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US space tourist shrugs off 10 mln dollar price hike Star City, Russia (AFP) March 5, 2009 
American software tycoon Charles Simonyi on Thursday shrugged off a 10 million dollar price hike by Russia for his next space flight, saying space tourism was the way of the future. Simonyi, one of the brains behind the rise of Microsoft, said the 35 million dollars (28 million euro) he is paying for his March 26 trip -- compared to the 25 million dollar bill he paid for a first trip in 2007 ... read more
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New ISS Crew Announced At Russia's Star City
Star City, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 06, 2009A committee at Russia's space training center, Star City, announced the line up for the crew of the 19th Expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Thursday. The ISS crew, comprising Russian Commander Gennady Padalka, U.S. Flight Engineer Michael Barratt, and American space tourist Charles Simonyi, one of the founders of Microsoft, will lift of ... more US to urge Russia not to sell missiles to Iran: Clinton 
Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2009US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she would urge Russia to stop missile sales talks with Iran, during meetings in Geneva with her Russian counterpart. She said she would "raise with Russia their continuing discussions with Iran about selling longer-range missiles, which we think are a threat to Russia as well as to Europe and neighbours in the region." Clinton meet ... more Russia to monitor US Arctic submarine exercises: report 
Moscow (AFP) March 5, 2009Russia's navy will monitor submarine exercises by the US navy to be held under the Arctic Ocean later this month, a Russian navy spokesman told the RIA-Novosti state news agency on Thursday. "Any activities by foreign submarines in the immediate vicinity of Russia's maritime borders naturally require increased attention by the navy," said the spokesman for Russia's Pacific Fleet, based in th ... more NATO chief to recommend resumption of ties with Russia 
Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2009NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer called Thursday for the alliance to resume top-level talks with Russia which have been frozen since last August's war in Georgia. Scheffer said ties between the alliance and Moscow had shown a marked improvement after lower-level talks and hoped that a ministerial meeting in Brussels would approve the resumption of contacts at the highest level. ... more NATO agrees to restart of top level talks with Russia 
Brussels (AFP) March 5, 2009NATO agreed Thursday to resume high-level talks with Russia, ending a seven-month freeze sparked by Moscow's decision to send troops into Georgia in August. After overcoming staunch objections from Lithuania, NATO foreign ministers agreed to restart the so-called NATO-Russia Council after the alliance's summit on April 3-4. "Ministers reached agreement to formally resume the NATO-Russia ... more |
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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 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 |
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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
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