| June 2006 |
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President Alexander Lukashenko said Belarus would never agree to becoming a part of Russia, but suggested a project to bind the two former Soviet republics more tightly together was still possible. 
An intergovernmental commission has finished work to decipher the cockpit voice recorder from an Armenian A-320 passenger jet that crashed in the Black Sea May 3, Russia's Transportation Ministry said.
The head of Russia's central election commission said Thursday that Vladimir Putin has the right to run for the presidency in 2012. 
U.S. President George W. Bush will make a working visit to Russia on the eve of the G8 summit in July, a spokesman for the organizing committee said Thursday.
A senior member of Russia's parliament said Thursday the elimination of the al-Qaeda leader in Iraq was a major but short-term victory for the U.S.-led coalition forces in the country.



