Russia and the USA have finally signed an agreement about atom for peace after they have been negotiating for several years. Now the American market is open for the Russian uranium and atomic equipment as well. However, nuclear fuel supplies are limited till 2020, and the Russian engineers do not consider the USA market prospective

Rosoboronexport State Corporation will present Su-35 multi-role fighter in the airport of Chilean capital of Santiago within the 15th FIDAE-2008 International Air and Space air show, as reported the press-service of Rosoboronexport.

The Russian Atomenergoprom and the Japanese Toshiba Corporation will construct the nuclear power plants. Atomenergoprom head Vladimir Travin and Toshiba Corporation president Atsutoshi Nishida signed the agreement about the collaboration in the peaceful use of nuclear energy area. The agreement does not have the framework character yet. Although the experts are sure that it is the first step towards the complete transnational alliance establishment which will become the leading player at the global market.

World military expenditures exceed $1 trillion a year, declared the director of the Center for Policy and International Studies Alexander Nikitin. According to him, they are rather estimated at $1,3 trln. Moreover, Pentagon open expenditures total $481 bln plus $270 bln as the additional financing. He reported about this on the Moscow meeting of the research and expert council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Federal Bio-Medical Agency of the Russian Federation elaborated the concept of the federal target program for development of nuclear medicine. Valentin Uyba, the agency head, reported about this. According to him, the new project is scheduled for the period from 2010 to 2015 and includes construction of four centers of nuclear medicine in Dimitrovgrad, Tomsk, Yekaterinburg and Dubne.

The first Vice Prime Minister of Russian Federation (RF) Sergey Ivanov declared that according to 2007 results the Russian weapon export would attain the next record, exceeding $7bln. Thus, Russia received about $1 bln less because of problems with ship building and cooling relations with Algeria. For seven years, within which the former head of Rosoboronexport Federal State Unitary Enterprise (FSUE) and now director general of Rostecnology public corporation Sergey Chemezov was engaged in weapon export, the sales volume grew twice

In the program of branch development till 2020 planned such quantity of power units that was put into operation in Russia for the whole Soviet period. In woods near Voronezh construction of the first nuclear power plant for the last 15 years was started in Russia. Now it is still hard to believe, but its first block will give electric power in 2012.

Delivery of the Iskander tactical missile systems to Belarus will become an asymmetrical response to the plans of the USA on creation of the third positioning ABM (anti-ballistic missile) region in European continent, reference to the statement of commander of the Russian Missile and Artillery Troops, Colonel General Vladimir Zaritsky. “Any action always triggers counteraction, and it is the same with ABM elements in the USA, the Czech Republic and Poland”, general added. Zaritsky underlined also, that Russian and Belarusian missilemen closely co-operate and are intended to develop cooperation.

In Zhukovskiy near Moscow closed the 8th International aerospace show “MAX-2007″. 787 companies from more than 40 countries of the world participated in it. Its important features were the participation of China which didn’t take part in the previous show, and United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), with which today the aircraft future of Russia is connected. Besides, undoubtedly, spectacular air show and large amount of manifold equipment spectators of “МAX-2007″ remembered this event also by kilometers-long jams, terrible heat and unpretentious Russian service.

Russia became the leader on supplies of weapon in the first five years of new century, reference to information of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). According to data of SIPRI, on Russia falls 31% from the general volume of weapon supplies for export in 2001-2005. On the second place is the USA, having taken 30% of the market. Russia‘s leadership is explained by large-scale supplies in relation to cheap weapon armament.