| December 2008 |
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Russia's federal mortgage agency said on Thursday it had received 60 billion rubles ($2 billion) from the state. 
This year Moscow bailiffs prohibited to leave Russia some 6,600 residents of the Russian capital, who failed to repay their debts, the head of the federal baliff service said on Thursday. 
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom and a senior Turkmen minister agreed Thursday on the technical aspects of a pipeline to transport Caspian natural gas to Russia, the company said in a press release. 
Russia's president said Thursday he had signed a package of anti-corruption laws. 
Russia's pro-Kremlin political youth movement, Nashi (Ours), has prepared gifts for the country's "most unfriendly governments," according to the organization's press release. 
The chief of the Russian General Staff said Thursday that production flaws could be to blame for Tuesday's unsuccessful test launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile. 
Russia hopes the new U.S. administration will be more ready to listen to Russia's position regarding a replacement for a strategic weapons treaty, a deputy Russian foreign minister said Thursday. 
Russia will start off its new space year in January by launching an orbital laboratory to study the sun's activity, a spokesman for Russia's space agency told RIA Novosti on Thursday. 
Russia's WBA Heavyweight World Champion Nikolai Valuev has no plans of a rematch with defeated former U.S. champion Evander Holyfield, the Russian fighter's manager said on Thursday. 
Russia launched a Proton-M carrier rocket on Thursday with three Glonass navigation satellites on board from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a space agency spokesman said. 
Some 50% of all sexual crimes in Russia are committed against children, the head of Russia's Investigation Committee said on Thursday, urging measures to prevent such crimes. 
Russia's deputy foreign minister on Thursday denied claims that Russia had supplied S-300 air defense systems to Iran. 



