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First Second Generation Astronaut Pays Own Fare To Station
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Oct 12, 2008American millionaire video game guru Richard Garriott followed in his astronaut father's footsteps Sunday, blasting off aboard a Russian rocket to become the world's sixth space tourist. Sealed inside the Soyuz TMA-13 capsule together with a Russian cosmonaut and US astronaut, Garriott was catapulted towards the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur base in the dusty steppes of ... more Space station crew might not be expanded 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 11, 2008 Plans to add crew members to the International Space Station might be delayed, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Saturday. RIA Novosti reported the space agency is considering a boost the number of astronauts on the space station from three to six in 2009. "I doubt that the ISS crew will be increased to six people from next year because the final decision has ... more Outside View: Russia flexes Med sea power 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 10, 2008 A squadron comprising the nuclear-powered battle cruiser Peter the Great, the anti-submarine warfare -- ASW -- ship Admiral Chabanenko and two supply ships from the Russian navy's Northern Fleet recently entered the Mediterranean Sea. The squadron was joined there by the Russian Baltic Fleet's escort ship Neustrashimy ("Intrepid") and the Black Sea Fleet tanker Ivan Bubnov. ... more Russia fires missiles, Medvedev says strategic defences 'in order' 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 12, 2008Russia fired three long-range missiles Sunday and pronounced its nuclear deterrent strong in an extraordinary show of force experts said had not been seen anywhere since the days of the Cold War. Two of the missiles were fired from nuclear submarines in the Asian and European extremes of the sprawling country while a third was watched by President Dmitry Medvedev on land in northwest Russia, ... more BMD Focus: Russia may not sell Iran S-300s 
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2008 The good news for Israel is that its outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has won assurances from Russia that it isn't going to sell advanced anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems to Iran. The bad news is that Russia already has sold a lot of other dangerous things to Iran, and its position on the S-300 could change too. Also the assurance in question didn't actually mention the S-300 ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Oct 10, 2008Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew are scheduled to launch in their Soyuz TMA-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan about 3 a.m. EDT Sunday to begin a six-month stay in space. With Fincke, an Air Force colonel, and Lonchakov, a colonel in the Russian Air Force, will be spaceflight part ... more Russia denies missile sales to Iran
Moscow (AFP) Oct 9, 2008Russia on Thursday denied reports it plans to sell S-300 surface-to-air missiles to Iran, a move that could complicate an attack on that country's nuclear infrastructure. "We have repeatedly said at the highest political level that we do not plan to deliver such types of weapons to countries in... unstable regions," Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko said when asked about the ... more Outside View: Russia trains to fight NATO 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 9, 2008 The Stability-2008 strategic maneuvers of the Russian armed forces are gaining momentum. On Monday, Tupolev Tu-95MS Bear-H and Tupolev Tu-160 Blackjack strategic bombers began training flights with full combat payloads and the live firing of cruise missiles at practice targets. The Stability-2008 strategic exercise, which began Sept. 21 in Russian and Belarusian territory and at ... more Bulgaria-Russia agreement soon in historic arms licence row 
Sofia (AFP) Oct 9, 2008Bulgaria and Russia could soon sign an agreement over former Soviet arms licensing fees which Moscow has been claiming since the fall of Communism in 1989, government officals said Thursday. "We agreed to proceed to a new intergovernmental agreement to be hopefully signed by end-2008," Bulgaria's Economy and Energy Minister Petar Dimitrov said after intergovernmental talks in Sofia. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Oct 8, 2008A group of Russian warships will stop in Libya next week before moving on to joint exercises with Venezuela and an anti-piracy mission off Somalia, a navy spokesman said Wednesday. "The ships of the Russian Northern Fleet and the frigate Fearless are going to stop in Tripoli to obtain supplies from October 11 to 13," navy spokesman Igor Dygalo told AFP. The Northern Fleet ships, led by ... more Analysis: India favors Russia for arms 
Washington (UPI) Oct 8, 2008 U.S. President George W. Bush will leave office in January seeing India's famous special relationship with a global thermonuclear power stronger than ever. The only trouble is, India's ever-closer alliance is not with the United States, but with Russia. This basic fact of global and Asian geopolitical life is widely and openly reported in the Russian and Indian press, yet somehow it ... more Analysis: Venezuela seeks military power 
Caracas, Venezuela (UPI) Oct 8, 2008 Venezuela will have Latin America's largest armed forces in terms of firepower by 2013, if the country's oil revenues remain high in coming years. President Hugo Chavez has purchased and placed firm orders for close to $6 billion in Russian weapons since 2005, but he is also shopping for weapons in China, Belarus, Spain, France and Iran. The Venezuelan Defense Ministry's ... more Russia Defense Watch: Boosting war budgets 
Washington (UPI) Oct 6, 2008 Russia, flush with wealth from its record-level oil and gas exports, is planning to further boost its defense spending by almost 50 percent over the next three years, a senior legislator in Moscow said last week. "According to a draft federal budget for 2009-2011, expenditure on national defense will increase in 2009 by 25.7 percent from 1.02 trillion rubles -- $40 billion ... more
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