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ArrivedOK Flight Arrival Tracker Gets Localized In New Markets by Staff Writers 
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ArrivedOK is now available in Japanese and Russian languages and open for beta testing in most countries of the world. The service lets air passengers automatically notify others about their arrival to airports worldwide by email, SMS, via blogs or Twitter, and enables travelers to save on international roaming charges. Developed by Eyeline Communication ... read more
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Russian foreign minister to visit North Korea: ministry
Moscow (AFP) April 21, 2009Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit the two Koreas this week, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday after the North's decision to quit six-party talks and expel UN nuclear inspectors. Lavrov will visit North Korea April 23-24 and South Korea April 24-25 to "discuss bilateral relations with the two Korean states, the situation on the Korean Peninsula and in northeast Asia and oth ... more 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, China finalise oil pipeline and supply deal: govt 
Beijing (AFP) April 21, 2009China and Russia signed an energy agreement Tuesday that will usher in billions of dollars of commercial deals, including the building of an oil pipeline and supply of fuel to a thirsty Chinese market. "China and Russia have agreed to a package of deals on oil pipeline construction, crude oil trade and financing and other projects pertaining to oil cooperation," foreign ministry spokeswoman ... more NATO satellite launched on Russian-Ukrainian rocket 
Moscow (AFP) April 20, 2009A 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 ... more |
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Washington (UPI) April 16, 2009 The announcement of Russia's latest agreement to provide Belarus with S-400 air-defense systems is of much more than routine significance. Russian military analysts say the S-400 Triumf - NATO designation SA-21 Growler - is the most long-range, high-altitude and effective air-defense system in the world, arguing that it combines the best characteristics of the U.S. Patriot PAC-3 and t ... more Medvedev slams 'dangerous' NATO Georgia exercises 
Barvikha, Russia (AFP) April 17, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Friday slammed NATO's planned exercises in Georgia as "dangerous", warning the war games would further strain Moscow's tense relations with the alliance. Analysts said Medvedev's comments - some of his sharpest to date - reflected Moscow's bitter disappointment with NATO's decision just weeks after he and US President Barack Obama hailed a new era in US-Ru ... more Analysis: Ending Iranian nuclear conflict 
Berlin, April 17, 2009 Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic that has stormed to riches thanks to its abundant natural resources, may now become instrumental in solving the West's nuclear conflict with Iran. U.S. President Barack Obama is "seriously considering" an offer from Kazakhstan to host an international nuclear fuel bank, according to The Wall Street Journal. Such a bank would provide states wi ... more Israel's Barak urges Russia against Iran missile deal 
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 |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 16, 2009Flight tests of Russia's new cargo spacecraft will start in 2016-17, the general designer of the RSC Energia rocket manufacturer said on Monday. "We will make the new cargo ship more economical, less expensive than those used today," Vitaly Lopota said. He said the cargo spacecraft would be part of a new transport system also including a new manned spaceship and a new launch vehicle. ... more Kazakhstan Indefinitely Postpones Space Program Indefinitely 
Almaty (XNA) Apr 16, 2009Kazakhstan has indefinitely postponed a plan of sending its own cosmonaut to the International Space Station (ISS) for lack of funding, Talgat Musabayev, head of the National Space Agency, said on Thursday. Musabayev told reporters that the sole reason for putting off the plan was lack of funding. He did not disclose the exact amount of fund specified in contract signed with Russia for the ... more BMD Focus: Russia boosts ICBM arsenal 
Washington DC (UPI) Apr 14, 2009Russia's leaders appear interested in a new strategic arms-reduction agreement with the United States. But until one is finally negotiated, they are pushing ahead with an ambitious and expanded program of nuclear-missile development. Three-star Col. Gen Nikolai Solovtsov, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, last week unveiled plans to test at least 14 intercontinental ballist ... more BMD Watch: S-400s For Belarus Part One 
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
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