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US Wants To Go It Alone On Missile Defense
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to join President George W. Bush at Walker's Point, the Bush family's seaside estate, in Kennebunkport, Maine, this weekend for a short summer retreat. Both leaders will focus on the deployment of elements of a U.S. missile defense system, namely 10 missile interceptors in Poland and an early-warning radar in the Czech Republic. President Putin, mean ... more Russia Test Launches Sea-Based Ballistic Missile 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russia's Navy has successfully tested a new Bulava sea-launched ballistic missile in the White Sea, a Navy spokesman said Thursday. "A [simulated] warhead reached the testing grounds [on the Kamchatka Peninsula] on schedule," Igor Drygalo said. The scheduled launch was conducted from the submerged Dmitry Donskoi, a Typhoon-class ballistic missile nuclear submarine, in the northern Russia's White ... more Russia Puts Cosmos Military Satellite In Orbit 
Moscow (RIA) Jul 01, 2007Russia has successfully put a Cosmos-series military satellite into orbit after a launch from a space center in Kazakhstan, Russia's space agency said Friday. A Zenit-M rocket with a military satellite was launched from the Baikonur space center that Russia rents in Kazakhstan at 2 p.m. Moscow time (noon GMT). "The separation of the spacecraft occurred successfully and on schedule," a spok ... more In Russian Far East Nature Makes No Allowances For Tourists 
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (AFP) Jun 28, 2007In a vast wilderness in eastern Russia, scientists and tourism entrepreneurs are anxiously working out how much is left of one of the world's great natural wonders, Geyser Valley. Hidden behind a veil of secrecy in Soviet times, the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula boasts nature at its most unpredictable, as demonstrated by a recent landslide that obliterated many of its prized geysers. In ... more Russia And France Establish JV To Produce Nuclear Power Planet Turbines 
Paris (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Russia's Atomenergomash and France's Alstom signed Friday documents to establish a $400-million joint venture to manufacture half-speed turbines for nuclear power plants in Russia and abroad. The companies reached a deal in April with Russia's state controlled nuclear power corporation having a 51%-share in the JV, which will operate on the platform of the machine-building firm ZIO Podolsk in th ... more |
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Murmansk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007A group of Russian and foreign experts Thursday began monitoring radiation levels at the site of a 2003 incident involving a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents Sea, a Russian Navy official said. The K-159, a November class nuclear submarine with 800 kilograms (about 1,700 pounds) of spent nuclear fuel onboard, sank in 2003 while being towed to Polyarny, in northwest Russia, for decommissioning ... more Russia May Export Up To 40 New Diesel Submarines By 2015 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 27, 2007Russia could sell up to 40 fourth-generation diesel submarines to foreign customers in the next seven and a half years, the state-run arms exporter said Wednesday. "Analysis of the demand on foreign markets shows that 30 to 40 new Russian submarines could be sold by 2015," Rosoboronexport said in a statement posted on its Web site. Russia has ensured high export potential in this segment of the ... more Impact Of Climate Change Equal To Nuclear War 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jun 29, 2007Global climate change defies forecasting. Unprecedented heat, floods, droughts and typhoons brought about by climate change cause tremendous damage. The number of such calamities has doubled over the last 10 years, according to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry. Some experts think there is nothing to worry about-periodic alterations in the climate are normal. Some believe the gener ... more Lithuanian Lawmaker Approve New Nuclear Power Plant 
Vilnius (AFP) Jun 29, 2007The Lithuanian parliament on Thursday overwhelmingly backed the construction of a new nuclear power station to replace the Baltic country's ageing Chernobyl-type Ignalina plant. Some 107 lawmakers in the 141-seat parliament passed legislation approving what is seen as a key means to reduce the region's reliance on energy supplies from Russia. "This is a major step towards our energy indepe ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 28, 2007Russia's lower house of parliament ratified Wednesday two agreements regulating the ITER project, an experimental reactor in France being built with Russia's involvement, aimed at eventually generating power by nuclear fusion. Under the document now ratified by the State Duma, which was first signed in Paris on November 21, 2006, Russia, South Korea, China, Japan, India, the European Union and t ... more Russia Warns NATO Over European Security As Topol Nuke Production Ramps Up 
Moscow (AFP) June 26, 2007Russia warned NATO on Tuesday against policies that could destabilise security in Europe, but both sides agreed to continue talks on deep divisions between the former Cold War foes. After meeting with President Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer in turn said Russia's threatened pull-out from a key arms control pact would be "a very negative development." ... more 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
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