Russian nuclear contractor Atomstroyexport cannot complete the work on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant by the end of 2007, Igor Ivanov, secretary of Russia’s Security Council said on Tuesday, April 17. Ivanov sited cash crunch and technical problems as reasons for the delay.
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April 18, 2007Washington needs to think twice before launching a military campaign against Tehran as such an attack would have global implications, the RIA-Novosti quoted a senior Russian military official as saying on Tuesday.
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April 3, 2007Russia’s leading nuclear scientist said on Monday that it was just a question of time before Iran developed a nuclear weapon and it should be stopped, the Reuters news agency reported on Tuesday.
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Iran has resumed paying for construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant but has still to catch up after recent shortfalls, the AFP news agency reported quoting an official statement by Russia’s atomic energy agency.
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March 27, 2007Russia is bringing home its technicians and engineers from Iran’s unfinished nuclear reactor site at a time of growing international pressure on Tehran to curb its atomic ambitions, U.S. and European representatives said on Tuesday according to the Associated Press report.
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March 21, 2007A Russian delegation comprising officials and experts of Atomstroiexport, the company that is building the Bushehr nuclear power plant, arrived Monday in Tehran to settle a dispute over an alleged default in payment by Iran for the plant, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported.
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March 12, 2007Russia’s defense minister Sergei Ivanov confirmed Tuesday Russia has sold an unspecified number of short-range Tor-M1 missiles to Iran. This announcement was the first government confirmation from Russia.
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January 19, 2007Russian senior lawmakers condemned the death sentence passed on Saddam Hussein warning that the execution may cause civil war in Iraq, RIA Novosti news agency reported December 29.
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December 29, 2006Eight Russian tourists and an Uzbek, along with two Egyptians, were injured Friday when a tourist bus overturned in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, MENA news agency reported.
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December 15, 2006
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora is to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, AFP reports.
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December 13, 2006
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