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Union Leader Urges The Government To Push Ahead With Nuclear Energy London, UK (SPX) Jan 29, 2009 
While meeting workers at Sellafield, Derek Simpson, the joint leader of Unite, will urge the Government to push ahead with the nuclear re-build programme to reduce Britain's household bills, create jobs and end our reliance on oil and gas from countries like Russia. Mr Simpson will welcome the Government's commitment to nuclear energy as a key part of its low carbon and secure energy polic ... read more
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Gilat SkyEdge Network To Serve Hundreds Of Sites In Kazakhstan
Petah Tikva, Israel (SPX) Jan 28, 2009Gilat Satellite Networks has announced it has been selected by its long-time customer and Kazakhstan's largest telecommunications operator, JSC Kazakhtelecom (KT), to expand its existing SkyEdge network to serve several hundred additional sites in remote locations nationwide. In addition to providing network connectivity for businesses and consumers, the new expansion will be used to provi ... more Russia To Use Two Launch Pads At Baikonur For ISS Missions 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 27, 2009Russia will use two launch pads at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to send four manned missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2009, a Russian space agency official said on Monday. Four Soyuz manned spacecraft and five Progress freighters will be launched from Baikonur to the orbital station in 2009. The ISS crew is to be increased from three to six. "The situation in ... more Russia to fully finance army despite crisis: Medvedev 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 28, 2009Russia will fully finance development programmes for its military despite the economic crisis, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pledged in a meeting with navy cadets Tuesday. "Today, despite the difficulties facing our state, the funds that had been set aside to develop the navy and the armed forces as a whole will all be invested," Medvedev was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. ... more Russia accuses Georgia of 'capturing' soldier 
Tbilisi (AFP) Jan 27, 2009Russia on Tuesday accused Georgia of capturing one of its soldiers in the breakaway region of South Ossetia, in the latest upsurge of tensions between the foes who fought a brief war in August. Georgian officials countered that the soldier had asked for asylum due to "unbearable conditions" in the Russian army and even took him to the central Tbilisi branch of fast food chain McDonalds. ... more Russia Defense Watch: New jet to fly soon 
Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2009 Russia's former defense minister and First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who still spearheads high-tech development programs, said Wednesday the country's ambitious fifth-generation air superiority combat aircraft would take its first test flight before the end of 2009, RIA Novosti reported. "We expect the plane to take to the skies no later than the end of this year ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 26, 2009 The Obama administration is suddenly confronted with a most unusual conundrum: Developments that are evidently bad for the global economy might also, at least in the short term, be good for the strategic interests of the United States. The economies of China and Russia have run into serious trouble, battered by the global recession. That saps the confidence of their leaders, narrows the ... more Oil spill in Russian Far East kills hundreds of birds: reports 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 26, 2009A fuel oil spill off Russia's far eastern island of Sakhalin has killed hundreds of birds in a wildlife area of international importance, Russian news agencies reported Monday. "Hundreds of birds have been killed, including ducks, guillemots and divers," the RIA Novosti news agency quoted the head of the Sakhalin diving centre Vladimir Bardin as saying. "The shore is covered for three ... more Russia says 'ice broken' in chilly NATO relations 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 24, 2009Russia on Saturday said there has been a thaw in its chilly relations with the Western military alliance NATO, ahead of high-level informal talks between the two sides next week. "In fact the ice has been broken," Russia's ambassador to NATO Dmitry Rogozin told the Echo of Moscow radio station in an interview. "The ice has been broken because the informal NATO-Russia meeting on Monday ma ... more Gaza, Georgia And Beyond Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Jan 23, 2009 Russia and Israel both won clear tactical military victories in their recent mini-wars in Georgia and Gaza, but Russia looks more likely to profit at the long-term strategic level than Israel does. In both cases, military efficiency and success at the combat level did not translate into any real political-strategic gain. Pro-Western President Mikheil Saakashvili remains in power in the ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009The International Space Station (ISS) will be off limits to space tourists after 2009 as its crew grows from three to six, the Russian space agency head said on Wednesday. Roscosmos director Anatoly Perminov said in an interview with the daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta that the last commercial flights would be made in March 2009 by Charles Simoniy (his second trip) and by a Kazakh national in the ... more Russia Sets Sail Again For Overseas Military Bases 
by Ilya KramnikMoscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009 The Russian Navy is going to return to its bases abroad. A statement to this effect was made by the spokesman for the Navy's headquarters last week. What will the Russian Navy's return be like after 20 years' absence? What goals can it pursue? During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy was stationed in the Mediterranean to prevent an attack by Western aircraft ... more Russian Strategic Bombers Conduct Patrols Over Arctic 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2009Russian Tu-160 Blackjack and Tu-95MS Bear strategic bombers carried out on Wednesday regular patrols over the Arctic Ocean, a Russian Air Force spokesman said. "Two Tu-160 strategic bombers carried out on Wednesday a regular patrol flight over the Norwegian Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The crews honed their instrumental flight skills and accomplished several other tasks," Lt. Col. Vladimir ... more Russia Defense Watch: New 10-year plan 
Washington (UPI) Jan 20, 2009 Despite facing the threat of bankruptcy because of rock-bottom global prices for its oil exports, the Russian government is pushing ahead with a costly new plan to re-equip and upgrade its armed forces with state-of-the-art and high-tech weapons by 2020. The Moscow newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported Monday the Russian Defense Ministry has already begun work on a 10-year plan for arm ... more
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