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Russia Space Agency Plans To Build Own Orbital Station Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2009 
Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will propose to the government the construction of a low-orbit space station to support future exploration of the Moon and Mars, an agency official said Thursday. "We will soon propose to our government a project to construct a low-orbit complex, which could serve as a foundation for the implementation of the lunar program and later on - the Mars ... read more
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Russia Delays First Space Launch In 2009 For One Day
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2009Russia's first carrier rocket launch of 2009, scheduled for Thursday, has been delayed until Friday for technical reasons, a spokesman for the Space Forces said. A Cyclone-3 carrier rocket was scheduled to lift off at 4:30 p.m. Moscow time (13:30 GMT) from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia to deliver a Coronas-Photon research satellite into orbit. "The launch has been ... more Russia drops Kaliningrad missile plans: report 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 28, 2009Russia has shelved plans to install missiles on central Europe's doorstep after detecting a cooling by the Obama administration towards a controversial US shield project, a military official said Wednesday. Russia had warned it would deploy Iskander missiles to Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave wedged between NATO and EU members Poland and Lithuania, if Washington did not withdraw its ... more Wen and Putin lash out at US over economic crisis 
Davos, Switzerland (AFP) Jan 28, 2009Chinese and Russian leaders Wen Jiabao and Vladimir Putin on Wednesday blamed the United States for causing the global economic crisis on a gloomy first day of the Davos forum. Both called for a new attitude by President Barack Obama, while deepening pessimism over the future of the global economy enshrouded the World Economic Forum. Chinese premier Wen said America's voracious appetite ... more Analysis: Nabucco gets little more support 
Washington (UPI) Jan 28, 2009 European leaders at an energy meeting held in the aftermath of the Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis see the proposed Nabucco natural gas pipeline as a way around Moscow-controlled energy supplies. While leaders in Budapest Tuesday pledged financial and political support, the Western-backed project to send Azeri, Caspian and Middle Eastern gas to European consumers will have trouble competing again ... more Czech leader urges support for Ukraine's EU drive 
Wroclaw, Poland (AFP) Jan 28, 2009The European Union must support Ukraine's drive for integration with the bloc despite a recent gas crisis, the prime minister of current EU president the Czech Republic said Wednesday. "The key task is to persuade our colleagues in the European Union that Ukraine's movement towards Europe is of the utmost importance for the EU -- as is its Euro-Atlantic integration," Mirek Topolanek said. ... more |
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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 Space Program Still Vital 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 27, 2009In 1961, when President John F. Kennedy told Congress we'd put a man on the moon by the end of the decade, he knew that the journey of discovery would yield more value than simply beating the Russians to the moon. "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth," were the ... more |
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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 Gaza, Georgia And Beyond Part One
Washington (UPI) Jan 22, 2009 Did Russia win or lose its five-day war in Georgia, and did Israel win or lose its three-week war in Gaza? The answers in both cases lie on the political and strategic levels, not in the areas of tactics and ground combat. It may be argued that Russia failed and Israel succeeded, or that both nations failed in their longer-term strategic goals, because pro-Western President Mikheil Saak ... more
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