| March 2007 |
- mo
- tu
- we
- th
- fr
- sa
- su
Some Russian specialists who came to Iran to build the Bushehr nuclear power plant in the country's south are starting to leave the Islamic Republic, the Russian nuclear power agency said Tuesday. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the Vatican Tuesday for his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI. The meeting is expected to help improve relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, which have been strained over the Russian Orthodox Church accusing the Vatican of trying to spread the influence of Catholicism. 
Iran expects Russia to fulfill its obligations and to supply fuel to the Bushehr nuclear power plant by late March as scheduled, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said Tuesday. 
Russia insists that Iran implement resolutions of the UN Security Council and the board of governors of the international nuclear watchdog, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said Tuesday. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry believes it is too early to stop Kosovo status talks and submit the Ahtisaari plan on Kosovo to the UN Security Council, a ministry spokesman said Tuesday. 
A high-profile official in Russia's lower house of parliament said the country's top election official, Alexander Veshnyakov, will be offered another job after 10 years in office. 
Czech President Vaclav Klaus is planning to pay a return visit to Russia in April, a Czech government official said Monday. 
Russian company Atomstroyexport will continue the partial construction of the Bushehr nuclear power plant in southern Iran despite financing difficulties, the project's contractor said in an official statement Tuesday. 
The leader of Russia's Communist Party (KPRF) has called the recent parliamentary election in Dagestan illegal and urged that a special commission be set up to investigate the results. 
Russia's liberal bloc, the Union of Right Forces (SPS), intends to contest the result of the vote count in the Moscow Region, the party's leader said Tuesday. 
A top Russian military official said Tuesday he hoped East European NATO countries would refuse to deploy U.S. air defense missiles on their territory. 



