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Russia Launches Military Satellite Using Soyuz-U Carrier RocketPlesetsk, Russia (RIA Novosti) Apr 20, 2010 Russia on Friday launched a military satellite, the Defense Ministry said. Spokesman Alexei Zolotukhin said a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with the satellite lifted off at 7:00 p.m. Moscow time (15:00 GMT) from the Plesetsk space center in northwest Russia. He added that it was the first military satellite launch so far this year. Russia reportedly operates a constellation of 60-70 military satellites with reconnaissance, missile early warning and other capabilities. Military officials earli ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 31, 2010Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday demanded the introduction of price ceilings for utility tariffs. He told Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak to freeze the soaring utility prices and fire officials responsible for unjustified tariff hikes. Kozak said that following a recent check, which had revealed massive violations, housing maintenance and utility tariffs were lowered ... more  
Baikonur (SPX) Apr 01, 2010The Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft rolled out to its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome Wednesday morning for its launch Friday at 12:04 a.m. EDT. The Russian vehicle will carry three more Expedition 23 flight engineers, Alexander Skvortsov, Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Mikhail Kornienko, to dock with the International Space Station Sunday. Meanwhile aboard the station, the Expedition 23 crew prep ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 30, 2010Russia's new main battle tank (MBT), the T-95, could be exhibited for the first time at an arms show in the Urals Region this summer, the developer and future manufacturer of the tank has said. The development of the new tank dubbed "Item 195" began at the Uralvagonzavod design bureau in the early 1990s. Russia will become the first country in the world to have the 5th-generartion MBT if the mil ... more |
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Sofia Hails NATO 'Security Roof' PlanSofia, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 30, 2010 Building a missile defense shield to cover all European countries, including Russia, would help restore confidence in NATO, the Bulgarian foreign minister said on Saturday. Nikolay Mladenov said that would show the people that "the Alliance is really taking care of their security rather than just engage in operations at the other end of the world." Speaking earlier in the day at a NATO conference in Brussels, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called for a new Euro-Atlantic security architect ... read more |
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