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Gates calls for modernization of US nuclear arsenal
Washington (AFP) Oct 28, 2008US Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Tuesday for the modernization of the US nuclear arsenal to strengthen deterrence at a time when Russia and China are upgrading their nuclear weapons. "Currently, the United States is the only declared nuclear power that is neither modernizing its nuclear arsenal nor has the capability to produce a new nuclear weapon," he said in a speech to the ... more Russia's Medvedev says US arms sanctions 'short-sighted' 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 28, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday slammed as "short-sighted" US sanctions on Russia's main arms firm over the alleged sale of sensitive military technologies to Iran. Rosoboronexport was one of 13 firms place on a US State Department's black list last week under the Iran, North Korea and Syria Non-Proliferation Act. "It is unfair competition, simply an attempt to cut off ... more Russia's New Nuclear Attack Submarine Starts Sea Trials 
Vladivostok, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 29, 2008The Amur shipyard in Russia's Far East said on Monday it had started sea trials of a newly built nuclear-powered attack submarine, which according to media reports may be leased to India. The construction of the Akula II class Nerpa nuclear attack submarine started in 1991 but has been suspended for over a decade due to lack of funding. Akula II class vessels are considered the quietest ... more Russia, China sign landmark oil pipeline deal 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 28, 2008Russia and China on Tuesday signed a long-awaited deal to build an oil pipeline from Siberia to China after talks between Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. The leaders watched as Chinese state energy major CNPC and Russian state pipeline monopoly Transneft signed the deal to build the pipeline from the Siberian town of Skovorodino to the Chinese border. ... more US space tourist remembers 'a beautiful ballet' 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 27, 2008US video game guru Richard Garriott, who completed a 30-million dollar trip to the International Space Station this month, said Monday that his flight to space was like "a beautiful ballet." "The launch of the Soyuz TMA-13 was like a beautiful ballet. Strong and confident but elegant," said Garriott, speaking alongside two Russian cosmonauts at the Star City space training camp near Moscow. ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) Oct 24, 2008 The Russian builder of the Soyuz spacecraft said construction of new spacecraft may be halted by a lack of funding. "If they do not give us either advances or credit in the next two or three weeks, as we foresaw in the federal program, we will probably be unable to be responsible for the preparation of the Soyuz," Vitaly Lapota, president and chief designer of Energy Corp., told radio ... more 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 |
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Moscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2008A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying US millionaire video game guru Richard Garriott, the world's sixth space tourist, and two Russian cosmonauts, landed in Kazakhstan as scheduled, the Russian mission control center said early Friday. "The team reported that they felt fine," the mission control's spokesman Valery Lyndin told AFP, adding that a helicopter accompanied the capsule as it landed. ... more Outside View: Russia's new army structure 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 23, 2008 The Russian army is changing. In addition to troop-size reduction, yet another reform is aimed at fundamentally changing personnel composition and structure, especially within the ground forces. Until now, despite all recent reforms and cutbacks, the Russian armed forces largely remained a scaled-down version of the Soviet army, which was supposed to lead a full-scale war preceded by a ... more Georgia says Russia massing troops in South Ossetia 
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
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