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Russian General Says US May Have Planned Satellite Collision Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 04, 2009 
A collision between U.S. and Russian satellites in early February may have been a test of new U.S. technology to intercept and destroy satellites rather than an accident, a Russian military expert has said. According to official reports, one of 66 satellites owned by Iridium, a U.S. telecoms company, and the Russian Cosmos-2251 satellite, launched in 1993 and believed to be defunct, collid ... read more
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Obama's letter to Medvedev aims to 'reboot' ties
Washington (AFP) March 3, 2009US President Barack Obama revealed Tuesday he had sent a long letter to his Russian counterpart in a bid to "reboot" ties and join forces on thorny issues like Iran, nuclear arms and missile defense. Relations between Cold War foes Russia and the United States plunged to their lowest level in years under the previous administration of president George W. Bush. But in an early gesture fro ... more Analysis: Obama reaches out to Russia 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 3, 2009 President Obama's outreach to the Kremlin could successfully "reboot" relations with Russia, leading to a real reconciliation between the two nations, say Russian politicians and analysts. Obama recently sent a personal letter to Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. It contained several policy "proposals" and "assessments" of the current political situation, a spokeswoman of Medvedev said ... more Russia, Spain strengthen ties with energy pact 
Madrid (AFP) March 3, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev wrapped up a visit Tuesday to Madrid by signing an energy cooperation pact and a deal to enable Spanish military equipment and staff to reach Afghanistan via Russia. "We have succeeded in entering a new level of cooperation. Big prospects are opening up in the fuel and energy sphere," he told a news conference with host Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zap ... more Analysis: Russian gas reservoirs for EU? 
Berlin (UPI) Mar 3, 2009 Russian gas monopoly Gazprom is considering constructing Europe's largest gas storage facility in Germany, claiming the project would increase Europe's energy security. "This is an investment in Germany's and Western Europe's supply security," Burkhard Woelki, spokesman of Gazprom Germania, told United Press International in a telephone interview Monday. Such a reservoir, he said, which ... more Russia set against extending START treaty: Lavrov 
Moscow (AFP) March 2, 2009Moscow 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 ... more |
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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 Putin condemns hunting of baby seals 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 27, 2009Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin showed a soft spot in his tough-guy image by condemning the hunting of baby whitecoat seals, Russian newspapers reported on Friday. "This is a bloody business and it clearly should have been banned long ago," Putin said during a meeting with his cabinet, quoted by official government daily Rossiiskaya Gazeta. The comments came after Russia's natural ... more Analysis: Iran may enter LNG market 
Washington (UPI) Feb 27, 2009 Iran's vast, largely untapped natural gas reserves are increasingly coming into the view of Brussels' bureaucrats, especially after the January Ukrainian-Russian gas disputes, which traumatized Europe to search for alternative sources in the Caspian basin. This is despite previous hesitation due to Washington's threats of punitive sanctions, under legislation passed in 1996, against an ... more |
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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 Yemen to buy more Russian fighters: president 
Moscow (AFP) Feb 26, 2009Yemen seeks to buy more Russian fighter jets among other military hardware, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in an interview published Thursday by the Vremya Novostei daily. "We had had the (MiG-29) fighter airplanes for a long time, they are good fighters. Suffice to say that we intend to buy more of them, I will not say how much, but it will be MiG-29 and maybe MiG-35," Saleh told ... more Russian navy accepts blame for oil spill off Ireland 
Dublin (AFP) Feb 26, 2009The Russian navy has admitted responsibility for a 500-tonne oil spill off the south coast of Ireland this month, an Irish transport ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday. The accident happened when the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was bunkering, or re-fuelling, from a tanker about 50 miles (80 kilometres) southwest of the Fastnet Rock in the Atlantic on February 14. A high-level ... more
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