| March 2009 |
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday during a Defense Ministry meeting claimed that NATO is continuing its attempts to broaden its military infrastructure towards Russia's borders. 
The Nabucco gas pipeline project to pump natural gas from Central Asia to Europe bypassing Russia has been removed from a European Union list of priority projects, a source in the EU Council of Ministers said on Tuesday. 
Russia on Tuesday signed agreements with Abkhazia and South Ossetia on giving the republics financial aid in socio-economic development and balancing their budgets. 
Russia's "big three" cell phone operators are trying to renegotiate a deal to sell Apple's iPhone in Russia after sales plummeted amid the global financial crisis, Kommersant business daily said on Tuesday. 
A Thai court is holding another round of hearings on extradition of a Russian businessman accused of conspiracy to sell arms to Colombian left-wing rebels, Russian television said on Tuesday. 
Gazprom has received an invitation to join the Nabucco pipeline project to pump gas from Central Asia to Europe, but will not take up the offer, a deputy head of Russia's energy giant said. 
Russia's Admiral Vinogradov destroyer and the Boris Butoma tanker have completed their anti-piracy mission around the Horn of Africa and are on their way home, Russia's Pacific Fleet press service said on Tuesday. 



