| September 2007 |
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Russian businessman and politician Vladimir Gruzdev, who dived to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean last month, is to be Russia's first space tourist, a respected Russian business daily said Monday. 
Russia's foreign minister denied Monday any plans by Russia to deploy nuclear weapons in Belarus, following last months allegations that nuclear facilities could be deployed on Belarusian territory.

The Russian Foreign Ministry demanded Monday the immediate release of two North Ossetian members of the Joint Peacekeeping Force sentenced in Georgia to two months imprisonment.

Fragments of the skeletal remains of last Russian Tsar Nicholas II's family were brought to Yekaterinburg, in the Urals, Monday for comparison with recently found remains allegedly belonging to the Tsar's children. 
The rail freight traffic from Russia to Estonia in August hit a record low level of 16.1 freight trains per day, a 50% decrease, year-on-year, Estonia's national railway company said Monday. 
Boris Berezovsky, the fugitive Russian oligarch, is suing Ukrainian politicians for nearly $23 million he says he provided to fund the country's 2004 "orange revolution," Ukrainian justice authorities said Monday. 
A Thai national who murdered two Russian female tourists in a resort 70 miles southeast of Bangkok, in February, has been sentenced to death, a Russian Embassy spokesman in Bangkok said Monday. 
Russia's envoy to a 21-nation Pacific Rim economic alliance said Australia and other countries in the region support Moscow's bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).

The Moscow District Military Court ruled Monday that the arrest of FSB Lt. Col. Pavel Ryaguzov, a suspect in the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, was illegal.

Duty on Russian oil exports will rise by $26.4 to a record $250.3 per metric ton as of October 1, in line with world market trends, a Finance Ministry official said Monday. 
Two Europeans and four Russians have been selected to participate in an experimental Mars mission simulation, Mars-500, a medical institute spokesman said Monday. 
Russia's foreign minister said he expected negotiations with the United States on the Pentagon's controversial plans to deploy missile defense elements in Central Europe to achieve results. 



