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Deadline Set On Russian Military Reform Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2009 
Russia's hard-charging chief of the general staff pledged Monday to complete the long-delayed and fiercely opposed restructuring of the Russian armed forces over the next four years. "We are planning to complete a reform of the military within the next three or four years. The established time frame has not been revised," four-star army Gen. Nikolai Makarov announced, RIA Novosti report ... read more
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Kazakhstan helps out US on Afghanistan
Astana (AFP) Feb 9, 2009Kazakhstan on Monday became the latest nation to offer its territory for the transit of supplies to coalition troops in Afghanistan, following Kyrgyzstan's shock decision to shut a key US airbase. "Kazakhstan has given its consent to the transit of cargo by land for the logistical material for the US contingent in Afghanistan," Kazakh foreign ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashikbayev told report ... more Saving Money By Buying For Local Warfare Only Part One 
Washington (UPI) Feb 9, 2009 Indonesia's recent purchase of several older-design Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker combat aircraft from Russia highlights a crucial lesson of weapons development and international arms sales - technical superiority is relative, not absolute. You don't need state-of-the-art weapons if your potential enemies are only equipped with older ones. Just making sure you have a sufficient quantitative and qualit ... more Russia's Progress Digital Cargo Spacecraft Buried In Pacific 
Moscow (RIA) Feb 09, 2009Russia'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 ... more 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 |
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Munich, Germany (AFP) Feb 7, 2009The head of NATO on Saturday criticised Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's proposal for a new pan-European security architecture, saying it was incompatible with Russia's actions in Georgia. But other leaders said Europe should be receptive to Moscow's overtures, with French President Nicolas Sarkozy declaring flatly that modern Russia posed no military threat to NATO or the European Union. ... more Analysis: Azerbaijan crucial to gas export 
Washington (UPI) Feb 5, 2009 No Caspian nation has been more affected by the perfect storm of the global economic bust, Russian-Ukrainian gas disputes and the Georgian-Russian conflict than Azerbaijan. In 2009 Baku will attempt to juggle multiple concerns, from raising exports amid falling prices to remaining on good terms both with Western consumers and its giant northern Caspian neighbor Russia. Its partner may b ... more Russia Says Verbal Deal To Keep Station OPen Until 2020 
Moscow (RIA) Feb 06, 2009Russia 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. ... more 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 |
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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 March Launch Planned For ESA's Gravity Mission 
Paris, France (SPX) Feb 05, 2009ESA 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 ... more 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
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