| March 2009 |
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The board of directors of Russia's flagship air carrier Aeroflot on Thursday accepted the resignation of CEO Valery Okulov and appointed Vitaly Savelyev as the company's new head, a source said. 
Two Russian nationals are on board the Greek and Norwegian vessels seized by pirates off Somalia, the Greek Mercantile Marine Ministry and Norwegian Shipowners' Association said on Thursday. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry reacted on Thursday to a brewing dispute with the EU over a new natural gas agreement with Ukraine, saying the decision to exclude Russia from the talks was an "unfriendly act." 
The French father of a 3-year-old girl kidnapped in France last Friday has received emails from his former wife saying that the woman is in Russia, a French newspaper said on Thursday. 
Moscow hopes that the current political situation in the Czech Republic will not affect the planned Russia-EU summit in May, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Thursday. 
Russia is not aware of any plans for U.S. and Iranian diplomats to meet in Moscow on the sidelines of an ongoing conference on Afghanistan, but it is ready to help arrange such a meeting, the Foreign Ministry said. 
Former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova submitted her candidacy for mayor of the south Russian city of Sochi on Thursday, joining 23 other hopefuls. 
Russia hopes to increase international effectiveness in assisting the Afghan government in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. 
The Finnish President Tarja Halonen will pay a visit to Russia's second largest city of St. Petersburg on March 29, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. 
A Soyuz-FG carrier rocket carrying the 19th Expedition crew to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off on Thursday from the Baikonur space center, a Russian Mission Control spokesman said. 
Russia is preparing a request for Georgia to extradite a Russian soldier who fled his military unit in South Ossetia in January, but has not yet filed the order, a military investigator said on Thursday. 
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has warned North Korea that the firing of a missile of any kind would be a "provocative act" that could harm the six-party negotiations on the country's denuclearization. 



