| July 2008 |
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Lawyers for Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former head of bankrupt oil company Yukos, filed an application on Wednesday with a Siberian court requesting his early release.

Georgia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia's large-scale military exercises in the North Caucasus is another manifestation of aggression against Tbilisi. 
Russia has refused to extradite a former Ukrainian security service deputy head suspected of involvement in the poisoning of President Viktor Yushchenko in 2004, Ukraine's top prosecutors said on Wednesday. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom reserves the right to take Belarus to court if the country fails to pay in full for Russian natural gas supplies, the company said on Wednesday. 
The Primorye Territory in Russia's Far East is lagging behind in preparations for the 2012 APEC summit to be held near Vladivostok, a senior government official said on Wednesday. 
Authorities in Ukraine's Odessa region have banned Russian television channels over their coverage of the Sea Breeze 2008 exercise and the accompanying protests, the Progressive Socialist Party said Wednesday. 
Russian and European aircraft producing giants signed a contract on Wednesday to convert Airbus A320 passenger planes into freighters. 
DNA tests have revealed that bones found near the city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals belonged to Prince Alexei and his elder sister Maria, the children of Russia's last tsar, Nicholas II, investigators said on Wednesday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated Wednesday a proposal to hold a pan-European summit to draw up a common security treaty. 
The Russian sect leader whose followers recently spent more than six months underground in central Russia will take no further part in court sessions to decide if he should be held criminally responsible for his actions, a Penza Region judicial spokesman said Wednesday. 
Serb Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic will meet with his Russian counterpart in Moscow on July 17 to discuss means of restarting talks on Kosovo's status. 



