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Tunguska Blast Caused By Exploding Comet Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2009 
The mysterious Tunguska blast in 1908 that flattened millions of trees in Siberia was due to the explosion of a hydrogen-saturated part of a comet in Earth's atmosphere, a Russian scientist said Monday. Eduard Drobyshevsky, a doctor of physical and mathematical science and chief researcher at the Ioffe physics and technology institute of the Russian Academy of Science, said his new theory ... read more
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Russia Urges North Korea To Show Restraint In Rocket Launch
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2009Russia urges North Korea to show restraint with its upcoming rocket launch and related activities, the Foreign Ministry's spokesman said on Friday. The spokesman's comments came soon after reports emerged that the North had deployed fighter planes to fend off any attempts to intercept the rocket, which it says will be putting a satellite into orbit. "Restraint in rocket activities wo ... more Russia To Launch Another 3 Soyuz Spacecraft To ISS In 2009 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2009Russia is planning to launch three more Soyuz piloted spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) this year, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday. The first Soyuz TMA vehicle this year, the TMA-14, was launched on March 26 and delivered members of the 19th Expedition to the ISS. "In line with international agreements, Russia will launch the Soyuz TMA-15 on May ... more Russia's Medvedev hails 'comrade' Obama 
London (AFP) April 2, 2009Russia's Dmitry Medvedev hailed Barack Obama as "my new comrade" Thursday after their first face-to-face talks, saying the US president "can listen" -- even if little progress was made on substance. The Russian president contrasted Obama as "totally different" to his predecessor George W. Bush, whom he blamed for the "mistake" of US missile shield plans fiercely opposed by Moscow. Obama ... more IAEA welcomes US-Russian talks on nuclear arms cuts 
Vienna (AFP) April 2, 2009The UN atomic watchdog on Thursday welcomed an agreement by the United States and Russia to hold new talks on cutting their nuclear arsenals, saying the move would help boost nuclear non-proliferation. The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement that its director general Mohamed ElBaradei "welcomes and is greatly encouraged by the joint statement of presidents (Dmitry) Medvede ... more Analysis: Russia moves on Nigeria oil 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 02, 2009Russian energy firm Gazprom has signed an agreement with the New Nigeria Development Co. for exploration of three oil blocks in the country's north, officials from both countries said. Though rights to the blocks in the Chad Basin and Benue Trough were first acquired by Gazprom in 2005, the company has taken its time in entering the often volatile oil and gas sector beset by violence fr ... more |
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Baquba, Iraq (UPI) Mar 31, 2009 A previously less visible terror group has replaced al-Qaida in spearheading attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. Armor-piercing hand grenades have appeared in the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, disrupting the relative calm that has held in the key Iraqi city for months. he RKG-3 - a Russian acronym for handheld shaped charge grenade - weighs just a bit more than 2 pounds and ... more Russia, China cooperate on new currency proposals: Kremlin 
Moscow (AFP) March 30, 2009Russia and China are coordinating proposals on a new global currency that could replace the US dollar as a reserve currency to prevent a repeat of the global economic crisis, the Kremlin said on Monday. "We have received proposals from our colleagues in China, detailed proposals," President Dmitry Medvedev's top economic adviser Arkady Dvorkovich said. "Our positions are very similar. "W ... more Europe, Russia in Mars mission rehearsal 
Moscow (AFP) March 29, 2009Six volunteers from Europe and Russia will on Tuesday allow themselves to be locked up in a capsule in Moscow for over three months to simulate the conditions for an eventual manned mission to Mars. The two Europeans and four Russians will not be allowed to leave the facility until their mission ends 105 days later, allowing scientists to assess the psychological effects of long duration spa ... more Russian ship with tourist docks with space station 
Moscow (AFP) March 28, 2009A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying second-time space tourist Charles Simonyi docked Saturday at the International Space Station, media reports quoted the control centre near Moscow as saying. Officials said the crew, a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut, had overridden the spacecraft's automatic pilots to dock manually after a glitch in an engine caused the Soyuz's computer to stop the proce ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2009 "If you don't succeed at first, try, try and try again." That old saying could be the motto for the Russian navy, which is pushing ahead with at least three more test launchings of its much-troubled Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile this year. "We are planning three test launches of the Bulava missile from the Dmitry Donskoi submarine. If the tests are successful, they will continue on board the new Yury Dolgoruky nuclear-powered submarine," Vice Adm. Oleg Burtsev, deputy chief of the navy general staff, announced March 19, according to the RIA Novosti news agency. ... more Russia plans to deploy troops in the Arctic: document 
Moscow (AFP) March 27, 2009Russia plans to turn the Arctic into its "leading strategic resource base" by 2020 and station troops there, documents showed Friday, as nations race to stake a claim to the oil-rich region. The country's strategy for the Arctic through 2020 - adopted last year and now published on the national security council website - says one of Russia's main goals for the region is to put troops in it ... more Analysis: China can't buy Sukhoi jets 
Hong Kong (UPI) Mar 25, 2009 Some Western media have reported that China is negotiating with Russian aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi Co. for the procurement of 14 Su-33 shipborne fighters, claiming that the contract on the deal will be signed soon. However, Boris D. Bregman, first deputy general director of Sukhoi, said the talks with China are still only at the consultation stage. While confirming that contacts were ... more Analysis: Kazakh hydroelectric potential 
Washington (UPI) Mar 27, 2009 To most Westerners, the terms Kazakhstan and energy are synonymous with the country's dramatic rise as a petro-state since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union. Like its oil industry, though, Kazakhstan's hydroelectric industry has roots in the Soviet era, and today the country's efforts to develop its hydroelectric potential are entangled with the conflicting policies of the other pos ... more
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