| October 2009 |
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The ex-head of Russia's now defunct state electricity monopoly said on Sunday that the findings by the industrial safety watchdog fully reflected technical causes of a recent disaster at the country's largest hydropower plant.
A policeman was killed in an attack by unidentified assailants in Russia's North Caucasus Republic of Chechnya, the republic's interior ministry said on Sunday.
The ratification of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, whose chances were boosted by the results of a referendum in Ireland, will contribute to developing Russia-EU relations, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Sunday.
Russia could borrow from $2 billion to $4 billion from the World Bank next year to ease the effects of the economic crisis, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on Sunday.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the decision of the Russian government to relocate Olympic facilities in Sochi from an environmentally protected area.
Russian sailors, who have been stranded in Panama since early April, are unable to come ashore "for financial reasons".
The former head of a defunct Russian electricity monopoly admitted on Saturday he was obliged to commission the country's largest hydropower plant in 2000 despite problems that might have caused its recent wreckage.



