| December 2006 |
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Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization will help redress imbalances in global trade, Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana Wednesday. 
A former security service officer said Wednesday he never accused an organization of former Russian intelligence officers of being involved in the poisoning of defector Alexander Litvinenko. 
Moscow has protested against the distortion of history and attempts to conceal the truth regarding Nazi crimes, including the Holocaust, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. 
Iran has rejected in advance a new UN Security Council resolution, which is currently coordinated by the Iran-6, the country's top nuclear negotiator said Wednesday. 
Measures by Russian regulators are disrupting work on the vast Sakhalin II oil and gas project in Russia's Far East, the project operator said Wednesday. 
Russia disapproves of U.S. plans to deploy an anti-missile shield in Eastern Europe, and believes the move may adversely affect global as well as European security, the head of the Russian armed forces' general staff said Wednesday. 
Russian prosecutors are ready to help Germany investigate the so-called "Kovtun case," the spokesman for the Prosecutor General's office said Wednesday. 
Russia's human rights commissioner said Wednesday he sees no criminality in a protest rally organized by a Russian youth movement near the Estonian Embassy in Moscow December 11, when Estonian national flags were burned. 
UN Security Council sanctions against Iran may freeze negotiations on the country's nuclear program, the chief of the Russian General Staff said Wednesday. "In principle, sanctions are not an effective instrument to resolve problems, especially regarding Iran," Yury Baluyevsky told foreign military attaches. 
Weather forecasters have so far been unable to explain December's unusual warm spell, the head of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring said Wednesday.
The UN nuclear watchdog said Wednesday it will not respond to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's remark implying that Israel has nuclear weapons, something the Jewish state has never officially admitted. 
A Persian cat saved a family in Saransk, in the Russian Republic of Mordovia, by waking up his owner on smelling burning plastic, a local emergencies' spokesman said Wednesday. 
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad will visit Russia next week to discuss the Mideast settlement, regional security and bilateral relations, the country's vice president said Wednesday. 
Norway's Hydro and Statoil said Wednesday they are still willing to join Russia's multi-billion Shtokman gas project, even on new terms. 



