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25.09.2008, 12:19
Russia will give Venezuela a credit for $US 1 billion, a Kremlin source said to RIA Novosti news agency. The money will give a boost to the military co-operation between the two countries.
26.09.2008, 10:36
Russia and India are giving a new boost to their military-technical co-operation and arms trade, as they are expected to sign a new contract on the purchase of Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov aircraft carrier by India’s Navy a
02.10.2008, 16:25
The Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Timoshenko, says her government has information that Ukraine is involved in the illegal arms trade. The statement came after conflicting reports about the final destination of ‘Faina’,
31.10.2008, 20:07
The Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is in Moscow for the first time in 23 years. He’s holding talks with President Dmitry Medvedev on arms and energy. The Russian President says he expects the visit to be fruitful. Countries have been queuing up to sign luc
06.11.2008, 17:02
Ukraine's president, Viktor Yushchenko, sold weapons to Georgia with a 20% discount in exchange for two luxury Land Rover cars, according to a parliamentary inquiry. The accusations over the gifts, worth $100,000 each, were made by Valeryi Konovalyuk, the
Published: 06 December, 2008, 10:05
It’s one of the perils of the arms trade which humiliates governments and outrages anti-war activists. A political nightmare, and potential humanitarian one, where a country sells weapons to an ally – later to find those same arms being used ag
