| September 2007 |
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Capital inflow into Russia since the start of 2007 was $70 billion, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. 
President Vladimir Putin said Friday, soon after appointing a new prime minister, that five people could run for president in the March 2008 elections, but did not name the possible candidates. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday he dismissed the government because of the growing ineffectiveness of its work, and had not originally planned to reshuffle the Cabinet until the presidential elections. 
Alexander Pichushkin, who has confessed to dozens of murders in south Moscow's Bitsa Park, refused on Friday to testify in a court hearing, at which he was expected to plead guilty. 
President Vladimir Putin signed a decree Friday appointing Viktor Zubkov prime minister after the lower house of parliament voted overwhelmingly to back his candidacy, the Kremlin press office said. 
Russia's Air Force has resumed Su-24 tactical bomber flights in the country's Far East after a suspension following an August crash caused by a technical failure, an Air Force spokesman said Friday. 
The lower house of Russia's parliament ratified Friday an additional protocol between Russia and the UN nuclear watchdog to a Soviet-era agreement, on guarantees in Russia. 
Russia welcomes Germany's initiative to hold an international conference on the future of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) in October, a Foreign Ministry official said Friday. 



