| December 2009 |
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Chechnya's parliament has voted to establish an Akhmad Kadyrov International Peace Award to commemorate the first Chechen president's peace efforts, the parliamentary press service said on Tuesday.
The head of Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday that Russia expects no problems with Ukraine's payment for Russian natural gas in December.
Vietnam has signed a deal with Russia to buy submarines, aircraft and other military hardware, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said on Tuesday.
NATO's chief will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday to discuss the situations in Afghanistan and Iran, a European security treaty and a host of other issues, a Kremlin source said.
The start of construction of Russia's fourth Borey-class nuclear-powered submarine has been postponed from December to the first quarter of next year, a Defense Ministry official said on Tuesday.
Russian energy giant Gazprom and Vietnam's oil and gas group Petrovietnam signed on Tuesday an agreement on establishing a joint venture.
Russian scientists believe that the ongoing UN climate change conference in Copenhagen will produce no tangible results, a leading Russian expert said on Tuesday.
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen's visit to Moscow may improve ties between the alliance and the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the post-Soviet security group's head believes.
Tatneft, one of Russia's top 10 crude producers, said on Tuesday its U.S. GAAP net profit increased 55%, year-on-year, in January-September 2009 to 47.15 billion rubles ($1.6 billion).
Around 30 kilograms of heroin have been seized in an operation in Moscow Region, local drug police said on Tuesday.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received on Tuesday Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and said he was seeking to cooperate on several large projects with the socialist republic.
A vicious frost held Moscow in its grip on Tuesday as record warm weather at the start of December gave way to temperatures of minus 25 degrees Celsius (-13 degrees Fahrenheit).
A blacklist of 80 Moscow clubs in violation of fire safety regulations was published on Tuesday by Russia's emergencies ministry, with eight of the venues already closed by court orders.
Three people are missing in Sochi after a powerful winter storm swept in off the Black Sea and severely damaged a port under construction in Russia's Olympic city.
A forum of natural gas exporting countries will be fully operational in 2010, Russia's energy minister said on Tuesday.
The imam of a mosque in the southern republic of Dagestan has been wounded in a drive-by shooting in the city of Khasavurt, a local police spokesman said on Tuesday.
More than 11 kilograms of heroin have been seized from five people in an operation in Russia's Urals, local drug police said on Tuesday.
Gazprom has resumed gas supplies to Armenia and Russia's North Caucasus republics of North Ossetia and Ingushetia following a bomb scare, the Russian energy giant said on Tuesday.
The next test launch of Russia's troubled Bulava intercontinental missile could take place in January, an unidentified Defense Ministry official said on Friday.



