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Russian Arms Dealer Denies Plans To Sell Fighters To Syria And Iran
Le Bourget (RIA Novosti) Jun 19, 2007Russia's arms export monopoly dismissed on Tuesday reports that it plans to supply fighter jets to Syria and Iran. "Russia has no plans to deliver fighter jets to Syria and Iran," Rosoboronexport CEO Sergei Chemezov told journalists at Le Bourget air show near Paris. Chemezov said that if any such deal does come under discussion, the media will be informed. His remarks came in ... more The Russian Roadmap For The CFE Treaty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2007An emergency conference of the 30 signatories to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which met in Vienna on Russia's initiative, ended without adopting a statement because its participants failed to reach a compromise. Russia called for an emergency meeting in Vienna to try and speed up the ratification of the 1999 amended CFE treaty version by the U.S. and Europe. ... more First Russian Built Nuclear Power Reactor In China Goes Into Operation 
Beijing (AFP) June 19, 2007Russia's first nuclear reactor in China has finally gone into commercial operation after numerous delays and a second will begin production by year's end, Russian officials said Tuesday. "The Tianwan nuclear power plant is a very big Russian-Chinese project," Ivan Kamenskikh, vice head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency of Russia, told journalists via video phone from Moscow. "Our first ... more US Congress Approves Bill On Global Nuclear Fuel Bank 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jun 20, 2007The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill to establish an international nuclear fuel bank in a non-nuclear country in view of Iran's and North Korea's continuing atomic research. The bill follows Russia's initiative to form a global network of nuclear cycle centers as a way to maintain the non-proliferation regime and defuse international tensions over Iran's nuclear ambitions. ... more Russian Power Generation Needs Foreign Investment 
Moscow (SPX) Jun 20, 2007The rapid economic growth which began in Russia several years ago has led to an exponential rise in the demand for electricity. Some Russian regions, including Moscow and its suburbs, as well as regions in European Russia, the Urals and Western Siberia, are facing power shortages. Electricity demand is expected to grow in Russia by 5.2% in 2008 (10% in some regions). Funds, including foreign ... more |
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Baikonur, Kazakhstan (SPX) Jun 15, 2007The successful launch of the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X on Friday 15 June 2007 at 08:14 local time (04:14 CEST) from the Russian Cosmodrome in Baikonur (Kazakhstan) represents the start of a new level of quality in the mapping of Earth. Over the next five years, new and high-quality radar images of our planet's surface will be collected. "The aim of the five-year mission is to use radar ... more ILS Wins Arabsat-5A Contract To Launch On Proton Breeze M 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jun 18, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) announced today it has been selected to launch a satellite for Arabsat. ILS will launch the satellite, either Arabsat-5A or BADR-5, in the 2009-2010 timeframe on a Proton Breeze M vehicle from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ILS partner Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center builds the Proton in Russia. ... more North Korean Funds Transfer Delayed In Moscow Due To Technical Issues 
Tokyo (AFP) Jun 18, 2007Technical problems in Russia are holding up the transfer of North Korean funds linked to a nuclear disarmament deal, top US nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill said Saturday. Hill, currently in Mongolia, told reporters that the technical problems occurred as the funds were sent to a Russian bank, Japan's Kyodo News reported. However Hill said he believed that the problems would be ... more Former Cold War Foes Fail To Agree On Arms Treaty Review 
by Jean-Michel StoulligVienna (AFP) June 15, 2007 NATO member states and countries from the former Soviet bloc wrapped up Friday a four-day review of a key arms control pact without a final agreement. Both sides said however that they would maintain a dialogue. Anatoly Antonov, head of the Russian delegation, reflected growing tensions between Russia and the United States when he accused NATO countries of continuing ... more |
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Moscow (UPI) June 14, 2007Currently, 44 radiation sources from Russia are parked in the "burial orbit" of space. They are: two satellites with unseparated nuclear power units (Cosmos-1818 and Cosmos-1867), fuel assemblies and 12 closed-down reactors with a liquid metal coolant, 15 nuclear-fuel assemblies and 15 fuel-free units with a coolant in the secondary cooling loop. They are to spend no less than 300 to 400 passive ... more Russia Confirms Arrest Of Space Official For Spying In Austria 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 15, 2007A Russian national detained by Austrian police on allegations of spying is an employee of the Russian Space Agency, an agency's spokesman said Thursday. "We confirm that a [Russian] citizen arrested in Vienna is an employee of the Russian Federal Space Agency," Igor Panarin said. A popular Austrian daily, the Kurier, said Wednesday that police in the town of Gmunden in northern Austria had ... more US Says Nothing To Fear From New Nuclear Warheads As Shields Go Up 
Washington (AFP) June 14, 2007The United States Thursday defended plans to overhaul its sea-based nuclear arsenal with a new generation of warheads, arguing the program did not pose any extra threat to nations like Russia. The administration wants to replace much of its Cold War stockpile with a new "Reliable Replacement Warhead" (RRW) that it argues would be safer and cheaper to maintain over the coming decades. ... more Russian Utility Eyes 700-Million-Euro Kyoto Windfall 
Moscow (AFP) Jun 15, 2007Russia's electricity monopoly United Energy Systems hopes to attract investment worth 700 million euros under the Kyoto Protocol to combat global warming, CEO Anatoly Chubais said on Thursday. But he also issued a warning to consumers that they would have to foot the bill for technology needed to limit emissions within Russia, where electricity production has been booming. "Our aim is to ... more
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