MOSCOW, August 6 (RIA Novosti) - Russian aerospace and military-industrial enterprises will purchase electronic components worth several billion dollars from China, Izvestia reported Wednesday, referencing a source close to Roscosmos, Russia’s Federal Space Agency.
“We do work with the China...
German factory orders (GRIORTMM) dropped by the most in more than 2 1/2 years in a sign that geopolitical tension with Russia is leaving its mark on Europe’s largest economy.
Orders, adjusted for seasonal swings and inflation, slid 3.2 percent in June from May, when they fell a revised 1.6...
Europe’s natural gas prices would have to double to lure enough cargoes from the global market to replace Russian supplies, adding to the challenges of decreasing the region’s dependence on its neighbor.
Benchmark U.K. prices would need to rise 127 percent to attract liquefied natural gas if...
As Russia began to develop electromagnetic catapults for aircraft carriers. On this, as reported by ITAR -TASS, said CEO Nevsky Design Bureau Sergey Vlasov . According to him , the name of " an organization that is engaged in the creation of an electromagnetic catapult ", while not disclosed...
MOSCOW, May 20. /ITAR-TASS/. Plane makers in Russia and China have confirmed plans to build a 400-seat, wide-body, long-range passenger aircraft. It will be the first in a family of airliners to be built on a modular design basis.
Industry leaders signed a memorandum in the Chinese city of...
Russian surveillance planes already fly over America, thanks to a long-standing treaty. But a new, ultra-sophisticated spy plane has U.S. military and intelligence bosses spooked.
The Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. military and American intelligence agencies have quietly pushed the White...
Talks on the construction of the Russia to India oil pipeline project should conclude by mid-2014, officials from ONGC said.
Thus, Russia is changing its energy export policy vector as strong demand for hydrocarbons, both in China and in India, one of the largest economies in the world...
Spokesman of the US White House Jay Carney said that the United States was not planning to impose new economic sanctions on Russia. They would only be imposed for a further violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity, ITAR-TASS reports.
According to Carney, the US was not recognizing the...
Washington (CNN) - Some U.S. lawmakers are ready to say that it’s futile to try to persuade Russia to give up control of Crimea.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told CNN chief political correspondent Candy Crowley on Sunday that the debate over the...
MOSCOW—Russia will be able to launch an alternative nationwide payments system "in a couple of months" once parliament passes a relevant law, after the withdrawal of services from some Russian banks by Visa Inc. V -0.84% and MasterCard Inc. MA +1.97% as a result of U.S. sanctions, said the...
SEVASTOPOL, Crimea — Bowing to the reality of the Russian military occupation of Crimea a day after Russia announced it was annexing the disputed peninsula, the Ukrainian government said on Wednesday that it had drawn up plans to evacuate all of its military personnel and their families and was...
Britain has suspended all arms exports to Russia amid fears there is a “grave danger” of military escalation in Ukraine.
The UK has also stopped all military cooperation with the federation, including the cancellation of a naval exercise, after Moscow pushed ahead with the annexation of Crimea...
(Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday recognising Crimea as a sovereign state after the Ukrainian region declared itself independent and applied to join Russiafollowing a weekend referendum.
The decree posted on the Kremlin's website appeared to be a first step toward...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is strengthening his military control over the majority-Russian Crimean isthmus, while President Barack Obama is still trying — but failing — to rally international opposition in advance of a March 16 Crimean secession vote.
Obama’s outreach to Chinese president...
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, will send three automated rovers to the moon from 2016 to 2019 as part of its plan to eventually send a manned mission to Mars, according to agency head Oleg Ostapenko.
"Stage one priority is research projects to be carried out by automated rovers on the moon...
Russia will start construction on eight nuclear-powered submarines in 2014-2015, according to the chief of Sevmash.
In 2015, Russia will lay the first sections of two Borey-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) and three Yasen-class attack submarines (SSNs), Sevmash General...