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Interros, owned by Russian billionaire Vladimir Potanin, nominated on Wednesday a former Kremlin administration chief as independent director of the new board of Norilsk Nickel. 
Ukraine's TV and radio broadcasting authority has threatened to ban six more Russian TV channels from broadcasting in the country due to legal violations, the UNIAN news agency said on Wednesday. 
The next summit of BRIC countries will be held in Russia next year, President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Wednesday. 
Russia launched on Wednesday a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a cargo spacecraft, equipped with a new on-board digital control system, from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Mission Control said. 
The Kremlin welcomed on Wednesday Britain's announcement that it will host a summit of the G20 countries on April 2 on the global financial crisis, and said President Dmitry Medvedev would attend. 
Russia successfully test launched on Wednesday a new-generation intercontinental ballistic missile bearing multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads. 
The bodies of six young women were found with similar gunshot wounds at different sites in the North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya on Wednesday morning, a spokeswoman for the Investigation Committee said. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law liberalizing tax legislation to help domestic businesses weather the financial crisis, the Kremlin press office said on Wednesday. 
Ukraine is planning to deploy more troops on its border with Russia in light of the recent military conflict in the Caucasus, a Ukrainian business daily said on Wednesday.
The mayor of a city in Russia's volatile North Caucasus was killed as he left for work on Wednesday morning, local police and health officials said. 
Condoleezza Rice, the outgoing U.S. secretary of state, is trying to sabotage the work of Barack Obama's yet-to-confirmed administration, Russia's permanent representative to NATO said on Wednesday. 
Russia's national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) has so far invested 85 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) in the domestic stock market amid the ongoing global financial crisis, the VEB president said on Wednesday. 
Zenit St. Petersburg president Alexander Dyukov said on Wednesday that the club had not received any offers for unsettled star Andrei Arshavin. 



