| June 2008 |
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A grenade blast killed one contract soldier and wounded another five during a tactical exercise in Russia's Far Eastern military district, a Defense Ministry's spokesman said on Wednesday. 
Some 4,000 police officers will be providing security on Thursday night in Moscow during and after the live broadcast of the Euro-2008 semifinal match between Russia and Spain, a police official said Wednesday. 
One person was hospitalized after three subway cars derailed in northern Moscow, an emergencies services source said on Wednesday. 
The EU-Russia summit that opens Thursday will focus on steps to draft a European security treaty and ways of meeting global economic challenges, a Russian presidential aide said on Wednesday. 
The cost of the trans-Balkan oil pipeline being built by Russia, Bulgaria, and Greece has increased to 1.5 billion euros ($2.3 billion) from 1 billion euros ($1.55 billion), the project operator said on Wednesday. 
About 500 domestic and foreign arms manufacturers will participate in an international arms exhibition to be held in the Urals Region next month, a local government official said on Wednesday. 
Georgia pledged Wednesday to appeal to international organizations if regular sea links are set up between its breakaway republic of Abkhazia and Russia. 
The Investigations Committee of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has submitted a blueprint for countering corruption to a presidential anti-corruption working group, a committee spokesman said Wednesday.

Russia's nuclear industry is open to both domestic and foreign investors, a Russian deputy prime minister told an international nuclear forum on Wednesday. 
The European Union is seeking closer ties with Russia under President Dmitry Medvedev, the EU foreign policy supremo said in an interview published on Wednesday. 



