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14:57 GMT 12.10.2008

RUSSIA

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev observed the test launch of a Topol intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia

* Russia's Soyuz-FG carrier rocket lifted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to take a crew of three to the International Space Station

* The West must stop teaching Russia, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica

* The death toll following an earthquake that hit Russia's North Caucasus on Saturday has risen to 13 while more than 100 people have been injured, the country's emergencies ministry said

* Russia were unfortunate not to come away with a draw in their World Cup 2010 qualifying tie against Germany in Dortmund

* Residents of the Russian North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya voted in an early parliamentary poll to elect a one-chamber legislative body, the republic's central election commission said

* World number one tennis player Jelena Jankovic from Serbia claimed the 2008 Kremlin Cup title after beating Russian Vera Zvonareva 6-2, 6-4 in the final

* Igor Kunitsyn claimed the 2008 Moscow Cup title after beating Marat Safin 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (4-7), 6-3 in an all-Russia men's singles final

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* The Kiev Prosecutor's Office has launched a criminal case against a Kiev judge who ruled to suspend the Ukrainian president's decree on dissolving parliament and calling early parliamentary elections, Ukraine's Unian news agency reported

* Lithuanians went to the polls in a parliamentary election, in which no party was expected to win a majority

* Almost 1,500 trucks are stuck in traffic jams at the Latvian-Russian border amid increased trade between the European Union and Russia, the Baltic country's border guards press service said