| October 2006 |
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The speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, Sergei Mironov, has been elected chairman of the new Russian party A Just Russia: Motherland/Pensioners/Life, which was founded Saturday uniting three parties. 
Russia's economic development and trade minister, the governor of the Kaluga Region southwest of Moscow, and Volkswagen management laid the cornerstone into the foundation of a motor plant Saturday. 
Iran officially confirmed Saturday the launch of a second cascade of gas centrifuges to enrich uranium. 
Three of Russia's smaller political parties are expected to merge Saturday following a unification congress, a party leader and the speaker of Russia's upper chamber of parliament said. 
Two bodies were pulled out of the water Saturday by a Russian Navy ship searching for Russian sailors from a sunken cargo ship in the Sea of Japan, a Pacific Fleet spokesman said. 



