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GOCE Launch Delayed Until 2009
Paris, France (SPX) Oct 27, 2008The Russian authorities responsible for the Rockot launcher that shall carry ESA's GOCE Earth Explorer satellite into orbit have completed the investigation of a failure in the guidance and navigation system of the launcher's Upper Stage (Breeze KM). The anomaly was discovered during the spacecraft's launch preparation tests on 7 September 2008 in Plesetsk, which subsequently led to the ... more US sanctions firms for alleged sales of arms technology 
Washington (AFP) Oct 24, 2008The United States has imposed sanctions on companies from China, Russia, Venezuela and other countries for allegedly violating its ban on sales of technology that could help Iran, Syria or North Korea develop sensitive weapons systems. The State Department announced in the Federal Register that "13 foreign persons," meaning companies, "engaged in activities that warrant imposition of ... more Aging Tu-95 Nuclear Missile Platform Offers New Strategic Threat 
Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2008 Russia's venerable Tupolev Tu-95 bomber is a gigantic, lumbering and slow behemoth that flies with turbine-driven propellers. It has an engine technology that the U.S. Air Force wouldn't be caught dead with since before 1950. So how come it now poses a formidable strategic threat to the United States and its NATO allies in the 21st century? The giant Tu-95 (NATO designation Bear) was on ... more Analysis: Russia, Europe and OPEC's oil 
Berlin (UPI) Oct 24, 2008 OPEC's decision to cut oil production to halt the free fall of prices is set to please Russia and trouble Europe. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries at an emergency meeting in Vienna on Friday decided to cut its oil production by 1.5 million barrels a day. The cartel's current production cap is at 28.8 million barrels a day. The measure is aimed at halting the ... more Russian minister says plans drawn for China oil pipeline: report 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 26, 2008Plans have been drawn up for a pipeline linking Siberian oil fields to China, a Russian minister was quoted as saying Sunday, in a sign of tightening ties between Russia and its energy-hungry neighbour. Russia's state-controlled pipeline monopoly Transneft has finished designing a spur from the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline to China, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin was ... more |
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Tbilisi (AFP) Oct 23, 2008Georgia on Thursday said Russia was deploying an additional 2,000 troops in the breakaway region of South Ossetia and said it was "deeply concerned" by the move. "During the last two weeks, 2,000 additional Russian troops have been deployed in South Ossetia," interior ministry Spokesman Shota Utiashvili told AFP. "The total number of Russian troops in South Ossetia is now up to 7,000." ... more Uranium shipment arrives safely in Russia: Slovenia 
Ljubljana (AFP) Oct 23, 2008Slovenia said Thursday that a large load of processed uranium from Hungary had arrived without incident in Russia after passing safely through Slovenian territory. "The shipment safely arrived on October 22 to its destination: the nuclear facility of Mayak, in Russia," the environment ministry said in a statement published on its website. Transportation of the waste -- which could be use ... more Russian minister says no oil pipeline to China in 2009: report 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 23, 2008A partially built Russian oil pipeline to Asia will not be connected to China in 2009, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing Russian Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko. "There is no way. It cannot be put into operation next year," Interfax quoted Shmatko as saying when asked if a spur would be built from the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline to the Chinese border in 2009 ... more Analysis: Estonian-Kazakh ties deepen 
Washington (UPI) Oct 23, 2008 In what Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin called "the greatest tragedy of the 20th century," the Soviet Union peaceably imploded in 1991. Now the 15 new nations that emerged from the wreckage are forming bilateral relationships, many of which have two points of commonality -- a desire to avoid undue Russian influence and a desire to avoid Russian energy. As a rough rule of thumb ... more |
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Vilnius (AFP) Oct 22, 2008The United States is updating its plans to defend Baltic allies against attack, its military chief said Wednesday, calling Russia's invasion of Georgia a "stark reminder" of NATO's responsibilities. Admiral Michael Mullen said the updated planning, coupled with more exercises, were needed to ensure NATO is prepared to stand behind its charter commitment to come to the defence of any member ... more Russia To Build Second Missile Frigate For Indian Navy By March 
Kaliningrad, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 23, 2008A Russian shipyard said on Thursday it would complete the construction of the second of three missile frigates for the Indian Navy by March 2009. The Yantar shipyard in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad said the second Project 11356 frigate was more than 50% complete. India and Russia signed a $1.6 billion contract for the construction of an additional three Project 11356 Krivak ... more Outside View: China's silent dominance 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 21, 2008 Chairman Mao Zedong can finally rest easy in his grave. His country has now become the dominant partner in the Sino-Russian relationship, a complete reversal of the past. Since the 1930s Mao had a tense relationship with the Russians, largely because of their view that China and the Chinese Communist Party were in a subordinate position to their Soviet counterparts. Although Soviet ... more French minister opposes Georgia, Ukraine entry to NATO 
Strasbourg (AFP) Oct 22, 2008France's minister for European affairs on Wednesday said he was opposed to Georgia and Ukraine entering the NATO military alliance for now because it would not benefit Europe. "I think that it is not the right time for membership for Georgia and Ukraine," Jean-Pierre Jouyet said on the sidelines of a European Parliament session. "It is not in the interests of Europe or its relations with ... more
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