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Russia Plans Totally Effective Response To US Missile Plan
Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 06, 2007Russia plans a "totally effective" response to any deployment of a US anti-missile system, but will not necessarily aim weapons at European cities, the Kremlin spokesman said Wednesday. "It will be totally effective from the point of view of ensuring our security," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters at the Group of Eight summit in Germany. The targeting of Europe, referred to ... more A Coalition Of Rogues Could Dent The Shield 
Washington (UPI) June 06, 2007If U.S. President George W. Bush follows through with his controversial plan to set up a defensive missile shield in two former Warsaw Pact countries, years from now historians will be asking which came first: the missile shield to protect Western allies from rogue states, or a coalition of rogue states assembled by Russia to counter the missile shield proposed by the United States? ... more Putin Missile Threats Seen As Rational By Some As Putin Confronts G8 Critics 
Moscow (AFP) June 06, 2007President Vladimir Putin's threat to aim missiles at Europe was a rational Russian response to US missile defence plans and other deployments that call Washington's stated intentions into question, analysts say. His recent rhetorical offensive also marks a "line in the sand" to halt what Moscow sees as a pattern of thwarted expectations and broken promises by the United States since the 1991 ... more Russia To Redirect Billions In Major Nanotechnology Push 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 06, 2007Russia is budgeting billions of dollars to spend on nanotechnologies in a bid to catch up with the West, but development of the sector is still held back by a wary business community, experts say. Lawmakers on Monday put forward a draft law to create Rosnanotekh, a state nanotechnology corporation with a budget of five billion dollars (3.7 billion euros) that will inject funds into Russia's long ... more Cosmonauts To Install More Debris Panels On Wednesday Spacewalk 
Houston TX (SPX) Jun 06, 2007Two International Space Station cosmonauts will begin a spacewalk of a little over five hours from the Pirs docking compartment airlock about 10:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday. They will install a section of Ethernet cable on the Zarya module, install additional Service Module Debris Protection (SMDP) panels on Zvezda, and deploy a Russian scientific experiment. Five SMDP panels were installed by ... more |
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Washington (UPI) June 04, 2007This week's Group of Eight summit in Germany may be the last, or almost the last of its kind. When this process began in the mid-1970s, the five founding members of the United States, Japan, Germany, France and Britain were without question the world's richest and most important industrial democracies. Italy and Canada were then brought into the process to make it the G7, and Russia in the ... more Bush Seeks To Soothe Russia And China Over Missile Tensions 
Washington (AFP) June 01, 2007US President George W. Bush reached out to Russia Friday to soothe concerns over a planned US missile defense program that has cranked tension between the allies and fears of a Cold War-style arms race. "The Cold War is over. We're now into the 21st century, where we need to deal with the true threats, which are threats of radical extremists ... and the threats of proliferation," Bush said in an ... more Russia May Redeploy Missiles In Europe Warns Putin 
Rome (AFP) June 03, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin has again blasted a planned US missile shield in Europe and warned that Moscow could redeploy missiles aimed at targets on the continent. "If the US nuclear potential extends across the European territory, we will have to get new targets in Europe," Putin said in an interview to newspapers from the Group of Eight most industrialised nations. The interview w ... more A Whale Of A Problem For Japan At Home And Abroad 
Anchorage (AFP) June 01, 2007The International Whaling Commission (IWC), the world's only regulator of whale hunting, risks collapse as Japan threatens to quit the 77-nation group, raising fears of a free-for-all slaying of the majestic creatures. Following stormy annual IWC talks this week, Japan said it was seriously considering setting up a breakaway group after failing in its two-decade crusade to lift a moratorium on c ... more |
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Prague (AFP) May 31, 2007Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek Thursday described his country's participation in a US anti-missile shield as "a question of national courage". "It is a question of national courage and of responsability towards our allies' defence," he said during a conference organised by the Czech foreign ministry. Regarding Moscow's repeated warnings over the deployment of a tracking radar in the ... more Russian Space Forces Set To Receive New Missiles 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 01, 2007Russian will soon put into service the new missiles that were test-fired earlier this week, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov pledged Thursday. "The tests were successful and that means that Russia's army will very shortly get the Iskander complex already equipped with a high-precision missile which can be used for surgical long-range strikes," Ivanov said as quoted by the Interfax news agency. ... more Putin Says No Link Between Energy And Foreign Policy 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 31, 2007Russia's president said Thursday his country did not link its energy policy with political cooperation with its partners. Vladimir Putin told a news conference following talks with his Greek counterpart, Karolos Papoulias, "Our position is open, absolutely transparent and market-based for all our partners, regardless of current political relations." "In our economic relations, we intend to ... more Russia Launches Four Satellites Into Orbit For Globalstar 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 30, 2007Russia has successfully launched four U.S. Globalstar satellites into orbit on board a Soyuz-FG carrier rocket from a space center in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said Wednesday. The rocket lifted off from the Baikonur space center at 00.31 a.m. Moscow time (8.31 p.m. GMT Tuesday) and put the satellites into transitional orbit. "The separation of satellites from the Fregat booster ... more
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