| June 2009 |
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Over 40 defendants accused of involvement in a 2005 attack by militants on the southern Russian city of Nalchik launched a hunger strike on Tuesday demanding hospital treatment for a fellow suspect.
There is no possibility of cutoffs of natural gas supplies to Ukraine now that a 10-year supply contract has been signed, Gazprom's chief executive said on Tuesday.
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday that he would attend a Moscow Middle East peace conference, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
Belarus has asked Russia for a $9 billion loan for the construction of the ex-Soviet republic's first nuclear power plant, a Belarusian government official said on Tuesday.
"There is not a whiff of a crisis or any macroeconomic problems here," Sergei Ivanov, who oversees the defense industry as part of his cabinet tasks, told a news conference hosted by RIA Novosti.
Some 300 residents from a town in northwest Russia, which has been affected by the closure of three of the region's main employers amid the financial crisis, have unblocked a highway, a local official said on Tuesday.
PGNiG has signed a contract to buy an extra $300 million of natural gas from an export arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, a spokeswoman for Poland's gas monopoly said on Tuesday.
Novolipetsk Steel, one of Russia's largest steel companies, announced on Tuesday a US GAAP net loss for the first quarter of 2009 of $193.8 million compared with a $617.7 million net profit a year earlier.
A new draft strategic arms reduction deal to replace the START 1 treaty may be ready before U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to Moscow on July 6-8, a Russian presidential spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
“This project is revolutionary as two rival agencies - the independent Interfax agency and the federal state RIA Novosti agency - are carrying out a joint media project for the first time,” RIA Novosti Editor-in-Chief Svetlana Mironyuk said.
Some 300 residents of a northwest Russian town blocked a major road on Tuesday to protest against financial difficulties caused by the closure of three large plants last year.
Japan's Nissan Motor Company opened on Tuesday a car plant in St. Petersburg at a ceremony attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, urged Iran on Tuesday to demonstrate to the international community that its nuclear program was peaceful.
A nuclear attack submarine involved in a fatal accident during sea trials last year will be commissioned by the Russian Navy in the fall and then leased to the Indian Navy, a source said on Tuesday.
Admiral Mikhail Abramov, the chief of Russia's Navy Staff, has submitted his resignation citing poor health, a high-ranking military source told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
The international community should give a "strong" response to North Korea's nuclear test, Russia's UN envoy said in an interview with a Russian government daily on Tuesday.
The commander of Russia's Pacific Fleet, Vice Admiral Konstantin Sidenko, has issued an order to prepare a new task force for anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden, a fleet spokesman said on Tuesday.



