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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia agreed on Friday to build Venezuela’s first nuclear power station after talks between Presidents Dmitry Medvedev and Hugo Chavez in the Kremlin. Russian nuclear agency chief Sergei Kiriyenko and Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro signed a deal on “the construction and use of an atomic power station on the territory of [...]  DEBKAfile) — Intelligence sources report from Iran that dozens of Russian nuclear engineers, technicians and contractors are hurriedly departing Iran for home since local intelligence authorities began rounding up their compatriots as suspects of planting the Stuxnet malworm into their nuclear program. Among them are the Russian personnel who built Iran’s first nuclear reactor at [...] BEIJING (AFP) – The leaders of China and Russia celebrated Monday the completion of a cross-border oil pipeline, a symbol of growing ties between the two emerging economic powers, particularly in the energy sector. Visiting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Chinese host President Hu Jintao attended a launch ceremony for the long-awaited pipeline linking [...] With news of Russian overflights buzzing our navy, this is an important area to keep an eye on. It’s a battle royal to become undisputed ‘king of the uttermost north’. — PID (BBC NEWS) — Could the Arctic become a battleground over control of large reserves of oil and gas thought to lie under the [...] MOSCOW (REUTERS) — Russia’s paramount leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, hinted on Monday he would return to the presidency in 2012 for six more years and said democracy protesters marching without permission deserved to be beaten. Asked by the Kommersant daily newspaper in an interview whether Russia’s 2012 presidential election did not worry him because [...] (AP) — Trucks rumbled into Irans first reactor Saturday to begin loading tons of uranium fuel in a long-delayed startup touted by officials as both a symbol of the countrys peaceful intentions to produce nuclear energy as well as a triumph over Western pressure to rein in its nuclear ambitions. The Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power [...] (DEBKAfile) — US and Israeli military sources told debkafile Thursday, Aug. 12, that a threat from Georgia was not the reason why Russian posted advanced S-300 interceptor batteries Russia in Abkhazia and air defense weapons in South Ossetia on the northern shore of the Black Sea -as Moscow officially maintained, but rather possible moves by [...] |
 
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