| February 2008 |
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Russia's prime minister formally dismissed on Monday the head of the Federal Nuclear Power Agency to allow him to fully devote himself to the Rosatom state corporation, set to take on the agency's functions. 
Russia's president visited on Monday a military unit in the southern republic of Daghestan, several of whose provinces suffered militant incursions from neighboring Chechnya in 1999. 
A suicide bomber has killed a woman in a shopping mall in the city of Dimona in southern Israel, national media said on Monday. 
Russia's prime minister said on Monday the government will spend 81 billion rubles ($3.3 billion) over the next three years on facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi. 
Russia will try and block Kosovo's independence at an international level, if the Serb province announces its sovereignty, a senior Russian MP said on Monday. 
The British Council has dismissed all employees at its St. Petersburg office, more than two weeks after the office closed on orders from Russian authorities, a spokesman said on Monday. 
The Moscow City Court has upheld a lower court's verdict for tycoon Boris Berezovsky, found guilty of embezzling over 214 million rubles from flagship air carrier Aeroflot and sentenced to six years' imprisonment. 
A tug with a Russian-British crew, captured by gunmen off Somalia's coast three days ago, is reportedly being held at a port outside the capital Mogadishu, Russian rescue officials said on Monday. 
A tugboat with a Russian-British crew, captured by gunmen off Somalia's coast three days ago, is reportedly being held at a port outside the capital Mogadishu, Russian rescue officials said on Monday. 



