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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has recommended the scrapping of a bill restricting media freedoms, approved by parliament in its first reading on April 25, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. 
A UN environmental group's report on the Sochi-2014 Winter Olympics has had mixed reactions among Russian authorities and environmental activists. 
Gazprom has proposed buying Azerbaijani natural gas at market prices under a long-term contract, the Russian energy giant said in a statement on Monday. 
Two Russian emergencies ministry aircraft are heading to China with aid on board for those affected by the devastating earthquake that hit the Sichuan province in the country's southwest on May 12. 
Deputies of Russia's lower house of parliament and the EU's external relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, will discuss a new Russia-EU cooperation agreement June 4, a Russian MP said Monday.

The head of Russian Railways met with the president of Kazakhstan to discuss joint rail projects, the president's press service said on Monday. 
Guatemala hopes to establish cooperation with Russia in oil refining and mining, the Central American country's deputy energy and mines minister, Alfredo Pokus, said on Monday. 
The Russian government will provide an additional 420 million rubles ($18 mln) to the city of Vladivostok to cover preparations for the 2012 APEC summit, Russia's prime minister said on Monday. 
Russia may reduce in the future the number of key economic sectors included in a list of strategic industries, the finance minister said on Monday. 
Russia has supplied the first three batches of nuclear fuel for India's Kudankulam nuclear power plant, the state nuclear corporation, Atomenergoprom, said on Monday. 
A UN environmental group supports the WWF and Greenpeace Russia in their drive to move venues for the 2014 Olympic facilities in Russia's Black Sea resort, the Russian representatives said on Monday. 
Deputies of Russia's lower house of parliament and the EU's external relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, will discuss a new Russia-EU cooperation agreement June 4, a Russian MP said Monday.
Russia's Reserve Fund stood at $129.3 billion and the National Prosperity Fund at $32.6 billion as of June 1, the Finance Ministry said on Monday. 
Russia's Air Force is planning to conduct over 200 exercises with 350 live firing drills in the second half of 2008, an AF spokesman said on Monday. 
Russia's Irkut corporation, the manufacturer of the famed family of Su fighter planes, said on Monday it had delivered another two Su-30MKA Flanker multi-role fighters to Algeria. 



