China says no plans to shoot down N.Korean rocket

China has no plans for special operations against North Korea’s upcoming rocket launch, a Chinese Air Force General said on Monday.
North Korea announced plans last month to launch what it says is a communications satellite from its Musudan-ri launch site on April 4-8. However, the U.S., Japan and South Korea believe that the secretive state is planning to test its Taepodong-2 long-range missile. Read more

India and test BrahMos.

India has successfully tested the latest land attack version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile at a firing range in Pokhran, a spokesman for Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace Limited said Sunday.
The spokesman said that the missile had successfully hit its designated target. Read more

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Candy Dulfer -phenomenon.

Candy Dulfer is a phenomenon on the contemporary jazz stage. While it takes most young jazz musicians years to make themselves known, Candy was already an established musician with a record deal by the age of 19. Moreover, Candy, a gorgeous blonde sax player with the appearance of a top model, says she has never actually experienced a prejudiced attitude against her as one of the very few female jazz musicians who managed to break through.
Now 37, she is undoubtedly one Read more

Protesters will certainly liven up the G20 in London.

The thousands of protesters who regularly disrupt (G20 summit ) economic summits as predictably as birds fly south for the winter have been called many things in the past – from anti-capitalists to anti-globalists to black-flag anarchists who just want to hurl rocks and insults at riot police and upset the global village reverie.
The protesters respond that they are fighting not to bring down capitalism, or western civilization, or even the New World Order but to rescue it from the monolithic, faceless organizations – the World Bank, Read more

French father of abducted girl says ready for ‘amicable deal’.

The French father of a 3-year-old girl kidnapped in France last Friday said he was ready to conclude an amicable settlement agreement with his ex-wife if the Russian court allowed him to see his daughter.
When asked during a TV link-up between Moscow and Paris held by RIA Novosti if he was ready to strike a deal, Jean-Michel Andre said: “Yes, of course, it goes without saying. I answer ‘yes.’”
Elise, who has Russian Read more

Russians on board 2 ships seized by pirates off Somalia.

Two Russian nationals are on board the Greek and Norwegian vessels seized by pirates off Somalia, the Greek Mercantile Marine Ministry and Norwegian Shipowners’ Association said on Thursday.
The Nipayia vessel was captured by the pirates about 720 kilometers off Somalia on Wednesday. A spokesman for the Greek Mercantile Marine Ministry said the crew comprised one Russian national and 18 Filipinos. Read more

Someone goes home and someone starts an adventure.

The 19th Expedition crew to the International Space Station (ISS) will blast off on board a Soyuz carrier rocket on Thursday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a Russian Mission Control spokesman said. Lift off is scheduled for 2:47 p.m. Moscow time [10:47 GMT]. The Soyuz TMA-14 spacecraft is due to dock with the ISS on Saturday.
The new crew of Commander Gennady Padalka from Russia, NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and space tourist billionaire Charles Simonyi will join Japan’s Koichi Wakata, U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian Flight Engineer Yury Lonchakov. Wakata replaced U.S. astronaut Sandra Magnus, who left the ISS on Wednesday on board the Discovery space shuttle following a four-month tour of duty.
This will be Hungarian-born Simonyi’s second trip into space at a cost of around $35 million, up from the $25 million he paid for his 2007 visit. Padalka and Barratt will remain on the ISS for six months, and Simonyi will be on board for ten days before returning to Earth on April 7 with Fincke and Lonchakov. By the end of May, the ISS will be constantly manned by six astronauts.
The space station proves 2 things. One is that cooperation and friendly relations are possible and desirable if positive things are to be accomplished.
The second is that the Russian space program is healthy, vibrant and totally reliable. It has been the only reliable method of delivery of supplies and personnel to the ISS.
Earth bound persons could learn from the space travelers about friendly cooperation, enduring long periods of deprivation and overcoming any challenge. Space is for peace and Russia leads the way! Always good to see the crew change-over. Someone goes home and someone starts an adventure.

New U.S. Airline in Russia.

Major airlines are slashing prices and grounding planes to remain profitable in the tough global economy. But a group of investors believe that the time is ripe to launch a new airline offering flights between New York and St. Petersburg. Baltia Air Lines has won approval from the U.S. Transportation Department to provide nonstop service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo 2 Airport, and the flights will start this summer, Read more

Warns of ATM virus threat.

Russian computer security Kaspersky Lab warned on Wednesday of a new virus that hackers could use in ATMs to gain access to bank accounts.
“This is a malicious program intended to infect and survive in ATMs. It is possible that new malware will appear, aimed at illegitimately using banking information and removing funds,” the company’s head of global research and threats analysis, Alexander Gostyev, told RIA Novosti.
Earlier on Wednesday another Russian anti-virus company, Doctor Web, Read more

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