| April 2009 |
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Kazakhstan has offered the UN nuclear watchdog its territory to set up a nuclear fuel bank, the president said on Monday at a joint press conference with Iran's leader. 
Russian analysts believe the reaction of North Korea's opponents to the country's rocket launch was exaggerated, as it posed no real threat to peace. 
The Chechen president said Monday that he suspects his father, the republic's former leader, was murdered by the former military commander killed last week in Dubai. 
The Chechen president said on Monday that a man arrested as a main suspect in the killing of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev works for him as a groom. 
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov on Monday rejected allegations by Dubai police that a Russian MP was involved in the March 28 assassination of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev. 
Russia's Admiral Vinogradov destroyer has arrived in the Chinese port of Zhanjiang on an official visit that followed a three-month tour of duty in the Gulf of Aden. 
Large-scale military exercises involving naval infantry and live artillery support have been launched in Russia's Far East, the Pacific Fleet press service said. 
Russia's envoy to NATO responded on Monday to criticism over the use of the country's territory for the transit of supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan, saying the deliveries were purely non-military. 
The Russian Orthodox Church in southern Siberia has demanded that a local company halt sales of bottled water advertised as "blessed," the Novye Izvestiya newspaper said on Monday. 
The Chechen parliament issued an angry statement on Monday after Dubai police accused a Russian deputy of involvement in the March 28 assassination of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev. 
Russia will spend 3 trillion rubles ($90 billion) on measures to fight the economic crisis, including 1.4 trillion rubles ($42 billion) from the federal budget, the prime minister said. 
Russia will start deliveries of Mi-35 Hind attack helicopters to Brazil by the end of 2009, a senior government official said. 
Attempts to exclude Russia from global energy decision making are counterproductive, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday in a landmark address to the lower house of parliament. 
Russian energy giant Gazprom will invest at least 68 billion rubles ($2 billion) in the construction of facilities for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi by 2012, a business paper said on Monday. 



