| December 2009 |
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An exhibition of posters dispelling myths about the unhealthy lifestyles of young Americans has opened in Veliky Novgorod, northwest Russia, a spokesman for the local city hall said

The Russian government on Monday ordered the federal agencies concerned to intensify efforts to join the World Trade Organization (WTO).
A Proton-M carrier vehicle on Monday orbited three new Glonass-M navigation satellites, a spokesman for Russia's space agency said.
International financial institutions will grant 7 million euros ($10 million) to the northwestern Russian city of Veliky Novgorod in 2010 to modernize its water supply system, the city’s administration said on Tuesday
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said on Monday that road construction, ship-building and engineering were priority areas for cooperation between Croatia and Russia.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev reiterated on Monday the importance of post-Kyoto deals, regardless of whether scientists' notions of climate change are accurate.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Wednesday, the Kremlin press service said on Monday.
A 40,000-year-old baby woolly mammoth specimen found on Russia's Yamal Peninsula is being insured for 1 million euros ($1.47 million) before going on an international museum tour.
Russia's federal budget revenues from energy product exports have reached 1.8 trillion rubles ($60 billion) so far this year, 31% more than for the whole of 2008, Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said on Monday.

Three people died on Monday in a fire at in the Moscow Region.
Russian and French delegations will meet later this month to discuss the possible sale of a French warship.
A Proton M booster rocket with three Glonass M navigation satellites blasted off from the Baikonur space center on Monday in this year's final launch.
Nauru, the world's smallest island state, has offered to join Russia in recognizing two Georgia's two former republics as independent states if paid $50 million by Moscow, the Kommersant daily reported.
Russia will restrict its greenhouse gas emissions to 25% of 1990 levels by 2020, President Dmitry Medvedev promised on Monday. 
The foreign minister of New Zealand is due in Moscow on Wednesday for a two-day visit including talks with his Russian counterpart, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Bomb technicians deactivated on Monday two explosive devices planted on a natural gas pipeline in the south Russian republic of Ingushetia, a local security spokesman said.



