| November 2008 |
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Russia's president told his Peruvian counterpart on Monday that Russia wants to develop joint bilateral energy and military cooperation.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski expressed concern on Monday over the presence of what he called a "pro-Russian lobby" in the country, that is siding with Moscow over the situation in the South Caucasus. 
Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has fined Gazprom Neft and TNK-BP tens of millions of dollars each for abusing their dominant market positions, the service said on Monday. 
Russia's Deposit Insurance Agency received 200 billion rubles ($7.2 billion) from the federal budget on Monday to rescue troubled banks amid the financial crisis, the head of the agency said. 
Russia's president told his Peruvian counterpart on Monday that Russia wants to develop joint bilateral energy and military cooperation. 
A leading Russian political analyst has said the economic turmoil in the United States has confirmed his long-held view that the country is heading for collapse, and will divide into separate parts. 
Ukraine will ask Russia to defer repayment of its debt for Russian gas supplies, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko said on Monday. 
The head of Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom has hit back at Ukrainian politicians' claims that Moscow uses gas exports as a political weapon, saying the company meets all its commitments in full. 
Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said on Monday it planned to keep oil refining at 28.3 million metric tons (207 mln bbls) in 2009 to match this year's level. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed off on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance treaties with Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the Kremlin press service said on Monday. 
Russia's double Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has been named IAAF 2008 World Athlete of the Year for a third time. 
A serving crew member on the Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, on which 20 people recently died, has been charged with "criminally negligent homicide," a Russian top investigator said Monday. 
The theory that the Stalin-era famine in Ukraine was aimed against the Ukrainian people alone was developed in the U.S. as an anti-Russian propaganda tool, a Crimean legislator and historian said on Monday. 
Russia has proposed that a new European security agreement reflect basic principles concerning arms control and a common security space, Prime Minister Putin said on Monday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed into law the federal budget for 2009 and 2010-2011, the Kremlin press office said on Monday. 



