| June 2008 |
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The speaker of the upper house of the Russia's parliament said on Wednesday that President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin work as a team, and are not competing for power. 
Georgia's foreign minister said on Wednesday the country will not challenge Russia's work to restore rail track in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia, as long as certain conditions are observed. 
RIA Novosti dismissed on Wednesday opposition leader Garry Kasparov's accusation that the state Russian news agency publishes government propaganda. 
A north Russian governor said on Wednesday the country must raise its activity in the Arctic region, in particular the Arctic shelf, before the UN reaches a decision on delimiting the ocean. 
Communists in northwest Russia have condemned former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's calls for Lenin's body to be moved from his tomb on Red Square and given a standard burial. 
The European Union wants a new partnership deal with Russia to be all-encompassing, with specific legal obligations, the 27-nation bloc's external relations commissioner said on Wednesday. 
The agreement between Ukraine and Russia on the stationing of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in the Crimea does not allow any increase in the number of warships, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. 
Russia's Air Force chief will visit on June 4-6 two combined Air Force and air defense armies in Siberia and the Far East, to inspect combat readiness ahead of summer training, the AF said on Wednesday. 
An agreement on mutual visa-free travel between Russia and Israel signed in late March could come into force in late summer or early fall, Russia's ambassador to Israel said on Wednesday.
Russia has questioned Georgian intentions to raise the issue of Moscow's possible involvement in the shooting down of a reconnaissance drone over Abkhazia in April at the OSCE, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. 



