Russia to Stop Giving Free Trips to US Astronauts
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Russian Space Agency said on Tuesday it will stop giving free space trips to US astronauts. The agency chief Anatoly Perminov quoted by Reiters said they âwill put US astronauts into orbit only on a commercial basisâ from 2006.
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Organisation will temporarily close operations in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg after 'pressure'
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President Bush is toning down his administration&#039;s criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin&#039;s steps to restrict political and economic freedoms as Russia prepares to host an annual summit of economic powers.
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Russia said today that it would suspend its obligations under a cornerstone cold war-era arms limitation treaty.
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Russia on Wednesday curtly rejected U.S. criticism of sweeping political changes proposed by President Vladimir Putin, telling Washington to stay out of its business.
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Russia pledged on Friday to ignore a US court order intended to block the looming auction of oil giant Yukosâ key production subsidiary, but a consortium
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MOSCOW -- Russia has restricted rights to such an extent that it has joined the countries that are ''not free" for the first time since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, Freedom House said yesterday, marking Moscow's march away from the Western democracies it has embraced as diplomatic partners.
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Russia curtly told the United States to  stay out of its business on Wednesday after U.S. criticism,  echoed by the European Union, of President Vladimir Putin's  plans for radical change that will boost Kremlin power.
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It's not Superman. It's Russian satellites.
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Russia says the US should halt plans for a missile defence shield in central Europe, pending further talks.
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BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - A Russian-US crew lifted off on a two-day journey to the international space station, where their first priority will be to fix a broken generator.
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Russian space officials say the departure of the replacement crew for the International Space Station has been set for October 14.
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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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Russia said Tuesday it was pulling out of joint military exercises with the United States scheduled for later this month because of unspecified problems with U.S. personnel.
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The U.S. ambassador's residence in Moscow won't be low-rent living anymore. In an effort to end years of acrimony, the United States and Russia have agreed to end an exceptional real-estate bargain &#151; renting the vast and luxurious U.S. ambassador's residence for just a few dollars a year.
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A male US astronaut whose involvement in a love triangle sparked a dangerous confrontation between his two female love rivals is being cut from the US space program, NASA announced.
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MOSCOW - Echoing what NASA (news - web sites) officials said a day earlier, a Russian space official on Friday said the two-man crew on the international space station could be forced to return to Earth if a planned resupply flight cannot reach them with