| March 2007 |
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A Russian court has ruled to transfer former security service officer Mikhail Trepashkin, serving a term for divulging state secrets, to a prison colony with a stricter regime. 
Investigators from the Russian Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office have completed checks at the Moscow office of PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit (PwC), who represented the bankrupt Russian oil company Yukos in 2002-04, the company's press service said. 
Russia approved the Cypriot authorities' decision to demolish a wall running through the heart of capital Nicosia dividing the Greek and Turkish parts of the island, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday. 
The problem surrounding construction of Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant will stop being purely technical if Russia fails to supply nuclear fuel to Iran in March, an Iranian nuclear official said Friday. 
PricewaterhouseCoopers Audit (PwC), the U.K.-based auditor, who represented the bankrupt Russian oil company Yukos in 2002-2004, said Friday it had repaid all of its $11 million back taxes. 
A united shipbuilding corporation will be established to combine all state financial assets in this sphere, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Friday. 
A total of 5 trillion rubles ($190 billion) will be earmarked to equip the army and Navy with modern arms until 2015, Russia's president said Friday. 
Negotiations between Russian and Iranian nuclear officials on further construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran produced no results, a Russian source said Friday. 
Russia's Interior Ministry is investigating a criminal tax evasion case involving 243 million rubles ($9.3 million) and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the auditor who represented the now bankrupt oil company Yukos in 2002-04. 
Moscow has urged Kiev to stop litigation over the lighthouses the Russian Fleet is renting in Ukraine's Black Sea autonomy, a diplomatic spokesman said Friday. 
Armenia's deputy foreign minister said Friday the Caucasus state was not considering the possibility of deploying elements of a U.S. missile defense system on its soil.
Elections to regional legislatures, scheduled for March 11, will constitute a dress rehearsal for the federal election in late 2007, Alexander Veshnyakov, head of the Russian Central Election Commission, said at a news conference Friday. 



