| February 2009 |
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The United States will transit a consignment of non-military supplies to Afghanistan via Russian territory in the next few days, the Russian foreign minister said on Friday. 
Russia considers ties with Turkey to be a foreign policy priority, the Russian prime minister said on Friday. 
Charges of driving another person to suicide have been dropped against a teenage girl whose boyfriend leapt from a building to his death in Russia's Urals republic of Udmurtia, investigators said Friday. 
The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) will work to remove "obstacles" to a meeting between its new leader and the Pope, a senior Russian church official said on Friday. 
The presidents of Russia and Turkey adopted a joint declaration following talks in Moscow on Friday to promote ties and enhance bilateral friendship and partnership. 
Russia is ready to provide India with a total of 320 military helicopters and hopes to expand cooperation, an executive of a Russian helicopter making plant said on Friday. 
Ecologists have expressed fears that remnants of the U.S. and Russian satellites that collided on Tuesday could pollute a large portion of Russia, a federal environmental official said on Friday. 
Russia and Armenia will set up an integrated air defense network similar to recently announced Russian-Belarusian air defenses, the head of a post-Soviet security bloc said on Friday. 
The crew of the Faina, a Ukrainian cargo ship released by Somali pirates last week, arrived on Friday in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported. 
Russia's Pyotr Veliky missile cruiser has detained three pirate vessels off the coast of Somalia, a Russian Navy spokesman said on Friday. 
Gazprom Neft cut oil export by 2.4% year-on-year to 14.25 million metric tons in 2008, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom said in a financial report on Friday. 
The remnants of the U.S. and Russian satellites that collided on Tuesday poses a serious threat to other satellites on the same orbit, a Russian Mission Control official told journalists on Friday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has conveyed his condolences to U.S. President Barack Obama over Friday's deadly airplane crash in the United States, the Kremlin press service said. 



