| June 2008 |
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Russia and India have agreed to exchange knowledge in the training of mountain troops as part of an extensive military cooperation program, an aide to Russia's Ground Forces commander said on Tuesday. 
An examination of remains discovered last year near Yekaterinburg in the Urals has established that they belong to members of Tsar Nicholas II's family, an Investigation Committee spokesman said on Tuesday. 
Russia's premier and his Ukrainian counterpart will meet in Moscow on June 28 to discuss energy cooperation, NATO enlargement and Russia's Black Sea Fleet, a Russian government spokesman said Tuesday. 
Russia could call time on natural gas supplies to Europe in 10-15 years in favor of sales to China and India, a prominent U.S. scholar said. 
Sergei Bagapsh, the president of Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, has left the province on an official visit to Russia, a spokesman for the Abkhaz government said on Tuesday. 
Russia must be ready to fight wars in the Arctic to protect its national interests in a region that contains large and untapped deposits of natural resources, a high-ranking military official said in an interview published Tuesday. 
Although the majority of its teams are still largely unknown outside the former Soviet republics, the Russian Premier League will supply more players than any other national league for the upcoming Euro 2008 semifinals. 
Turkmenistan has signed a $70 million contract with Russia to buy six Smerch multi launch rocket systems (MLRS), a Russian business daily said on Tuesday. 
Metalloinvest and Interros financial holding are proposing that billionaire Viktor Vekselberg's Renova join forces to create a major mining and metals company, Metalloinvest's owner Alisher Usmanov said on Tuesday. 
Russian investigators confirmed on Tuesday that embezzlement and money laundering charges had been brought against the former heads of subsidiaries of the now bankrupt Yukos oil company. 



