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North Korea to restart key reprocessing plant: watchdog
Vienna (AFP) Sept 24, 2008North Korea is preparing to restart a nuclear reprocessing plant used to make weapons-grade material as a crucial six-party disarmament-for-aid deal founders, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday. Amid growing differences over its denuclearisation pact with South Korea, the United States, Japan, China and Russia, the reclusive Stalinist state told the International Atomic Energy Agency it ... more BMD Focus: Tu-160s tilt nuclear balance 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2008 Russia's supersonic nuclear bombers flew home across the arctic from Venezuela last week. But in their eight-day visit, they lastingly transformed the strategic nuclear balance of power in the Western Hemisphere. The two Tupolev Tu-160 White Swans -- NATO designation Blackjack -- flew home last Thursday on their marathon 15-hour flight back to their home base at Engels in the southern ... more France still wants six powers to meet on Iran 
Paris (AFP) Sept 24, 2008France still hopes the six world powers leading an international response to Iran's nuclear programme will meet this week, despite Russian reluctance, the foreign ministry said Wednesday. Paris had earlier called for foreign ministers from Britain, China, Germany, Russia and the United States to meet along with France on the sidelines of this week's United Nations General Assembly in New ... more Examining Georgia With Hindsight Part Three 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 24, 2008 The Georgian Defense Ministry reports fewer than 300 Georgian soldiers killed in the five-day conflict with Russia in the Caucasus last month, although other sources have more realistic figures: 1,000 to 1,500. Several Georgian battalions were destroyed entirely. It is hard to estimate Georgia's loss of equipment. According to various estimates, around 50 machines were destroyed in ... more Russia To Set New Border Line In The Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 24, 2008Recent discussions about national geopolitical concerns and spheres of interest have predictably reached the issue of Russia's northern border. President Dmitry Medvedev set the task of formalizing Russia's right to a considerable part of the Arctic shelf at the September 17 meeting of the country's Security Council. This will "turn the Arctic into Russia's resource base of the 21st ... more |
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Middletown RI (SPX) Sep 24, 2008KVH Industries has announced that it is working with Unicom, a member of Sovcomflot, Russia's largest shipping company, to equip the Unicom fleet with entertainment at sea via KVH's TracVision M9 satellite TV antennas. A total of 60 antennas will be installed over the duration of the project, representing the largest single maritime TracVision order in KVH's history. Installations, which a ... more Russia In Talks With Cuba, Venezuela On Joint Use Of Glonass 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Sep 24, 2008Russia is negotiating with Cuba and Venezuela on the joint use of Russia's Glonass navigation satellites, the head of the federal space agency said on Tuesday. "I have just returned from a working visit to Cuba. They are very interested in cooperating with us in the use of the Glonass system, which will cover the globe by 2010," Roscosmos chief Anatoly Perminov told reporters in Moscow. ... more Examining Georgia With Hindsight Part Two 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 23, 2008 It is important to remember that throughout the Russian army's Aug. 8-12 operations in Georgia, Russian forces were restricted by a series of political commitments that prevented them from using heavy weapons in populated areas and greatly limited their counter-fire activities. Russian aircraft continued strikes on Georgia's military infrastructure until Aug. 12, making it impossible ... more Ahmadinejad vows to resist Western nuclear 'bullying' 
United Nations (AFP) Sept 23, 2008Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday promised to pursue nuclear technology despite Western "bullying," as Russia apparently scuppered a push for new sanctions against Tehran. Iran "will resist the bullying and has defended and will continue to defend its rights," Ahmadinejad said in a defiant speech to the UN General Assembly. In a clear reference to the United States and its ... more |
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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 Russia To Orbit Six Glonass Satellites By Year End 
Sochi, Russia (SPX) Sep 22, 2008Russia plans to launch six satellites in the next three months to increase the existing Glonass (INFOgraphics) grouping to 18-19 spacecraft, a leading satellite manufacturer said on Friday. 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 the ... more
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