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Fires around Moscow: A satellite perspective
Space scientists at the University of Leicester have released satellite images of vast plumes of smoke emanating from the peat bog fires which are currently sweeping across central and western Russia.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 13, 2010 |
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Fires and Smoke in Russia
Intense fires continued to rage in western Russia on August 4, 2010. Burning in dry peat bogs and forests, the fires produced a dense plume of smoke that reached across hundreds of kilometers. The Moderate ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 05, 2010 |
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Image: Smoke over Western Russia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hundreds of fires burned across western Russia on August 2, 2010, but it is the smoke that conveys the magnitude of the disaster in this true-color image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 03, 2010 |
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Space arms control treaty unlikely in near-term: US
The United States said Tuesday that a space arms control treaty was unlikely to emerge in the near future as it still sees flaws in drafts being tabled at the moment.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 13, 2010 |
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Cisco commits $1B in meeting with Russian leader
(AP) -- Cisco Systems Inc. says it will invest $1 billion to help foster high-tech innovation in Russia.
Jun 23, 2010 |
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Study finds echoes of the Holocaust in Russia's economy, politics
Russian cities and regions whose Jewish populations bore the brunt of the Holocaust have seen lower economic growth and wages ever since, according to a detailed new analysis of seven decades of Soviet and Russian data. These ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jun 17, 2010 |
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Officials search HP office in Russia
(AP) -- Russian authorities have searched a Hewlett-Packard Co. office in Moscow in what one news report said was a bribery investigation.
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Finnish high tech exports fall 45 pct in 2009: customs
Finnish high technology exports shrunk 45 percent last year to levels last seen in 1997 as mobile phone sales plummeted, official statistics showed Monday.
Mar 22, 2010 |
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US lunar pull-out leaves China shooting for moon
China aims to land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade at the dawn of a new era of manned space exploration -- a race it now leads thanks to the US decision to drop its lunar programme.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 21, 2010 |
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Reports: Russia's Superjet to be certified in July
(AP) -- Russia's much-anticipated regional passenger aircraft, the Sukhoi Superjet, should be given flight certification by the summer, officials reportedly said Wednesday.
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Russia in secret plan to save Earth from asteroid: official
Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision with a giant asteroid in 26 years, the head of Russia's space agency said Wednesday.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 30, 2009 |
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Russian railways enter modern age with new express
Famed for the legendary trains that clank across seven time zones on its Trans-Siberian railroad, Russia this week entered the modern railway age with its first high-tech express train.
Dec 20, 2009 |
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US, Russia begin talks on cyberspace security: report
The United States has begun talks with Russia and a UN arms control committee about strengthening Internet security and limiting military use of cyberspace, The New York Times reported.
Dec 13, 2009 |
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Russia gains new land after quake, lava flows: scientist
Russia, the world's largest country, has grown even larger recently thanks to an earthquake and a volcanic eruption in its seismically active far eastern regions, a scientist said on Friday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 13, 2009 |
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Rocket with new module for space station blasts off
A Soyuz rocket carrying a new Russian-made module for the International Space Station blasted off on Tuesday from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan, television pictures showed.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 10, 2009 |
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