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BMD Focus: Old Russian ICBMs Still Work (822 words) |
 | On Sept. 27, the Russian navy successfully carried out an operation that Putin especially appreciated, given his long commitment also to trying to revive the navy: The R-30 submarine-based "Bulava" missile R-30 was successfully launched for the first time. |
 | However, the current series of tests suggests that the Russians have finally overcome the humiliating series of glitches that led to two successive failures to launch missiles from nuclear submarines Novomoskovsk and Kareliya in the February 2004 exercises. |
 | To this day U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts are launched to the International Space Station from the same launch pad in at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan that Yuri Gagarin, the first human being in space, was launched into earth orbit from in April 1961. |
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Old Russian language (0 words) |
 | The Russian language rose from various East Slavic tribal dialects when in the 9th century Novgorod and Kiev Principalities were united by Prince Oleg. |
 | Old Russian is a source of rich literature written in Kiev Russia in the 10th - 13th centuries, until the Mongol conquest. |
 | Many people mix Old Russian with Old Church Slavic, the language which was used for translating the Bible and other Christian books into Slavic. |