| March 2009 |
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Russia will start reviewing its relations with the European Union should Moscow's interests be ignored, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday. 
The Russian government has adopted a resolution reducing the list of arms and military equipment subject to export control, the government press service said on Monday. 
Andrei Arshavin said on Monday that he hoped he would be physically and mentally fit for Russia's upcoming 2010 World Cup qualifiers. 
Boris Nemtsov, an opposition candidate for mayor of Sochi in south Russia, was attacked with ammonia before a news conference on Monday, but was not injured. 
Four people were arrested on Monday in the Indian resort of Goa on charges of assaulting police who tried to break up an unauthorized beach party, a police spokesman told RIA Novosti. 
The construction of all sports facilities in Sochi, a resort city on the Black Sea, for the 2014 Winter Olympics will be financed in full despite the global financial crisis, the Russian president said on Monday. 
A task force from Russia's Pacific Fleet is getting ready to travel from Vladivostok to the Gulf of Aden in late March to take part in ongoing anti-piracy operations, a fleet spokesman said on Monday. 
Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot has filed a bid for a tender to purchase a 91.5% stake in Czech Airlines (CSA), Aeroflot's press office said on Monday. 
Dynamo Moscow and Krilya Sovetov made it two wins out of two in the Russian Premier League at the weekend as newly promoted Kuban shocked Spartak Moscow. 
Jailed Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky will mainly defend himself during a new trial due to start later this month, the former oil tycoon's mother told a radio station on Monday. 
The kidnapped three-year-old daughter of a divorced Russian and French couple is believed to be in Russia, an interior ministry spokeswoman for transportation told RIA Novosti on Monday. 
Russia-NATO relations, bilateral ties and the future of the Arctic will be discussed at a meeting between the Russian and Norwegian foreign ministers this week, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday. 
The European Union plans to seal on Monday a $2.5 billion loan for Ukraine to modernize its natural gas pipeline network if the system is made more open and transparent, a Russian business daily said. 
China is ready to discuss Russia's proposal of a new global reserve currency as an alternative to the U.S. dollar at the G20 summit in London, a vice governor of the country's Central Bank said on Monday. 
Russia may prioritize the development of nuclear-powered attack submarines armed with nuclear-capable cruise missiles in the future, while maintaining its fleet of strategic subs, a senior Navy official said. 



