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India Rejoices Over Moon Probe Landing
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 15, 2008India rejoiced Saturday over the landing of a lunar probe on the moon's surface that vaulted the country into the league of space-faring nations like the United States, Russia and Japan. The TV set-sized probe, painted in the green-white-and-orange colours of the Indian flag, made a "precise-to-the-second" landing on the lunar surface late Friday after being released from the unmanned moon-orbiter ... more Outside View: Euro-Russian relations thaw 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 13, 2008 The European Union has decided to end the diplomatic pause in relations with Moscow, which began after the Georgian-Russian conflict in August. The EU General Affairs and External Relations Council met in Brussels this week. The council, consisting of defense and foreign ministers of EU states, has decided to hold the EU-Russia summit in Nice, France, on Nov. 14 and to resume talks on a ... more Gadhafi Goes Shopping In Old Eastern Bloc 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 14, 2008 Russia is unlikely to get what it wants from Libya. Before Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi came to the Russian capital, Moscow, on a state visit last week, analysts thought he would sign military contracts worth between $2 billion and $4.5 billion with Russia. However, while the Kremlin staff was busy searching for a place to build a Bedouin tent for Gadhafi, the "son of the desert" ... more Tension With Russia Will Underline Obama Admin 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 13, 2008 A number of longstanding, minor but still contentious issues remain like anti-personnel mines planted on the path toward better relations between Russia and the United States under the incoming Obama administration. One such "mine" has been overshadowing Russian-American relations for more than 30 years. It is the notorious Jackson-Vanik Amendment. Few now remember that it was introduc ... more Russia Sells 12 Fighter Jets To Sudan; US Reacts Strongly 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 14, 2008Russia has sold 12 MiG-29 fighter jets to Sudan, Sudanese Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein said during a visit to Moscow on Friday, Russian news agencies reported. "Yes, it's all done. The planes have been bought," the defence minister was quoted as saying to reporters at a briefing in Moscow, in response to a question about a contract for the purchase of the 12 planes. ... more |
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Oxford, England (UPI) Nov 13, 2008 Four years ago, the Western media celebrated the victory of Viktor Yushchenko in the long-drawn-out Ukrainian presidential elections as the dawn of a new age of prosperity and democracy in the country. Western strategists saw the so-called Orange Revolution in Ukraine as confirming the trend of Georgia's Rose Revolution in 2003 for former Soviet republics to seek integration in Western ... more Swords and Shields: Arctic allies 
Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2008 The melting of the arctic ice cap has led to a growing concern in Russia that its armed forces and transportation services need to establish a far stronger presence in the region to prevent other nations winning the race to access and utilize the vast sources of oil, natural gas and precious minerals that will become available on the continental shelf beneath the Arctic Ocean. A Russian ... more Analysis: Russia's energy economic woes 
Washington (UPI) Nov 14, 2008 Several months ago Russia's finances seemed unassailable - record-high oil prices had brought an unprecedented amount of petrodollars to Moscow, and the state-owned Gazprom natural gas monopoly seemed well on its way to becoming a company with $1 trillion in capital. Then came the global recession, and the Kremlin is being buffeted by falling prices and demand. How the government of Pr ... more Kazakh Astronaut To Fly To ISS, Russian Hopeful Grounded 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 14, 2008A Kazakh national will fly to the International Space Station in October 2009, a spokesman for the Kazakh National Space Agency said on Thursday. Talgat Musabayev said the Kazakh cosmonaut would fly to the "Russian segment" of the ISS, adding however, that "the financial components of the flight" had yet to be discussed at a meeting of a Russian-Kazakh commission. He also expressed ... more |
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Tallinn (AFP) Nov 13, 2008US Defence Secretary Robert Gates on Thursday blasted Russia's threat to point missiles at western Europe as he met NATO counterparts to discuss Ukraine's membership prospects. Gates said that a threat by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, within hours of the US election triumph of Barack Obama, to place missiles near the border with Poland was "hardly the welcome a new American administration ... more Russia could ditch Kaliningrad missile plan, Medvedev tells paper 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 13, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told a French newspaper Thursday that Russia would drop plans to place missiles in Kaliningrad if the United States dropped its missile shield plans. "We are ready to negotiate a zero option," Medvedev said in an interview with French daily Le Figaro. "We are ready to abandon the decision to deploy missiles in Kaliningrad if the new US administration ... more China's Enemies Are All Around Part Two 
Hong Kong (UPI) Nov 13, 2008 China is concerned about the resurgence of extreme nationalism within Russia, which could lead to territorial demands on China. China is also constantly worried about NATO's eastward expansion. The existence of NATO forces in neighboring countries would undermine its border security. Against this background of regional tensions, improved relations across the Taiwan Strait are not ... more BMD Watch: Russia may talk to Obama on BMD 
Washington (UPI) Nov 13, 2008 Russian leaders are moving quickly to offer an olive branch to the incoming Obama administration in the hope that it will agree to scrap the planned ballistic missile defense base in Poland meant to protect the United States and Western Europe against the future threat of nuclear-armed Iranian intercontinental ballistic missiles. In a sign that the long diplomatic freeze on the BMD issues ... more
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