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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007One of the main sensations of the G8 summit in Heiligendamm was President Vladimir Putin's surprise proposal to his American colleague George W. Bush to exchange the radar in the Czech Republic for the Russia-rented radar system in Azerbaijan. Competent people know that this idea had been discussed prior to the summit and was only presented in Heiligendamm - no more than that. Putin knew w ... more Detente Over Fear Of Iran 
Berlin (UPI) June 13, 2007While a joint U.S.-Russian missile defense system operated from a radar station in Azerbaijan may not make much sense, Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal established one fact: Iran is seen by both powers as a serious threat -- an assessment that could help the West in convincing Moscow to agree to harsher economic sanctions. Putin's proposal at the Group of Eight summit to operate ... more Rosneft To Invest A Billion Dollars ln New Fleet To Tap Far East Shelf Oil Deposits 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 14, 2007Russian state-controlled oil giant Rosneft plans to spend $1.2 billion on the construction of ships to develop oil fields off Russia's Far East coast, the company's CEO said Wednesday. Addressing a conference on prospects for maritime operations, Sergei Bogdanchikov said Rosneft currently needed to build 27 vessels for the development of shelf deposits. Three of the ships are already under const ... more Defence Treaty Guarantees Security In Post-Cold War Europe 
Vienna (AFP) June 12, 2007The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, which is being reviewed this week in Vienna at Russia's request, is one of the key post-Cold War security accords in Europe. The CFE was signed on November 19, 1990 in Paris by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact -- two opposing blocs during the Cold War -- and was modified in 1999 to adapt it to the European security ... more 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 |
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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 Who Cyber Smacked Estonia 
Washington (UPI) June 11, 2007The recent cyber attacks on Estonian government networks were likely carried out by politically motivated hacker gangs, not Russian security agencies as some early reports suggested, according to assessments conducted by the U.S. government and the private sector. The attacks were crude so-called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, utilizing global networks, or botnets, of com ... more Russia Agrees To Help End North Korea Banking Row 
Washington (AFP) June 11, 2007Russia has agreed to help the United States break the impasse over a long-running banking dispute blocking North Korea's nuclear disarmament, the US Treasury said Monday. Moscow reportedly granted a US request for a private Russian bank to accept purportedly illicit North Korean funds currently frozen in Macau's Banco Delta Asia (BDA) before they are moved to Pyongyang. "The United States ... more Azerbaijani Radar A Looming Presence For Nervous Inhabitants
Gabala, Azerbaijan (AFP) Jun 08, 2007For the people who live in its shadow, the towering Gabala radar station in Azerbaijan is more than just a bargaining chip in US-Russian wrangles over missile defence. A product of the Cold War, the station was originally used to monitor US military activity around the Indian Ocean and continues to be operated by Russia. On Thursday it was thrust into the spotlight when Russian President V ... more |
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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 Space Station Holed By Meteorite, Crew Complete EVA To Install Debris Shields 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 06, 2007A micro-meteorite has left a bullet-sized hole in a module of the International Space Station (ISS), but the three-person US-Russian team of astronauts inside are not in danger, a Russian official said Wednesday. The puncture, in an outer pumping component on the module, was detected in the Russia "Zaria" module of the station during a spacewalk by the two Russian cosmonauts on board, the spokesman said ... more 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
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