| December 2008 |
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An unidentified assailant threw a Molotov cocktail at the Greek consulate building in Moscow on Wednesday, starting a small fire that was extinguished by embassy staff, a police source said. 
Belarus's parliament will consider Abkhazia and South Ossetia's requests for official recognition in the first half of 2009, a Belarusian lawmaker said on Wednesday. 
A Proton-M carrier rocket with a Ciel 2 Canadian telecommunications satellite on board was launched on Wednesday from the Baikonur space center Russia leases from Kazakhstan. 
Russia is in the process of withdrawing almost all its tanks from the Kaliningrad exclave, which borders NATO members Poland and Lithuania, the chief of the General Staff said on Wednesday. 
Russia is ready to take part in a project to build a gas pipeline linking Bolivia and Argentina, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. 
Russia's Orthodox Church council will meet on January 27-29 to elect a new patriarch, the Church's interim leader said on Wednesday. 
The deployment of a U.S. missile shield in central Europe would disrupt the strategic balance among the world's nuclear powers, the Russian defense minister said on Wednesday. 
Russia is concerned over Georgian moves to escalate tensions in the Caucasus, but will not under any circumstances invade the country, the chief of the Russian General Staff said on Wednesday. 
The Somali ambassador to Moscow said on Wednesday that Ukraine and all sides involved in negotiations to free ships seized off the east African coast need to cooperate with the Somali authorities. 
Russia's Defense Ministry has decided to intensify combat training in the Armed Forces and to hold joint military exercises with Belarus in 2009, the chief of Russia's General Staff said on Wednesday. 
Moscow authorities have allowed the organizers of the "Russian March" to hold a rally in central Moscow on December 12, a deputy head of the mayor's press service said on Wednesday. 
LUKoil intends to supply petroleum products to Argentina, Russia's largest independent oil company said on Wednesday. 
Russia is ready to introduce a bilateral visa-free regime with the EU at any time, the Russian foreign minister said on Wednesday. 



