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Main news of February 12

23:59 12/02/2010

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

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Yanukovych confirms no plans to take Ukraine into NATO
23:31 12/02/2010
Ukraine has no intention of bidding to become a member of NATO, Viktor Yanukovych said on Friday as Western leaders congratulated him on winning the former Soviet republic's presidential polls.
Fourteen militants die in police operation in Russia's Ingushetia
21:21 12/02/2010
Fourteen militants were killed on Friday during a clash with law enforcers in the volatile south Russian republic of Ingushetia, an investigator said.
Medvedev calls for clean up of Russian oil sector
18:50 12/02/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described on Friday the national oil sector as "a semi-sacred cow" and urged measures to combat criminal activity in it.
Church property should be returned - Kremlin official
18:33 12/02/2010
Church property confiscated by the Soviet authorities must be returned despite the complexity of the issue, the deputy head of the Kremlin administration said on Friday.
Medvedev calls for clean up of Russian oil sector
17:27 12/02/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described on Friday the national oil sector as a semi-sacred cow and urged measures to combat criminal activity in it.
Russia raises 2010 budget deficit forecast to 7.2% of GDP
17:23 12/02/2010
Russia's Finance Ministry has raised its forecast of federal budget deficit for 2010 to 7.2% of GDP from 6.8%, Deputy Finance Minister Tatyana Nesterenko said on Friday.
West welcomes Ukraine's Yanukovych as president
17:09 12/02/2010
Even before official presidential vote results have been announced in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych has received a flurry of congratulations from Western powers and organizations, as they continue to distance themselves from "orange" leaders.
Man jailed for 4 years for illegal logging in Russia's Far East
16:49 12/02/2010
A Russian court has sentenced a man who illegally cut rare species of trees to nearly four years behind bars, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) said on Friday, praising the unusually harsh sentence.
Some 20 militants killed in south Russia
16:48 12/02/2010
Around 20 militants have been killed in a clash with troops in the volatile south Russian republic of Ingushetia, the Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday.
Russian court extends pretrial detention of Khodorkovsky, Lebedev
16:17 12/02/2010
A Moscow court ordered on Friday that Yukos founder Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his business partner Platon Lebedev spend another three months in pretrial detention rather than return to regular jail.
Bagapsh inaugurated as president of Abkhazia
15:46 12/02/2010
Sergei Bagapsh was sworn in on Friday for his second term as president of Abkhazia, thanking Russia in his inaugural address for helping the republic achieve independence from Georgia.
Russian ecologists hold rally for Japanese anti-whaling activists
14:20 12/02/2010
Russian Greenpeace activists protested in front of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow on Friday to support two Japanese colleagues arrested over a whale meat scandal.
Pet leopard from disputed Moscow village moves to Sochi
14:10 12/02/2010
A pet leopard from a disputed rural settlement in Moscow will move to a wildlife sanctuary near Sochi, a south Russian resort on the Black Sea, a local environmental official said on Friday
Siberian scientists grow aspens eight times faster
13:53 12/02/2010
Russian biologists in Siberia have boosted the growth rate of aspens nearly eightfold, enabling them to grow four meters tall in only two years, Russia's Academy of Sciences said on Friday.
Nord Stream pipeline to pump gas to EU from fall 2011 - Putin
13:33 12/02/2010
Pumping of Russian natural gas to Europe via the Baltic Nord Stream pipeline will start in September 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday.
Russian 5th-generation fighter makes 2nd flight
12:15 12/02/2010
Russia's prototype fifth-generation fighter has made a second test flight in the Far East, a Defense Ministry official told RIA Novosti on Friday.
Gas supplies via Baltic pipeline to start in Sept. 2011 - Putin
12:05 12/02/2010
Pumping of Russian natural gas to Europe via the Baltic Nord Stream pipeline will start in September 2011, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Friday
Strasbourg court rules against Russia in 3 Chechen disappearances
12:01 12/02/2010
Russia has lost two cases in the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights over the disappearance of several people in Chechnya, the statement on the court's website said on Friday.
Olympic diary: Hockey player Morozov to bear Russian flag, Putin addresses Russian team
11:47 12/02/2010
Hockey player Alexei Morozov will lead the Russian Olympic team into Vancouver's BC Place Stadium on February 12 as the national flag bearer.

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