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US, Ukraine risk irking Russia with strategic accord Washington (AFP) Dec 19, 2008 
The United States and Ukraine risked irking Moscow by signing a strategic accord Friday that calls for a US diplomatic post in Crimea, a Russian-speaking area where Russia's Black Sea Fleet is based. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Ogryzko signed the "charter on strategic partnership" that the State Department calls a statement of US intent to ... read more
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Swords and Shields: Son of Satan threat
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2008 As UPI reported, at the end of November Russia successfully test-launched its new-generation land- and sea-based ballistic missile designed to penetrate U.S. missile defense systems such as the one planned for deployment in Poland and the Czech Republic. The new Russian missile can be equipped with up to 10 warheads, including decoys, to overwhelm or mislead American sensors. ... more BMD Focus: Hope for START Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2008 Why have Russia's diplomats done a dramatic U-turn on their relations with the United States? Within the past week a Russian deputy foreign minister has signaled a willingness to negotiate seriously with Washington about creating a new treaty to replace the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which runs out in December 2009. Also last weekend, legendary former U.S. Secretary of ... more Analysis: Central Asian biofuel potential 
Washington (UPI) Dec 18, 2008 Of the former Soviet Caucasian and Central Asian republics, those clustered around the shores of the Caspian, particularly Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, have seen their economies boom because of record-high energy prices. Turkmenistan is waiting in the wings as a rising producer of natural gas, but the story changes as one moves farther east to Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, where ... more NATO, Russia to resume high-level talks Friday: official 
Brussels (AFP) Dec 18, 2008NATO 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 ... more 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 |
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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 Restoring The Tradition: Russian Navy On Long-Distance Tours Of Duty 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 18, 2008A battle group from the Russian Pacific Fleet set out on a tour of duty. The Admiral Vinogradov large ASW ship, the Pechenga and Boris Butoma tankers, as well as the Foty Krylov tugboat will participate in the joint Russian-Indian INDRA-2009 naval exercise. Following the exercise, the Russian warships will head for the Gulf of Aden, where the Admiral Vinogradov is to replace the Baltic ... 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 Russia 'to give' Lebanon 10 MiG fighter jets 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 17, 2008Russia is to deliver 10 MiG-29 fighter jets as a gift for the Lebanese military, the head of the Russian defence cooperation body said Wednesday. "Russia's defence ministry has decided to deliver to Lebanon, as part of defence cooperation, 10 MiG-29 fighter jets from our existing contingent," the Interfax news agency quoted Mikhail Dmitriyev as saying. The fighter jets would be modernize ... more |
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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 Russia mulls unprecedented Israel drones purchase 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 16, 2008Russia is holding talks with Israel over buying Israeli unmanned reconnaissance drones, a top general said on Tuesday, in what would be Moscow's first purchase of military hardware from the Jewish state. The Russian interest in purchasing the drones comes after its military was taken by surprise by Georgia's use of Israeli-supplied drones in its war against Russia in August. "We're ... more UN ministerial meeting on Iranian nuclear program 
United Nations (AFP) Dec 15, 2008Ministers from the six nations involved in talks on Iran's nuclear program prepared to meet Tuesday to assure several Arab countries they will maintain pressure on Iran to abandon its nuclear ambitions. The so-called P5-plus-1 -- Germany and permanent UN Security Council members Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- will join Jordan, Egypt, Iraq and Gulf Cooperation Council ... more Russia Defense Watch: Tank cuts claimed 
Washington (UPI) Dec 16, 2008 Russia has sent an olive leaf to the incoming Obama administration about mutually reducing conventional weapons levels in Europe. The chief of Russia's General Staff said last Wednesday he was going ahead with withdrawing virtually all of Russia's 880 tanks from the Kaliningrad exclave located between Poland and Lithuania -- both NATO member states -- on the Baltic Sea. ... more
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