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added 2007 Mon Jun 11 6:19:23 by NewOnTheNet
Some russian experts think than their country can be attacked by special anti russian bio weapon
added 2007 Mon Jun 11 5:13:27 by populist
The transcript you weren't supposed to see
added 2007 Fri Jun 8 7:00:00 by unknown user
From the late '70s to the early '90s, Soviet military factories produced some 70 different video game models.
added 2007 Thu Jun 7 22:33:17 by paymastergeneral
The origin of the odor -- which has also affected seals, walruses and cod -- has baffled scientists. Samples taken from the whales show "a slew of more than a hundred volatile compounds," but it's not clear that these come from human pollution. Some have suggested that the whales, faced with climate-related food shortages, have resorted t
added 2007 Thu Jun 7 17:35:19 by Neophile
If American teenagers during the Cold War ever stopped to consider how their Eastern bloc counterparts spent the weekend, they probably imagined dreary groups of Red Youth robotically singing hymns to Soviet wheat production and discussing the glories of socialist brotherhood from Hanoi to Havana.
added 2007 Thu Jun 7 13:49:22 by rorarorekuku
President Putin need not worry about the US missile defense system as it does not work, according to a group of US scientists. The Union of Concerned Scientists made this statement even President Bush prepares to meet with his Russian counterpart tomorrow in Germany.
added 2007 Thu Jun 7 7:08:45 by populist
While the Bush administration keeps its focus on turning a disaster in Iraq into victory, it seems that Russia is not buying into the rhetoric that the United States is the only superpower.
added 2007 Thu Jun 7 7:08:45 by populist
While the Bush administration keeps its focus on turning a disaster in Iraq into victory, it seems that Russia is not buying into the rhetoric that the United States is the only superpower.
added 2007 Wed Jun 6 13:22:40 by Fabienne
From the article: "German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in last-ditch efforts to secure climate change goals at a G8 summit marred by a row over US missile defence plans. The US has already said it and several other countries at the summit of top industrial states oppose her target. At the same time, US plans to build a missile shield in two former Soviet satellites have sparked an intense war of words between Moscow and Washington."

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added 2007 Mon Jun 4 13:58:28 by best1value
MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin sent a chilling message to world leaders on the eve of the Group of Eight summit with a threat to aim Russian nuclear missiles at European cities for the first time since the Cold War. In comments that seemed calculated to cause consternation and division at Wednesday's meeting in Germany, the Russian leader
added 2007 Sun Jun 3 15:46:56 by TechnologyExpert
Russia will once again aim missiles at targets in Europe if U.S. plans to build a missile shield near Russia's borders advance, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying on Sunday. Putin acknowledged Russia's response risked restarting an arms race but he said Moscow would not be responsible for the consequences because the U.S. had started it.
added 2007 Sat Jun 2 2:25:39 by populist
It's gotten so bad that an increasingly Stalinistic Vladimir Putin has started accusing us of provoking an "arms race" and conducting "imperialism" in global affairs.
added 2007 Wed May 30 19:49:47 by STONERS
Russia's top diplomat accused the United States of launching a new arms race as the two nations traded barbs Wednesday over U.S. plans to erect a missile defense system in countries formally under Moscow's influence.
added 2007 Tue May 29 2:56:42 by democrat
Russia will not participate in joint lunar exploration with NASA, but will assist the U.S. with its shuttle program until 2015, a spokesman for the Russian space agency said. After U.S. President George W. Bush announced his Vision for Space Exploration in 2004, a plan for new manned lunar missions, the country's National Aeronautics and
added 2007 Thu May 24 14:33:34 by Fabienne
From the article: "An explosion at a Siberian coal mine killed at least 35 people on Thursday, emergency officials said, weeks after 110 miners died in a blast at a neighboring mine operated by the same company. A spokeswoman for Russia's Emergencies Ministry said three people were still missing at the Yubileynaya pit, in the Kemerovo region of western Siberia, about five hours after a methane blast tore through the mine."
