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US to watch Russian-Venezuelan maneuvers 'very closely'
Washington (AFP) Nov 24, 2008The US State Department said Monday it will watch "very closely" upcoming Russian-Venezuelan naval maneuvers but dismissed any notion they were a challenge to US influence in the region. In Moscow, the Russian navy said a group of Russian warships is due to arrive in Venezuela on Tuesday, ahead of joint exercises with the Venezuelan navy and a visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. ... more Swords and Shields: Arctic strategies 
Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 The resumption of Cold War-style patrols and increased naval presence in the Arctic Ocean by the Russian navy and air force is in keeping with the Russian Federation's more forward posture of recent years. The new policy and stepped-up deployment of aircraft and warships in the Arctic Ocean region is also intended to increase the Kremlin's leverage vis-a-vis territorial claims in the ... more Russian sailor charged over deadly sub accident 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 24, 2008A Russian sailor has been formally charged with causing death by negligence after the accident in which 20 people were gassed to death on a nuclear submarine, officials said on Monday. "The charges were pronounced in terms of article 109" of Russia's penal code, said the chief of the prosecutors' investigating commission Alexander Bastrykin. It provides for up to five years in prison for an ... more Russian president sees Obama flexible on missile defense 
Lima (AFP) Nov 23, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday he believed US president-elect Barack Obama could change Washington's position over a hotly contested plan for a US missile defense shield in Eastern Europe. Asked if he saw a chance of a shift on the issue under Obama, Medvedev told reporters: "I think there are chances, because if the position of the current administration on this question ... more Russian Iskander Missiles Ready To Roll 
Washington (UPI) Nov 24, 2008 The Russian armed forces are prepared to deploy their short-range Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad province to target the proposed U.S. ballistic missile defense base to be built in Poland, right now, or whenever needed, Russia's top general warned Wednesday. "As soon as the final decision is made by our supreme commander-in-chief, these missile systems will be deployed, wherever it ... more |
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Brasilia (AFP) Nov 24, 2008Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was to arrive in Brazil on Tuesday on the latest leg of a Latin American tour seeking to assert Moscow's global power and wave a defiant message at Washington. During the two-day visit, his first to the South American country, Medvedev will meet privately with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to discuss a bilateral trade agenda that includes ... more Outside View: Energy crux of EU-Russia 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 The 22nd EU-Russia summit, held in Nice, France, on Nov. 14, was largely symbolic, because its outcome was expected and predetermined long before the meeting. During the previous summit in the western Siberian city of Khanty-Mansiysk last June, Russia and the European Union agreed to start talks on a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. But in early September the EU suspended the ... more First European To Become ISS Commander And Next European Long-Term Flight 
Paris, France (SPX) Nov 24, 2008ESA astronaut Frank De Winne is set to become the first European Commander of the International Space Station. De Winne,from Belgium,will fly to the Station in a Soyuz spacecraft in May 2009 with Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and Canadian Space Agency astronaut Robert Thirsk,which will bring the total number of crew on the ISS up to six for the first time. For the first four months De ... more Russia To Put 3 Glonass Satellites Into Orbit December 25 
Moscow, November 20 (RIA Novosti)Russia will put into orbit three Glonass navigation satellites on December 25 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said on Thursday. "The first of three Glonass navigation satellites has been delivered to the space center by an Il-76 plane. The second and third satellites will arrive at Baikonur in 10 days," a Roscosmos spokesman told RIA Novosti. Glona ... more |
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Lima (AFP) Nov 23, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev on Sunday pledged closer cooperation to face the world financial crisis, a Chinese spokesman said. "Both leaders agreed the world political and economic situation is experiencing great change and that the two sides must strengthen cooperation to face the current economic troubles," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu ... more Lavrov, Rice discuss missile defence: Moscow 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 23, 2008Russia's foreign minister said Sunday he had a "constructive" meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on topics including missile defence, arms control and Somali piracy. Rice pledged to "try to consider Russian concerns" on missile defence in the meeting Saturday on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Peru, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments posted on the ... more More funding failing to curb AIDS epidemic in Russia: official 
Moscow (AFP) Nov 21, 2008Greater investment in combatting AIDS is failing to slow its spread in Russia, the director of the Russian federal AIDS centre Vadim Pokrovsky said Friday. "The AIDS epidemic is currently rising in our country," Pokrovsky told a press conference in Moscow. "We have a large amount of funding that is going to increase still further -- but the number of HIV-positive people is growing faster ... more Russia eyes Cuba investments ahead of Medvedev trip
Havana (AFP) Nov 22, 2008Russia announced Saturday it is negotiating major investments in Cuba's oil and nickel industries, just days ahead of an official visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Russian ambassador Mikhail Kamynin told the weekly Opciones there were deals under consideration with specific Russian firms to search for oil offshore in Cuba's exclusive economic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. ... more
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