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September Launch For ESA's Water Mission Paris, France (SPX) Apr 28, 2009 
Following confirmation from Eurockot Launch Services that they will launch ESA's SMOS mission on 9 September this year, the satellite has just been taken out of storage - providing an opportunity for the media to view the satellite before it is prepared for shipment to the launch site in Russia. The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission is the next Earth Explorer in line for lift ... read more
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Russia to build six submarines for Vietnam: report
Moscow (AFP) April 27, 2009Russia will build six submarines for the Vietnamese navy, the daily Kommersant reported Monday. The St Petersburg naval dockyard Admiralteyskye verfi and Vietnam will shortly sign the contract, worth 1.8 billion dollars, the report said, quoting sources close to Russian arms export agency Rosoboronexport. It gave no time frame. "Initially it was expected that the submarines would be ... more First round of US-Russia arms treaty talks in May 
Moscow (AFP) April 27, 2009Russian and US officials will meet in Moscow next month for the first round of negotiations to replace a Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty, the Russian foreign ministry said Monday. The two sides "agreed to organise the first round of negotiations of the two full delegations between May 18 and May 20," the ministry said in a statement. Earlier this month US President Barack Obama ... more Japan to host global meet for nuke-free world: govt 
Tokyo (AFP) April 27, 2009Japan, the only country ever hit by atomic bombs, Monday threw its weight behind US President Barack Obama's call for a nuclear-free world and pledged to host a global disarmament meeting next year. Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said the main nuclear powers, the United States and Russia, should lead the disarmament drive and "China and other nuclear powers" including India, Pakistan and ... more Analysis: Turkish-Armenian thaw and energy 
Washington, April 27, 2009 During the past year, at a time of record-high energy prices, many European officials have decried what they see as Russia's state-owned Gazprom natural gas company being used as a tool to promote the Kremlin's policies by indulging in hardball "pipeline politics." Gazprom's favored tool is variable prices being used to send political signals to recalcitrant former Soviet republics such as Ukr ... more Thousands protest Belarus nuclear plant 
Minsk (AFP) April 26, 2009Around 2,000 people marched Sunday in Belarus to protest government plans to build a nuclear power station in one of the countries worst-affected by the Chernobyl disaster in neighbouring Ukraine. Demonstrators, including young anarchists and militant ecologists, carried banners proclaiming "There is an alternative," and "No nuclear reactor in Belarus". The marchers were also protesting ... more |
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Rome (AFP) April 24, 2009Russian and US diplomats began talks Friday in Rome aimed at replacing a landmark Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty, a US embassy spokeswoman said. It was the first contact between the two sides since US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev pledged last month to seek a successor agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) by the time it expi ... more Poland, Norway and Turkey plan new radar network 
Warsaw (AFP) April 23, 2009A radar early warning network being set up by Poland, Norway and Turkey will facilitate information exchange between NATO and Russia on air-borne threats to their respective territories, Poland's defence ministry said Thursday. "This is a trilateral initiative by Poland, Norway and Turkey," Polish defence ministry spokesman Robert Rochowicz told AFP, but declined to provide further details ... more Russia prepared to 'significantly' cut nuclear arsenal: general 
Moscow (AFP) April 23, 2009Russia is prepared to "significantly" cut its nuclear arsenal if a deal is reached with the United States, the head of the Russian General Staff, Nikolai Makarov, said Thursday, Interfax reported. "The Russian president, the commander-in-chief, voiced this position in Helsinki. That's why I believe we are able to significantly cut both the warheads and their carriers...," Makarov told the ag ... more Medvedev sacks military intelligence chief 
Moscow (AFP) April 24, 2009Russian President Dmitry Medvedev removed the head of the powerful military intelligence agency on Friday after he opposed sweeping reforms of the country's lumbering armed forces. The defence ministry said General Valentin Korabelnikov had voluntarily left because of his age. But analysts linked the move to the reforms that have provoked discontent among hardliners in a military struggling ... more |
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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 Analysis: Russia's nuclear-energy ambition 
Washington, (UPI) Apr 22, 2009The global recession has severely hammered the world's leading energy producers as oil has fallen from its July 2008 record high of $147.27 per barrel to slightly more than $50 a barrel today. For Russia, the world's second-largest oil producer, the news has not led to a reduction in production, as on April 16 its Energy Ministry issued a statement noting that it does not expect the country's ... more
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