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Russia Glonass System To Get Full State Support Mosow (RIA Novosti) May 15, 2009 
Russia will not cut funding for its Glonass satellite navigation program despite the current economic crisis, a deputy prime minister said on Tuesday. Glonass - the Global Navigation Satellite System - is the Russian equivalent of the U.S. Global Positioning System, or GPS, and is designed for both military and civilian use. Both systems allow users to determine their positions to within a ... read more
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Russia Charges NASA 51 Million Dollars For Soyuz Seats
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2009Russia'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 ... more 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 Approves New Defense Strategy 
Washington (UPI) May 14, 2009 Russia has approved a new national-security strategy that, while short in detail, visualizes more than a decade of suspicious confrontation with the United States and its NATO allies. The new doctrine, unveiled Wednesday by President Dmitry Medvedev, appears to have been greatly influenced by Russian anger over U.S. President Barack Obama's continued support for the former Soviet republ ... more Russia to build 12 fighter jets for Vietnam: report 
Moscow (AFP) May 14, 2009Russia has secured an order from Vietnam for 12 Su-30MK2 fighter jets worth more than 500 million dollars (368 million euros), the Vedomosti newspaper said Thursday, citing top aviation industry officials. The contract with Russian state arms exporters Rosoboronexport was inked in January, according to the paper. The supersonic fighter jets are to be sold without on-board weapons, and no ... 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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Tokyo (AFP) May 12, 2009A nuclear energy agreement signed by Japan and Russia Tuesday will pave the way for contracts worth billions of dollars, the head of Russia's state nuclear agency said Tuesday. The accord, which was inked during Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's visit to Tokyo, will allow for the transfer of Japanese technology to Russia and the sale of more nuclear fuel to energy-poor Japan. It wi ... more Russia signs civilian nuclear power pact with Bangladesh 
Dhaka (AFP) May 13, 2009Bangladesh and Russia signed a deal Wednesday which could lead to construction of the first civilian nuclear power plant in the electricity-starved South Asian nation, an official said. The two sides signed a memorandum of understanding on peaceful use of nuclear energy, which officials said was the first step toward construction of a plant. "We've had approaches from other countries. We ... more Analysis: Iran to explore Caspian reserves 
Washington (UPI) May 13, 2009 The biggest diplomatic Gordian knot left over from the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union is how equitably to divide the Caspian Sea, until then partitioned between the Soviet Union and Iran. The Caspian's coastline is now rimmed by Iran, the Russian Federation and three new nations that emerged from the implosion of the Soviet Union -- Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, all eager to develo ... more Russia Talks Tough About Future Nuclear Doctrine Part One 
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 |
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Moscow (AFP) May 8, 2009President Dmitry Medvedev on Friday lashed out at "malicious attempts" to falsify the history of World War II, saying Russia's heroism in the conflict should never be put into doubt. The remarks by Medvedev, which coincide with the celebration of Victory Day in the country on Saturday, reflect increasing frustration in Russia with the position of its ex-Communist Bloc western neighbours towa ... more Obama 'hopeful' of improving US-Russian ties 
Washington (AFP) May 7, 2009President Barack Obama said Thursday he was "hopeful" of improving ties between Washington and Moscow as the chief US and Russian diplomats vowed to put nuclear arms control above their row in Georgia. Obama took the unusual step of holding a full meeting with visiting Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as he works to repair US-Russian relations battered by a string of disputes late in the admin ... more China, Russia score poorly on election conduct: study 
Brussels (AFP) May 8, 2009China and Russia have some of the least democratic elections in the world, according to a study released Friday, which shows that some African nations hold freer polls than in parts of Europe. On a scale from 0 to 12 points, China was awarded only one point, while Russia was marked with a five. Most western European countries and the United States scored the maximum. The study was conduc ... more Russia to sign nuclear pact with Japan: reports 
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
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