| July 2006 |
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Techsnabexport, Russia's state-controlled uranium supplier and provider of uranium enrichment services, said Thursday it had filed a lawsuit on July 6 against the U.S. Department of Commerce at a U.S. court for anti-dumping duties imposed on uranium products. 
Russia's first deputy foreign minister warned against moves that could intensify the conflict in Georgia's breakaway republic of South Ossetia at a meeting with the Georgian ambassador to Russia Thursday. 
Russia is not involved in any secret talks with radical movement Hamas, a senior member of the upper chamber of parliament said Thursday. Russia provoked the anger of some countries in February when it invited a delegation of Hamas, which the elections in the Palestinian Authority in January, to Moscow for talks.
Possible UN sanctions against Iran will not affect Russian-Iranian military cooperation, Russia's foreign minister said Thursday. Sergei Lavrov said military and technical cooperation between Russia and Iran "is conducted fully in accordance with international norms." 
Russia and the United States will sign a protocol on the former's accession to the world's largest trade body July 14 or 15, the finance minister said. 



