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Russia And Azerbaijan Confirm Readiness To Host US Anti-Missile System
Moscow (AFP) June 20, 2007The defence chiefs of Russia and Azerbaijan confirmed Wednesday their countries' readiness to host part of a US missile defence system at a Russian-leased radar station in Azerbaijan, Interfax news agency reported. Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov said during talks with his Azeri counterpart Safar Abiyev that Russia is "ready for the joint use of the Gabala radar station either on a ... more Russia Tells US That Iran Poses No Missile Threat 
Tehran (AFP) June 20, 2007Russia on Wednesday bluntly told the United States it saw no threat from Iran's ballistic missiles and was perplexed how Washington could use this to justify a planned US defence system in Europe. "We do not see any kind of threat from Iran," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters after a meeting in Tehran of foreign ministers from Caspian Sea states. "Thus, we do not ... more 2006 Bumper Year For Satellite Launcher Arianespace 
Le Bourget (AFP) France, June 19, 2007The European satellite launcher Arianespace on Tuesday said 2006 was a bumper year, leaving it with the biggest backlog of orders in an increasingly competitive industry. "In 2006, Arianespace successfully launched five Ariane 5 ECAs, placing 10 communications satellites and one technology experiment into geostationary transfer orbit," it said. As part of a cooperation program with Russia, ... more 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 |
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New Delhi (AFP) June 19, 2007India has completed negotiations over an order for 126 fighter jets that could cost up to nine billion dollars, Defence Minister A.K. Antony said Monday. But the minister did not say which of the Russian, US and European rivals were best placed to win what arms industry sources have described as the world's biggest fighter plane contract in 15 years. According to industry sources, the ... more Frozen North Korean Funds Touch Down In Moscow 
Moscow (AFP) June 18, 2007North Korea's ambassador to Moscow said Monday that funds at the centre of a banking dispute aggravating tensions around the country's nuclear programme had been successfully transferred to Russia. The comments came after Russia agreed to help with the transfer to North Korea of the funds, which were frozen at Macau's Banco Delta Asia (BDA) in 2005 under US sanctions. "The funds from the ... more SES Signs For Five ILS Protons Through 2013 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 18, 2007International Launch Services (ILS) and SES Satellite Leasing announced a contract today that calls for the launch of five SES satellites on Proton Breeze M vehicles through 2013. Financial details were not disclosed. With five firm orders, this is the largest single Proton launch services contract. The Proton vehicle, built by ILS partner Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, is Russia's premier heavy-lift launcher. ... more German Radar Satellite TerraSAR-X Launched 
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 |
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Washington (UPI) June 15, 2007In order to prevent the United States from establishing a ballistic missile defense system aimed at Iran in Poland and the Czech Republic -- which Moscow sees as actually directed against Russia -- Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed at the recent Group of Eight summit that the United States and Russia set up such a system together in Azerbaijan. How will this gambit play out? ... more Russia Needs 92 Billion Dollars To Develop Eastern Gas Deposits By 2030 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 18, 2007A program to develop gas deposits in East Siberia and the Far East will require 2,400 billion rubles (about $92 billion) in investment by 2030, an official of Russia's industry and energy ministry said Friday. At its meeting June 15, the government commission for the fuel and energy complex discussed a program to create a single system of gas production, transportation, and supply in East ... more Russia Steps Up Efforts To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emission 
Moscow (AFP) June 16, 2007Russia is to intensify efforts to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in order to stay in compliance with the Kyoto treaty as its economy rebounds from the economic collapse of the early 1990s, the country's deputy economic development minister said. The 1990s dramatic drop in economic production made Russia's Kyoto targets more achievable, but Moscow hopes to begin to improve remaining ... more The Space Junk Threat Complexity Part 2 
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
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