added 2007 Tue May 22 14:43:38 by Fabienne
From the article: "Britain wants to extradite a former KGB agent from Russia and charge him with murdering exiled Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko using radioactive polonium, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The move triggered instant diplomatic repercussions, as Britain summoned the Russian ambassador and told him it expected full cooperation over the case, but a Moscow judicial source ruled out handing over the suspect, Andrei Lugovoy."
added 2007 Mon May 21 1:25:25 by _kam0_
Russian opposition leader Garry Kasparov has compared the government of President Vladimir Putin to the dictatorships in Belarus and Zimbabwe. Kasparov said that while Russia might be closer to the European Union than to Africa, politically it resembles the dictatorship of Zimbabwe more than the democracies of Germany or France.
added 2007 Thu Apr 26 19:50:18 by populist
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was suspending Russia's obligations under the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, the Reuters news agency reports. The Russian President linked the move to U.S. plans for a missile defence shield in Europe.
added 2007 Thu Apr 26 14:58:38 by Fabienne
From the article: "Russia may stop implementing a key defence treaty because of concerns over US plans for a missile shield in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said. Mr Putin made the threat during his annual address to parliament - which he said would be his last as president. He also hit out at an influx of foreign money which he said was being used to meddle in Russia's internal affairs."
added 2007 Thu Apr 26 13:33:20 by Putin
21 one year ago there was a terrible failure on the Chernobyl atomic power station. 21 photos.
added 2007 Mon Apr 23 21:23:50 by populist
Pledging to counter what it views as threats from NATO's eastward expansion and Washington's proposals to deploy missile shield facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic, Russia is aiming to boost its own military ties with its remaining ally in Eastern Europe, Belarus.
added 2007 Mon Apr 23 17:56:08 by KelLuv
MOSCOW (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates invited Russia to become a partner in its missile defiance activities on Monday but his hosts made clear they were still against a planned missile shield in Europe.
added 2007 Mon Apr 23 16:55:28 by starshinediva
Former President Boris Yeltsin has died, a Kremlin official said Monday. He was 76. Kremlin spokesman Alexander Smirnov told The Associated Press that Yeltsin died, but gave no cause of death or further information.
added 2007 Mon Apr 23 2:59:31 by jcolman
I bet Ted Stevens is P.O.'ed that he didn't think of this first: Moscow is promoting a new "megaproject" to link Asia with North America by train, pipeline, and fiber-optic cable across the Bering Strait. But skeptics suspect it may be just a bluff to scare Europe about the future of Russian oil and gas supplies.
added 2007 Thu Apr 19 3:35:50 by populist
Fresh warrant issued and new inquiry into remarks about overthrow of Putin
added 2007 Wed Apr 18 13:11:12 by gatitabonitasen
The hate campaign against Vladimir Putin's Russia is really quite extraordinary, not only on account of its relentless ferocity but also because of its brazen reliance on rumor, exaggeration, and - all too often - utter falsehood. Take this piece by Cathy Young, recently downsized out of her longtime perch at the Boston Globe and relegated to the r
added 2007 Mon Apr 16 13:20:24 by pagey
Russia began construction of the world's first floating nuclear power plant on Sunday. The plant will be aboard a barge where two reactors will be manned by less than 60 crew. The 300-million-U.S. dollar project is expected to be completed in 2010, the Itar-Tass news agency reported.
added 2007 Sun Apr 15 9:36:07 by springflower
As energy-rich Russia grows ever more confident, accusing the US of flouting international law,
added 2007 Sun Apr 15 5:27:41 by Digidave
Riot police beat and detained protesters as thousands defied an official ban and attempted to stage a rally Saturday against President Putin's government, which opponents accuse of rolling back freedoms Russians have enjoyed since the end of Soviet communism.
added 2007 Sun Apr 15 2:44:26 by populist
2,000 demonstrators defy Kremlin to march in Moscow's streets as opposition leader Garry Kasparov is arrested