| May 2006 |
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A senior Iranian official has arrived in Moscow to discuss the launch of the Bushehr nuclear power plant and nuclear fuel supplies, the Russian Embassy in Tehran said Wednesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin called Wednesday for work on making the national currency convertible to be completed, oil and gas to be traded in rubles on a domestic exchange, and an innovation-based economy.
Alrosa and international diamond giant De Beers have signed a memorandum on diamond supplies in 2006-2008 in Vienna, Russia's top diamond mining company said Thursday.
President Vladimir Putin highlighted a demographic crisis as the most serious problem facing Russia and proposed radical measures to deal with it in his state of the nation address Wednesday.
Russia's WTO accession talks should not be used as a bargaining chip for issues unrelated to the activity of the world's top trade body, President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday.
"We should always be ready to repel a potential external aggressor and international terrorism attacks, and should be able to respond to any attempt to exert foreign policy pressure on Russia," President Vladimir Putin said.
The development of nuclear power over the coming decades is key to guaranteeing energy security around the world, the head of Russia's nuclear agency said Wednesday.
"The Commonwealth of Independent States has allowed partnership to be maintained between our countries and played positive role to contain a series of conflicts on the post-Soviet space," Putin said in his annual state of the nation address. "We will continue our peacekeeping mission with full responsibility." 



