| February 2007 |
- mo
- tu
- we
- th
- fr
- sa
- su
Russia is interested in helping NATO forces stabilize the situation in Afghanistan, the defense minister said after an informal Russia-NATO Council meeting. 
Russian prosecutors said the case against jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and his partner Platon Lebedev, is a purely criminal matter and has no political undertones. 
Russia will not allow itself to be drawn into an arms race, Russia's defense minister said Friday in reference to U.S. plans to place a missile shield in Central Europe. 
Russia's defense minister reiterated Friday Moscow's proposal that NATO and a post-Soviet security group should join efforts in tackling a drug threat emanating from Afghanistan. 
Russia only sells armaments systems abroad under strict export control, the country's defense minister said Friday. 



