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Russia To Test-Launch At Least 5 Bulava ICBMs In 2009 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008 
The number of test launches for Russia's Bulava ICBM will be increased from three or four to at least five next year, a senior Navy official said on Tuesday. The intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of breaching anti-missile defense systems, failed a test launch from a submarine earlier on Tuesday. "In connection with today's less than successful test launch, the overall numbe ... read more
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Russian Military Confirms 13 Strategic Missile Launches For 2009
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 26, 2008Russia's Strategic Missile Forces plan 13 training missile launches for next year, the forces commander Col.-Gen. Nikolai Solovtsov said Wednesday. "We have scheduled 13 training launches for 2009. The number could come down a bit," he said. The commander said last month that the forces were planning to conduct at least 13 launches of ballistic missiles next year. "We are planning to ... more Moscow Says Offer To On Joint Radar Use Still Stands 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Russia's offer to the U.S. on joint use of the Gabala radar station it leases from Azerbaijan is still on the table, a first Russian deputy foreign minister said on Monday. "Our proposal remains on the table. The new U.S. administration will encounter serious problems with regard to the implementation of its third missile site plan in Europe. We are not exerting any pressure on the U.S. ad ... more BMD Focus: Bulava fails again 
Washington (UPI) Dec 30, 2008 Russia's latest test launch of its long-troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile was another failure, and it was more costly than most as the Russian government had already approved the missile for full-scale production. On Dec. 25 four-star Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov, the chief of the Russian General Staff, announced that he believed production flaws were probably to blame ... more What Motivates Iran And Russia On The S-300 Deal Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Dec 29, 2008 How should one interpret the conflicting messages coming out of Moscow and Tehran last week about over whether Russia has sent S-300 air defense system components to Iran? First, a senior Iranian parliamentarian, Esmaeil Kosari, deputy chairman of the Iranian Parliament's Commission on National Security and Foreign Policy, informed Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency on Dec. 20 ... more Gazprom Continues Talks With Ukraine Despite Harsh Rhetoric 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 30, 2008Gazprom is continuing to hold gas talks with Ukraine and hopes to reach an agreement by the yearend to avoid supplies cuts over Kiev's outstanding debts, a deputy CEO at the Russian gas giant said Monday. "Three days remain before the New Year, and of course no one would like the sad events of the past to be repeated. But if we are doing everything required on our side to avoid that, we unfortu ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 28, 2008Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on Thursday with three Glonass navigation satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a space agency spokesman said. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determi ... more ISS Astronauts Successfully Complete Spacewalk 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Dec 23, 2008Astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully completed their spacewalk on Tuesday, Russia's Mission Control said. The ISS commander American Michael Fincke and Russian engineer Yury Lonchakov, who arrived on the orbital station in October, closed the hatch to the Pirs docking station at 09:29 a.m. Moscow Time (06:29 GMT). The spacewalk, which was delayed by 37 minutes after las ... more Pakistan says no war with India amid calls for calm 
Islamabad (AFP) Dec 27, 2008Pakistan again said Saturday it did not want war with India, as the international community tried to defuse tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours after Islamabad moved troops to the border. The United States and Russia led calls for calm in both Islamabad and New Delhi in a bid to improve ties that have deteriorated in the month since the Mumbai attacks, which India has blamed on Pak ... more Russia selling surface-to-air missiles to Libya, Syria: report 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 26, 2008Russia has begun to fulfil a 250-million-dollar contract to deliver surface-to-air missiles to seven countries including Libya, Syria and Venezuela, the Vedomosti business daily reported Friday. Russia will also deliver the S-125 Pechora-2M missile batteries to Egypt, Myanmar, Vietnam and Turkmenistan under the contract, the newspaper said, citing a source in the state-owned Russian Technolo ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Dec 26, 2008 A senior Russian diplomat Thursday denied the claim by a prominent Iranian lawmaker that Moscow had started delivering components of its S0-300 anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic missile defense system to Tehran. "I am very surprised by the fuss this story has caused recently. I think this is due to a lack of interesting international news in the run-up to the holidays that many of our We ... more BMD Focus: Russia's S-300s boost Iran 
Washington (UPI) Dec 23, 2008 A leading Iranian parliamentarian claimed Sunday that Russia had begun to send sections of its S-300 anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense system to Iran. The politically explosive claim could seriously damage the incoming Obama administration's hopes of improving relations with Russia and even reaching agreement to replace the aging 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, which expires ... more Analysis: Rivals in Africa -- Part 1 
Hong Kong (UPI) Dec 24, 2008 The People's Republic of China is increasingly challenging Russia in the African arms trade, offering lower prices on weapons that, ironically, are often made in China with Russian technologies. Chinese products are less expensive than Russian and Western systems. They are similar to the Russian systems that many African countries are familiar with, and they are also easy to maintain an ... more Analysis: Russian-Ukrainian gas dispute 
Washington Dec 26, 2008 The winter brings with it the annual sights and sounds of the holiday season -- Christmas trees, parents searching for the "must have" gift for their children, and Kiev and Moscow squabbling over Ukraine's natural gas arrears to Russia. In one of Europe's most enduring energy sagas, according to Russian natural gas state monopoly Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov, Ukraine has announced that it ... more
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