| January 2009 |
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Russia has signed the Council of Europe's convention on income obtained through criminal means and the financing of terrorism, the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
Russia does not have any specific qualms with the United States, it is just acting in the interests of different countries in international policy, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. 
Russia and Abkhazia will soon sign an agreement on the deployment of Russian air and naval bases in the breakaway Georgian republic, a spokesman for the Abkhazian president said on Thursday. 
RIA Novosti news agency won a special prize at the Silver Archer national award ceremony on Thursday for a public relations campaign during rebranding.
Russia's S7 airline confirmed on Thursday it had terminated a contract to buy 15 Boeing 787 Dreamliners. 
Reports that Russian Army Jr. Sgt. Alexander Glukhov deserted his unit and fled to Georgia from South Ossetia are false, Russia's Defense Ministry insisted on Thursday. 
Russia's first carrier rocket launch of 2009, scheduled for Thursday, has been delayed until Friday for technical reasons, a spokesman for the Space Forces said. 
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso plans to meet with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week to discuss Russia-EU ties and energy security, a commission spokesman said on Thursday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Cuban leader Raul Castro will have an informal meeting at the presidential residence of Zavidovo outside Moscow on Thursday and hold formal talks on Friday, the Kremlin announced. 
Russia's Supreme Court upheld on Thursday the closure of the investigation into the so-called Katyn case, in which several thousand Polish POWs were executed in western Russia's Katyn forest in 1940. 



