| April 2009 |
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The next round of talks on a comprehensive Russia-EU partnership deal will be held in June, Russia's EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said on Friday.

Russia should stop bullying its neighbors to restore NATO's confidence, the Estonian president said in an interview with Austria's Der Standard on Friday. 
The next round of talks on a comprehensive Russia-EU partnership deal will be held in June, Russia's EU envoy Vladimir Chizhov said on Friday. 
Turkey has asked for additional natural gas supplies from Russia from 2015, including via the Blue Stream-2 pipeline, the CEO of Russia's state-controlled energy giant Gazprom said on Friday. 
NATO should engage Russia and recognize that Moscow has legitimate interests, the U.S. president told journalists in the French city of Strasbourg on Friday ahead of a NATO summit. 
Russia will be concerned if NATO fails to secure victory in Afghanistan as it, along with its Central Asian allies, will be forced to deal with the consequences, Russia's NATO envoy told Russia's Vesti TV channel on Friday. 
A three-year-old boy choked to death in a dental surgery in the Russian Volga city of Samara after swallowing a piece of cotton wool, the Komsomolskaya Pravda daily reported on Thursday. 
A Russian plane en route to Moscow was forced to make an emergency landing in Volgograd, southern Russia, after a baby fell seriously ill, an airport spokesman said on Friday. 
The Sochi election committee barred on Friday former Bolshoi ballerina Anastasia Volochkova from running in the Black Sea resort city's upcoming mayoral elections. 
Inflation in Russia hit 5.3% in the first three months of 2009, the head of the Central Bank said on Friday, adding that consumer price growth for the year could however total less than 2008's 13.3%. 
The landing of a Soyuz spacecraft with members of the 18th Expedition to the International Space Station and a U.S. tourist has been delayed by one day, Russian space agency Roscosmos said on Friday. 



