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Russia Retooling For Military Modernization
Moscow (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 There are many examples of failure to fulfill Russia's annual state defense order: Delivery of Sukhoi Su-34 aircraft and Mil Mi-28N helicopters is well behind schedule, the missile-carrying submarine Yury Dolgoruky is certain not to be launched in 2008, and the second submarine in the series is unlikely to hit the water in 2009, as scheduled, either. At the same time, there is some good ... more Russian navy to hold exercises in Mediterranean: report 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 30, 2008Russian warships from the Arctic Ocean and the Black Sea will take part in exercises in the Mediterranean, the RIA Novosti state news agency reported Thursday, citing a Russian navy source. "In the Mediterranean Sea, an attack group of the Northern Fleet will meet an attack group of the Black Sea Fleet led by the guided missile cruiser Moskva," the source in navy headquarters was quoted as ... more Russia Conducts CIS Wide Integrated Air Defense Exercise 
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 Russia continues to step up the alertness and combat readiness of its prime domestic anti-aircraft and ballistic missile defense systems in cooperation with its close allies. The Russian-dominated Commonwealth of Independent States last week announced the successful completion of a joint command-and-staff air defense exercise as part of the integrated air defense network ... more Outside View: Russia-China oil for loans 
Moscow (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 China's Premier Wen Jiabao, visiting Moscow Tuesday, signed an agreement calling for the construction of an oil pipeline to China as part of the prospective Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline. The agreement is expected to be followed by a contract for oil supplies to China for many years to come, against which Russian oil companies will be loaned between $20 billion and $25 billion. ... more Analysis: Turkey and Iran's energy ties 
Washington (UPI) Oct 30, 2008 The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 opened rich new vistas for Western oil companies, which suddenly saw the possibilities of participating in the development of Caspian energy reserves in the three new former Soviet republics there -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. Western efforts have been mixed, but amid the flood of articles on the new energy frontier, relatively little has ... more |
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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 Keeping The Tu-95 Operational In The 21st Century 
Washington (UPI) Oct 27, 2008 Who could have imagined, when the Soviet Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bomber first flew in 1951, that it would be one of the center pieces of Russia's nuclear war forces in the first decade of the 21st century, 57 years later? For the Tu-95MS (NATO designation Bear) was one of two centerpiece strategic bombers, along with the spectacular supersonic Tupolev Tu-160 White Swan ... more |
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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
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