| December 2009 |
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The Ulyanovsk arms depot where 10 servicemen were killed in explosions last month will be closed by the end of next year, a spokesman for the regional governor said on Tuesday.
Russian experts warned on Tuesday that the redenomination of North Korea's currency will do little to help the reclusive communist state boost its economy.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will pay an official visit to Russia on December 6-8, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday.
A police officer injured in a highway shootout in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Dagestan died in a hospital on Tuesday.
The body of the last person missing after the terrorist attack on the Nevsky Express from Moscow to St. Petersburg was found on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to 27 people, a Russian emergencies spokesman said.
London's Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday adjourned hearings into Russia's extradition request for Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the former CEO of cell phone retailer Euroset, until August 2, 2010.
Russia will back sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear program if an international consensus is reached, a diplomatic source said on Tuesday.
NATO has refused to set up a Russia-NATO working group on Afghanistan and will not allow Moscow to participate in its internal discussion of the situation, Russia's NATO envoy said on Tuesday.
The United States could add up 34,000 soldiers to its contingent in Afghanistan, a source close to NATO's headquarters in Brussels said on Tuesday.
Russia's Black Sea Fleet has terminated counterintelligence operations in Ukraine's Crimea and is sending all 'special service' officers to other posts, a Russian intelligence source said on Tuesday.
Tensions between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog over Iran's nuclear program will not affect the construction of the Islamic Republic's first nuclear power plant, a Russian senator said on Tuesday.
Canada has blocked the adoption of all documents to be considered at an upcoming Russia-NATO meeting, the Russian envoy to NATO said on Tuesday.
Russia is planning to strengthen its positions as a key supplier of weaponry in the Asia-Pacific region by seeking new customers at a major arms show in Malaysia, state arms exporter Rosoboronexport has said.
Gazprom Neft, the oil producing arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said on Tuesday its U.S. GAAP net profit decreased 50% year-on-year in January-September 2009 to $2.38 billion.
President Dmitry Medvedev pledged on Tuesday that Moscow would assist Russians abroad and protect their rights.
A second blast at the site of the terrorist attack on the Nevsky Express train was targeted at a group of investigators, the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said on Tuesday.
Two Russian experts who planned to hold a meeting with their Georgian colleagues on December 1-3 were refused entrance into the country at Tbilisi International Airport, national media reported.
The Russian Armed Forces will conduct large-scale Vostok military exercises in Siberia and the country's Far East in 2010, the Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.



