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Ukrainian arms deliveries to Georgia a 'crime': Putin
Moscow (AFP) Oct 2, 2008Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday called Ukrainian arms deliveries to Georgia a "crime" in comments after meeting his Ukrainian counterpart. "A more serious crime than arms deliveries in a conflict zone cannot be imagined," Putin said. "Several years ago, we could not have imagined Russians and Ukrainians making war against each other, but that has happened and it's a ... more Russia Defense Watch: Biggest bomber test 
Washington (UPI) Oct 2, 2008 Russia is moving back to hair-trigger alert testing for its strategic nuclear bombers and cruise missiles for the first time since the closing years of the Cold War. The Russian air force announced Thursday that its Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan -- NATO designation Blackjack -- and venerable Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H nuclear bombers would carry out what it described as "training ... more US missile defenses in Europe in US interest: Obama advisor 
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008The deployment of US missile defenses in eastern Europe is in the US interest and not a move against Russia, a senior foreign policy adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Barrack Obama said Thursday. "I do not think Russia has a legitimate security concern here," Richard Danzig, a former Navy secretary in the Clinton administration, told defense reporters here. Danzig's remarks to ... more Russia Plans To Raise Defense Expenditure By Half In Three Years 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 03, 2008Russia is planning to increase its spending on defense by 50% in the next three years, a senior MP said Tuesday. Russia's defense budget is believed to be less than a tenth of the United States', but the country's military expenditure has been steadily growing in the past few years. "According to a draft federal budget for 2009-2011, expenditure on national defense will increase in 2009 ... more Rice to travel to India, Kazakhstan 
Washington (AFP) Oct 2, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to India and Kazakhstan from Friday, including for talks in New Delhi about the landmark US-India civilian nuclear agreement passed by Congress, the State Department said Thursday. Rice "will travel to India and Kazakhstan on October 3rd through the 5th," department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. In India, she will meet with ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008The absence of Earth's magnetic field could lead to astronauts developing mental disorders during interplanetary flights, particularly expeditions to Mars, Russian scientists said. Researchers from the Biology and Biophysics Research Institute at Tomsk State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences' Institute for Biomedical Problems have conducted a number of experiments to study ... more Russia Launches Thai Satellite On Converted Missile 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Russia launched a converted intercontinental ballistic missile from a rocket launch site the south Urals to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit on Wednesday, the Strategic Missile Forces said. "The launch of the RS-20B intercontinental ballistic missile was made at 10:37 a.m. Moscow time [06:37 GMT]," spokesman Colonel Alexander Vovk said. A representative of the ... more Russia, India To Develop New BrahMos Cruise Missile 
New Delhi, India (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Russia and India will jointly develop a new BrahMos-2 hypersonic cruise missile, the head of the BrahMos company said on Monday. "At a meeting of the Russian-Indian intergovernmental commission on military-technical cooperation, we decided to set up a working group on the development of the BrahMos-2 missile," the company's CEO, Sivathanu Pillai said. "The new hypersonic missile will have ... more Venezuela To Spend One Billion Dollar Russian Loan On Air Defense 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 02, 2008Venezuela plans to use most of the $1 bln loan granted by Russia to buy air-defense systems, a Russian military analyst has said. Russia announced the loan offer earlier on Friday, during a visit by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. "Venezuela needs primarily Tor-M1 surface to air systems to protect the airfields where the 24 Su-30 MK2 jet fighters it bought from Russia are based," said ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Sep 30, 2008 Russia's Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan bombers are back from Venezuela. The overseas visit by the most powerful strike aircraft of Russia has created a new surge of interest in these planes, which make up the core of Russian strategic aviation. The supersonic missile-carrying Tu-160 bomber -- NATO designation Blackjack -- was developed in the early 1970s, when it became clear that subsonic ... more Pentagon urges peaceful resolution of Somalia ship hijacking 
Washington (AFP) Sept 30, 2008The Pentagon urged a peaceful resolution Tuesday to the hijacking of a freighter off Somalia but said US warships were there to make sure pirates do not make off with its cargo of Russian tanks and other weapons. Several US warships had the Belize-flagged MV Faina "contained," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary. He would not comment on whether the navy has plans to liberate the ... more Outside View: Russia's Caribbean fleet 
Moscow (UPI) Sep 29, 2008 A Russian navy squadron set off for Venezuela on Sept. 22 in a deployment of Russian military power to the Western Hemisphere unprecedented since the Cold War. During the Cold War, Latin America became an ideological battleground between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Kremlin recently has moved to intensify contacts with Venezuela, Cuba and other Latin American ... more Russia sought to topple Georgian government: Polish president 
Warsaw (AFP) Sept 29, 2008Poland's President Lech Kaczynski has alleged in an interview that Russia's military action in Georgia was aimed at toppling the Georgian government and that it sealed his country's decision to host a US missile shield vehemently opposed by Moscow. "First, Russia wanted to carry out an annexation of two provinces (Abkhazia, South Ossetia). Second, there was an attempt to topple the ... more
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