* The states whose delegations attended the second summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA) in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, signed a raft of documents, including a declaration and an agreement on the organization's secretariat
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 06:07 GMT
MOSCOW/BAIKONUR SPACE CENTER, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian carrier rocket has delivered Kazakhstan's first communications satellite into orbit, a spokesman for Russia's federal space agency said Sunday.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 07:02 GMT
Kazakhstan has sent its first satellite into space, a step toward fulfilling the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic's ambitions to join the elite club of space-exploring nations.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 07:04 GMT
To bolster Navy's reconnaissance capabilities, India is to buy more IL-38 spy planes from Russia and the decks for the supply would be cleared during Naval Chief Admiral Arun Prakash's weeklong visit to Moscow starting Monday.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 07:18 GMT
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// Jun. 18, 2006 - 07:47 GMT
TEHRAN, June 18 (RIA Novosti) – Iran rejects any preconditions in the talks on its nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said Sunday.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 08:22 GMT
Kazakhstan has sent its first satellite into space, a step toward fulfilling the oil-rich ex-Soviet republic's ambitions to join the elite club of space-exploring nations.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 08:56 GMT
To bolster Navy's reconnaissance capabilities, India is to buy more IL-38 spy planes from Russia and the decks for the supply would be cleared during Naval Chief Admiral Arun Prakash's weeklong visit to Moscow starting Monday.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 08:58 GMT
Three young men have been detained for beating up an African student in the south Russian city Rostov on Don.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 09:09 GMT
Rosneft, the second-biggest Russian oil producer, is mounting a lavish public relations campaign to win over wary foreign investors before planned flotation on the London and Moscow stock exchanges next month.
// Jun. 18, 2006 - 09:42 GMT