Russia to lease only one nuclear sub to India: official

September 29th, 2009 ST PETERSBURG - Russia's state-run civilian nuclear power corporation 'Rosatom' will dismantle 191 out of 198 decommissioned nuclear submarines by 2010, a company report said Tuesday. "As of today, 198 nuclear submarines have been decommissioned from the Navy.

September 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Under renewed global pressure for signing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), India Tuesday reiterated its commitment to a voluntary moratorium on nuclear testing and stressed that it would participate in negotiations on an Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) as a nuclear weapon state. Welcoming recent initiatives by the US and Russia to slash their nuclear arsenals, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated India's pledge to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and emphasised that global non-proliferation should be universal and non-discriminatory in order to be successful.

September 12th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia expressed disappointment with the latest proposals by Iran in the row over Tehran's nuclear programme, according to media reports Saturday. An unnamed official in the Russian government was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying that Iran's proposals provided "unfortunately no detailed answers to the main question".

September 3rd, 2009 MOSCOW - The presidents of Russia and India will discuss cooperation in trade, economics, science, nuclear power and space industry, at talks in Moscow later Thursday, a Kremlin source said. Pratibha Patil was invited to pay an official visit by Dmitry Medvedev and arrived Wednesday.

September 3rd, 2009 MOSCOW - President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has expressed a desire to enhance bilateral trade ties with Russia. While addressing a gathering of expatriate Indians and some prominent Russians during the course of her five-day visit, Patil said, the only area where India-Russia relationship is lagging is in the field of bilateral economic cooperation.

July 27th, 2009 KHABAROVSK - The first stage of sea trials of Russia's Nerpa nuclear attack submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, has been successfully completed, the Amur shipyard said Monday. The vessel, which will be leased to the Indian Navy by the end of 2009, resumed sea trials July 10 in the Sea of Japan following extensive repairs.

July 14th, 2009 PARIS/NEW DELHI - The G8 declaration on inhibiting the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technologies (ENR) to those countries who have not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) would have no effect on India, Indian officials said here ahead of the meeting between Prime Minsiter Manmohan Singh and French President Nicolas Sarkozy Tuesday. "We are receiving no help from anybody," official sources said.

July 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - A Russian nuclear submarine that is to be leased to India and which was damaged in an accident that killed 20 people resumed sea trials Friday after extensive repairs, a defence official said. "The sea trials of the Nerpa nuclear submarine will continue for two weeks.

July 6th, 2009 Medvedev: We must cooperate against nuclear spreadMOSCOW — President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia and the U.S. must work closely together to stop the spread of nuclear weapons in volatile regions including the Middle East.

June 22nd, 2009 US, Russia to discuss nuclear arms reduction pactGENEVA — The United States and Russia will hold two days of talks in Geneva this week on replacing the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. The 1991 START treaty significantly cut American and Russian nuclear arsenals.

June 5th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The US has offered to provide helicopters on lease to India to improve patrolling along its 7,516 km-long coast, a defence ministry official here said Friday. Following the audacious attack on Mumbai last year by terrorists who used the sea route to get into the city, India is considering the option of taking the helicopters on lease for patrolling its vast coastline.

April 10th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia's TVEL, a subsidiary of state-controlled nuclear power company Atomenergoprom, has delivered its first shipment of nuclear fuel for Indian heavy-water reactors, the company said Friday. 'Thirty metric tonnes of pellets were delivered to the nuclear fuel complex in Hyderabad (in India) for further conversion into fuel for the Rajasthan nuclear power plant,' the company said.

March 24th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia may prioritise the development of nuclear-powered attack submarines armed with nuclear-capable cruise missiles in the future, while maintaining its fleet of strategic submarines, a senior navy official said. The Russian Navy maintains a fleet of about 60 submarines, including 10 nuclear-powered strategic submarines, over 30 nuclear-powered attack submarines, diesel-electric submarines and special-purpose submarines.

February 7th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russian nuclear fuel producer TVEL expects to sign a $780 million contract for fuel supplies to Indian nuclear power plants, a spokesman for Russia's state nuclear power corporation Rosatom has said. The contract, if signed, could make Russia the first country to supply nuclear fuel to India since the Nuclear Suppliers Group lifted a three-decade ban on nuclear fuel sales to the country on Sept 6, 2008.

January 29th, 2009 MOSCOW - Russia could have the right to file a claim for part of treasure worth billions of dollars on board a British cargo ship sunk by a German submarine during World War II, experts said. The British cargo ship, torpedoed in June 1942 while carrying precious metals to the US to help pay for the Allied war effort under the Lend-Lease Act, was recently discovered by the Sub Sea Research company off Guyana.