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Russia set against extending START treaty: Lavrov Moscow (AFP) March 2, 2009 
Moscow is set against extending the key nuclear arms treaty that expires in 2009, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. "The limits set in the existing accord have all been met and exceeded, both we and the Americans have in reality far fewer (missiles) than the existing accord allows," Lavrov said as quoted by the RIA Novosti news agency. "So extending it further would mea ... read more
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Russian military satellite in orbit after launch
Moscow (UPI) Feb 28, 2009 A Russian military satellite is now in orbit above the Earth after being launched with a Proton-K heavy carrier rocket Saturday, an official says. A Space Forces spokesman, Lt. Col. Alexei Zolotukhin, said the satellite successfully separated from the Russian rocket after being launched from the Baikonur space center, RIA Novosti reported. "The separation of the satellite from th ... more Final European Crewmembers Announced For Human Mars Mission Simulation 
Paris, France (ESA) Mar 02, 2009ESA has announced the European prime and backup crewmembers for the 105-day Mars500 study. From 31 March 2009, two Europeans are set to join four Russian crewmembers on a simulated human mission to Mars. After a selection process which started with some 5600 applicants, the final four European candidates began training for the Mars mission simulation last month. From these four candi ... more Russian bomber intercepted as Obama visited Canada 
Ottawa (AFP) Feb 27, 2009Canadian fighter jets intercepted a Russian heavy bomber skirting Canada's Arctic frontier within 24 hours of US President Barack Obama visit to Ottawa last week, officials said Friday. The Tupolev Bear strategic bomber and missile carrier did not enter Canadian airspace but came close enough for the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) to scramble two CF-18 fighter jets to ward ... more Iran says no military agenda in nuclear plan 
Tehran, Iran (AFP) Feb 27, 2009Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Friday Tehran's atomic plans were not of military nature, urging Russia to complete Iran's long-delayed nuclear power plant. "In the Friday prayer sermon, we don't make false promises. Therefore I declare that Iran's nuclear plan is not to build weapons ... and we are ready to prove it in negotiations," he said in a sermon carried liv ... more Russia expecting new US missile defence proposals 
Moscow (AFP) March 1, 2009Russia is awaiting new proposals from the United States to resolve a dispute on missile defence that has chilled ties between the two Cold War ex-foes, President Dmitry Medvedev was quoted Sunday as saying. Medvedev's comments were among the most upbeat yet by Moscow on the chance of an improvement in ties under new US President Barack Obama after the missile defence row and Georgia war sent ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Feb 26, 2009The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday named a Frenchman and a German who will join four Russians in an innovative 105-day isolation experiment to test whether humans can one day fly to Mars. From March 31, the six "crew" will be locked inside a special facility in Moscow that replicates conditions of a space trip to Mars. The simulation will be followed by a 520-day experiment, start ... more In wilds of Central Asia, US seeks Afghan gateway 
Arys, Kazakhstan (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Snaking thousands of miles across steppe and desert, Central Asia's Russian-built railway has become an unlikely focus of the new US military strategy for Afghanistan. Still baring traces of the Tsarist era, the region's rail network and other infrastructure is now part of plans by Washington for a vital new supply route to support President Barack Obama's military surge against Taliban insu ... more Clinton to Middle East, Europe March 1 to 7 
Washington (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is to take her first trip as the United States' top diplomat to the Middle East and Europe from March 1 to 7, State Department spokesman Robert Wood said Thursday. Clinton will travel to Egypt, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Belgium, Switzerland and Turkey to attend a donor's conference, meet with NATO foreign ministers and Russian Foreign Minister Se ... more Russia proposes NATO talks on Georgia to ease ties 
Brussels (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Russia is ready to discuss its war in Georgia to help unblock ties with NATO but alliance nations are divided over resuming formal talks and no de-freeze is likely before April, diplomats said Thursday. The war in early August brought NATO-Russia tensions to a head, especially Moscow's decision to recognise the independence of the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and ... more |
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Amman (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Russia, which is helping Iran build its first nuclear plant, inked a preliminary cooperation deal with Jordan on Thursday to pave the way for producing nuclear power in the energy-poor kingdom. Under the agreement, Russia will help Jordan, which imports around 95 percent of its energy needs, build power and desalination plants as well as research centres, Jordan Atomic Energy Commission head ... more Russia probes officers over China arms sales: report 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Russia's military prosecutor on Wednesday announced a probe into high-level naval officers and businessmen suspected of supplying anti-submarine rockets to China illegally, Interfax reported. The prosecutor, Sergei Fridinsky, said the suspects had transferred the 30 rockets as well as 200 aviation bombs to the ex-Soviet state of Tajikistan with the intention of selling them on to China for ... more Iran says nuclear plant could start in months 
Bushehr, Iran (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Iran began testing its first nuclear power plant on Wednesday in the face of deep international concern over its atomic drive and said the long-delayed project could go on line within months. Officials from Iran and Russia, which has been involving in building the power station for the past 14 years, watched over the start of the pre-commissioning in the Gulf port of Bushehr. "As for a t ... more Threat of oil spill menaces Russian Pacific island 
Korsakov, Russia (AFP) Feb 25, 2009Standing on the icy shoreline, Dmitry Lisitsyn recalled the day when over 100 dying birds washed up on this beach, coated in a thick layer of oil and helplessly flapping their wings. "We believe there were several thousand birds killed in all," said Lisitsyn, an environmental activist on Russia's Sakhalin Island, located in the Pacific Ocean just a few dozen kilometres (miles) north of Japan ... more
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