According to Xinhua report, Indonesia will buy six more Russian-built Sukhoi jet fighters, Air Force chief Marshall Herman Prayitno has said.
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November 29, 2006Russia’s defense minister defended his country’s sale of arms to Iran, saying in an interview published Monday that air defense missile systems it is delivering will not upset the regional balance of power, The Associated Press reports.
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November 27, 2006Russia has begun delivery of multi-million pound air defence missile systems to Iran, Arms-Tass and Sky News reports.
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November 24, 2006
Russia will present arms and military equipment at the 2nd international arms show INDO DEFENCE 2006 EXPO & FORUM opening in Jakarta on Wednesday.
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November 22, 2006
The Rostov Helicopter Production Complex, or Rostvertol, has displayed the export version of the Mi-28N. Rostvertol has briefed military delegations from Iran and Syria at the recent China-2006 air show in China.
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November 21, 2006Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Sunday that the United States has lifted sanctions on jet maker Sukhoi.
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November 20, 2006Russia has sent anti-aircraft systems to Belarus in retaliation against the delivery to Poland of US-made F-16 warplanes, a source in the Moscow-led Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) said on Friday.
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November 10, 2006The U.S. government has frozen assets of two men from the former Soviet Union. Viktor Bout and Dmitry Popov are accused of illegally supplying weapons to rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
According to a statement from the White House, the two were supplying weapons to the fighters in the east of the country using a small airline as cover. The arms were allegedly traded for illegal diamonds in Africa.
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November 3, 2006Russian businessman placed on the list of individuals allegedly involved in delivering weapons to Congo has denied his involvement after President George W. Bush said earlier this week he had ordered that assets be frozen of dissident general Laurent Nkunda and six other individuals, including Viktor Bout.
Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout denied his involvement in deliveries of weapons to the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday. “I have absolutely nothing to do with any shipments of weapons to Congo,†Bout told Russia’s Ekho Moskvy radio.
Previously, Viktor Bout had been accused of illegally selling weapons to a number of countries, including African nations.
On Tuesday President George W. Bush on Tuesday ordered that assets be frozen of dissident general Laurent Nkunda and six others considered by the White House to be destabilizing forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Reuters reported. Bush issued an executive order immediately blocking any assets under U.S. jurisdiction of seven individuals accused of impeding disarmament activities, violating international laws on the targeting of children, or violating the U.N. arms embargo.
The move came two days after a presidential election in the central African country, which is home to the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping force. The vote, praised by foreign observers as largely peaceful and transparent, was meant to bring an end to decades of conflict and pillage that have left the mineral-rich country destitute.
Nkunda, a Tutsi accused of war crimes allegedly committed in 2004, leads a rebellion from Congo’s eastern hills and is reinventing himself as a protector of all Congolese excluded by the central government. Also targeted by the executive order was Hutu rebel leader Ignace Murwanashyaka, president of Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda (FDLR). The FDLR is accused of taking part in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
The U.N. last year extended the arms embargo on Congo and introduced a travel ban and assets freeze on those violating the embargo.
Others named in the executive order were: Khawa Panga Mandro, former president of the Party for Unity and Safeguarding of the Integrity of Congo (PUSIC); Viktor Anatolijevitch Bout, owner of the Great Lakes Business Company and Business Air Services; Sanjivan Singh Ruprah, a businessman; Dimitri Igorevich Popov, general manager of the Great Lakes Business Company; and Douglas Mpano, manager of the Great Lakes Business Company.
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November 1, 2006The Russian defense minister on Wednesday defended Moscow’s deal to supply air defense missiles to Iran, saying they were purely defensive weapons with a limited range, the Associated Press news agency reports.
“I wish to underline that these systems cannot be used in offensive operations,†Sergei Ivanov told Russia Today television in an interview broadcast early Wednesday. “Secondly, they have a limited use as they are capable of protecting a small part of the Iranian territory.â€
Moscow has refused to bow to Western pressure and cancel its US 700 million contract to sell 29 Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran, which was signed last December.
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