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Thuraya and GTNT Say in One Voice 'Hello Russia'Moscow, Russia (SPX) May 18, 2012 A mere 200 meters away from the Kremlin, Thuraya Telecommunications Company, the leading international mobile satellite operator has announced the launch of its mobile satellite services in Russia in partnership with GTNT. The announcement was made at a press conference at the Congress Centre of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation in Moscow, attended by Thuraya's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Samer Halawi, GTNT's General Director, Mr. Alexey Ostapchuk and invitees from th ... read more |
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  ISS Cosmonauts to Make 3D Photo Report Russian news agency RIA Novosti has sent a stereo photo camera to the International Space Station (ISS) and asked its members to make a report about life onboard the orbital complex, chief of the ag ... more | .. |
  Astronaut Launches into Texas Tech Doctorate Program The College of Education at Texas Tech announced a NASA astronaut has been accepted to its doctoral program in education. Joseph Acaba launched May 14 for a four-month tour of duty aboard the Russia ... more | .. |
 New Space Station Crew in Orbit Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut launched aboard the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday have begun a two-day flight to the International Spac ... more | .. |
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  Growing risks from hatchery fish A newly published collection of more than 20 studies by leading university scientists and government fishery researchers in Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, California, Russia and Japan ... more | .. |
  Russia develops air defence lasers According to CEO of Russia's Almaz-Antei advanced arms makers Dr Vladislav Menshikov, his company continues work, started decades ago in the Soviet Union, to develop powerful airborne lasers capable ... more | .. |
  Russia Does Not Rule Out Preemptive Missile Defense Strike Russia does not exclude preemptive use of weapons against [NATO] missile defense systems in Europe but only as a last resort, the Russian General Staff said on Thursday at a missile defense conferen ... more | .. |
  Russia Repeats Iskander Deployment Threat Moscow reiterated on Tuesday it may deploy Iskander theater ballistic missiles in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad that will be capable of effectively engaging elements of the U.S. missile defense ... more |
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  American Hypersonic Weapons Are Threat To Russia Says Rogozin American research into hypersonic weapons, which the U.S. aims to complete by 2015, represents an especially serious threat to Russia, acting Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday. ... more | .. |
  Transneft to use GLONAS for monitoring The "Transneft" company and the Navigational Information Systems company have begun to create a system of transport monitoring with the help of GLONAS. The Russian GLONAS and the American GPS ... more | .. |
  Russia Needs New System of Defense Procurement - Medvedev Effective system of placement and implementation of state defense orders will be established when new Russian government is forged, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday. He was confirme ... more | .. |
  Russia to buy 90 brand-new Su-35S fighters By 2020, the Russian Air Force is to procure some 90 cutting-edge super-maneuverable Su-35S fighter jets, Air force spokesman Vladimir Drik told Ria-Novosti today. The Su-35S is a highly moder ... more |
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 Viktor Bout appeals the verdict Russian businessman Victor Bout was sentenced back on April, 5th for 25 years in prison. That day his attorney Mr. Dayan set a plan to appeal the verdict. A.D.: I want to let you know that for ... more | .. |
 Russian Air Force roundtable: status quo, revamps, perspectives An roundtable of experts on Russia's Air Force and ABM systems is slated for May 16, 2012, at the Voice of Russia radio station. It will tackle the implementation of the State Arms Program and ... more | .. |
 Russian Charged with Passing Bulava Missile Secrets An employee at a Russian defense firm in the Urals region has been accused of passing secrets on the Bulava intercontinental missile to a foreign intelligence service, the Kommersant daily reported ... more | .. |
 Russia Pulls Out of Indonesian Rocket System Tender Russia's arms trading company Rosoboronexport has pulled out of an Indonesian tender for the supply of multiple launch rocket systems, the company told Military Industrial Courier magazine. Th ... more |
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The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon
Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland
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  Russia's Antarctic probes to be tested in Ladoga Lake Scientists with the St. Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) and the Mining Institute have created several prototype probes and samplers that will ... more | .. |
  Russia Questions Dutch Vegetable Safety Russia's food safety chief Gennady Onishchenko raised doubts on Monday over the safety of vegetables imported from the Netherlands, which he said had been experimenting with mutations of the avian f ... more | .. |
  Moscow court upholds ban against satellite image distributor A Moscow court upheld a ban on Friday prohibiting the Russian research and development company ScanEx from distributing satellite images of Earth at a resolution higher than two meters. Scanex ... more | .. |
 Russia 'a growing grain power' Russia has exported 20 million tons of wheat since last July, making it the world's second biggest wheat exporter. Acting First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov gave the figure to farming e ... more |
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  Russia's Kuril Islands to become investment heaven In 2010, the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev toured Russia's Kuril Islands and approved an ambitious development programme for the ar ... more | .. |
 Nord Stream to become more powerful The capacity of the Nord Stream gas pipeline can be increased. According to the operator company Nord Stream AG, opportunities for buildi ... more | .. |
  In search of new 'Earths' beyond our Solar System Light coming from an exoplanet only eight times larger than the Earth was observed with the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. With the advent of new space and Earth-based devices, the st ... more | .. |
  Popovkin replaces Perminov at Russian space agency Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appointed former First Deputy Defense Minister Vladimir Popovkin as head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos on Friday, replacing Anatoly Perminov. Popo ... more |
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China speeds up renewables building spree: report
French giant EDF will take 12.5 pecent stake in new UK nuclear plant
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  Obama to Skip APEC Summit in Vladivostok - Spokesman U.S. President Barack Obama will not be attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit (APEC-2012) in Russia's Vladivostok, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Monday. "I'm ... more | .. |
 Gazprom considers gas deliveries to Japan via pipeline Gazprom announced that it was considering gas deliveries to Japan via pipeline. Russia's gas giant said in a statement on Thursday, "The sides touched upon a possibility of working on a project for ... more | .. |
 Putin expects a lot from Rosneft, Statoil deal Russia's President- elect Vladimir Putin hopes that Rosneft-Statoil joint venture will ensure the development of a number of resource exploration-related spheres, including shipbuilding. He st ... more | .. |
 Rosneft strikes Arctic deal with Statoil Russia's state oil champion Rosneft struck a $2.5 billion Arctic exploration deal Saturday with Norway's Statoil - its third global tie-up in a month and a sign of its growing global ambitions. ... more |
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 Rosneft selects new partner to develop the Russian shelf Russia's state run Rosneft oil company has selected a new partner for the development of the Russian shelf. It is Norway's Statoil. On Saturday, Rosneft president Eduard Khudainatov and Statoil pres ... more | .. |
 Russia and Japan to build gas pipeline The former Foreign Minister of Japan, Seiji Maehara now the Chairman of the Council for political studies of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan says that Russia and Japan are studying the possibil ... more | .. |
  Shared space the safest way The US space shuttle is no longer in service, and it will likely be several years before the United States can resume independent human spaceflight. As a result, China's upcoming Shenzhou IX mission ... more | .. |
  A Soyuz takes shape in French Guiana for the next dual Galileo satellite launch The launcher for Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from the Spaceport in French Guiana is completing its initial checkout for a flight in the second half of 2012, which will carry another two spacecr ... more |
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