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Russian Government Drafts Rescue Plan For Defense Industry
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 10, 2008The Russian government has drafted a rescue package of 150 billion rubles ($5.4 billion) for the country's defense and industrial complex amid the ongoing global financial crisis. According to Vedomosti, state-run hi-tech corporation Rostekhnologii and the United Aircraft Corporation are the main candidates for the government aid, with state companies receiving the funds through a rescue ... more OECD says Israel is first Middle Eastern state to sign anti-bribery pact 
Paris (AFP) Dec 9, 2008The OECD said Tuesday that Israel had become the first Middle Eastern state to join its anti-bribery convention, a move it described as "an important step in (Israel's) accession to OECD membership." Israel is one of five countries, along with Chile, Estonia, Russia and Slovenia, that in December 2007 were invited to join the OECD, a 30-member body that seeks to coordinate economic policies ... more Defense Focus: Panama mission Part One 
Washington (UPI) Dec 8, 2008 The Russian navy tweaked the American Eagle's tail feathers Friday: For the first time since World War II, a Russian warship sailed through the Panama Canal. The extent of the event should not be exaggerated. The anti-submarine warfare Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Chabanenko is certainly not a capital ship. But its transit of the canal, which the United States built and has effectively ... more Ciel Satellite Group Spacecraft Ready For Launch 
Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Dec 09, 2008The Ciel Satellite Group has announced that the launch of Ciel II is on schedule for Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 13:43 (GMT) aboard the International Launch Services' Proton M and Breeze M rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Built by Thales Alenia Space, the Canadian BSS geosynchronous satellite will be operated by Ciel at 129 degrees West and deliver services throughout North America. ... more India, Russia sign nuclear energy, space deals 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Russia on Friday signed landmark accords with its traditional ally India on issues ranging from nuclear energy to space, as President Dmitry Medvedev met Indian leaders in a bid to bolster ties. The accords covered the building of four new nuclear energy reactors in Kudankulam in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, as well as a cooperation accord on manned space flight. Russia becomes the ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 08, 2008The Progress M-65 cargo spacecraft, which undocked from the International Space Station on September 17 and served as a temporary space lab, has been "buried" in the Pacific Ocean, Russia's Mission Control said Sunday. "The cargo spacecraft's remaining fragments fell into the ocean after re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere is 11:49 a.m. Moscow time [8:49 GMT] on Sunday," Mission Control ... more ESA Presents European Participants In Mars500 Isolation Study 
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 08, 2008March 2009 will see two European participants entering a set of modules at the Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP) in Moscow. Together with four Russian participants, they will be sealed inside these isolation chambers for 105 days. This joint ESA IBMP campaign is a preparatory study leading up to the 520-day isolation study in the form of a full-fledged simulation of a mission to Mars ... more First Russian warship uses Panama Canal since 1944
Panama City, Panama (AFP) Dec 6, 2008A Russian warship on Saturday used the Panama Canal for the first time since World War II, after taking part in joint Russian-Venezuelan maneuvers reflecting Moscow's growing military presence in the region. The anti-submarine ship "Admiral Chabanenko" entered the canal at the Caribbean port city of Colon late Friday, and docked at the former US naval base of Rodman in Panama's capital on ... more India's Singh hails ally Russia as nuclear, space deals signed 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 5, 2008Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh hailed a landmark nuclear deal signed with Russia on Friday as a "milestone in the history of our cooperation" after meeting here with President Dmitry Medvedev. The allies also finalised an accord that could see New Delhi send a man and eventually its own manned craft into space, with the Indian premier describing ties with Moscow as a "vital anchor of ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Dec 5, 2008The OECD warned on Friday that emerging market powerhouses China, India and Russia faced a sharp fall in economic momentum in the near term, with prospects also weakening in leading industrialised countries. The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development said its October composite index of economic indicators points "to a weakening outlook for all major seven economies but compared ... more Analysis: Gazprom enters Brazil 
Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2008 One of the foreign policy batons that the Bush administration is seeking to pass to the Obama government next month is its persistent warnings to the European Union about the perils of becoming overly dependent on Russian energy imports. Washington might pay less attention to lecturing Brussels and more to events south of the border. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, making his ... more A Station Celebration 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 05, 2008Ten years ago on December 4, 2008, NASA and its partner nations began building a dream: the International Space Station. On that date, space shuttle Endeavour lifted off on its 12-day mission to deliver NASA's Unity module and connect it to Russia's Zarya control module already orbiting Earth. The commander of that first space shuttle construction flight to the station was astronaut Bob ... more Russia arms exports to hit record 8 bln dollars in 2008: report 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 4, 2008Russian arms exports are set to soar to a record eight billion dollars (six billion euros) by the end of 2008, a senior defence official said Thursday. Vyacheslav Dzirkaln, deputy director of the Federal Service for Military and Technical Cooperation, told the Itar-Tass news agency that a defence deal between Moscow and Saudi Arabia last July made a significant contribution to the record ... more
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