| July 2009 |
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Russia supports continued dialogue to solve Lebanon's domestic disputes, taking into account the interests of all Lebanese people, Russia's special envoy to the Middle East said on Friday.
Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov plans to sue the director of a human rights group that accused him of being behind the murder of activist Natalya Estemirova, the leader's spokesman said on Friday.
Thousands of supporters of Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi demonstrated in Tehran on Friday after a powerful cleric delivered a sermon casting doubt on the recent election.
A four-hectare floating island in a reservoir shared by Russia and Estonia was destroyed on Friday, after it approached high-voltage cables leading to a hydropower plant, a local power utility said.
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has called allegations that he was responsible for the murder of human rights activist Natalya Estemirova "unethical."
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two journalists who were killed when a motorboat sank in the Ob River in northwest Siberia in early July, a local emergencies spokesman said on Friday.
Submersibles involved in research in Siberia's Lake Baikal have brought to the surface some 5 kilograms (11 lbs) of gas hydrates, a expedition participant told RIA Novosti on Friday.
Russia should continue test launches of the new Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile despite a series of failures, a defense industry source said on Friday.
The head of Ingushetia's Security Council has told RIA Novosti media reports that either the republic's sports minister or his deputy were assassinated on Friday are false.
The president of the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, who was seriously injured in an assassination attempt, will be able to return to his duties after his recovery, a doctor said on Friday.
Three new swine flu cases have been confirmed in Russia, bringing the total number to seven, Russia's chief sanitary official Gennady Onishchenko said on Friday.
An Ingush government spokeswoman refuted media reports on Friday that the Russian North Caucasus republic's sports and tourism minister had been killed in an attack.
A police officer has been shot dead in the Chechen capital of Grozny, a police source told RIA Novosti on Friday.



