Russia will significantly boost the supplies of Liquefied Natural Gas to energy-hungry India from 2016, President Dmitry Medvedev has announced. Mentioning the success of ONGC Videsh Ltd venture in Sakhalin-1 offshore oil block, Medvedev, who along with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh addressed a CEOs' forum of the top companies of the two countries in Moscow on Friday evening, also expressed Russia's interest in expanding cooperation with India in hydrocarbons.
The submarine, capable of remaining underwater for months, will be rechristened as 'INS Chakra' and it would be for the first time in more than two decades that the Indian Navy would have a nuclear attack submarine
Russia on Wednesday threatened to walk out of all nuclear arms control pacts over deployment of the European missile shield close to its borders and warned it was prepared to deploy its own missiles on its borders with Europe to counter the American move.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to sign a number of key bilateral pacts including in the field civil nuclear energy during his visit here next month.
Russia on Thursday commenced sea trials of the India Navy's first of the three advanced stealth frigates in the Baltic Sea and the first of these warships will be delivered by early next year.
India's Civil Nuclear Liability Bill will not have an immediate adverse impact on Indo-Russian cooperation in atomic power generation, but Russian contractors would not like to see safety issues raise their project costs. Director for the Centre of Energy and Security Studies and Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Club magazine Anton Khlopkov said the legislation passed by the Indian Parliament "is raising concerns in Russia".
Russia on Friday assured that India would continue to enjoy the waiver it received in 2008 from the Nuclear Suppliers Group's export ban and Moscow wants New Delhi's full participation in the 45-nation grouping that regulates global atomic commerce. Russia's assurance came after India objected to the new guidelines adopted in June by the NSG on the export of nuclear enrichment and reprocessing equipment.
A vintage double-decker passenger ship with 188 tourists on board sank on Sunday in Volga River in Russia's east-central republic of Tatarstan. At least one person was killed in the mishap while 102 people are still missing. So far, 85 passengers have been rescued by a passing ship at the accident site, RIA Novosti reported. The double-decker cruise ship Bolgari, which was en route from the Tatar town of Bolgar to Kazan, sank at 13:58 Moscow time on Sunday
At least 44 people, including Russia's top nuclear design scientists were killed on Tuesday when a Tu-134 passenger plane crash landed on a highway in heavy fog and burst into flames in northern republic of Karelia.
In a statement issued the Russian Foreign Ministry has objected to the entry of USS Monterrey guided missile cruiser armed with AEGIS missile shield for joint Sea Breeze 2011 war games with Ukraine.
Secretary of Russia's National Security Council Nikolai Patrushev is scheduled to discuss a wide range of sensitive issues in bilateral cooperation during his talks with Indian leaders in New Delhi.
"We have decided to send officials from both sides to sit on table either in New Delhi or Moscow to remove the bottlenecks, including clinical trials of new drugs," Azad told the Indian media after meeting his Russian counterpart Tatiana Golikova.
The State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian legislature, approved the New Start treaty by 350 votes with 96 deputies voting against and one abstaining.
A Black Widow linked to Russia's restive Northern Caucasus region could be behind the deadly suicide attack that rocked Moscow's international airport on Monday. A day after the explosion killed 35 people, including two Britons, a German and a Bulgarian, and injured 178 others at the Domodedovo International Airport, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev slammed the airport management for security failures."The management of Domodedovo Airport should be held responsible," he said
India and Russia are expected to give 'privileged' status to their strategic partnership during the upcoming visit of President Dmitry Medvedev as the two sides are likely to break new ground in defence, nuclear and energy sectors, Kremlin sources said on Monday.Medvedev, who is scheduled to arrive in India on Monday night, will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Pakistan and Afghanistan have become 'incubators' of terrorism, and pose a threat to Russia and all constituents of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) of former Soviet republics, Russian security chief said on Tuesday. "These countries have become an 'incubator' of terrorism and extremism, which are spreading into the region, CIS countries and the whole world," Director of Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov was quoted as saying.
Russia has handed over a new nuclear powered submarine armed with torpedos and cruise missiles to India and the vessel has set sail for home with a mixed crew of Indian and Russian sailors. The Akula class nuclear attack submarine, which is on a ten-year lease to the Indian Navy, left its base on the Pacific coast earlier this week, bound for India, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies reported.
The exercise under the codename Vigilant Eagle, was carried out between August 6-11 under a cooperative military agreement between Russia and the US, which tasks NORAD, the bi-national US and Canadian command, and the Russian Air Force to conduct a live-flying exercise for up to five days, RIA Novosti reported.
President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered a radical restructuring of the Russian armed forces command system with an aim to reform the Soviet-era military behemoth into a 'lean but mean' force capable of fighting the modern network centric warfare. The decree signed by Medvedev also aims to reform the logistic support system of the armed forces.
The United States and Russia have agreed to swap ten Russian agents who pleaded guilty before a New York federal court in exchange of four persons incarcerated by Moscow for alleged contact with Western intelligence agencies. "The United States and the Russian Federation agreed that the United States would transfer these individuals abroad and turn them over to Russian authorities. The Russian Federation, in turn, would release four individuals," said Eric Holder.
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