Russia’s space industry output to grow 18% in 2009 – Putin (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday that the output of the national space industry in 2009 will increase by about 18%.
Explosion hits train in S Russia’s Dagestan (People’s Daily)
A blast hit a passenger train in Russia’s North Caucasus Republic of Dagestan on Monday with no casualties reported, Russian news agencies reported. A bomb exploded at around 6 a.m. Moscow time (0300 GMT) under the electric locomotive of the train No. 374, which was traveling from West Siberia’s Tyumen to the Azerbaijani capital of Baku, Itar-Tass quoted the police as saying. The eight-car train …
Russia to start up Bushehr nuclear plant in March 2010: Report (Payvand Iran News)
Moscow plans to start up the Bushehr nuclear power plant in March 2010 to coincide with the Iranian New Year, Russian sources have said. The sources, who refused to be identified, told Reuters that Russia had ordered that the plant be ready for operation by the holiday which falls in the second half of March.
Russian patriarch seeks ‘powerful reply’ to train bomb (The Malaysian Insider)
MOSCOW, Nov 30 — The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church called on authorities to give a “powerful reply” yesterday to the people behind a train bombing that killed 25 people, as police probed whether Islamist rebels were involved. A blast derailed a high-speed Russian train on Friday night on the main line between Moscow and Russia’s second city, St Petersburg, raising fears of a new wave of …
Leading article: Terrorism returns to Russia (Independent)
We have become all too grimly accustomed to the term “improvised explosive device” as used to kill foreign troops in transit in Afghanistan and Iraq. But in Russia? It is just such a bomb that the Russian authorities say blew up in the path of a packed Moscow-St Petersburg train, which killed 25 people and injured more than 100. Assuming – and there is no reason to doubt this – that initial …
Lavrov to attend OSCE Council of FMs, Russia-NATO Council meetings (Itar-Tass)
MOSCOW, November 30 (Itar-Tass) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will go on a European tour on Monday to attend a session of the OSCE Council of Foreign Ministers in Athens on December 1-2 and a ministerial meeting of the Russia-NATO Council in Brussels on December 4.
Expert says Russian Navy could be in dire straits by 2015 (Defence Professionals)
MOSCOW | As Russia’s RIA Novosti press agency reports, the Russian Navy’s combat capabilities could seriously decrease by 2015 due to a large-scale decommissioning of ocean-going warships, a former…
Russian destroyer joins anti-piracy mission off Somalia (Defence Professionals)
MOSCOW | A Russian naval task force from the Northern Fleet led by the Admiral Chabanenko destroyer resumed on Monday Russia’s an anti-piracy mission off the Horn of Africa, the Navy said according…
Russia probes bombing of luxury train (UPI)
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, Nov. 30 (UPI) — Russian authorities said they began an investigation into a terrorist bombing that caused a luxury train to derail, killing 26 people and injuring about 100.
President Medvedev’s vision of Russia’s Future – Right on ends, but wrong on means (Russian Information Agency Novosti)
President Dmitry Medvedev’s speech of November 12, 2009, has attracted a lot of interest. He spoke out for a “modernization” drive of the Russian economy. This was not the first speech on this topic, either by Medvedev or by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and this speech was an elaboration on his “Forward, Russia” article
