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Outside View: Drop Bulava, back Sineva
Moscow (UPI) Nov 26, 2008 The Russian military plans to resume tests of the Bulava missile at the end of this year, a navy headquarters officer said. The new submarine-launched ballistic missile is expected to enter service in 2009 along with the new submarine designed to carry this missile, the Borei-class Project 955 nuclear-powered undersea cruiser Yury Dolgoruky. It is nevertheless clear that the ... more Analysis: Berlin a Russian mafia hub 
Berlin (UPI) Nov 26, 2008 Berlin has become a European hub for the Russian mafia, according to security experts in the German capital. If you own a BMW X5 or a Porsche Cayenne, you shouldn't park it in the streets of Berlin too often, because these fancy SUVs top the list from which the Russian mafia is "shopping" in Germany's capital. The criminals cruise the rich neighborhoods until they find their car of ... more Analysis: Russia jockeying for Cuban oil 
Miami (UPI) Nov 26, 2008 Russian oil companies are expressing an interest in tapping Cuba's offshore oil potential ahead of an official state visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Moscow's top diplomat in Cuba earlier this week said Russian petroleum firms have designs on drilling in waters in the Gulf of Mexico off Cuba's northern shores, an area Cuban energy experts say contains an estimated 20 billion ... more Russian warships cruise into US back yard to make power point 
La Guaira, Venezuela (AFP) Nov 25, 2008Russian warships arrived in Venezuela Tuesday, for the first time in regional waters since the Cold War, ahead of a two-day visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It was a major symbolic show of military and diplomatic force as Russia moves to underscore its international heft amid intense frustration with Washington over a European-based missile shield and over the war in Georgia. Oil- ... more Far from home, Medvedev finds China a looming presence 
Lima (AFP) Nov 25, 2008As President Dmitry Medvedev takes Russian assertiveness to Washington's doorstep on a tour of Latin America, analysts point out an uncomfortable truth: China is stealing the show. The 43-year-old leader was relentlessly upbeat as he met other heads of state at a weekend forum of Asia-Pacific leaders in Peru, exhorting Russian journalists following his punishing itinerary: "For those that ... more |
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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 |
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Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2008 When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Western energy companies saw an opportunity to exploit one of the world's last important hydrocarbon frontiers -- the Caspian. Among the new nations ringing its shore were Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan; while the former devolved into a hermitic nation ruled by a "cult of personality," Kazakhstan eagerly embraced Western capitalism and last year produced ... more Russian president in Brazil to discuss defense, energy ties 
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
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