| October 2007 |
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Leaders of 12 former Soviet republics, in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe for a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) summit, agreed on Friday to develop further the post-Soviet alliance. 
Preliminary reports suggest that some 40 people were killed on board an aircraft which crashed in Congo, the Russian Embassy said on Friday. 
Ukraine's oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Friday that a recent reduction in natural gas consumption was caused by nonpayment by power companies rather than a reaction to Gazprom's debt warning. 
A group of parliamentarians from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe proposed Friday holding an international investigation into the murder of Russian journalist, Anna Politkovskaya. 
All 14 political parties running in the Russian parliamentary elections have filed registration documents with the Central Election Commission, bringing the latest stage of the election campaign to an end. 
Russian Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov signed a document defining the exact duties of his five deputy prime ministers on Friday, the Russian government's press office said.



