| July 2008 |
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Russia believes UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon exceeded his authority in bypassing the UN Security Council and calling for a reconfiguration of the UN mission in Kosovo, Russia's envoy said on Friday. 
The presidium of the Russian government will consider on Monday a proposal to hold the first international forum devoted to nanotechnology in Moscow in December, the presidium's press service said. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday that ongoing nationwide religious celebrations in Ukraine have shown an element of disrespect for the Russian Orthodox Church and its millions of members. 
German auto giant Daimler may buy a 42% stake in Russian truck maker KamAZ, Moscow-based investment company Troika Dialog said on Friday. 
Ongoing nationwide religious celebrations in Ukraine have shown an element of disrespect for the Russian Orthodox Church and its millions of members, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday. 
Russia's Economics Ministry has raised its forecast for this year's GDP growth, the ministry's deputy head said Friday. 
The British Foreign Office warned on Friday that the departure from Russia of the head of Russian-British oil venture TNK-BP will have a negative impact on the Russian economy. 
The construction of new-generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile and attack submarines is a top priority for the Russian Navy's development, the Navy commander said on Friday. 
The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) has filed charges against a Russian MP of trying to destabilize the country during nationwide religious celebrations, the UNIAN agency said on Friday, citing an SBU source. 
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin is to fly to China on Friday for high-level energy talks with the Chinese government, the Russian government press service said. 
Russia would like to keep the Black Sea Fleet base in Ukraine's port of Sevastopol after 2017, the Russian Navy commander said Friday. 
The issue of Iran joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was not discussed Friday at a session of the member states' foreign ministers, Russia's top diplomat said. 
The Russian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Ukrainian ambassador to explain a ban on a Russian lawmaker entering Ukraine, a source in the ministry said on Friday. 
The number of race-hate and other extremist crimes in Moscow has risen six-fold in the first half of 2008, year-on-year, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said. 
A Russian cosmonaut has returned to the captain of Zenit St. Petersburg a team shirt that recently spent some five months on board the International Space Station, the club's website reported. 
Russia will pull out its railroad troops from Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia on July 29-30, the troops' deputy commander said on Friday. 



