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All nine crewmembers on board an An-12 cargo plane that crashed on Monday near the Urals city of Chelyabinsk have died, a spokesman for the Russian emergencies ministry said.

Russia and Denmark will sign intergovernmental agreements on visa facilitation and readmission during a visit by Russia's foreign minister to Copenhagen, the Russian ministry said Monday. 
All nine crewmembers on board an An-12 cargo plane that crashed on Monday near the Urals city of Chelyabinsk have died, a spokesman for the Russian emergencies ministry said. 
Russia's government has approved a bill to cut taxes for oil companies from 2009, a deputy finance minister said on Monday.

Russia has delivered the first batch of nuclear fuel to India for the country's Kudankulam nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. said on Monday. 
Russia's government has approved a bill to cut taxes for oil companies from 2009, a deputy finance minister said on Monday. 
Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, said on Monday Russia could claim back Sevastopol, a Russian naval base on Ukraine's Crimean peninsula. 
The Varyag, a Russian Slava-class missile cruiser dubbed 'the killer of aircraft carriers,' has started a series of live-firing exercises in the Pacific for the first time since a recent overhaul, a fleet spokesman said Monday. 
Russia, the United States and South Korea will continue talks on the denuclearization of North Korea in Moscow this week, Seoul's Yonhap news agency said on Monday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev told his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili that Russia is set on pursuing a more constructive route in bilateral relations, and improving security in the Caucasus region. 
Regional security organizations could make a significant contribution to combating the inflow of drugs from Afghanistan and ensuring regional security, Russia's foreign minister said on Monday. 
Moscow hopes the recent election of a president in Lebanon will help the country end its protracted political crisis, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official said on Monday. 



