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Make friends not war

20:10 03/11/2009

MOSCOW. (Mikhail Rostovsky for RIA Novosti) - Relations between Russia and the European Union remain an uphill struggle. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev thought hard before agreeing to attend the Russia-EU summit in Stockholm on November 18.

Firebird in Paris
16:04 03/11/2009
(Anatoly Korolyov, member of the Russian Pen Club for RIA-Novosti) - In 2009, Europe and Russia celebrate 100 years of the Diaghilev Seasons in Paris, named after the brilliant Russian ballet impresario Sergei Diaghilev. The echo of the bygone event still rocks the world of global culture, and here's why.
Soil moisture and ocean salinity to be measured from space
00:22 03/11/2009
Early in the morning of November 2, a Rokot carrier rocket, which is a derivative of the SS-18 ICBM (NATO reporting name SS-19 mod.2 Stiletto), was launched into orbit from Russia's Plesetsk Space Center. It carried two European Space Agency (ESA) satellites: the SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and PROBA-2 (PRoject for OnBoard Autonomy).

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