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NATO satellite launched on Russian-Ukrainian rocket Moscow (AFP) April 20, 2009 
A NATO communications satellite was launched into orbit Monday aboard a Russian-Ukrainian rocket from a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, space officials said. "The SICRAL 1B satellite was launched at 0816 GMT and successfully placed into orbit," a spokeswoman for the Russian mission control centre outside Moscow, Irina Manshilina, told AFP. The satellite was launched aboard a Rus ... read more
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Russia to send more warplanes to Kyrgyzstan: general
Bishkek (AFP) April 20, 2009Moscow will increase the number of warplanes it has stationed in Kyrgyzstan, a Russian general said Monday, following the expulsion of a key US military base from the former Soviet republic. "The Russian leadership plans to increase the number of individual warplanes at (the Russian airbase) at Kant," Nikolai Bordyuzha, head of the Russia-led CSTO security organization, told the Kyrgyz parl ... more Russia pulls out of NATO meeting over Georgia exercises 
Moscow (AFP) April 20, 2009Russia will pull out of a meeting with senior NATO military officials to protest what its envoy described Monday as "provocative" war games planned by the alliance in Georgia. "If there will be no reaction (to a Russian complaint about the exercises) we will take certain measures," the envoy, Dmitry Rogozin, said in an interview with Vesti-24 television, quoted by the Interfax news agency. ... more Russia boosting Arctic presence, not seeking Pole: envoy 
Moscow (AFP) April 20, 2009Russia has no claims on the North Pole nor does it plan to militarise the Arctic, but it aims to persuade a United Nations commission of additional territorial claims, a Russian official said on Monday. Anton Vasilyev, Russian envoy to the eight-nation Arctic Council, said that an expedition that planted a Russian flag on the North Pole seabed in 2007 did not signify a territorial claim. ... more Boeing ships IndoStar II ProtoStar To Baikonur 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2009Boeing has shipped the IndoStar II/ProtoStar II satellite from the company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch facility in Kazakhstan. Upon arrival, the spacecraft will undergo final preparations for launch this May aboard an International Launch Services Proton/Breeze M rocket. The 601HP (high power) spacecraft will provide high-speed, two-wa ... more Russia still wary of US missile shield: Lavrov 
Moscow (AFP) April 16, 2009US proposals to ease Moscow's concerns over its plans to site a missile shield in Europe are merely "symbolic," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in comments published Thursday. "Overall, the measures of 'transparency and trust' offered to us were mostly symbolic and could not contribute to mitigating Russian concerns," Lavrov said, answering reader's questions in the government ... more |
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Jerusalem (AFP) April 16, 2009Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday warned Russia's visiting deputy foreign minister against any sale of advanced surface-to-air missiles to Iran, a senior official said. "I would like to express great appreciation to Russia's important role in regional processes - both diplomatic and in the efforts to prevent the destabilisation of the Middle East," Barak's office quoted him a ... more Russia calls for NATO exercises in Georgia to be postponed 
Brussels (AFP) April 16, 2009Moscow is demanding the postponement of NATO exercises in Georgia scheduled to start next month, Russia's NATO mission said Thursday. Russia believes that the planned exercises "can only complicate a situation in the region which is not simple to start with," said a spokesman at the NATO mission. He cited tensions with the breakaway Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia - which ... more Russia to help Cuba modernize military hardware: official 
Moscow (AFP) April 16, 2009Russia could build a military repair centre in Cuba to help the Communist island modernize Soviet-era military hardware, an official said Thursday, amid a revival in ties between the Cold War allies. "Cuba still uses Soviet and Russian-produced equipment. Of course, we should and are 'fated', in the good sense of the word, to continue our cooperation," said Alexander Fomin, deputy head of th ... more China loans 10 bln dlrs to Kazakhstan: state media 
Shanghai (AFP) April 17, 2009China has extended 10 billion dollars in loans to oil and gas-rich Kazakhstan, the Kazakh state news agency reported Friday, in the latest Chinese deal locking up access to foreign resources. China National Petroleum Corp, or CNPC, said Friday it had signed an agreement to give financial support to the resource-rich central Asian country's national oil and gas company. Under the agreemen ... more |
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Washington (UPI) April 15, 2009 It comes as no real surprise, but Russia's decision to supply neighboring Belarus with its most advanced anti-missile defense system has profound geopolitical implications and adds significantly to the growing divisions and tensions that are once again tearing Europe in half. A senior Russian air force general announced on April 9 that the Kremlin would be supplying Belarus with the new ... more Russia Defense Watch: UAVs from Israel 
Washington (UPI) April 13, 2009 Russia has closed a deal with Israel's largest aerospace company to buy new state-of-the-art unmanned aerial vehicles. Russian Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin, who directs all military procurement programs, confirmed the deal in an announcement Friday, RIA Novosti reported. Previously, the Moscow daily business newspaper Kommersant had published what it said were details of th ... more Russians quarantined after Chinese woman dies on train 
Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2009Russian authorities on Wednesday evacuated 53 passengers to quarantine and sealed off a train after a Chinese woman died of what could be a mystery infectious disease, officials said. "At the Zuyevka station in the Kirov region, the dead woman was urgently taken off the train. All the travellers, a group of migrants who were in her proximity, were also evacuated," the regional government sai ... more Pro-Kremlin groups stage macabre animal circus 
Moscow (AFP) April 15, 2009The ostrich stood in the snow with a sign reading "bureaucrat" hung round its neck. A mostly young crowd surrounding the frightened bird guffawed. The ostrich, standing beside a bucket of sand, had been brought from a farm near Moscow and put on display in a cordoned-off area on a busy Moscow street by a pro-Kremlin youth group. The activists of Rossiya Molodaya (Young Russia) called on ... more
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