| December 2006 |
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A passenger jet of Russia's Aeroflot airlines made an emergency landing in Prague following an attempt to hijack the plane and the suspected attacker was arrested, an airline official and air security service said Thursday. 
Russia's government has decided to raise its forecast of oil prices for 2007-2009, the government's press service said Thursday. 
Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] will ensure uninterrupted gas supplies in full to Europe via the Yamal-Europe pipeline that stretches across Belarus, the Russian energy giant's official spokesman said Thursday. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry is aware of Azerbaijan's decision to take two Russian TV channels off the air on its territory from July 1, 2007, the ministry's official spokesman said. 
Russian scientists have resumed exploring the world's largest sub-glacial lake in Antarctica, a senior fellow at St. Petersburg's Institute of Arctic and Antarctic Studies said Thursday. 
Russia's president said Thursday the nation's economy grew 6.9% in 2006, up 0.5% on last year, highlighted other figures and praised the government's performance. 
This year Russia has registered the highest number of unfavorable and dangerous natural phenomena in the history of meteorological observation, a director of Russia's Hydrometeorology Center said Thursday. 
A passenger jet of Russia's Aeroflot airlines made an emergency landing in Prague following an attempt to hijack the plane and the suspected attacker was arrested, an airline official and air security service said Thursday. 



