| January 2012 |
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Russia has refused a Lithuanian request to put former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on the stand concerning the bloody events in Vilnius on January 13, 1991, Rosbalt agency reported, citing the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s office.
Russia should only consider buying weapons and military equipment abroad under exceptional circumstances, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Wednesday.
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A criminal case has been opened into ballot rigging in the Central Russian city of Vladimir where about 6,000 “dead souls” voted in the December 4 parliamentary elections, a regional investigations committee spokesman said on Wednesday.
Russia’s troubled Phobos-Grunt spacecraft will fall back to Earth between January 14 and 16, possibly some place in the Indian Ocean, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Wednesday.
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Ukraine must pay for unused gas ordered under its 2009 contract with Russia, despite announcing its intention to cut imports to 27 bln cu m, below its contracted minimum of 33 bln cu.m. Gazprom head Alexei Miller said on Wednesday.
Jailed former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky said on Wednesday a European court ruling that found his case was not politically motivated was a concession to the Russian authorities.
Russia will fulfill a contract to deliver 21 helicopters to Afghanistan in the first half of the year, the Federal Military-Technical Cooperation Service said on Wednesday.
The leader of the Communist Party of Russia, Gennady Zyuganov, said on Wednesday he would pardon former Yukos head Mikhail Khodorkovsky if elected president.
Russia must reduce the number of remand detainees, the European Court of Human Rights ruled as concern over the country’s jail system persists.
Russia’s election authorities will allow 200 observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor March's presidential polls, in which Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will seek a third stint in the Kremlin.
Relatives of Russia’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team, which was almost wiped out in an air crash in September 2011, are to demand a new probe into the tragedy, the Izvestiya daily reported on Wednesday.



