| November 2008 |
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The Dmitry Donskoi Typhoon-class strategic nuclear-powered submarine has carried out another test launch of a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile, a Defense Ministry source said on Friday. 
Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Friday that the August military offensive in the breakaway region of South Ossetia was aimed at protecting ethnic Georgians. 
A Sukhoi Superjet 100, Russia's new passenger airliner, has completed 10 flights as part of certification tests, the plane maker said on Friday. 
More than 1,000 casinos have been closed down in Moscow in the past 18 months under a law passed last year to move gambling from large cities to far-flung regions, a Moscow government official said on Friday. 
Russia's prime minister said Friday at a meeting with the head of a German power company that his country would fulfill all its commitments to the energy sector and has no plans to reduce or change them.
Russia will continue mine clearing operations in Serbia until 2012 as part of humanitarian aid to the country, which was heavily bombed by NATO warplanes in 1999, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Friday. 
Minsk is expecting Russia to transfer the second $1 billion installment of a Russian loan to the country in February, Belarusian Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Kobyakov said on Friday. 
Russia's Neustrashimy (Fearless) missile frigate will continue protecting commercial vessels from pirate attacks off the Somali coast for another month, a senior officer on board the ship said on Friday. 
Former Yukos executive Svetlana Bakhmina, jailed on embezzlement and tax evasion charges, has given birth to a baby girl, a radio station said on Friday. 
A unique collection of 122 erotic ink drawings by the Russian artist Konstantin Somov (1869-1939) has been sold for $1.8 million at MacDougall Auctions in London, the auction house said. 
The United States is planning to replace Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili with former parliamentary speaker Nino Burdzhanadze, Russia's NATO envoy said on Friday. 
Russia wants to resume full and open dialogue with NATO, which was broken off after the Russia-Georgia war, the foreign minister said on Friday. 
Russia's Strategic Missile Forces (SMF) are planning to conduct at least 13 launches of ballistic missiles next year, the SMF commander said on Friday. 



