MOLDOVA:  Russia Holds On to its Satellite
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BUCHAREST, Sep 5 (IPS) - Moldova's Communist President has been trying  to make the country more independent from both Russia and  Romania. But Moscow's grip on the former Soviet republic  remains strong.
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Russia, whose space programme relies heavily on a base in neighbouring Kazakhstan, is to build its own launch site for manned flights by 2018, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov was quoted as saying Wednesday.
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It's been nearly 13 years since the break-up of the former Soviet Union, and many Russians still are getting used to the freedoms which have followed.
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Russia has launched three satellites to extend its version of the U.S. Global Positioning System to the entire Russian territory.
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President Vladimir V. Putin has ensured his dominance of the Russian government even after his term ends.
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Russia launched a rocket sending three navigation satellites into orbit on Sunday, the Russian Space Forces said. Two GLONASS satellites and a new-generation GLONASS-M were brought
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By Laurent Marot KOUROU, French Guiana  - A European Ariane rocketlaunched a military surveillance satellite on Saturday, thethird in a French-led drive for a European "spy in the sky"independent of the United States.
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Moldova, that's where. Formerly part of the Soviet bloc, the small country is shoehorned between Ukraine and Romania.
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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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Â· OSCE says restrictions prevent it doing its jobÂ· Russia accuses observers of double standards
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Russia&#39;s Svobodny space centre, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down Russian media reported on Wednesday.
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Claims that Moldova's membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States means its preferences of Russia versus the European Union are a mistake, Moldovan Foreign Minister Andrei Stratan told the government ...
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Pentagon space shield plan raises stakes with Russia - and local Czechs.
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MOSCOW - Russia's military yesterday waved aside as nothing new a fresh US proposal for a plan to station part of a missile defense shield in eastern Europe.
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U.S. and Russian officials have said the International Space Station was not threatened by debris from a satellite destroyed by China.
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The situation in the Dniester Region following the dispute over Moldovan schools that use the Latin alphabet in the instruction process is returning to normal, Moldova's Reintegration Minister Vasile Shova has ...
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Moldova is ready to resume talks on a Dniester settlement under condition that they will be joined by permanent observers from the European Union and the United States, Moldovan Minister of Reintegration Vasile ...