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Russian Officer Says Developing New Weapon For Space DefenseMoscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 17, 2010 Russia's air and space forces are preparing for future threats from space with a "fundamentally new weapon," a senior officer said Saturday on Ekho Moskvy radio. "We are developing a fundamentally new weapon that can destroy potential targets in space," Col. Eduard Sigalov of Russia's air and space defense forces said. The brigade commander said the 5th Brigade of the air and space defense forces, which is deployed in the Moscow Region, is ready to protect the capital against potential threa ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 05, 2010Iran is set to launch two satellites under a deal with Russia, the Iranian media has reported. The Tehran Times said Russia and Iran inked the deal during last week's visit to Moscow by Iranian Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour. "The new satellites, which are designed and produced to decrease telecom traffic between Russia and Europe, will be equipped with fi ... more  
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2010Russia's Progress M-05M space freighter docked with the International Space Station (ISS) manually late on Saturday night, a spokesman for the Russian Mission Control Center said. The Progress M-05M freighter lifted off on a Soyuz-U rocket on April 28 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. "Russian astronaut Oleg Kotov docked the spacecraft with the ISS manually at 22.30 Mosco ... more  
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 30, 2010Russia wants to encourage private companies to invest in space exploration, the head of the country's space agency said on Thursday. "Manned space systems have become rather expensive and private investment should be attracted more actively, like it is in the United States," Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov said. He said Russia had not seen the expansion of private investment into spa ... more |
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Putin Kicks Off Oil Project On Caspian SeaAstrakhan, Russia (RIA Novosti) May 03, 2010 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin gave the go-ahead on Wednesday for commercial oil production in the Russian part of the Caspian Sea by the country's largest independent oil producer, LUKoil. LUKoil said production at the Yury Korchagin offshore oil field could reach an annual output of 2.5 million metric tons of oil and that it planned to produce 343,000 tons of oil at the field this year. The company has invested a total of 34.4 billion rubles ($1.2 billion) in the field that holds an ... read more |
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