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	New Space Expedition Is Set to Launch from Baikonur
	Russia’s Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft with the International Space Station’s (ISS) Expedition 33/34 is planned to launch from the Baikonur space center on Tuesday afternoon.
--23-10-2012--
	Russian Launches US Telecoms Satellite
	On Sunday Russia’s Proton-M carrier rocket with a US telecoms satellite, Intelsat-23, blasted off from the Baikonur space centre.
--15-10-2012--
	First Russian Private Satellite to Be Launched in 2013
	First Russia's satellite designed and constructed by a private company will be launched next year, Dauria Aerospace head Mikhail Kokorich told RBK Daily.
--25-09-2012--
	Russian Rocket Launches European Meteo Satellite
	On Monday, a Russian Soyuz-2.1a rocket left off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, carrying a European weather satellite.
--24-09-2012--
	Russia Delays Space Military Launches in 2012
	Russia plans to delay launches of military spacecraft this year because of a failed satellite launch on August.
--04-09-2012--
	Russia to Carry Out Four Lunar Mission Before 2020
	Russia will start building an unmanned base on the Moon after 2025, as a hit of a big Russia's lunar program.
--31-08-2012--
	Russian Cosmonauts Successfully Complete Spacewalk
	Russia's crew members of the International Space Station, Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko, completed a six-hour spacewalk having carried out all planned tasks.
--22-08-2012--
	Russian Mars Water Detector Starts Working on Curiosity's Board
	A Russian neutron detector on board NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity was activated on Friday to start searching for any water along the rover's path.
--20-08-2012--
	Indonesian Satellite Found After Russian Spacecraft Failure
	Contact has been made with an Indonesian telecommunications satellite which went missing after a failed launch on the Russian rocket last week
--14-08-2012--
	Russia Fails to Deliver Two Satellites to Transit Orbit
	Briz-M booster failed to bring two satellites into a calculated transition orbit after the launch late on Monday, Russian Roscosmos space agency reported yesterday.
--08-08-2012--
	Russian Space Agency Offers a Tender for Moon Rocket Design
	Russia's Roscosmos space agency has announced a ten-million ruble ($300,000) tender for a Moon rocket design.
--06-08-2012--
	Progress Space Freighter Re-docks with ISS
	At the second attempt, the Russian Progress M-15M re-docked with the the International Space Station (ISS) with the help of a new rendezvous system on Sunday.
--30-07-2012--
	The Next "Soyuz" Space Flight Date Is Announced
	The nearest launch of the Russian "Soyuz" manned spacecraft is scheduled on October 15, 2012.
--27-07-2012--
	Progress Freighter Failed to Dock with Space Station
	The re-docking of the Russian Progress 47 resupply spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed till July 29 due to an apparent failure.
--24-07-2012--
	No Moon Missions for Russia until 2018
	Russia's projected manned spacecraft capable of flights to the moon will not fly until 2018, the head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, said on Wednesday.
--23-07-2012--
	Russian "Soyuz" Spacecraft Docks with ISS
	Russia’s Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, July 17.
--18-07-2012--
	Russian Spacecraft With Space Station Crew Reached Orbite
	A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with three new crewmembers, launched from the Baikonur Space Center to the International Space Station (ISS), reached intermediate orbit.
--16-07-2012--
	Most Detailed Earth Pictures Produced by Russian Satellite
	The Russian weather satellite “Elektro-L No.1” has provided 121-megapixel pictures of the Earth, the most detailed photographs in the history of space exploration. The pictures have caused international respect and admiration.
--15-05-2012--
	Russian Zenit-2SB Delivers U.S. Satellite into Target Orbit
	On Thursday, a Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-2SB carrier rocket with the U.S. Intelsat 18 telecommunications satellite blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.
--07-10-2011--
	Is Altai Territory in Danger after Spacecraft Crash?
	Ten residents of a south Siberian village have complained of headaches since the Progress M-12M space freighter fell to earth in the region.
--26-08-2011--
	Gherman Titov Memorial Museum Opens in Altay Territory
	A memorial museum of the well-known spaceman Gherman Stepanovich Titov (1935-2000) has been opened in Polkovnikovo Village of the Altay Territory.
--08-08-2011--