Russia will counter US missile defence: Medvedev
Tweet Moscow:L Russia will continue with the overhaul of its missile defence unless the US drops its plans for a European missile shield or proposes a scheme for a joint effort, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said. “This does not mean the beginning of confrontation, but it means that we cannot treat their (US) plans indifferently [...]
Tweet Moscow: Seven militants were killed in an operation in Russia’s Chechnya region, an official said Friday. The five-day operation was carried out in the eastern Chechen border with Dagestan, Xinhua reported. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said the militants belonged to a group suspected of conducting terrorist acts. Thirteen government troopers were killed in the [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russia may lose from 20 to 50 percent of its vineyard harvest this year because of bitter cold as temperatures have dipped to below minus 20 degrees Celsius, Vedomosti business daily reported Monday quoting winemakers. Andrei Kulko, general director of the South Wine Company, a subsidiary of Ochakovo brewery group, which owns 1,000 [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russia will build a reliable aerospace defence system to effectively counter NATO missile threats, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Sunday. Rogozin, appointed recently to oversee Russia’s defence industry, tweeted that the global security conference being held in the German city of Munich had failed to come to a compromise on creating a [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russia would make another attempt to send a Phobos-Grunt probe to Mars’ satellite in 2018, a leading space expert has said. According to Lev Zeleny, director of the academy’s Institute of Space Research, the probe would be named Phobos-Grunt-2. The plan was initiated by the Russian Academy of Sciences, Xinhua reported. Speaking at [...]
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Tweet Moscow: A pack of wolves terrorized locals in the streets of a Russian town, not returning to the woods until police opened fire, killing two. The incident took place Monday in Pitkyaranta, a town of 12,000 located near the Finnish border, some 670 km northeast of Moscow, police reported. “A frightened man called police [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin warned rising nationalism posed a threat to the country's future and called for a clampdown on "disrespectful" internal migrants. "Attempts to advocate the idea of the creation of a mono-ethnic, national Russian state contradict our millennium-old history," Putin wrote in an article on his official website. "This is [...]
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Tweet Paris: France is putting on hold combat support operations and training programmes for Afghan troops after an Afghan soldier killed four French servicemen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said. He also warned France will withdraw its 4,000-strong force from Afghanistan well before 2014. "If the security conditions for our soldiers, as well as the recruiting [...]
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Tweet London: A French theme park is being planned in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, almost 200 years after his death, the daily Telegraph reported Saturday. "Napoleonland", the brainchild of former French minister and history buff Yves Jego, is being touted as a rival to Disneyland. The plan is to build the unlikely amusement park on [...]
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Tweet Moscow: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has stated that Russia should solve its poverty problem by 2020. The country will hold presidential elections March 4, 2012. Putin, who held the presidential post in 2000-2008, is generally considered a shoo-in for a new presidential term this year. "Ten to eleven percent of our nationals are still [...]
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