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Ukraine Budget Missing Over Two Billion Dollars From Arms Sales
Kiev, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 15, 2008Only a small portion of revenues from Ukrainian arms exports in the last four years was passed on to the state budget, the former head of a parliamentary ad-hoc investigation commission said on Friday. "In the past four years, Ukraine exported over $2.5 billion in arms, but only about 1 billion hryvnias ($200 mln) was paid into our state budget. This is 12 times less," Valery Konovalyuk ... more Russian helicopter plans part two 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 14, 2008 Russian military operations against the former Soviet republic of Georgia in August have shown that communications and reconnaissance are the Russian army's weak spot. Therefore unmanned aerial vehicles should be rushed through the stages of development, pilot production and official approval. In the same vein, efforts will be stepped up to improve Russia's combat might in accordance wi ... more Russia gives territory to China, ending border dispute 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 14, 2008Russia ended a decades-old border dispute with China on Tuesday by giving it a stretch of river island territory in a ceremony symbolising the Cold War rivals' warming ties. Chinese and Russian flags were raised and new border markers erected as part of the handover at China's far northeastern tip near the Russian city of Khabarovsk, Interfax news agency reported. A Russian border guard ... more Russia To Cut Military Personnel To One Million By 2012 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 15, 2008Russia will cut military personnel numbers to 1 million by 2012, four years earlier than the initial target of 2016, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said on Wednesday. "It was planned that the Russian military would number 1 million by 2016," he told the press. "Our new task is to achieve this target by 2012." The number of officers will also be slashed to 150,000 by 2012 from the ... more Russia, North Korea to hold nuclear talks Wednesday 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 14, 2008Russia's foreign minister will meet his North Korean counterpart on Wednesday in Moscow to discuss a six-party disarmament pact on Pyongyang's nuclear programme, the ministry said. "Special attention will be paid to the situation in northeastern Asia, in particular to the six-party talks over the nuclear problem of the Korean peninsula," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Oct 13, 2008 A hundred years ago, the two Breguet brothers from France, taking a leaf out of the book of the two Wright brothers from across the Channel, lifted off in their flying apparatus for the first time. This marked the birth of a vertical ascent plane. In Russia, it was Nikolai Kamov and Alexander Mil who designed helicopters. Kamov's company marks its 60 anniversary today. Mil's is a year ... more What Will Flight To Mars Reveal 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 13, 2008Deep space exploration is becoming an ever bigger part of national space programs. Currently, missions to the Moon and Mars are considered feasible. The U.S. has announced preparation for another space probe launch to collect data from the Martian atmosphere, scheduled for 2013. In Russia, Martian exploration is confined to ground tests so far. The project Mars-500, aimed at determining ... 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 |
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Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2008 The doctrine for any joint U.S.-Russian-European operation against the pirates operating from the Somali coast against international shipping should reach beyond interception and destruction of the pirate vessels. It also should employ its technological advantages over the pirates, including night vision capabilities for ships and aircraft; unmanned aerial vehicles -- UAVs -- for ... more Analysis: Caspian division possible 
Washington (UPI) Oct 10, 2008 The two-day first Intergovernmental Economic Conference of Caspian littoral states, held Oct. 3 to 5 in the southern Russian city of Astrakhan on the Volga delta, drew surprisingly little coverage in the Western press, despite its potential importance. Russian delegates floated a proposal that the Caspian coastal nations of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan establish a ... more Expedition 18 Crew To Launch From Baikonur 
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
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