| March 2007 |
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The United Nations secretariat should conduct an independent investigation into the detention of 15 British seamen by Iran, Russia's Foreign Ministry said Friday. 
Chechnya's parliamentary speaker came out against an initiative by European parliamentarians to visit the republic to study the human rights situation in the region devastated by two military campaigns in the 1990s. 
Exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky has been questioned in London by Russian investigators probing last November's murder of a former secret service agent who once served as his adviser, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Friday. 
Iran's Ambassador to Russia reiterated earlier official statements Friday that the British seamen detained allegedly for straying into Iranian territorial waters could face punishment. 
The U.K. is waiting for Russia's help in releasing British sailors and marines detained by Iran, the British Ambassador in Russia said Friday. 
Any provocation, including the recent arrest of British Royal Navy personnel by Iran, could prompt the U.S. to launch a military campaign against the Islamic Republic, a senior Russian military expert said Friday. 
Russian intelligence has information that the U.S. Armed Forces have nearly completed preparations for a possible military operation against Iran, and will be ready to strike in early April, a security official said. 
The total volume of transactions with the participation of Russian companies on the mergers and acquisitions market in 2006 grew 41%, year-on-year, to $71 billion, Ernst & Young said Friday. 
The office of Georgia's state minister for conflict resolution has described as "unfriendly" the Russian Foreign Ministry's earlier comment on the situation in Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia Friday. 



