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Putin Is Not Joking On Missiles Cautions Ukrainian President
Montreal (AFP) June 12, 2007Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said in an interview he took seriously Russian President Vladimir Putin's recent threat to point missiles at Europe. "I think the President of Russia is not kidding," Yushchenko said in an interview published Tuesday by The Globe and Mail. He was referring to Putin's threat to aim Russia's missiles at European cities if elements of a US missile shield were ... more US And Russia Hail Pakistani Move To Combat Nuclear Terror 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2007The United States welcomed Monday Pakistan's decision to join a global program led by Washington and Moscow to combat nuclear terrorism. Islambad on Saturday announced its intention to join the the "Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism" although its participation would reportedly not cover the country's military nuclear program and installations. About 50 countries are involved in ... more S-400 System Deployment Postponed Says Russian 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 13, 2007S-400 missile defense systems (NATO codename SA-21 Growler) will be deployed later that previously expected, the commander of Russia's Air Force said Tuesday. "The deployment of the new S-400 missile defense system is postponed due to objective reasons," Colonel-General Alexander Zelin said, without mentioning the exact reasons. He added that S-400 will certainly be deployed in summer. ... more WEU Takes Stand For BMD 
Washington (UPI) June 12, 2007Moves by European nations to develop their own ballistic missile defense systems took a significant step forward last week when the Assembly of the Western European Union, meeting in Paris, called for "the development of an 'anti-missile concept.'" The WEU said the new program should be "driven by European interests" and that it should be "inter-operable with the United States Ballistic Missile ... more ESA Satellite Guides Polar Explorers Across Disintegrating Sea Ice 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 13, 2007Two Belgian explorers currently nearing the end of a staggering 2 000 km trek across the Arctic Ocean were recently guided through hazardous conditions using observations from Envisat, as sea ice in the Lincoln Sea began to break up unexpectedly. Throughout the Arctic Arc expedition, which marks the International Polar Year, Alan Hubert and Dixie Dansercoer have been collecting snow-depth data f ... more |
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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 |
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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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