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Valencia striker David Villa scored a spectacular hat-trick as Spain demolished Russia 4-1 in the group stage of the Euro-2008 soccer championship on Tuesday. 
Russia and Norway will draft an agreement to facilitate border crossing for residents of regions close to the countries' shared border, the Russian foreign minister said on Tuesday.
Poland is holding discussions with Russia over the possible construction of U.S. missile defense facilities on its territory so that Moscow can be confident they pose no threat to Russian national security, the Polish ambassador to Azerbaijan said on Tuesday. 
Russia's prime minister proposed on Tuesday switching over to long-term contracts and establishing stable prices for the procurement of armaments for the country's military. 
Two Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers have successfully completed a 20-hour patrol flight over the Arctic, a spokesman for Russia's Air Force said on Tuesday. 
France's mobile phone firm Alcatel and U.S.-based computer giants Microsoft and Intel could join an IT park that Russia is building in the Volga area city of Nizhny Novgorod, the regional investment policy minister said Tuesday. 
Russia's Black Sea Fleet warships will take part in several international drills in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea later this year, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday. 
Russia's Defense Ministry is planning to expand the presence of the Russian Navy in the world's oceans and extend the operational radius of submarines deployed with the Northern Fleet, a high-ranking military official said on Tuesday. 
Russia's Defense Ministry will keep its Vostok special battalion, allegedly involved in a recent shootout with Chechen presidential guards, in the Chechen Republic, a high-ranking military official said on Tuesday. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said on Tuesday it had signed a deal with the government of Tajikistan on prospecting four oil and gas fields in the Central Asian country. 
French carmaker Peugeot Citroen and Mitsubishi Motors, one of Japan's largest car producers, broke ground on a joint venture estimated at 470 million euros ($732 million), in Kaluga, a city southwest of Moscow, on Tuesday. 



