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'Big losses' if Russia halts Iran's S-300sMoscow (UPI) Jul 2, 2010 Russia stands to lose billions of dollars in arms and aerospace deals with Tehran if the Kremlin sticks to its guns and refuses to deliver powerful S-300 air-defense missiles under an $800 million deal, the Nezavisimaya Gazeta daily has warned. The Islamic Republic will just turn to China for its weapons systems, thus depriving Moscow of a major source of revenue, the newspaper reported Wednesday. Russia announced it would freeze delivery of five mobile S-300OPMU batteries to Iran after ... read more |
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China sentences another Tibetan environmentalistBeijing (AFP) July 4, 2010 A leading Tibetan environmentalist has been jailed for subversion, the third such verdict amid an apparent crackdown on intellectuals in the Himalayan region, activists said Sunday. Rinchen Samdrup, 44, was sentenced to five years in prison on Saturday for attempting to incite subversion by a court in Tibet's Chamdo region, poet and rights activist Woeser said on her blog. The verdict comes after his brother Karma Samdrup, 42, a noted art and antique collector and philanthropist, was sentenced b ... read more |
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