| September 2006 |
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The Russian foreign minister said Thursday that a dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang is necessary for resumption of six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue. 
Russia will back any UN Security Council reform based on a broad consensus, the Russian Foreign Minister said Thursday.
"We are ready to support any variant of the UN Security Council reform based on the broad consent of member states," Sergei Lavrov said. 
Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych has arrived in Moscow for his first official visit to Russia since taking office, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Embassy in Russia said Thursday. 
The leader of Moldova's breakaway republic of Transdnestr asked Russia Thursday to increase the number of its peacekeepers in the region. 
Pulkovo Airlines, one of Russia's largest air carriers, said Thursday it would fully replace its Tu-154M passenger jets within three years, but that the move was not linked to a recent fatal crash involving the airliner. 
Russia and Kyrgyzstan will hold a joint antiterrorism exercise in the Central Asian republic in early October, the Kyrgyz Defense Ministry said Thursday. 
Russia's finance minister said Thursday a quota on foreign stakes in Russian banks could be set at 50% of their charter capital. 
An opposition leader and former presidential candidate in Belarus will be sent to a penal colony Thursday night after he was imprisoned for five and a half years, his press service said. 



