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SES Astra Boosts Household Reach In The Ukraine Kiev, Ukraine (SPX) Apr 23, 2009 
SES Astra announced that it has significantly increased its reach in the Ukraine and is now broadcasting to more than 7.6 million households across the country. The strong increase was driven by the boost of digital satellite reach where SES Astra gained 1.8 million households in 2008, reaching almost all (2.2 million) of the 2.3 million digital satellite homes in Ukraine. The total number ... read more
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Moscow (AFP) April 22, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday that over 40 percent of those eligible for military service were not fit enough, amid a government drive to modernise the armed forces. "It is known that there are problems with the presence of young men prepared for military service," Interfax news agency quoted Medvedev as saying at a government meeting at Ryazan in central Russia. ... more Russia accuses US on missile shield 
Moscow (AFP) April 21, 2009A top Russian official on Tuesday accused the US administration of President Barack Obama of intensifying missile defence plans and said Russia saw no basis for big cuts in its nuclear arsenal. In an interview with Interfax news agency, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov revived threats to site Iskander strategic missiles in the Kaliningrad exclave near Poland if Washington's missile shi ... more Russia Defense Watch: Aircraft for India 
Washington, April 22, 2009 Russia has secured its position as the supplier of military aircraft to India for the first quarter of the 21st century, a highly influential Moscow think tank has concluded. India will continue to buy most of its combat aircraft from Russia for at least the next 15 years because of contracts that have already been concluded and the further deals that are almost certain to d ... more BMD Watch: S-400s for Belarus Part Three 
Washington, April 21, 2009 Russia hopes to deliver its first S-400 state-of-the-art anti-aircraft interceptor missiles to Belarus as soon as next year. Lt. Gen. Vadim Volkovitsky, the first deputy commander of the Russian air force, was careful not to commit the Kremlin to an exact delivery schedule for the S-400s when he spoke publicly on April 9. However, a report from RIA Novosti covering his remarks said tha ... more NATO invites Russia to monitor Georgia war games 
Brussels (AFP) April 22, 2009NATO invited Russia Wednesday to send observers to alliance war games in Georgia next month in an effort to assuage Moscow's concerns about the manoeuvres. "If Russia chooses to send observers, that is something that I think the alliance would look on quite positively, as a way of diminishing possible misunderstandings or concerns," NATO spokesman James Appathurai said. "Russia should se ... more |
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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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