| September 2006 |
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Russia could control up to 25% of the world's nuclear-fuel services market, the country's nuclear chief said Monday. 
"This project is extremely important, not only to our three states, but also to Europe's economy and energy industry," Vladimir Putin said. 
"If we go on cooperating in this way, there will be no result," Vladimir Putin told a news conference. "It will be a missed opportunity, in both the economic and political sense." 
"The declaration adopted today outlined the current tasks in the energy field," Vladimir Putin said.
"I am convinced this field may become a driving force in Russian-Greek-Bulgarian short-term and long-term cooperation," he said. 
Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized Monday the actions of Georgian authorities in an incident over the weekend in which air defense forces in breakaway South Ossetia shot at a helicopter carrying Georgia's defense minister. 
Hundreds of Orthodox Christians gathered in central Moscow Monday to demand the cancellation of a Madonna concert later this month in the latest wave of criticism to hit the American singer's controversial tour. 
The leader of Ukraine's opposition bloc, Yulia Tymoshenko, said Monday the current government was illegitimate and called upon the president to dissolve parliament and announce new elections. 
President Vladimir Putin said Monday he intends to discuss bilateral economic cooperation and international concerns with the Greek prime minister. 
Russia's foreign minister criticized Monday a UN Security Council resolution on Sudan, saying it had been adopted too quickly and so had angered the African state's authorities. 



