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Russia To Boost Space Defense With New Missile System
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Russia is developing a fifth-generation air defense missile system that is superior to S-400 Triumf complex and capable of hitting targets in space, the Air Force commander said Wednesday. Russia recently deployed the first S-400 air defense battalion to protect the airspace around Moscow, and is planning to equip over two dozen battalions with the system by 2015. "While working on the S-400, we ... more Russian Scientists To Study In Detail North Pole Expedition Samples 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Studying the geological samples taken from the North Pole seabed during Russia's symbolic expedition last week could take six months, a Russian Academy of Sciences spokesman said Wednesday. Russian researchers descended 4,200 meters (14,000 feet) below the Pole in two submersibles last Thursday to gather evidence to bolster the country's claim to a vast swathe of extra Polar territory - a missio ... more Russia Oil Firm Russneft Securities Seized 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Investigators from Russia's Interior Ministry said Wednesday they had seized on a court order 100% of private oil group RussNeft's securities. The seizure had been requested by the Interior Ministry, whose investigators are conducting a tax evasion and illegal business probe against the company's CEO. "On July 31, Moscow's Lefortovo district court upheld a motion to seize 100% of the company's s ... more Russian Hostages Freed In Nigeria 
Miami (UPI) Aug 08, 2007Six Russian hostages held by militants in the Niger Delta were freed after more than two months amid gang violence in Port Harcourt that left at least 15 dead. The six Russians were taken hostage June 3 while working at an aluminum factory run by Russian firm UC RUSAL, the No. 1 producer of aluminum in the world. The captives were among the more than 200 people abducted so far this year by milit ... more Belarus Pays Gazprom Bill For Russian Natural Gas In Full 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2007Belarus has fully paid its $460 million debt for Russian natural gas supplies, ending a dispute between the country and Gazprom, the state-controlled gas giant said Wednesday. "Gazprom today received the last installment of debt payment for Russian gas supplied in the first half of the year," company spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov said. Gazprom threatened last Wednesday to slash gas supplies to Bel ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 08, 2007The results of the Russian North Pole mission last week should be central to the country's case for ownership of a vast section of the Arctic, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday. Russian researchers made the first-ever dive below the North Pole in two mini-submarines last Thursday, taking rock samples from the seabed to gather proof that Russia's continental shelf stretches out into the Arcti ... more Progress Cargo Ship With Computer Equipment Docks With ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2007The Progress M-61 cargo spacecraft carrying food, water, and fuel supplies for the crew, and equipment to repair onboard computers has automatically docked with the global orbital station, the mission control said. The cargo ship docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on schedule at 22:40 Moscow time (18:40 GMT) Sunday delivering much needed additional equipment to fix the onboard lap ... more India To Set Up Largest Asian Telescope In Himalayas In 2012 
New Delhi (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A vast telescope to be made by Russian and Belgian firms will be installed in India's Himalayas in 2012, the director of an Indian research institute said Monday. Asia's largest telescope "will enable us to see four to five times deeper into space than before, and receive high-quality images," said Professor Ram Sagal of the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences. An optical gla ... more The Fall Of A Russian Space Chief 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Nikolai Sevastyanov, now a former president of the Energiya Space Rocket Corporation -- the flagship company of Russia's space industry -- was forced to step down on July 31 despite the support of his top management. Officially, the Russian Space Agency, or Roskosmos, has repeatedly said Sevastyanov's plans, especially those concerned with manned flights, did not fit into the 2006-2015 Federal S ... more |
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Manila (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007Russia is guided by international law in its polar shelf probes, the country's foreign minister told a news conference Friday. "When explorers reach an unexplored point they leave flags there," Sergei Lavrov said, commenting on Thursday's probe into the North Pole shelf where Russian researchers left a flag. "No one is throwing flags around." Canada, which has claimed part of the Arctic shelf si ... more US Icebreaker To Set Off For North Pole After Russian Mission 
Washington (RIA Novosti) Aug 07, 2007A United States icebreaker will leave Seattle Monday for an Arctic research mission shortly after Russia's identical expedition designed to lay claim to a section of the resource-rich region, the Coast Guard said. News of the Healy vessel's trip came as two Russian mini-submarines dived 14,000 feet below the Pole Thursday, planting a titanium Russian flag on the seabed in a symbolic claim to a v ... more Putin Calls For Clear Foreign Investment Rules In Energy Sector 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 06, 2007Russia's president called Monday for improvements to rules for foreign investment in the country's oil and gas sector, to ensure clarity and transparency. Russia is currently developing two draft laws to regulate foreign investment in the national economy, one on strategic companies, and one on natural resources. Vladimir Putin told a meeting of Cabinet ministers and representatives of state-co ... more EBRD Gives Ukraine 368 M Euros For New Chernobyl Sarcophagus 
Kiev (AFP) Aug 07, 2007The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will donate 368 million euros to the programme to build a new sarcophagus around the Chernobyl reactor where the world's worst nuclear accident took place, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported Monday. It quoted Emergency Situations Minister Nestor Shufrych as telling a briefing in Kiev that an agreement would be signed with the EBRD on ... more
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