Santa brings 3 more sats for Putin's GPS rival
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Father Frost predicts GLONASS dog-collars for '08 Russia's rival to the American Global Positioning System (GPS) satnav constellation successfully launched three more satellites on Xmas day, which will bring it to a total of 18 operational spacecraft. Mirroring the popularity of consumer GPS-enabled devices in the West, Russian developers demonstrated GLONASS based car satnav to Russian premier Vladimir Putin on Saturday. It was also announced that GLONASS pet tracker devices would debut in 2008.â¦
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MOSCOW. May 30 (Interfax) - The Fregat upper stage has placed four Globalstar telecommunication satellites into their planned orbits, Interfax-AVN was told at the central information post of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) on Wednesday.
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NEW DELHI, Dec 4 : Russia&#39;s President Vladimir Putin was headed Saturday for India&#39;s high-tech city of Bangalore after ruffling feathers by appearing to rebuff New Delhi&#39;s hopes of a veto in any enlarged UN Security Council.
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NAME: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
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MOSCOW -- President Vladimir Putin promoted his hawkish defense minister to a top government post yesterday, a move that puts Putin's two heirs apparent on equal footing before next year's election to replace the popular leader.
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BANGALORE, India  - Russian President Vladimir Putin urged Indian computer software firms Saturday to set up offices and joint ventures in his country, promising tax breaks and government support.
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The DM-type Space Upper Stage delivered three Russian satellites of the Glonass navigation system (two Glonass satellites and one Glonass-M satellite) to near-earth orbit.
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It is not often that you sit down for nearly four hours, until after midnight, with a world leader. It is especially strange when that man is Vladimir Putin, hardly regarded as the most forthcoming of interlocutors.
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Moscow, 26 December: Three satellites of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) have been put into orbit as planned.
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MOSCOW Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking steps to further strengthen the central government&#39;s control over the nation&#39;s political life.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin announced initiatives Monday that would further strengthen the central government's control over the nation's political life.
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Once again the Kremlin-backed candidate will face the opposition leader who favors closer ties with the West.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during a meeting with leading Russian academics in Moscow&#39;s Kremlin Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004.
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Santa Claus is as likely to be coming  through cyberspace in Europe this year as down the chimney  stack.
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Vladimir Putin has noted ever wider relations with Finland in all aspects. As our relations are being promoted in all areas, our turnover is likely to approximate 10 billion euros this year, the Russian ...
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Russia's GLONASS system, which uses Soviet Cold War-era military technology, is designed to compete with the Global Positioning System.
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Making toys for all the kids in the world is joyous work &#151; but it's a tough job, too. That goes double for Nick Snowden, who's in charge of the family business when, just three days before Christmas, one of his reindeer is snatched and sold to the local zoo. As if there weren't enough to worry about this time of year, Nick has to rescue Buddy the reindeer &#151; and fast.