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Russia buys unmanned drones from Israel: report Moscow (AFP) April 7, 2009 
Russia has purchased its first unmanned drones from Israel after its own manufacturers turned out to be ineffective at making the high-tech reconnaissance aircraft, a newspaper reported Tuesday. The deal for an initial purchase of 50 million dollars' (37 million euros') worth of drones was concluded in early April with Israel Aerospace Industries, the Kommersant daily said, citing a Russian ... read more
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Obama's crisis diplomacy hits North Korea hiccup
Washington (AFP) April 6, 2009President Barack Obama's vaulting rhetoric over North Korea's missile launch ran into familiar resistance at the UN, exposing the cold reality confronting his vows of a new diplomatic dawn. The Stalinist state's weekend launch of a long-range missile came just days after Obama's first talks with the Chinese and Russian presidents in London, posing an early test of the leaders' declared aim f ... more Russia's Growing Arctic Power Play 
Washington, April 6, 2009 Russia has launched a long-term program for the next 12 years to boost its security forces and military presence in the resource-rich Arctic Ocean. The Kremlin has plans to slowly assemble a collection of military and security units in the arctic region, but it has no intention of militarizing the arctic, a spokesman for the Russian Security Council told RIA Novosti March 27. ... more NKorea's Kim 'weeps' as US urges response on rocket 
Seoul (AFP) April 7, 2009North Korea hailed its controversial rocket launch as a famous victory Tuesday but said reclusive leader Kim Jong-Il wept tears of regret that the money could not have been used to help his people. As world powers struggled to agree on a response, with China and Russia both urging restraint, the North's media boasted of the "historic" achievement of putting a satellite into orbit that was no ... more Russia Says Iran No Threat To Us As New Sanctions Imposed 
Washington (AFP) April 7, 2009Iran poses no threat to the United States, Russia said Tuesday, rebuffing a key argument of President Barack Obama on whether to go ahead with a European missile shield bitterly opposed by Moscow. Former president George W. Bush had infuriated Russia by striking a deal to install 10 missile interceptors in Poland and related radar stations in the Czech Republic, saying they were needed to co ... more Google Co-Founder May Become Space Tourist 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 07, 2009Russian-born American billionaire and Google co-founder Sergey Brin may become a space tourist in 2012, the president of Space Adventures announced at a press conference. Eric Anderson said on Sunday that Sergey Brin was among the potential candidates to fly into space, and added that Space Adventures would continue to send tourists into space despite the fact that the ISS crew is to incre ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 6, 2009Russia will finish an oil pipeline connecting Siberian oil fields to energy-hungry China in several weeks, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. "As I have just been told by the management of Transneft, within just a few weeks the phase of reaching the Chinese border will be completed, and we will move on further to the Pacific Ocean," he said a speech to Russian lawmakers. Puti ... more Russian launcher puts European telecoms satellite in orbit 
Moscow (AFP) April 3, 2009A Russian Proton-M rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday to put into orbit a European telecommunications satellite, the Krunichev space centre announced. The Eutelsat W2A satellite is designed to transmit multimedia services, including television, to mobile phones and receivers fitted in vehicles. The launching took place at the planned time of 8:24 pm ... more North Korea launch called 'reckless', 'provocative' 
Tokyo (AFP) April 5, 2009North Korea's rocket launch Sunday rattled all of East Asia and US President Barack Obama led global condemnation of what he called an attempt to provoke trouble. Obama said North Korea had tested a ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolutions. South Korea, which called the act "reckless", and Japan put their militaries on heightened alert. China and Russia pleaded for restraint while the ... more UN boss hails US-Russian accord on nuclear arms talks 
United Nations (AFP) April 3, 2009UN boss Ban Ki-moon on Friday hailed an agreement by US and Russian leaders to hold talks on further cuts in their nuclear arsenals to replace a key arms control pact that expires late this year. "The Secretary-General welcomes the joint statement by (Russian) President (Dmitry) Medvedev and (US) President (Barack) Obama," said a statement issued by the UN press office. It added that Ba ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) April 3, 2009Russian officials shut down the nuclear power station at Kalinin, in the northwest Tver region of Russia, because of a faulty turbine, the Interfax agency reported Friday, citing officials at the station. The number two block was shut down on Thursday because of a problem with the turbine, said the station's director Leonid Martynovchenko, the agency reported. It would back up and connec ... more Flooding delays return of Soyuz spacecraft 
Moscow, April 3, 2009 Flooding in Kazakhstan has delayed the return of a Soyuz spacecraft from the International Space Station, the Russian agency Roscomos said Friday. The Soyuz TMA-13 is scheduled to land Wednesday, a day later than planned, and further northeast in Kazakhstan, where spring floods inundated the original landing site on the Kazakh steppes, RIA Novosti reported. The spacecraft is carr ... more Tunguska Blast Caused By Exploding Comet 
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 03, 2009The 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 ... more 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
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