| August 2006 |
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Russian President Vladimir Putin telephoned his Ukrainian counterpart Monday to congratulate him on the end of a protracted political crisis in the country. 
St. Petersburg's police reported Monday about the discovery of another item stolen from one of the world's largest art museums, the Hermitage. 
"... Specific decisions were made to improve bilateral judicial cooperation, including to draft cooperation agreements between our bodies," the Prosecutor General's Office's Web site said. 
Russia's economics ministry said Monday it had revised its forecast for GDP growth in 2006 to 6.6% from 6.5%. 
The Moscow City Court on Monday granted a complaint from a descendant of the Russian imperial family against a lower court that refused to recognize the nation's last monarch as a victim of Bolshevik repression. 
U.S. sanctions against Rosoboronexport will not affect the company's work, the general director of the Russian state arms exporter said Monday. 
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said Monday it was premature to talk about Russian troops participating in a peacekeeping operation in Lebanon. 
President Vladimir Putin hailed Monday the circumnavigation of a Russian tall ship, The Kruzenshtern, as a significant event for Russia. 



