| September 2008 |
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Ruslan Yamadayev, a former member of the Russian parliament's lower house, the State Duma, was gunned down in central Moscow on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry official said. 
The Russian federal broadcasting commission recommended Wednesday extending the license of the 2x2 TV channel, which shows cartoons aimed at a young adult audience and is facing charges of promoting extremism. 
Russia sees no crisis surrounding Iran's nuclear program and does not believe it is necessary to take any urgent steps, the Russian foreign minister said Wednesday. 
Talks on additional deliveries of MiG-29K Fulcrum-D carrier fighters to India will start in the near future, the president of Russia's United Aircraft Corporation said Wednesday. 
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko plans to meet with his U.S. counterpart, George Bush, next Monday, national media reported Wednesday. 
The Ukrainian president condemned Russia's "armed annexation" of Georgia's breakaway regions and said his country would not recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states. 
Naval task groups from Russia's Northern Fleet have joined large-scale Russia-Belarus military exercises now in their third day, the fleet's press service said on Wednesday. 
Moscow may offer Ukraine contracts to build aircraft carriers for the Russian Navy, a Russian MP told RIA Novosti on Wednesday. 
Gasoline prices will not change drastically in Russia in the foreseeable future, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Wednesday. 
The Neustrashimy (Fearless) frigate from the Baltic Fleet left the main naval base in Russia's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad on Wednesday on an unspecified long-range patrol mission, a Navy spokesman said. 
The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine have held bilateral discussions in New York, focusing on the cooperation agreement between the countries, the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported Wednesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently on a tour of the Magadan Region in Russia's Far East, criticized gold miner Polyus Gold on Wednesday, and told its management not to "whine". 



