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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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Roscosmos says satellite launched Saturday
Moscow (UPI) May 16, 2009 A Proton-M rocket carrying a ProtoStar-2 telecommunication satellite was launched from the Baikonur space center Saturday, the Russian space agency said. "The launch of the Proton-M rocket fitted with a Breeze-M booster and carrying a ProtoStar-2 telecommunication satellite went ahead at the scheduled time," a Roscosmos spokesperson was quoted by RIA Novosti as saying. The Russia ... more Clock ticking as Russia, US kick off nuclear arms talks 
Moscow (AFP) May 17, 2009Russia and the United States open fresh nuclear disarmament negotiations this week under pressure to strike a deal by year's end that experts say will have far-reaching consequences for world security. The talks mark the resumption, after a generation of drift, of a process begun in 1969 at the height of the Cold War and are a central element of US President Barack Obama's stated desire to ... more 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 |
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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 Russia, Japan agree nuclear energy pact 
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 |
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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 Don't rewrite WWII history: Medvedev 
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
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