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Russia Says Verbal Deal To Keep Station OPen Until 2020 Moscow (RIA) Feb 06, 2009 
Russia and its International Space Station partners have an oral agreement to continue using the orbiter until 2020, the president of leading Russian spacecraft maker RSC Energia said on Thursday. "The ISS partners have not yet signed any documents, but verbally we have already settled the initiative [to extend the station's use]," Vitaly Lopota said at a news conference in Moscow. ... read more
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Iranian missiles have 'worldwide reach': Russia
Moscow (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Iran's successful launch of a satellite with its own technology shows that the country's missiles "can reach any point on the globe," a senior Russian space sector official said Thursday. "I take my hat off to the Iranian scientists," Vitali Lapota, manager of the RKK Energuia space construction company declared was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. "They have shown their missile ... more Defense Focus: Bears fly over Arctic Ocean 
Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 Russia is continuing its new series of strategic nuclear bomber long-range missions over the Arctic Ocean. Two Tupolev Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers crossed the Arctic Ocean and flew as far as Alaska, a Russian air force spokesman announced Jan. 28. "Two Tu-95MS strategic bombers took off from an airbase in eastern Russia on Tuesday and successfully carried out a patrol mission ... more Russia Defense Watch: Sukhois for Jakarta 
Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 The Indonesian air force Monday officially confirmed its acquisition of three Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MK2 (NATO designation Flanker) multirole combat fighters, RIA Novosti reported. Russia delivered the three aircraft on Dec. 26 and Jan. 17. Since then, the Sukhoi fighters were put together from their kits and have carried out test flights, RIA Novosti said. The aircraft ... more Russia gets its Abkhazian Air Base back 
Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 As the dust over the August 2008 Russian-Georgian war settles, the extent of Russia's geopolitical gain in South Caucasus and the Black Sea is becoming clearer. Besides the naval base in the Abkhazian port of Ochamchire, of which we wrote recently, Moscow intends to restore the former Soviet air base Bombora in the Gudauta district of Abkhazia. This is the largest military ... more Somali pirates free Ukrainian arms ship 
Mogadishu (AFP) Feb 5, 2009Somali pirates on Thursday freed a Ukrainian ship they had held since September with battle tanks and other weaponry on board after receiving a ransom of more than three million dollars. The release of the ship and its crew of 20 seamen -- a Latvian, two Russians and 17 Ukrainians -- marked the end of one of the longest and most dramatic sea-jackings in recent years. "We have released ... more |
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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 Analysis: All eyes on Joe Biden in Munich 
Berlin (UPI) Feb 4, 2009 All eyes will be on U.S. Vice President Joe Biden at this week's 45th Munich Conference on Security Policy, where the world hopes to learn about a foreign policy turnaround in Washington. The Feb. 6-8 conference, which draws political leaders from all over the world, is a major venue for backroom politics and high-profile speeches. In 2007 Vladimir Putin, then Russia's president ... more |
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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 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
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