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Azerbaijan slams Russia over alleged Armenia arms supplies Baku (AFP) Jan 15, 2009 
Ex-Soviet Azerbaijan on Thursday made a "strong protest" to Russia over weapons transfers it said Moscow had made to Armenia in violation of United Nations resolutions. "The Azerbaijani foreign ministry voices strong protest in connection with the transfer of arms to Armenia and calls on Russia to take all necessary steps to avert the consequences," the ministry said in a statement. ... read more
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Russia Defense Watch: Warship sales soar
Washington (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 The world may be in recession, but the Russian naval shipbuilding industry is still booming. RIA Novosti reported Tuesday that naval shipbuilding last year accounted for $7 billion of Russia's record $8.5 billion in arms sales around the world funneled through the state-owned Rosoboronexport arms export corporation. "This sum relates to the Rosoboronexport portfolio of orders. Th ... more Defense Focus: Russia takes back MiG-29s 
Washington (UPI) Jan 15, 2009 The Russian air force will take delivery in 2009 of 34 new Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 SMT and MiG-29 UBT fighter jets (NATO designation Fulcrum) that were rejected by Algeria, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday, citing a Russian Defense Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, as its source. The issue is an embarrassing one for the Kremlin. Although Russia has enjoyed great success ... more Russia issues tsunami alert after quake: report 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Russian emergency officials on Thursday issued a tsunami warning for the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in eastern Russia after a powerful earthquake in the Pacific, RIA Novosti news agency reported. "The tsunami station... has issued a warning in connection with the earthquake felt in Petropavlovsk," the regional office of Russia's emergency situations ministry was quoted as saying. ... more Powerful quake hits in eastern Russia near Japan: USGS 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 15, 2009A powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake has hit east of the Kuril Islands in the Pacific Ocean, which are disputed between Russia and Japan, the United States Geological Survey said Thursday. The quake hit at 3:49 a.m. Friday (1749 GMT Thursday) at a location 428 kilometres (266 miles) east of the Russian town of Severokurilsk and 1,787 kilometres (1,111 miles) northeast of Tokyo, the USGS said ... more Swords and Shields: F-35 beats Russians 
Washington (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 Russia lags behind the United States in aerospace research and development. It has yet to produce decent competitors to America's two new, fifth-generation fighter jets, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning Joint Strike Fighter and the Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22 Raptor. The main Russian rivals to the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings are the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-35 (NATO designation Fulcru ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2009With consumers in Russia and China developing a taste for wine, worldwide demand is expected to climb until 2012 despite the economic downturn, a French study said Tuesday. "We believe that the effects of the economic crisis will be limited" in the wine sector, said Robert Beynat, director of Vinexpo, one of the world's biggest wine fairs held annually in Bordeaux. Russia and China are e ... more Poland plans first nuclear plant, LNG terminal as gas crisis bites 
Warsaw (AFP) Jan 13, 2009Poland said Tuesday its top priority was to ensure its energy security through broad diversification of sources, turning to nuclear power as a row between Russia and Ukraine halted gas supply to Europe. "By 2020 we intend to see power flow from one or two nuclear plants," Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters in Warsaw. Warsaw will consult South Korea and European nuclear ... more Slovakia tests EU's patience with nuclear plant relaunch plan 
Bratislava (AFP) Jan 12, 2009Slovakia is keeping the European Union on tenterhooks with its plan to reactivate an outdated nuclear reactor in a bid to avert an energy crisis after gas pipelines from Russia dried up. The plan provoked angry reactions from the EU and environmentalists even though Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said Monday the final decision would wait another day, as Russia promised to open the gas tap ... more Gazan Tank Battles 2009 - Part Three 
Washington (UPI) Jan 12, 2009 The Israeli failure to crush Hezbollah in southern Lebanon in 2006 strengthened the fashionable impression in the United States that counterinsurgency was now the cutting edge of war and that therefore investment in expensive ground forces, primarily main battle tanks and artillery, could be drastically curtailed. However, the success of the Russian tank forces in conquering one-third ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2009Russia held joint naval exercises with Venezuela late last year to demonstrate its growing strategic reach and political clout, particularly in Latin America, which many consider the traditional U.S. sphere of influence. Provocative? Yes. But Washington and Moscow have restrained the verbal squabbling. Many observers take that as a sign that both sides hope for improved bilateral relati ... more Spacehab To Support Pre-Launch Preparations For Russian Module 
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 09, 2009Spacehab, has reached an agreement in principal with RSC Energia, Russia's largest manufacturer of aerospace and space equipment, to provide facilities and support services for its Mini Research Module (MRM1). The MRM1 will be readied for its journey aboard the U.S. Space Shuttle at the Spacehab Cape Canaveral payload processing location. Manifested to fly on STS-132 during the Space Shu ... more Tank Warfare In The Gaza Battlefield 
Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2009The tactical success of the Israeli military incursion into Gaza over the past week confirms a lesson we noted after the five-day Russian conquest of one-third of Georgia in the Caucasus last August: Main Battle Tanks still rule ground war, whatever the high-tech, guerrilla-war and minimum-army enthusiasts say to the contrary. In the first four days of its ground forces' incursion into ... more Military Matters: Russian ally -- Part 2 
Washington (UPI) Jan 6, 2009According to the Nov. 14 Financial Times, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking to a group of Russian and European business leaders before flying to Washington for a visit, said Russia could develop "neighborly and partnership-based relations with the U.S." In Washington for the Group of 20 meeting, Medvedev repeated the message. The Nov. 16 Washington Post quoted him as saying, " ... more
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