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NATO, Russia to resume high-level talks Friday: official Brussels (AFP) Dec 18, 2008 
NATO and Russia will on Friday hold their first high-level talks in four months, after alliance foreign ministers ordered a thaw in tense relations with Moscow, officials said. The "confidential" talks would involve NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and Russia's ambassador to the military alliance, Dmitry Rogozin, a NATO official said Thursday. "They are going to have an ... read more
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BMD Focus: Hope for START Part One
Washington (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 Senior Russian diplomats are pledging to cooperate with the incoming Obama administration to conclude a far-reaching nuclear arms reduction treaty by the end of next year. Statements to this effect were made in Moscow Monday by a senior Russian diplomat. They mark a dramatic U-turn from the eight years of accumulating gridlock and growing Russian resentment toward the Bush administration ... more Russia to deploy new missiles by 2020: military 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Russia will by 2020 replace its Soviet-era arsenal with new nuclear-capable intercontinental missiles that can overcome defence systems like the US missile shield, the military said Wednesday. "By 2015-2020 the Russian strategic rocket forces will have new complete missile systems with improved combat characteristics," General Nikolai Solovtsov told reporters at a briefing in the Moscow ... more Analysis: China's carriers Part Two 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 17, 2008 Russia today still has a large number of nuclear-powered submarines armed with cruise missiles and nuclear attack submarines in service. For instance, there are five Project P671 SSNs in service in the navy alone, eight Project 949B SSGNs and more than 10 Project 970 serial SSNs. Moreover, the first of the latest-generation P885 SSNs already has been launched. The Russian navy has ... more Russian Arms Exports Exceed 8 Billion Dollars In 2008 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 18, 2008Russian arms exports in 2008 have been worth over $8 billion, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. Sergei Ivanov also said Russia had secured $33 billion worth of firm orders for arms deliveries. "Russia is among the [world's] three leading arms exporters," he said. He added that despite the global financial crisis none of Russia's foreign clients had reneged on their contracts. ... more Russia wants to test Obama on missile defense: Rood 
Washington (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Russia has hardened its stance toward US plans for a missile shield in an apparent bid to "test the mettle" of incoming President Barack Obama, US arms negotiator John Rood said Wednesday. "My assessment is the Russians intend to test the mettle of the new administration and the new president," said Rood, acting under secretary of state for arms control and international security. ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Senator Richard Lugar, a veteran of US-Russian arms control efforts, on Wednesday urged Russia and the United States to get to work replacing a key arms treaty that expires next December. It was vital to make a "running start" in talks to replace the START 1 treaty, which was brokered between the United States and Soviet Union and brought about big reductions in nuclear arsenals, Lugar said. ... more Analysis: China's carriers Part One 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 16, 2008 Russia, India and China will be building aircraft carriers for their navies almost simultaneously over the next five years or so, using many of the same design concepts, technologies and equipment. This is unprecedented in the history of shipbuilding. The three countries currently are enjoying healthy political relations, smoothing the way for Russia's continued military cooperation ... more Siberian Shepherd Sues Roscosmos Over Rocket Debris 
Novosibirsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Dec 17, 2008A villager in southwest Siberia is to take legal action against Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, after a rocket fragment fell on his land, a local administration official said on Tuesday. Boris Urmatov, a shepherd in the Republic of Altai, filed a lawsuit after he was refused compensation when a three-and-a-half-meter (11 ft) fragment from a Proton-M carrier rocket, launched from the ... more Russian general says US plans bases in Central Asia: report 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 16, 2008Russia's military chief accused the United States on Tuesday of planning to set up new military bases in ex-Soviet Central Asia, an oil-rich region that Moscow views as its backyard, Interfax reported. "According to our data, (the US) is planning to establish military bases in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan," Russia's top military officer, General Nikolai Makarov, was quoted as saying by Interfax ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2008Nuclear power plays a major role in the US energy industry as the country, after coal and natural gas, produces its maximum amount of electricity from nuclear power plants. Oil and hydropower are the next biggest sources of energy. But the US heavily depends on imported uranium for its nuclear power industry. And with China, India and Russia planning for massive deployments in nuclear ... more Russia To Launch Solar Probe In January 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 16, 2008Russia will launch on January 29 a scientific satellite to study the Sun's interaction with the Earth, the federal space agency said on Monday. The Coronas-Photon satellite, designed to study solar and global warming processes, was delivered on Monday to the Plesetsk space center in Russia's Arkhangelsk region, from where it will be launched. A probe designer said 80% of its ... more The Old World Reaches Out Into New Space Age 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 15, 2008Despite the global financial and economic crisis, the Europeans have decided against cutting allocations for long-term projects in such a high-spending area as astronautics and done just the opposite. The International Space Station program may get a slightly different twist now, and Russia and the United States become outsiders. Judging from a two-day meeting of ministers from European ... more Russian warships bound for Cuba in new show of strength 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 15, 2008Russia said on Monday it was sending a group of warships to Soviet-era ally Cuba in its latest defiant naval move around US waters, part of a drive to revive old Cold War ties with Latin America. The warships will visit Havana on December 19-23, the navy said, continuing a tour that has already taken in US foes Venezuela and Nicaragua and seen the ships pass through the Panama Canal for the ... more
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