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Putin Missile Shield Proposal Intensifies Tug-Of-War
Moscow (AFP) Jun 08, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin's offer to share a radar station in Azerbaijan with the United States for missile defence is aimed at wresting back the initiative in a strategic tug-of-war, analysts said Friday. Putin's proposal at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Germany on Thursday reflected a very different view of global security from Washington's and one that showed increasing wariness of ... more Black Belt Putin Wrongfoots Critics 
Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 10, 2007It was meant to be the summit where President Vladimir Putin took a drubbing, but in the end the Kremlin leader's critics were the ones counting their bruises. The Russian leader left the Group of Eight summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, leaving Western counterparts wondering how to handle his tough tactics. Putin was the centre of attention throughout the Group of Eight annual meeting. He r ... more India To Get Revamped Aircraft Carrier From Russia 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 11, 2007In early May, an Indian naval delegation headed by Vice Admiral Birinder Singh Randhawa, Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition at the Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defense (Navy), visited Severodvinsk, a major submarine construction centre in the Arkhangelsk Region, northern Russia. In spite of cold temperatures, piercing winds and snowfalls, the visit proved very fruitfu ... more For Wealthy North Climate Change Has Sunny Side 
Tromsoe, Norway (AFP) Jun 08, 2007Climate change is expected to have disastrous consequences for Earth but some areas will profit, notably wealthy nations in the northern parts of Europe, Russia and the US, scientists say. On Thursday the leaders of the Group of Eight club of wealthy nations agreed to pursue substantial cuts to greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming and said they would seriously consider halving emis ... more Russian Offer Of Joint Missile Base Startles US 
Heiligendamm, Germany (AFP) Jun 07, 2007President Vladimir Putin on Thursday offered to set up a joint Russian-US anti-missile base to end a crisis between the two countries as Group of Eight leaders agreed a face-saving compromise on climate change. Putin made the startling proposal for a joint base in Azerbaijan during talks with US President George W. Bush aimed at rescuing bilateral relations from a post-Cold War low. The tw ... more |
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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 In Praise Of Pessimism 
Washington (UPI) June 05, 2007Many of these columns have been critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Others have been critical of American President George W. Bush. Those who object to my criticism of Putin see me as a conservative, while those who dislike my criticism of Bush see me as a liberal. But I am neither a conservative nor a liberal. Instead, I am a pessimist -- at least insofar as international relations ar ... more |
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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 NGO Warns Of Explosion Risk At Russian Nuclear Storage 
Oslo (AFP) June 01, 2007A Russian nuclear waste storage facility on the Kola Peninsula runs the risk of exploding soon due to severe corrosion on three tanks, the Norwegian environmental organisation Bellona warned on Friday. "The risk of an uncontrolled chain reaction in the storage facility is imminent," Bellona, which works with nuclear contamination on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia, said in a statement. ... more
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