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Russia Defense Watch: Arctic force denial Washington, April 29, 2009 
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Russia is "not planning to increase our military presence in the arctic and to deploy armed forces there," Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced after attending a ministerial-level meeting of the Arctic Council in the N ... read more
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Analysis: China ups Kazakh energy holdings
Washington, April 28, 2009 The dramatic downturn in energy prices has heavily impacted oil-producing nations, few more than Kazakhstan, which had a marginal oil industry prior to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. Having attracted more than $40 billion in foreign investment since then, Astana is now caught between a fiscal rock and a hard place as foreign investors seek to retrieve their funds. In its search for fore ... 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 North Korea Joins Space Treaty And Convention 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 13, 2009North Korea has informed Russia that it has signed up to an international treaty and convention on space, a Russian Foreign Ministry source said on Thursday. "The Foreign Ministry of Russia, being a depositary state, received on March 5 notification that North Korea has joined the 1966 space treaty," the source said. The source said Pyongyang also told the Russian ministry that UN Se ... more ILS Announces Proton Launch ViaSat-1 Satellite In 2011 
Reston VA (SPX) Mar 13, 2009International Launch Services has announced a contract for the launch of the ViaSat-1 satellite on an ILS Proton. The satellite is under construction by Space Systems Loral and is scheduled to launch in the first half of 2011 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. ViaSat-1 is a high capacity Ka-band spot beam satellite, which is expected to be the highest capacity of all current and p ... more ISS Partners Rule Out Turning Life On Orbiter Into Reality Show 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 13, 2009Roscosmos and NASA have decided not to pursue a U.S.-initiated idea to make life on the International Space Station (ISS) a reality show, the Russian Space Agency announced on Thursday. Views of Earth from the space station will be streamed round-the-clock on the NASA web site using cameras mounted on the exterior of the orbiter, but the activities of crewmembers monitored on interior came ... more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Mar 12, 2009With liftoff just five days away, ESA's GOCE spacecraft - encased in the protective half-shells of the launcher fairing - has been transported from the cleanroom and installed in the launch tower at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia. The so-called Upper Composite, which comprises the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Explorer (GOCE) satellite joined to the Breeze-KM Upper Stage ... more Satellites track leaf beetle infestation 
Salt Lake City (UPI) Mar 10, 2009 University of Utah scientists say they have successfully used satellite data to monitor saltcedar leaf beetle defoliation along the Colorado River. The scientists said thousands of the beetles (Diorhabda elongate) were brought to Utah from Kazakhstan and were released during the summers of 2004, 2005 and 2006 to help eradicate a small Eurasian tree named tamarisk or saltcedar. The trees ... more US, China 'unified' in opposing NKorean missile launch: Clinton 
Washington (AFP) March 11, 2009The United States, China and negotiating partners are willing to discuss a range of responses, even UN action, if North Korea test fires a missile, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday. After her talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, Clinton said China as well as South Korea, Japan and Russia are committed to dismantling North Korea's nuclear program and to opposing ... more Ten years since NATO expansion, Poland sees alliance as bulwark 
Warsaw (AFP) March 11, 2009Ten years since NATO's watershed expansion into Moscow's Cold War-era stamping ground, which cemented Warsaw, Budapest and Prague's break with their old master, Poland still sees the alliance as a shield against Russia. "Russia was, is and will remain unpredictable," said Polish security policy expert Jan Czaja. "It won't stop being a problem. We saw that with the Georgia crisis. Putin ... more |
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Amman (AFP) March 10, 2009Jordan said on Monday that four international firms have proposed to build a nuclear plant in the energy-poor kingdom to help generate power and desalinate water. "The country is currently studying proposals submitted by France's Areva, South Korea's KEPCO, the Atomic Energy of Canada and Russia's Atomstroyexport," Jordan Atomic Energy Commission head Khaled Tukan said. "We are in the fi ... more Iran says nuclear plant to start operating by Aug 22 
Tehran (AFP) March 10, 2009Iran said on Tuesday that its much-delayed nuclear power plant, where testing began last month, would start operating by August 22. The 1,000-megawatt Russian-built plant in the southern port city of Bushehr will first generate around 500 megawatts by August 22, Energy Minister Parviz Fattah said, quoted by state television's website. The Russian federal nuclear company which is construc ... more Worried Russia to monitor NKorea rocket launch 
Moscow (AFP) March 13, 2009Russia's military said on Friday it would deploy warning systems to protect against accidents during neighbouring North Korea's forthcoming rocket launch, as a senior deputy voiced concern. An unnamed source at the General Staff said special attention would be paid to the far east of the country and Russia's eastern islands during next month's satellite launch by neighbouring North Korea. ... more SSTL Delivers On Russian KANOPUS Missions 
London, UK (SPX) Mar 10, 2009Surrey Satellite Technology has delivered to the customer, FSUE NPP VNIIEM, the first two suites of equipment for the KANOPUS-type satellite platforms. The equipment now in Russia has successfully completed two weeks of tests, marking a major milestone for the project and the customer. Work is now underway to integrate the equipment into the first two satellites, under a joint operation wi ... more
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