| October 2007 |
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The coach of the Russian national soccer team, Guus Hiddink, agreed on Wednesday to extend his contract with the Russian Football Union, the union president said. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged the international community to wait for the UN watchdog to provide its report on Iran's controversial nuclear program before taking any action. 
A Russian Soyuz TMA-11 spaceship carrying members of the 16th expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), including Malaysia's first astronaut, was launched on Wednesday. 
Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting French President Nicolas Sarkozy held on Wednesday a detailed discussion over bilateral cooperation, the Russian leader told a joint news conference in Moscow. 
Moscow has called on Ankara to exercise restraint and desist from the use of force against Kurdish militants based in Iraq, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. 
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday that Russian and French positions had become closer with regard to Iran's nuclear program. 
Grand Duchess Olga Kulikovskaya-Romanova, a descendant of the last Russian tsar Nicholas II, announced her intention to apply for Russian citizenship on Wednesday
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that payment for natural gas supplies from Russia to Ukraine is not a political issue. 
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service told a popular weekly that the FSB had identified over 300 foreign spies over the past four years. 



