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Survivors recall panic on deadly Russian submarine
Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Nov 11, 2008Survivors recalled the terrifying seconds after toxic gas was accidentally pumped into their nuclear submarine in an accident in which 20 people were killed, Russian media reported Tuesday. The submarine was overcrowded, locked cabin doors had to be smashed down and some of the sleeping crew were too dazed to put on gas masks, they said, after the biggest Russian naval disaster since the ... more Russia's defence sector hit by financial crisis: govt official 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 11, 2008Russia's defence industry has been badly hit by the global financial crisis, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, a former defence minister, said Tuesday. "Many businesses in the defence industry are experiencing a serious shortage of working capital needed to ensure production and to deliver products to clients," Interfax news agency quoted Ivanov as saying at a meeting with defence ... more Russia will abandon missile plans if US cancels shield 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 11, 2008Russia will abandon plans to deploy missiles on the EU's doorstep in Kaliningrad if the US scraps its plans to base part of a missile defence shield in Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday. "We have said through the voice of our president that if the third zone of positioning of the US anti-missile shield is created, one of the measures to neutralise the threats to Russia's ... more The Iskander Threat To Europe: Bluff Or Real? 
Washington (UPI) Nov 11, 2008 Can Russia produce enough Iskander-M missiles to equip five battalions by 2015? Critics say it's a bluff. But don't bet against them. Russia is upping the ante on its threats to target the proposed new U.S. ballistic missile defense base in Poland to protect the Eastern Seaboard and Western Europe against the threat of Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. ... more Outside View: Obama should back KEI 
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Nov 11, 2008 U.S. Vice President-elect Joe Biden was wrong when he said, "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy." Well, it was more like six hours. The day after the election, as other world leaders were sending the U.S. president-elect congratulatory messages, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev apparently thought that a hostile theme was more ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Nov 11, 2008The crew selection for a simulated Mars mission moved a step closer to completion recently with ESA's last eight candidates being put through extensive medical screening in Moscow. Two of the European candidates will be chosen to join four Russian crew members on a 105-day study due to start in March next year. For 105 days, as part of a cooperative project between ESA's Directorate of ... more Kalashnikov turns 89, a 'happy man' for creating AK-47 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 10, 2008Legendary former Russian general Mikhail Kalashnikov, who celebrated his 89th birthday on Monday, said he was a "truly happy man" for having created the iconic assault rifle bearing his name. "I think I am a truly happy man. I created a weapon for the defence of my country and it continues to serve this cause and develop," Kalashnikov was quoted as saying by the Ria Novosti news agency. ... more Russian navy base mourns as deadly sub accident probed 
Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Nov 10, 2008Russian investigators on Monday probed a deadly gas poisoning on a nuclear submarine destined for India, as the first service was held to mourn the 20 people who died in the accident. Navy top brass and government officials gathered in Bolshoi Kamen, a shipyard where the submarine was assembled and sailed from, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of Russia's main Pacific naval base of ... more US And Russia Conduct Secret Research On New Nukes 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 10, 2008 There is a big difference between Russia and the United States in their nuclear testing policies. In 1996, Russia signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, ratifying it in 2000, while the United States rejected the CTBT and signed, ratified and has been observing only the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water. Legally ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Nov 9, 2008The loss of 20 people in the Russian military's latest submarine accident is a humiliating blow as the country tries to flex its military muscle on the world stage, analysts said on Sunday. The accident aboard the nuclear-powered attack submarine, in which victims were poisoned by a fire-fighting system, undermines the country's macho military stance and its increasingly ambitious defence in ... more Russian expert hints gas mask shortage raised submarine toll: report 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 9, 2008A Russian expert said Sunday that a lack of gas masks among too many untrained civilians may have elevated the death toll in a Sea of Japan nuclear submarine gas poisoning disaster, a news agency reported. Gennady Illaryonov, formerly a high-ranking naval captain and a specialist in maritime technology, told Ria Novosti that an over-reliance on automated procedures aboard the Nerpa potential ... more Rice, Lavrov hold direct talks on US-Russia relations 
Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt (AFP) Nov 8, 2008US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spent over an hour Saturday in direct talks covering the military superpowers' row over their respective missile defence plans. Rice and Lavrov spent about 80 minutes together at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, said spokesman Sean McCormack, where they are attending Middle East diplomatic Quartet talks with Israel and ... more Russian nuclear sub accident kills 20 
Vladivostok, Russia (AFP) Nov 9, 2008Twenty people died of gas poisoning and another 22 were injured in an accident on a Russian nuclear submarine in the Sea of Japan that revived memories of the Kursk submarine disaster in 2000. The submarine's nuclear reactor was not damaged and background radiation levels in the naval testing zone where the accident occurred were "normal," a naval spokesman said. "During sea trials of a ... more
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