| July 2006 |
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"I hope we will complete negotiations with the Americans before the summit begins," Alexander Zhukov said, referring to talks between the Russian and U.S. presidents scheduled for Friday shortly before the G8 summit in St. Petersburg on July 15-17. 
Russia is ready to launch a preventive strike if it knows exactly where terrorists abroad are preparing an attack against Russia or its citizens, the defense minister said Tuesday. 
Mountain brigades to protect Russia's southern borders will replace the country's military bases in Georgia that will be withdrawn by the end of 2008, Russia's defense minister said Tuesday. 
Russia hopes Georgia will treat the temporary closure of a border checkpoint with understanding and that the move will not impede mutual border crossing at other checkpoints, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday. 
Several U.S. media sources earlier said Russia and the U.S. had been considering an agreement on the civilian use of nuclear energy that would see a global center for reprocessing and storing high-level radioactive waste from foreign countries set up in Russia. 
Russia hopes that the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council will positively respond to the Iran-6 package of incentives, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russia Today television Tuesday. 
Russia will present a MiG fighter-trainer at the 2006 Farnborough International Airshow because the country's newest trainer is yet to complete trials, the state-controlled arms exporter said Tuesday. 



