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March Launch Planned For ESA's Gravity Mission Paris, France (SPX) Feb 05, 2009 
ESA is now gearing up to return to Russia to oversee preparations for the launch of its GOCE satellite - now envisaged for launch on 16 March 2009. This follows implementation of the corrective measures after the anomaly with the Rockot launcher that delayed the launch of GOCE by Eurockot Launch Services last October. An advance party from ESA has just arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in ... read more
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Russia welcomes US nuclear pledge: official
Moscow (AFP) Feb 4, 2009Russia welcomes a US pledge to speed work on nuclear disarmament and hopes cooperation between the two Cold War-era rivals will deter others from amassing atomic weapons, a top official said Wednesday. In an exclusive interview with AFP, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov -- a close associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin -- also said Moscow was ready to facilitate talks between the ... more World powers hold first Obama-era talks on Iran 
Berlin (AFP) Feb 4, 2009Senior diplomats from six world powers met Wednesday for the first time under the new US administration to discuss Iran's nuclear ambitions, two days after Tehran launched its first satellite. Political directors from the UN Security Council permanent members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States -- plus Germany met in Wiesbaden near the western German city of Frankfurt ... more US big guns to outline foreign policy in Munich 
Berlin (AFP) Feb 4, 2009US President Barack Obama is sending his big guns to Germany this weekend to give a first real taster of his foreign policy aims at a security conference that may also witness a less feisty Russia. Attending the 45th Munich Security Conference from Friday to Sunday will be US Vice President Joe Biden, National Security Adviser James Jones and Richard Holbrooke, Obama's newly appointed point ... more Russia seeks new Black Sea naval base 
Washington (UPI) Feb 3, 2009 Russia plans to establish a Black Sea naval base at the Abkhaz port of Ochamchire. Ochamchire is some 60 kilometers southeast of the Abkhaz capital of Sukhumi, near the cease-fire line with Georgia. If permanently stationed there, Russian ships essentially would control the Georgian territorial waters all the way to the Turkish border. The Georgian ports of Poti and Batumi ... more NATO concerned about Russian troop reports in Georgia 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 4, 2009NATO expressed concern Wednesday about reports that Russia is planning to open up a naval base in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia and is closely watching developments. "NATO ambassadors are watching the situation both carefully and with concern, as they seem to be in violation of Georgia's territorial integrity," spokesman James Appathurai told reporters in Brussels. He said ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Feb 2, 2009 Russia is speaking a lot more softly these days about retargeting possible U.S. ballistic missile defense bases in Central Europe with its Iskander-M short-range missiles. But it is pushing ahead hard with developing to make those Iskanders more lethal all the same. The Russian armed forces are utilizing advances in unmanned aerial vehicle technology to make their Iskanders more ... more Kyrgyzstan vows to close key US air base 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 3, 2009Kyrgyzstan vowed Tuesday it would order the closure of a US airbase on its soil whose presence has irritated Moscow, on the same day it received a generous Russian financial aid package. The Manas air base serves as a vital supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan but its location deep in former Soviet territory has annoyed an increasingly assertive Russia keen on restoring its influence ... more Putin ready to expand German nuclear cooperation 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 3, 2009Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said Russia was ready to expand cooperation in the nuclear energy sector with the German engineering giant Siemens, underlining the strength of economic ties between the two countries. "We are ready to move from realizing piecemeal projects to the creation of a full-scale partnership between Siemens and (Russia's state nuclear firm) Rosatom", Putin to ... more NATO urges Kyrgyzstan not to close US base
Bishkek (AFP) Feb 2, 2009NATO 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 ... more |
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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 Russia missile plans dependent on US missile defence: ministry 
Moscow (AFP) Jan 31, 2009Reports on Russia's suspension of missile deployment in its Kaliningrad enclave were misguided as Moscow planned to deploy missiles only if Washington went ahead with its missile shield defense, Russia's foreign ministry said late Friday. "Many foreign media and even politicians and officials reacted to this 'suspension' of missiles in the Kaliningrad region. But no one is suspending anything ... more Analysis: Russia and Central Asian water 
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2009 An integral element of the new Eurasian "great game" between Russia and the United States is a tussle for control of the Caspian's hydrocarbon riches and those of former Soviet republics farther east. But Russia is making a diplomatic play on another key resource -- water. Russian and foreign energy consortia remain largely focused on the region's rich oil and natural gas reserves. ... more
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