News About Russia 16-MAY-08 en-us Brussels (AFP) April 16, 2008 - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Wednesday called on Russia to reverse its decision to boost ties with the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.]]> ]]> Moscow (AFP) March 7, 2008 - Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart George W. Bush discussed an upcoming NATO-Russia summit in a telephone conversation Friday, the Kremlin said.]]> Moscow (AFP) March 3, 2008 - With presidential elections behind it, Russia now enters a transition period that will provide important clues on the future direction of the nuclear-armed energy powerhouse, analysts said Monday.]]> Munich, Germany (UPI) Dec 12, 2007 - Russia's next president, Dmitri Medvedev, known to his friends as Dima, is a fan of the rock groups Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. He swims a mile every day, and he is very flattered when anyone tells him he looks the spitting image of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II.]]> ]]> Berlin (UPI) Dec 11, 2007 - The candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev to become the next Russian president means continuity for the current system. It also paves the way for Vladimir Putin, the current president, to retain at least some of his overwhelming influence.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 06, 2007 - Anyone who has been following the stormy debate brought on by the 90th anniversary of the Great October Revolution may well wonder why its national aspects have been forgotten. Were they not intertwined with the social aspects? The events that shook the world took place in the Russian Empire, which had a very complex social-ethnic structure. And it is hard to say whether the social or the ethnic factors played a bigger role in those sinister events.]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 22, 2007 - Under the current federal rearmament program, the Russian Armed Forces will replace 45% of their operational military equipment before 2015. Although strategic offensive arms are still the main element of national security, the specifications of lightweight armored vehicles must be upgraded. Thankfully, an all-out war seems out of the question. However, dozens of local conflicts, counter-terrorist and peacekeeping operations and convoy missions have been conducted since the beginning of the 21st century.]]> ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 22, 2007 - Of the 68 questions answered by President Vladimir Putin at his three-hour question and answer session Thursday, less than a dozen dealt with the Russian government's foreign policies. This does not necessarily mean that international events are of little interest to the general public in Russia or any other post-Soviet country such as Kazakhstan (representatives of that Central Asian nation took part in this year's Q and A). ]]> Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 22, 2007 - Vladimir Putin's phone-in session on October 18 was set to beat all previous records, as appropriate for the president of a country in the middle of an economic boom. And so it did. While the previous session lasted 2 hours 54 minutes, this one has set a new high, 3 hours 5 minutes. The previous call-in show featured over 50 questions. This time there were 68. More than half of them dealt with social issues. However, this trend was traceable from all past shows.]]> Zarya, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jan 18, 2007 - Two strategic bombers will be commissioned to the Russian Air Force every three years, the Air Force commander-in-chief said Thursday. Russia is currently carrying out an ambitious program to upgrade and modernize its strategic Air Force assets.]]> SOLAR  ENERGY  SOLUTIONS

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]]> ]]> Zelenograd, Russia (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2006 - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday large national research centers should be created in the country to boost high technology and encourage innovation. "A set of measures should be formulated, aimed at establishing large national research centers on priority areas of high technology development in Russia," Putin told a session of the Russian President's Council on Science, Technology and Education.]]> Nizhny Tagil, Russia (AFP) May 21, 2006 - A once secret Soviet facility set in the craggy landscape of Russia's Ural mountains is struggling to find buyers for 47 tonnes of heavy metal and hi-tech machinery -- the T-90S tank.]]> Southwest Suriname (SPX) May 19, 2006 - At least three people have been killed and an estimated 25 000 people have been displaced in Suriname as a result of flooding caused by torrential rains since 1 May. Approximately 25 000-30 000 square kilometres are currently under water, and the government has declared the southwest and central lowlands disaster zones.]]> Advertise in Terra Daily and reach thousands of industry, government and science readers the world over.

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