| February 2009 |
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Some 3,700 corruption-related criminal cases were opened in Russia during 2008, the Russian prosecutor general said on Tuesday. 
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin visited the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Veteran rockers Deep Purple will give two concerts in Moscow on April 18 and 19 this year in the capital's B1 Maximum club, the concert PR agency Melnitsa-International told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. 
Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner have been brought from jail in East Siberia to Moscow for court hearings on new charges against them, the Moscow City Court said on Tuesday.

A Russian oil tanker was attacked by pirates off the Nigerian coast but managed to escape with no casualties or damage, a source at a Russian shipping company said on Tuesday. 
Russia plans to change the ownership structure of property used by religious groups, a move that could make the Orthodox Church a major real estate owner and cut budget spending, a business daily said on Tuesday. 
A spokesman for Russia's Prosecutor General's Office said on Tuesday the investigation into the 2006 murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya would continue until the identities of all those involved had been established. 
Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Salah arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for an official visit to discuss bilateral cooperation as well as trade and military ties.
The Yaroslav Mudry frigate has left the Yantar shipyard in Russia's Kaliningrad Region and is heading to a Baltic Sea port to begin sea-trials, a shipyard spokesman said on Tuesday. 
The Russian Navy will continue its important duties in the seas and oceans of the world, Navy spokesman Capt. 1st Rank Igor Dygalo told RIA Novosti on Tuesday. 
Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his former business partner have been brought from jail in East Siberia to Moscow for court hearings on new charges against them, Moscow City Court said on Tuesday. 
Russian international Andrei Arshavin has said that he was unable to take as many chances as he would have liked during his English Premier League debut for Arsenal. 



