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Arms trade

India and Russia to co-operate in developing next-gen MiG?

March 17, 2007

Winds of Change reports that Russia and India are considering whether to build the next-generation MiG together.
From India’s point of view, a firm development agreement that helps finance Russia’s next-generation plane is one way to restrict Russian cooperation with China along similar lines.
Winds of Change goes on to report that India’s current fourth [...]

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Russian-Indian military exercise begins

October 10, 2005

Hot on the heels of Russia’s recent military exercise with China (see here for details) 1,600 Russian troops, 9 airplanes and 5 warships are taking part in a military exercise with India.
The exercise, which will run for 10 days from October 10th, is based around a counter terrorism scenario, says Indian newspaper New [...]

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Russia writes off Ethiopian debt

March 31, 2005

Russia has written off Ethiopia’s $1.1 billion debt, ostensibly to help Ethiopia in its fight against poverty, although I suspect arms sales may, as is so often the case, be at the root of Russia’s decision:
Russia has cancelled $1.1 billion owed to it by Ethiopia and agreed to let the Horn of Africa country repay [...]

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Russia to take oil in exchange for arms

February 10, 2005

Rosoboronexport, one of Russia’s state owned arms companies, is considering accepting oil and gas rights in payment for arms deals.
It makes good business sense for Rosoboronexport as the transfer of mineral rights is harder to default on than cash payments.  But it’s got to be bad business for the countries buying the arms.  Their mineral [...]

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Who controls the Russian arms trade?

January 17, 2005

In an opinion piece about last week’s rumours of a Russian missile sale to Syria, Pavel Felgenhauer notes a worrying aspect of the Russian arms trade in general.  Namely a lack of central control.
Ivanov stated that there were no official negotiations to sell missiles to Syria, but there are several different semiofficial entities in Russia [...]

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