar Orbiter 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2008A Lunar Exploration Neutron Detector (LEND) has had the final touches added at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The Russian probe has been sent to the United States to be installed on the American Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), scheduled to be launched early in 2009. The aim of the mission is to map the Moon's surface. The task of the Russian device is ... more Hurricane Ike's impact felt at International Space Station: NASA 
Washington (AFP) Sept 12, 2008Officials Friday delayed the arrival of a cargo ship at the International Space Station, after NASA shut down its space center in Houston as Hurricane Ike barreled down on Texas, the US space agency said. The Russian cargo spacecraft Progress, launched Thursday from Kazakhstan, is carrying more than two tons of supplies to Russian cosmonauts aboard the orbiting space station ... more The Woes Of The Great Russian Army Continue Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 12, 2008 On Wednesday Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov addressed the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, to inform the deputies about current military development and various problems. Serdyukov had to explain why the Russian army lacked modern weapons during the recent enforcement operation in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the Caucasus. ... more The Coming War Might Be A Hot One 
Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2008 The Russian five-day blitzkrieg that conquered one-third of Georgia for negligible losses carried a grim warning for the next president of the United States, whether he is John McCain or Barack Obama: Major land wars that could involve U.S. armed forces against formidable opponents are no longer inconceivable. Only last week Adm. Eduard Baltin of the Russian navy publicly warned that ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Sep 12, 2008 One of the casualties of last month's military confrontation between Russia and Georgia has been Western complacency about the security of using Georgia as a transit corridor for energy. Of the five Caspian nations now producing oil and natural gas, neither Russia nor Iran has ever used the Caucasian energy corridor, while Turkmenistan's natural gas exports to potential Western markets remain ... more Analysis: Russia courts OPEC 
Berlin (UPI) Sep 12, 2008 Russia has courted OPEC with a memorandum to forge closer ties, a move that, if realized, would increase the power of oil-producing nations and further weaken importers in Europe, observers say. Observers at the most recent meeting in Vienna of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said the Russians were the biggest delegation ever from a non-OPEC country: Together with 20 ... more Russia To Launch Progress M-65 Space Freighter To ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 12, 2008Russia is due to launch a Progress M-65 spacecraft on board a Soyuz-U rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Wednesday to deliver supplies to the ISS, a Russian space agency spokesman said. "The rocket will put the Progress M-65 into orbit, after which it will fly toward the ISS on its own. The launch is scheduled for 23:50 Moscow time [19:50 GMT]. The module is scheduled ... more 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 |
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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 Lavrov accuses US of trying to encircle Russia with shield 
Warsaw (AFP) Sept 11, 2008Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States on Thursday of seeking to encircle Russia, and reiterated Moscow's opposition to US plans to install a missile shield on Polish soil. Lavrov accused Washington of preparing "not only a third, but also a fourth and fifth region in which to station (missile shield elements) and not just close to Russia's European borders." ... more Analysis: Azeri-Armenian relations
Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2008 Last month's military conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia has cast a harsh spotlight on Western assumptions about exporting Azeri oil through neighboring Georgia and Turkey. While the military confrontation focused Western media attention on tensions between Russia and Georgia, Azerbaijan itself remains gripped by a "frozen conflict" dating back to even before the ... more Analysis: Russia and OPEC deepen ties 
Washington (UPI) Sep 10, 2008 Oil and conflict have a symbiotic relationship. Last month's armed confrontation between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia and Abkhazia highlighted Georgia's vulnerability as a Caspian energy corridor, where the West's prize possession, the $3.6 billion, million-barrel-per-day, 1,092-mile Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, transits. Since the military clash ended, the geostrategic maneuvering ... more
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