| May 2006 |
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Technopromexport, Russia's leading builder of energy facilities and electricity exporter, said Friday it had refused to build the Tabas thermal power plant in Iran.
Russia's oil-windfall Stabilization Fund will not be used to solve demographic problems or finance defense spending, the first deputy prime minister said Friday.
The first power unit of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China has been connected to the Chinese power grid, Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly Atomstroiexport said Friday.
Russia's prime minister fired the head of the Federal Customs Service and two of his deputies Friday as investigators sought to unravel the dealings of the agency. 
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko considers regional administrations have overstepped their authority by reinstating Russian as an official language, the president's press secretary said Friday.
Several high-ranking officials were sacked and discharged from active service on Friday in an apparent major anti-corruption shake-up initiated by the Russian president.
Two major Russian space enterprises have agreed to develop the Soyuz-2-3 rocket to launch a new-generation manned spacecraft, a company spokesperson said Friday. 



