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Walker's World: The BRICs crumble
Beijing (UPI) Sep 15, 2008 Since the beginning of June, the Russian stock market has plunged by 46 percent, China's Shanghai composite index has slumped by 38 percent, and the Brazilian market is down 34 percent. Worldwide, the global stock markets have lost some $9 trillion in value since the financial crisis began a year ago. Of the fabled BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) that were predicted to ... more Rosnanotech Aims For 157 Billion Dollars In Output By 2015 
Tel Aviv, Israel (RIA Novosti) Sep 16, 2008The Russian Rosnanotech state corporation said Friday it planned to increase its output to $157 billion by 2015, while Russia's share of the global nanotech market would swell by 30 times. The company's managing director Dmitry Lisenkov said in the past two years Rosnanotech has invested in two projects out of 618 that have applied for funding, accounting for around 1% of the 130 billion ... more New Impulse To Russian Rockets 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2008Russian space launch vehicles are winning even more popularity with potential customers, as domestic engine developers have managed to create a versatile re-useable liquid-propellant engine, bringing to life an old dream of the world's rocket engineers. The Energomash Science and Production Association has developed the new RD-191 rocket engine, meant to equip Angara advanced carrier rocket ... 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 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 |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 15, 2008Russia's Defense Ministry has ordered a large number of new-generation unmanned reconnaissance drones to be put in service in the next few years, a Russian electronics company said on Wednesday. "Several dozen Tipchak UAV systems will enter service with the Russian army in the next few years," said Vladimir Verba, general director of the Vega Radio Engineering Corp. "The first system will ... more Russian Blackjacks In Venezuela End Yankee Hegemony: Chavez 
Washington (UPI) Sep 11, 2008 Two Russian Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan supersonic bombers landed Wednesday night in Venezuela, where they were personally acclaimed by President Hugo Chavez as heralding the end of Yankee imperialism. The 1,380 miles per hour Tu-160s -- NATO designation Blackjack -- flew into Liberator air base in Venezuela. Fiercely anti-American Chavez greeted them with an address on Venezuelan national ... more Kiev accuses Russia of 'destabilising' Ukraine 
Kiev (AFP) Sept 13, 2008Ukraine accused Russia on Saturday of seeking to destabilise the ex-Soviet state, dismissing the idea it was in Moscow's special zone of interest and describing Kiev's EU and NATO ambitions as "irreversible." Ukrainian leaders are concerned that its mainly Russian-populated autonomous region of Crimea may fall under Moscow's influence in the same way as Georgia's breakaway regions of ... more Analysis: Azeri-Kazakh relations deepen 
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 |
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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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