Russia 110705 Basic Political Developments
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China Signs $500 Million Russian Jet Engine Deal, Vedomosti Sayshttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-04/china-signs-500-million-russian-jet-engine-deal-vedomosti-says.html By Jack Jordan - Jul 4, 2011 7:07 AM GMT+0200 China’s Ministry of Defense signed a contract to buy Russian aircraft engines worth $500 million in early June, Vedomosti reported, citing an unidentified personsource close to Russia’s state arms-selling agency and an unidentified manager of an aviation company. The contract is for 123 AL-31FN engines by 2013, the first 13 of which will be delivered later this year, the newspaper said. To contact the reporter on this story: Jack Jordan in Moscow at jjordan22@bloomberg.net To contact the editor responsible for this story: Torrey Clark at tclark8@bloomberg.net
Posted: Tue Jul 05 2011, 00:36 hrs New Delhi: Already hit by the massive delay in the Gorshkov aircraft carrier delivery, the Indian Navy may be in for another blow. A top Russian official has said that the first of the new Talwar class frigates, ordered under a $1.1 billion contract in 2006 and set to be delivered by the end of this year, has been delayed. While Russia has not formally conveyed any delay in the project for construction of three Talwar class frigates to India, concerns have risen after a senior official from the state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport publicly stated that a new deadline will have to be drawn. India ordered three of the frigates in 2006, with the first ship to be delivered in 2011. “We have not yet been informed of any delay. We have a team in Russia that is overseeing the project and they will discuss the matter,” a defence ministry official said. New Russian warship unveiled http://www.defpro.com/news/details/25971/?SID=00f402d15f56775da1b0456b94b39c31 06:19 GMT, July 5, 2011 The corvette Soobrazitelny was shown to the public for the first time at the Fifth International Maritime Defence Show (IMDS-2011) in St. Petersburg. More than 70 industrial and research companies contributed to the development and construction of the vessel ordered by the Russian Navy. The corvette carries an impressive array of armaments: an Uran anti-ship missile system, an AK-630M surface-to-air artillery unit, an A-190 automatic artillery system plus multiple torpedo tubes. To jam and protect itself against homing missiles the Soobrazitelny features a radioelectronic suppression system. The system actively jams incoming missiles and can guide an enemy warhead to a decoy target. A KA-27PL anti-submarine helicopter is based on the corvette to seek and attack submarines. (RIA Novosti) (A related video can be viewed at http://goo.gl/fiowI) Senior Russian army officers resign over military reforms - paperhttp://en.rian.ru/mlitary_news/20110705/165026894.html 09:48 05/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)Several influential members of the top brass have resigned due to differences with the head of Russia's General Staff over his implementation of military reforms, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported on Tuesday. The newspaper said that although the generals themselves have not made public the reasons for their departures, a senior officer said the opinion within the army is that they are leaving because they do not agree with Chief of Staff Army Gen. Nikolai Makarov's steps to reform the military. The source denied that Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was a reason for the officers' discontent. "Some media write that Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov is to blame for all the troubles of the army. But it is not like that," Nezavisimaya Gazeta quoted the source as saying. "As defense minister, Serdyukov has proven to be an effective manager," the source said, praising the minister for giving the troops new weapons and equipment. "But you can't say this about Makarov." The officer accused Makarov of creating a situation under which the military is run in a perpetual state of temporary experimentation. Russia's armed forces have been undergoing reform for years with mixed results and frequent reports of dissatisfaction in the officer corps. As part of efforts to transform the military into a modern fighting force, the government has vowed to rearm troops with up-to-date weaponry and cut the number of service personnel to 1 million, increasing the number of professional soldiers. There are currently 180,000 contract soldiers in uniform, with the bulk of the force consisting of enlisted personnel, but Serdyukov said on july 1 that by the end of 2017, the number of professional troops will increase to 425,000.
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Experts from Estonia and Russia met in Tallinn on Monday to discuss financial-economic, environmental and nuclear safety matters related to the potential building of a nuclear power station in the Russian Kaliningrad region, with Estonian experts saying that for Estonia the first choice as regards regional projects for the establishment of new generating capacities without doubt is participating in a project for a new N-plant in Lithuania, BNS reported. From the Estonian side representatives from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Economy and Communications and the state owned energy company Eesti Energia took part in the meeting that was attended from the Russian side by executives from the company Rosatom and related companies, as well as by representatives from the Russian embassy, spokespeople for the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Estonian experts said at the meeting that a number of decisions have been made in both the European Union and Estonia by which it is important to avoid an increase in dependence on imported energy and which emphasize the need to engage actively in diversification of sources of energy supply. On the more technical level, it continues to be unclear for Estonia who would be the consumers of the energy to be generated by the new Kaliningrad plant or where they would be located. The planned capacity of the station clearly surpasses the region's own needs. For the export of electricity from Kaliningrad both the necessary infrastructure as well as agreements with potential consumers are known to be lacking.
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