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US should study Russian radar offer in Azerbaijan: envoy Moscow (AFP) May 4, 2009 
The United States should study a Russian proposal that it share a radio installation in the Central Asian state of Azerbaijan, US envoy Rose Gottemoeller said Monday in an interview with the Interfax agency.
"I understood from talking to Russian counterparts that the offer is still on the table," said Gottemoeller, the assistant secretary of state for verification and compliance.
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Russia Expects To Export $7B In Arms During 2009
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2009 The Kremlin doesn't expect the global economic crisis to damp down international demand for its weapons exports. Alexander Brindikov, who chairs an advisory panel for the giant Russian arms-exporting monopoly and coordinating corporation Rosoboronexport, said last month that the company projected arms sales in 2009 to remain at their 2008 levels of around $7 billion, RIA Nov ... more Japan to give 40 mln dlrs to dismantle Russian submarines: report 
Tokyo (AFP) May 1, 2009Japan will give another four billion yen (40 million dollars) towards an international project to dismantle decommissioned Russian nuclear submarines in the Far East, a report said Friday. The decision will be announced when Prime Minister Taro Aso meets his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on May 12 in Tokyo, Kyodo News said, citing unnamed government sources. Japan has already provid ... more Climate Change Threatens Lake Baikal's Unique Biota 
Washington DC (SPX) May 05, 2009Siberia's Lake Baikal, the world's largest and most biologically diverse lake, faces the prospect of severe ecological disruption as a result of climate change, according to an analysis by a joint US-Russian team in the May issue of BioScience. The lake is considered a treasure trove for biologists and was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because a high proportion of its rich fau ... more EU, Japan team up to fight climate change 
Prague (AFP) May 4, 2009The European Union and Japan decided to join forces in the battle against climate change and invited large countries to follow suit at a summit meeting in Prague on Monday. "Japan and the EU are aiming at building a low-carbon society. We believe that it is necessary for the United States, China, Russia to participate in a responsible manner," Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso told reporters. ... more Analysis: Russia's sea nuke power plants 
Washington (UPI) May 4, 2009 With the majority of the world's scientists and countries now acknowledging global warming as a reality, its impact on the world's climate is coming under increased scrutiny, particularly in the world's polar regions. Global warming has opened up previously inaccessible areas along the Norwegian, Canadian, U.S. and Russian coasts and triggered a rush to define regional waters and exclu ... more |
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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 Areva seeks to block Siemens-Rosatom nuclear deal 
Paris (AFP) April 30, 2009French nuclear power group Areva said Thursday it had filed a request for arbitration to try to stop Germany's Siemens creating a rival venture with Russian group Rosatom. A spokeswoman for the French state-controlled group confirmed a press report that her company had taken the case to the International Chamber of Commerce, but declined to provide further details. A Siemens spokesman sa ... 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 Kazakhstan, China sign major nuclear power deal 
Almaty (AFP) April 29, 2009Kazakhstan on Wednesday signed a deal that would see it build nuclear power plants for China, as well as provide its energy-hungry neighbour with more than 24,000 tonnes of uranium. The deal between state nuclear agency Kazatomprom and the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group (CGNPG) calls for the creation of a joint venture to build power plants for energy-hungry China, the Kazakh firm said ... 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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