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Russian Authorities Promise Prosperity By 2020
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2007The Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade spent nearly a year working on President Vladimir Putin's instructions to elaborate a socioeconomic development strategy for the period until 2020. According to the press, the strategy is ready and has been forwarded to the government. It includes three development scenarios: the inertial scenario (which is the least desirable, as it involve ... more Gazprom Takes Over Another Gas Deposit 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2007The Russian government is making efforts to regain control of its energy resources. Last week, BP's Russian subsidiary, TNK-BP, sold the rich Kovykta gas deposit in the Irkutsk Region in Eastern Siberia, one of the largest in the world, to Russia's Gazprom. Foreign investors are taking the news with reserved optimism, because the Kovykta license could have been revoked without any compensation a ... more Austria Releases Russian Space Agency Official 
Vienna (RIA Novosti) Jun 21, 2007Austrian authorities have released a Russian space agency official arrested on espionage charges last week and he will be soon handed over to Russian diplomats, Russia's Embassy in Vienna said Thursday. A 51-year-old Russian Federal Space Agency official was arrested June 11 in northern Austria on suspicion of espionage, and an Austrian Air Force officer was arrested on suspicion of supplying th ... more YES2 Given Green Light For Launch 
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 26, 2007Paris, France (ESA) Jun 26, 2007 After 5 years of design and development work and preparation of the flight model, the second Young Engineers Satellite (YES2) experiment has passed its Final Acceptance Review and been given the green light by ESA for launch in September. Following four and a half months of assembly, integration and testing at ESTEC, the groundbreaking student experiment was shi ... more Russia Can Claim Lots More Of The Arctic 
Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 26, 2007Russia can claim an additional 1.2 million square kilometers (0.46 million square miles) outside its economic zone in the Arctic, an area with expected hydrocarbon reserves of about 10 billion tons of fuel equivalent, the director of the Institute of Oceanology at the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday. "I am talking about Russia being able to claim territory outside its economic zone," Val ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 26, 2007On June 20, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree ordering the country's two largest tanker companies to be reorganized into a single corporation. The objects of the merger are 100% state-owned Sovkomflot in St. Petersburg, the country's largest tanker company by capacity, and Novoship, the second largest, in which the government owns an 87.4% stake, in Novorossiisk on the Black Sea c ... more Strekalov To Become Acting Energia President 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 25, 2007The first vice president of Russian space corporation Energia, Alexander Strekalov, will fulfill the duties of the corporation's president, who has been suspended, the board chairman said Friday. The decision was made by the board of directors of state-controlled Energia, which designs Soyuz piloted spaceships and Progress carrier rockets, launches communications satellites, and operates the ... more Euro-BMD Bad For US 
Washington (UPI) Jun 22, 2007The Bush administration has announced its intention to build a national missile defense complex in Europe to supplement current deployments of the system's components, including interceptor sites in Alaska and California. This decision is premature, misguided, wasteful of billions of dollars and damaging to U.S. relationships with our European allies and Russia. National missile defense, n ... more Singapore Sees Myanmar Nuclear Program As Unlikely 
Singapore (AFP) Jun 24, 2007Myanmar is unlikely to develop a nuclear programme as the military-run country already has enough domestic problems to overcome, Singapore's Foreign Minister George Yeo said Sunday. "I can't believe that a nuclear programme is high up on their list of priorities... They have enough problems of their own," Yeo said in response to a question at the World Economic Forum on East Asia. Russia a ... more |
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New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Jun 22, 2007India's Army put the BrahMos joint Russian-Indian supersonic cruise missile into service Thursday at an official ceremony in the capital. The missile has been developed as a joint venture between India's Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) and Russia's Mashinostroyenia research-and-production center. "BrahMos is the best example of Russian-Indian cooperation," said India's ... more US Ready To Work On New Treaty To Replace START Treaty 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Jun 21, 2007The United States is ready to work together with Russia on a new nuclear security regime to replace the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expiring in 2009, an assistant secretary of state said Thursday. Addressing a Senate session on strategic aspects of Russian-American relations, Daniel Fried said Washington favored transparency and predictability, and added that the sides were discussing ... more Kazakhstan Ratifies Agreements With Russia On Test Sites 
Astana (RIA Novosti) Jun 22, 2007The upper house of Kazakhstan's parliament ratified Thursday protocols on changes to Russian-Kazakh agreements on the lease of four military test sites in the ex-Soviet Central Asian republic. Moscow and Astana signed additional protocols on November 25, 2005 to 1996 bilateral treaties on the lease of the 4th and 929th testing ranges of the Russian Defense Ministry, and testing ranges at ... more Missiles Key To Counter US Shield Plans Says Top Russian General 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 21, 2007Chief of Russia's General Staff said Thursday the military component is key in defending Russian national interests wherever the state feels they are being infringed, specifically if U.S. deploys missiles in Central Europe. "If we see that Russia's national interests are under threat, this threat will be minimized. By what means - political, diplomatic, or military - is a technical issue. ... more
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