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Russia's Progress Digital Cargo Spacecraft Buried In Pacific Moscow (RIA) Feb 09, 2009 
Russia's new, digitally-controlled Progress M-01M series spacecraft was "buried" on Sunday at a "spaceship cemetery" in the southern Pacific, Mission Control said. "The cargo spacecraft's remaining fragments fell into the Pacific Ocean after re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere is 11:19 a.m. Moscow time [81:49 GMT]," Mission Control said. The Progress M-01M cargo spacecraft undocked ... read more
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Arianespace And Thales Announce Contract With Russian Operator Gazprom
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 09, 2009Arianespace has been chosen to launch the two communications satellites, Yamal-401 and Yamal-402 within the scope of a contract between Thales Alenia Space and Russian operator Gazprom. The launch contract was signed yesterday in Moscow, following the contract signed by Thales Alenia Space and Gazprom for the in-orbit delivery of the satellites Yamal-401 and Yamal-402. Thales Alenia ... more US military pieces together Afghan supply chain 
Washington (AFP) Feb 6, 2009Threatened with the loss of a key air base, the US military is making plans to move materiel and fuel to US forces in Afghanistan through a network of commercial links through Russia and Central Asia, a military spokesman said Friday. Adding urgency to the planning is a looming military buildup in Afghanistan that will nearly double the size of the US force and dramatically expand the demand ... more Russia's Ivanov welcomes new US overtures 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 8, 2009Russia's deputy prime minister welcomed on Sunday signals from Washington that it wants a fresh start in relations, a day after Vice President Joe Biden heralded a "new tone" in US foreign policy. Speaking after talks with Biden at a security conference in Munich - the highest level US-Russia meeting since President Barack Obama took office on January 20 - Sergei Ivanov said he was "optimi ... more Obama team reaches out in first foreign outing 
Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 8, 2009The US administration signalled a new spirit of international cooperation this weekend but called for its allies to do more and painted a bleak picture of the war in Afghanistan. Vice President Joe Biden used the Munich Security Conference in the southern Germany city to say that Barack Obama's White House sought a "new tone" in foreign relations, particularly with regard to Russia and even ... more NATO chief seeks Russian help to keep Kyrgyz base 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 8, 2009NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Sunday urged Russia to use its influence to keep open an airbase in Kyrgyzstan used by Western forces as a link to Afghanistan, Echo of Moscow reported. "If NATO and Russia will cooperate on this question... I hope the Kyrgyz government's decision won't be final," De Hoop Scheffer said in an interview with the radio station in Munich. ... more |
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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 |
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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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