| April 2006 |
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Russia will represent a wide range of arms and ammunition of special task forces at DSA-2006, an international Asian exhibition of weapons and military hardware, Russian arms exporter Rosoboronexport said Thursday. 
Russia's gold and foreign currency reserves grew by $23.64 billion in the first three months of this year reaching $205.88 billion as of April 1, the Central Bank of Russia said Thursday.
Ukraine wants a meeting of former Soviet republics to discuss the millions of deaths from famine in the 1930s, which it blames on Moscow and calls genocide, its foreign minister said Thursday.
Only the UN Security Council has the right to demand that Russia suspend nuclear cooperation with Iran, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday. "Only the UN Security Council is authorized to make binding decisions on suspending cooperation with a state in any sphere," Mikhail Kamynin said. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom's media arm, which already controls a huge media empire, said Thursday it was in talks with the owners of almost all the country's leading media outlets.
"Delegations from Britain, France and Germany met with the Iranian delegation headed by deputy head of the Supreme National Security Council Javad Vaeedi in Moscow April 19. The Russian side provided organizational assistance," Mikhail Kamynin said.



