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Russia, Cuba To Implement Joint Space Programs
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 23, 2008There is every reason to say that Russia has started reasserting its global position. This includes big-time politics and efforts to expand scientific and military-technical cooperation with other countries, including Cuba, the Soviet Union's main Latin American ally. It is hard to overestimate the importance of Latin America, and Cuba in particular, for Russia. Commenting on the results ... more Russian warships ready for trip to Venezuela: officials 
Moscow (AFP) Sept 22, 2008Russian warships including a nuclear missile cruiser are ready to leave for joint exercises with Venezuela, Russian naval officials were quoted as saying Sunday by the RIA Novosti news agency. "A flotilla of Russia's Northern Fleet ships, including its flagship, the nuclear missile cruiser Peter the Great, destroyer Admiral Chabanenko and escorting ships, will shortly leave Severomorsk, the ... more Examining Georgia With Hindsight Part One 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 22, 2008 It has been 40 days since the outbreak of Georgia's military aggression against the self-proclaimed republic of South Ossetia and the onset of Russia's "peace enforcement" operation. Incidentally, the 40th day after death is a special commemoration of death in the Orthodox Christian tradition. In this case, it is also another hallmark, a time to reflect on the outcome of the five-day ... more Analysis: Oil and Gas Pipeline Watch 
Belgrade, Serbia (UPI) Sep 23, 2008South Stream talks under way in Belgrade. Russian officials traveled to the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Monday to discuss building the South Stream natural gas pipeline from Russia. Russian Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu met with Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and a delegation from the Interior Ministry to discuss several joint projects in the ... more ArianeSpace Buys 10 Soyuz Rockets For Kourou Spaceport 
Sochi, Russia (SPX) Sep 22, 2008Russia's space agency and French satellite launch firm Arianespace signed a contract on Saturday to launch 10 Russian Soyuz-ST carrier rockets from the Kourou space center in French Guiana. The contract was signed by Russian Federal Space Agency head Anatoly Perminov and Arianespace Chairman and CEO Jean-Yves Le Gall after a session of a bilateral inter-governmental commission, which took ... more |
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Sochi, Russia (AFP) Sept 20, 2008The European commercial space-launch consortium Arianespace on Saturday signed a deal with the Russian space agency Roskosmos to acquire 10 new Soyuz launchers for around 500 million dollars (347 million euros), a French diplomatic source told AFP. The contract was signed on the sidelines of a visit by French Prime Minister Francois Fillon to Sochi in southern Russia where he met his Russian ... more The Coming War Might Be A Hot One Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Sep 19, 2008 Small wars result in low casualties and negligible weapons attrition for the victor -- especially if it is a superpower. That was certainly the case in Russia's five days of military operations in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in the Caucasus from Aug. 8 to 12. According to Ilya Kramnik, the widely respected RIA Novosti military correspondent, the Russian army suffered only 71 ... more NATO says may boost defence amid Russian chill 
London (AFP) Sept 19, 2008NATO may "step up" its planning and training to defend the 26-nation bloc's territory, the alliance's head said Friday, amid tensions between the West and Moscow over the recent Georgia-Russia conflict. But speaking in London after a meeting of NATO defence ministers, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said there was no reason for alarm. The NATO ministers including US Defence Secretary Robert Gates ... more Coming weeks key in US-Russia nuclear cooperation 
Washington (AFP) Sept 19, 2008The coming weeks will tell if tensions between the US and Russia, which rose sharply due to the war in Georgia, will complicate international efforts at settling the Iranian and North Korean nuclear crises, a senior White House official said Friday. National security advisor Stephen Hadley told reporters the two countries have indicated they are willing to keep working together on a number ... more |
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Arlington, Va. (UPI) Sep 18, 2008 Here's a quick quiz about national security. What is the single greatest danger to America's survival? Global terrorism? Biological warfare? Cyberattacks? Nope, none of the above. The biggest threat by far is still the Russian nuclear arsenal. If Russian leaders decided to launch a large-scale strategic missile attack against America right now, most of the people you know would be dead by suns ... more Russia row shows NATO needs reality check: IISS 
London (AFP) Sept 18, 2008NATO would be making a major strategic error trying to expand in the face of Russian anger, a respected international think tank said Thursday. NATO must not play "Russian roulette" with the Kremlin as it considers how to respond to Moscow's "disproportionate" use of force in Georgia, said the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies. The IISS questioned whether the US ... more Defense Focus: Coming wars -- Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Sep 18, 2008 The rapid success of the Russian army in conquering one-third of the territory of neighboring Georgia in only five days last month has started sobering up a lot of military planners around the world, especially in the United States and Europe. For it teaches the sobering lesson that significant land wars between major industrial powers are not inconceivable after all. Since the collapse ... more West's relations with Russia at turning point: Australian PM 
Canberra (AFP) Sept 18, 2008The west's relations with Russia are at a turning point after its intervention in Georgia and a pact to sell Australian uranium to Moscow is in the balance, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Thursday. Parliament's treaties committee earlier recommended that the deal signed with former president Vladimir Putin last year be put on hold because of concerns about Russia's nuclear weapons programme. ... more
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