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233 articles tagged "Russia"
DEBKAfile
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December 5, 2007, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
President Vladimir Putin and defense minister Anatoly Serdyukov decided to send a sortie of six Russian warships, led by the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and the Moskva guided missile cruiser, to the Mediterranean. This will be the first prolonged stay of a Russian carrier to the eastern Mediterranean vicinity of ...
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November 26, 2007, 8:53 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the armored personnel carriers which can carry 10 fighters were promised Mahmoud Abbas by Russian president Vladimir Putin. Whichever of the models supplied - the BTR-60PB, BTR-70 or BTR-80 - these combat vehicles are armed with turret heavy machine gun mounts designed to ...
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November 17, 2007, 7:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian president Vladimir Putin indicated Friday that Moscow would send uranium to Iran's atomic reactor in Bushehr (a reactor unconnected with Iran's suspect military program) after all. International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors were invited to the Novosibirsk Plant on Nov. 26 to verify and seal the fuel before shipment. ...
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October 30, 2007, 7:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
At the Russian-EU summit in Portugal Friday, Oct. 26, the Russian president Vladimir Putin likened the US proposal to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of the 1960s. "Such a threat is being set up on our borders," he said, but admitted tension ...
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October 23, 2007, 7:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The first hint that a strategic deal was brewing was dropped by Russian President Vladimir Putin. At a news conference in Tehran last week, he alluded to a shift in the controversy with Washington which might settle his dispute with President George W. Bush on the US missile shield in ...
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October 22, 2007, 2:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian president disappointed his Iranian hosts by refusing to set a date for completing the Bushehr nuclear reactor, blaming worn-out equipment from the time of the Shah and "legal issues." Ahmadinejad accepted his invitation for talks in Moscow.
The presidents of Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan agreed that no ... 
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October 14, 2007, 11:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
The source reported several gangs of suicide bombers had been set up to murder the Russian president during his visit to Iran. He is due to meet President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and attend a Caspian Sea summit, the first Russian head of state to visit Iran. The Kremlin said Putin's travel ...
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October 1, 2007, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Khorramshar News Agency, which is published by the ethnic Arab underground of Iran's oil-rich Khuzestan, reported early Oct. 1 that the entire staff of Russian nuclear engineers and experts employed in building the nuclear reactor at Bushehr had abruptly packed their bags Friday, Sept. 28, and flew back to ...
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September 28, 2007, 12:58 PM (GMT+02:00)
His attendance at the Caspian Asian Summit will occasion brass-tacks talks with Iranian leaders, including the signing of a document to finish and fuel the long-delayed Bushehr nuclear reactor. He will also drum up friends and influence in the Caspian-Central Asian region.
debkafile's Exclusive Report below takes a close ... 
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September 23, 2007, 2:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iran's suspect nuclear program is further polarizing the big powers.
As American and European officials discussed a third round of UN Security Council sanctions, Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, more pugnacious than ever, addressed a military parade Sat. Sept. 22 marking the 27th anniversary of the onset of the Iraq-Iran war of ...
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August 31, 2007, 9:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian Air Force is not up to carrying out the Russian president's order to renew long-range nuclear bomber flights
The latest DEBKA-Net-Weekly lays bare the sorry state of Russia's air force and aviation industry. Don't miss the issue out Friday with this and other revelations. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly ... 
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August 24, 2007, 9:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Aug. 3, DEBKA-Net-Weekly 312 carried an exclusive report on the Peace Mission 2007 exercise run simultaneously from command centers 3,000 kilometers apart in Russia and China. Friday, Aug. 17, President Vladimir Putin, while watching the exercise with China's Hu Jintao, announced his order for the resumption of regular ...
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August 19, 2007, 2:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Russian president made this announcement, evoking shades of the Cold War, Friday, Aug. 17, in the presence of China's Hu Jintao at the end of the first joint Russian-Chinese war games exercise taking place on Russian soil. debkafile reports that a Russian military train transported Chinese units ...
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August 16, 2007, 9:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile: The high-speed, luxury Nevsky Express is used by corporate and other high officials for 4h.42m commutes between the capital and Russia's second largest city. Investigators must establish whether the luxury train was sabotaged by Chechen terrorists or some other domestic dissident group opposed to Vladimir Putin and ...
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August 9, 2007, 11:07 PM (GMT+02:00)
Officials in Tbilisi say two Russian Su-24 fighters violated its air space Monday night and dropped a guided air-to-surface missile weighing 700 kg on a Georgian village near its breakaway region of South Ossetia, whose claim to independence Moscow is accused of supporting. Relations are badly strained between the two ...
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August 5, 2007, 1:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
First Dep. Foreign Minister Andrei Denisov said Tuesday, July 31: "We have downgraded ties with Hamas, maintaining contacts with the pragmatic goal of influencing it directly and indirectly and encouraging the parties to resume dialogue."
debkafile: This does not represent a change in Moscow's two-pronged Palestinian policy as ... 
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July 31, 2007, 9:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report: The SA-400 Triumf, (codenamed SA-21 Growler), a battalion of which will be positioned around Moscow on Aug. 6, is the most advanced air defense system in the world. The haste with which these missiles are being stationed around the Russian capital shows President Vladimir ...
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July 10, 2007, 5:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
A majority of 341 deputies of the Russian parliament passed a bill Friday authorizing the company to establish an autonomous military force to guard Gazprom's oil and gas fields and pipeline network.
debkafile adds: President Vladimir Putin, who uses the company as a key tool of Kremlin foreign and ... 
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June 19, 2007, 1:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The fuel delivery, which could bring forward Tehran's threat to Israel, arrived in Bushehr 24 hours before Israel successfully launched its new military imaging Ofeq-7 satellite into orbit.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly 304 revealed June 8 that the delivery left the JSC Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant June 203, the week before the ... 
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June 12, 2007, 1:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
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Russian president Vladimir Putin put teeth in his threats and his cynically helpful alternative suggestions regarding the deployment of US missile defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic. DEBKA-Net-Weekly 304 disclosed on June 8 that the week before the G8 opened ... |
