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NATO urges Kyrgyzstan not to close US base Bishkek (AFP) Feb 2, 2009 
NATO would "regret" any decision by the Kyrgyz authorities to order the closure of a US base that serves as a resupply post for operations in Afghanistan, a top alliance official said on Monday. Kyrgyz officials have repeatedly said that President Kurmanbek Bakiyev is considering ordering the base's closure, in the hope it will prompt Russia to extend a major loan and invest in the impoveris ... read more
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Six-party security meeting set for this month: Seoul
Seoul (AFP) Feb 2, 2009North Korea and its five negotiating partners will meet as scheduled this month to discuss regional security even though their broader nuclear disarmament talks are stalled, South Korea said Monday. A foreign ministry statement said the working group meeting would be held in Moscow on February 19-20. The talks group the two Koreas, the United States, Russia, China and Japan. The last ful ... more Russia Makes First Space Launch Of 2009 
Moscow (RIA) Feb 02, 2009Russia has successfully launched its first carrier rocket of 2009, putting a Coronas-Photon research satellite into orbit, a Mission Control spokesman said Friday. The launch of the Cyclone-3 rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia had been scheduled for Thursday, but was delayed by a day for technical reasons. The Coronas-Photon satellite, designed to study solar ... more Obama, Pentagon pull in different directions on no nukes goal 
Washington (AFP) Jan 30, 2009President Barack Obama has set a goal of a "world without nuclear weapons" but the Pentagon is leaning in a seemingly contradictory direction: a modernized nuclear arsenal. The new administration has signaled its intent to swiftly engage Russia in negotiations on deeper cuts in their respective arsenals, with the ultimate aim of reducing them to zero. But US Defense Secretary Robert Gates ... more World powers to hold first Iran meeting of Obama presidency 
Berlin (AFP) Jan 30, 2009Senior diplomats from six world powers trying to convince Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions will meet next week in Germany for their first meeting since US President Barack Obama took office, a German official said Friday. Political directors from the UN Security Council permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany will meet Wednesday near the ... more Ballistic Missile Proliferation Part Four 
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 The spread of ballistic-missile technology has followed a classic proliferation pattern. Russia shared relevant technologies with the People's Republic of China, which then shared them with North Korea, which in turn shared them with Pakistan and Iran. Russia, China and North Korea remain contributors to the ballistic-missile efforts of more recent acquirers. Because the regional powers ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 The global economic downturn is now hitting energy companies, for whom 2008 will remain the golden year of record-high oil prices, as they are fetching $100 per barrel less than they were in July. The recession has reached its tendrils into Russia's energy complex, the world's largest. While Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom is currently Europe's favorite bete noire for its dispute ... more Roscosmos Eyes New Station 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 30, 2009Russia'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 ... more 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 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 |
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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
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