Russia launches European telecommunications satellite
MOSCOW - Russia successfully launched a European telecommunications satellite early Saturday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Roskosmos space agency announced.
The Hot Bird 8 broadcasting satellite is designed for television and radio broadcasting and is owned by the European satellite operator Eutelsat
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/August/theworld_August196.xml§ion=theworld
Putin calls for immediate ceasefire, talks in Mideast
http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060805/52303652.html
Russia's Putin Speaks Out Against American Sanctions
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004439520
Russia says US bans its arms firms over Iran sales
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-08-04T174225Z_01_L04668835_RTRUKOC_0_US-RUSSIA-USA-SANCTIONS.xml
Russia reignites feud with Japan by investing £350m in disputed islands
Russia is to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into developing a group of small islands seized from Japan at the end of the second world war, in a calculated snub to Tokyo. The decision will aggravate a dispute that has kept the countries technically at war for more than 60 years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1837843,00.html
plane crashes
Plane crashes in Bennington, killing pilot
Boston Globe - United States
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Plane crashes in eastern Congo, killing 12
Bradenton Herald - FL, United States
KINSHASA, Congo - A Ukranian-built passenger plane crashed into a mountain before tumbling into a valley in eastern Congo, killing at least a dozen of the 17 ...
Beach banner plane crashes in pickup area
WLNS - Lansing,MI,USA
... surgery. Police believe the plane -- a 1962 Piper PA-25 -- was changing banners at its base when it crashed and burned. Ouillette ...
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Small plane crashes at Ontario Airport
KTVZ - Bend,OR,USA
ONTARIO, Ore. - Several people were hospitalized after a plane crashed while trying to land at the Ontario Airport Friday afternoon. ...
Small plane crashes in water off Hyannis beach
Boston Globe - United States
BARNSTABLE, Mass. --A small plane that was towing an advertising banner above beachgoers in Barnstable crashed into the water on Saturday, authorities said. ...
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Russia reignites feud with Japan by investing £350m in disputed islands
Russia is to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into developing a group of small islands seized from Japan at the end of the second world war, in a calculated snub to Tokyo. The decision will aggravate a dispute that has kept the countries technically at war for more than 60 years.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/russia/article/0,,1837843,00.html
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This one bothers me, they will be in place to stop any missiles that Japan might need to fire.
Russia will also be close enough to jam lots of things in Japan, including their defences, or so I would think.