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Clinton, Lavrov meet to 'reboot' Russia ties Moscow (AFP) March 4, 2009 
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Friday holds her first bilateral talks with her Russian counterpart as Washington seeks to "reboot" ties plagued by discord over Iran and missile defence. Her meeting in Geneva with Sergei Lavrov will be a test of whether President Barack Obama's emphasis on diplomacy can improve US-Russian relations, which were badly strained during the presidency of Ge ... read more
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Iran says nuclear plant to start operating by Sept
Tehran (AFP) March 4, 2009Iran said on Wednesday that its much-delayed nuclear power plant, where testing began last month, would start generating electricity by September 2009. The 1,000-megawatt Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr will first generate around 500 megawatts, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told parliament, the official IRNA news agency reported. "Since the fuel for the pow ... more Walker's World: Fiscal woes roil Kremlin 
Moscow (UPI) Mar 4, 2009 The Russian political system is learning the hard way that economic hardship forces political disputes. Budget deficits require policy choices over what to cut and what to preserve. Ministries and special interests mobilize to defend their turf and their budgets, and appeal to higher authority for support. Tough decisions have to be made. Until a year ago, those tough decisions were mad ... more Siemens teams up with Russia for slice of nuclear pie 
Berlin (AFP) March 4, 2009Siemens has become the latest German firm to up its game and tap into the renewed interest in nuclear power being seen all across the world -- but not in the company's own backyard. The Munich-based industrial giant said late Tuesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture with Russian firm Rosatom that they hope will become the "world market leader" in nuclear te ... more Russian General Says US May Have Planned Satellite Collision 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 04, 2009A 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 ... more 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 |
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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 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 |
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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 Russia Set To Put US Telecom Satellite Into Orbit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Feb 27, 2009Russia is planning to launch on Thursday a U.S. Telstar telecom satellite on a Zenith carrier rocket from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency said. "The launch of a Zenit-3SLB rocket with a Telstar-11N satellite is scheduled for 9:30 p.m. Moscow time [18:30 GMT]," the Roscosmos official said. The Telstar 11N, built by Space Systems/Loral ... more Europe names crew for Mars 'mission' 
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
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