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Swords and Shields: Russia bets on PAK FA Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2009 
Moscow continues to pursue a Sukhoi-based fifth-generation fighter. After five years of effort, Russia finally found an international partner for the development project. In 2007 India entered an agreement to jointly develop a fifth-generation fighter based on the Sukhoi. The Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA - standing for Advanced Frontline Aviation Aircraft System - is a stealth-enabled fighter ... read more
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Missile Defense And The Obama Administration Part Two
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2009 After U.S. President-elect Barack Obama takes office on Tuesday, it is important that he clears up ambiguities in his position on missile defense. Allies of the United States, like Poland, are watching and will need to be certain of Obama's commitment to them. At the same time, Russia surely will try to take advantage of any uncertainty. It is critical that Obama move ahead quickly on ... more Kyrgyzstan to close US airbase 'in a matter of days': source 
Bishkek (AFP) Jan 17, 2009Kyrgystan will order the closure of a US military airbase used to support operations in Afghanistan "in a matter of days" under pressure from Russia, a senior Kyrgyz official told AFP. "The presidential decree on the annulment of the agreement with the United States is already prepared. In a matter of days it will be published in the Kyrgyz media," the official told AFP, speaking on conditio ... more Russia sends more warships to fight Somali pirates: report 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 16, 2009Russia on Friday sent two more warships to the waters off Somalia to join its anti-submarine vessel to battle pirates there, RIA Novosti news agency reported, citing a Russian defence ministry source. "The ships will shortly start passing through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits. Later the two large landing ships will cross the Suez Canal and set off for the coast of Somalia to fight th ... more Analysis: Indian-Kazakh energy ties deepen 
Washington (UPI) Jan 16, 2009 While the global recession has blindsided the world's oil market, harming the revenue stream of many major producers, Kazakhstan is seeking to overcome the fiscal setback and is looking to the future to diversify its energy exports. A key ingredient in Astana's efforts is its burgeoning uranium production, and it has focused its attention squarely on a rising Asian economic powerhouse - India ... more Azerbaijan slams Russia over alleged Armenia arms supplies 
Baku (AFP) Jan 15, 2009Ex-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. ... more |
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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 Afghan soldiers pick up US weapons 
Camp Hero, Afghanistan (AFP) Jan 14, 2009Having already fought against the Taliban in his two years in the Afghan army, Gul Mohammad has little trouble picking up the tricks of his new American-issue automatic weapon. What concerns the young soldier is whether he will be able to rely on the weapon when it counts, as he has done so often before with its Russian equivalent, a Kalashnikov AK-47, favoured in central Asia for decades. ... more Danish ship escapes pirates with help of Russian warship: owner 
Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 14, 2009A Danish ship came under fire in a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden but managed to escape after a Russian warship came to its rescue, the ship's owner A.P. Moeller Maersk said Wednesday. The Danish-owned and Dutch-managed container vessel Nedlloyd Barentsz was chased for half an hour by the pirates on Tuesday, but managed to fend them off with the warship's help, the company said. ... more |
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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 Analysis: Caspian energy in 2009 
Washington (UPI) Jan 7, 2009While making predictions, especially about energy issues, is a murky business at best, the general outline of the themes surrounding the ongoing development of Caspian energy assets is already broadly emerging. Russia will attempt to reverse the economic decline brought about by the recent implosion of oil and, to a lesser extent, gas prices over the last several months as the global e ... more Analysis: Central Asian energy in 2009 
Washington (UPI) Jan 8, 2009As Eastern Europeans shiver because of Ukraine's obdurate refusal to pay world market prices for Russian natural gas, much less pay off its debts, the era of cheap gas is also over in eastern Central Asia. In 2009 many Central Asians and businesses will look back with some nostalgia on 2008 as a time when they could pay their energy bills without undue hardship. While in Eastern Europe ... more
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