| February 2008 |
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Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Friday Warsaw and Washington have agreed in principle on the deployment of a U.S. missile defense base on Polish territory. 
The widow and son of controversial Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic were granted political asylum in Russia in March 2006, a Russian Federal Migration Service official said on Friday. 
The OSCE's election observing arm agreed Friday to send its representatives to a meeting next week with Russia's top election official to discuss timeframes for monitoring Russia's presidential polls. 
Moscow is seeking the extradition of another Russian oligarch who fled to Britain, a demand that could further worsen the diplomatic crisis in relations between the two countries, the Guardian said Friday. 
A non-official Iranian news agency quoted a top diplomat as saying on Friday that Iran is still in talks with Russia on buying advanced S-300 air defense systems, despite an earlier denial from Moscow. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry accused the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe of trying to sabotage the monitoring of Russia's presidential elections scheduled for March 2. 
Kyrgyz Finance Minister Tazhikan Kalimbetova disclosed on Friday that Washington pays $17.5 million each year in rent for an airbase at an international airport near the Kyrgyz capital. 
Russian opposition candidate Mikhail Kasyanov, barred from presidential polls, lodged an appeal against election authorities' decision with the Supreme Court on Friday, his press secretary said. 
A top Russian diplomat said on Friday that North Korea must provide full information on its nuclear activities, not only to the U.S., but to the other nations involved in six-party talks. 
Over 30 Russian strategic bombers and long-range interceptors are participating in joint exercises with a naval task group in the Atlantic and Arctic, an Air Force spokesman said on Friday. 
A woman in Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East has given birth to a baby weighing 6.1 kilograms (13 pounds 6 ounces), almost twice as much as an average newborn, the hospital said. 



