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Russia Charges NASA 51 Million Dollars For Soyuz Seats Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2009 
Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and NASA have agreed on a new price for ferrying U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) after 2012, a Russian space official said on Wednesday. NASA will now pay $51 million for a single seat on Soyuz spacecraft. NASA earlier said it planned to buy up to 24 seats aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft to fly U.S. astronauts to the ISS af ... read more
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Russian Space Freighter Docks With ISS
Korolyov, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2009Russia's unmanned Progress M-02M cargo spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as scheduled late on Tuesday. The modified version of the standard Progress craft docked at 23:23 p.m. Moscow time (19:23 GMT), bringing 2.5 tons of supplies to the orbiter, including food, water, scientific equipment and messages for the three-member crew. A third newly designed Russi ... more Russia views US, NATO as top security threats: document 
Moscow (AFP) May 13, 2009Russia views the United States and NATO as major threats to global security and potentially to its own military, according to a sweeping new security document unveiled by the Kremlin on Wednesday. The document, outlining Russia's national security strategy through 2020, reflected continuing fears of old Cold War foes but also said Moscow would pursue a "rational and pragmatic" foreign policy ... more BMD Focus: Shadows over START 
Washington (UPI) May 12, 2009 Talks open between the United States and Russia in Moscow on Monday about a new strategic arms reduction treaty to replace the 1991 START-1 treaty, which runs out at the end of this year. But Russian sources have told United Press International that the negotiations to complete START-2 could take a lot longer than that. U.S. President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and ... more Oil income enables Chad's army to beat back rebels 
Libreville (AFP) May 12, 2009Income from oil invested in Chad's military helped the army beat back a rebel offensive this month, analysts argue, but the military use of such revenue is meeting with civil opposition in so poor a country. "Oil money has particularly enabled Chad to acquire air power, which is decisive in victory," a Western diplomat based in Ndjamena told AFP, referring to Russian-built fighter planes and ... more Analysis: Gazprom explosion in Moscow 
Washington (UPI) May 11, 2009 While it is difficult to work up much sympathy at the best of times for energy companies' public relations flacks, those representing Russia's state company Gazprom have had a bad few weeks. Recent explosions on pipelines to Moldova and Turkmenistan generated strained relations with the two nations, but the incidents were dwarfed by a massive explosion on a natural gas line in southwest Moscow ... more |
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Washington (UPI) May 11, 2009 Russian leader Vladimir Putin warned Sunday that he would never agree to a new strategic arms reduction treaty with the United States until U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to scrap plans to deploy 10 ballistic missile interceptors in Poland. The plan, originally developed by the Bush administration, is intended to protect the United States and Western Europe from the threat of Irania ... more US-Canadian Shale Could Neutralize Russian Energy Threat 
Houston TX (SPX) May 12, 2009Rising shale gas production in the United States and Canada as well as potential natural gas supplies from Iraq could be pivotal in curbing Russia's ability to organize an "energy weapon" against European consumers, according to a new study released by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy. The study, "Russia and the Caspian States and the Global Energy Balance," examines Rus ... more Russia Successfully Launches Space Freighter To ISS 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2009Russia has launched a Progress M-02M cargo spacecraft from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on a resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for Russia's space agency Roscosmos has said. Progress M-02M took off Thursday at 22:37 Moscow time (18:37GMT) on board a Soyuz-U carrier rocket and separated from the rocket nine minutes later. "According to ou ... more Russia warns foes in Soviet-style show of might
Moscow (AFP) May 9, 2009Russia on Saturday sternly warned its foes not to dare attempt any aggression against the country, as it put on a Soviet-style show of military might in Red Square including nuclear capable missiles. The display to mark the 64th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II came amid renewed tensions with Georgia after NATO's decision to hold war games in the Caucasus ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) May 10, 2009Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has told Japanese media his country expects to sign a nuclear power pact with Japan during his visit here this week, reports said Sunday. In an interview with Japanese media in Moscow, Putin said he would also present a list of economic cooperation projects during his three-day visit beginning on Monday. Various government-level agreements will be ... more Finding The Hard Limits To Soft Power: Part One 
Washington (UPI) May 7, 2009 The way the 27-nation European Union handled the Russian invasion of Georgia last year invites some reflections about the merits of so-called soft diplomatic, cultural and economic power versus hard military power as the primary tools of international relations in the 21st century. The Russian Federation led by President Dmitry Medvedev and his predecessor, current Prime Minister Vladim ... more Georgia row won't torpedo arms control talks: US, Russia 
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009The United States and Russia vowed Thursday that tension over the former Soviet state of Georgia will not torpedo negotiations to replace a Cold War-era nuclear arms control treaty. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov insisted plans for a follow-on Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) trumped their concerns over Georgia, with which Russia fought ... more Georgia flares again amid NATO exercises 
Tbilisi (AFP) May 7, 2009Domestic political tensions flared again in ex-Soviet Georgia Thursday after police and protesters clashed in Tbilisi at the start of controversial NATO military exercises that have infuriated Russia. The clashes late Wednesday - the first major outbreak of violence since opposition protests against President Mikheil Saakashvili began a month ago - came only a day after Georgia said it had ... more
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