| March 2007 |
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Media reports about the evacuation of Russian citizens from Iran, including specialists working on the construction of the Bushehr NPP, are untrue, a spokesman from the Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday. 
U.S. and Russian Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin discussed on the phone Wednesday key international issues, the Kremlin press service said. 
Russia will be guided by a principle of "reasonable sufficiency" in its response to U.S. missile shield plans in Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper Wednesday. 
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Wednesday his country will strive for a good relationship with Russia despite recent bilateral problems but called its eastern neighbor "a monster." 
A Moscow court sanctioned the arrest of a former banker and now secretary of the Moscow Arbitration Court, suspected of a $2.3 billion fraud. 
More than 20 formations of Russia's Land Forces will be fully re-equipped with modernized armaments and military hardware by 2011, the commander of the Land Forces said Wednesday. 
The Glonass global navigation system will be inaugurated later this year, Russia's first deputy prime minister said Wednesday. 
About 45% of the soldiers and NCOs in Russia's Armed Forces will be serving on a contract basis by January 1, 2008, a deputy chief of the General Staff said Wednesday. 
Rosneft [RTS: ROSN] is keen to buy almost all of Yukos' production units, the vice president for production of the state-run oil producer said Wednesday. 



