| October 2006 |
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Russia's interests will be considered in a decision on whether to deploy United States anti-missile defense systems in Poland, Russia's foreign minister said Thursday.
The pro-presidential bloc Our Ukraine vowed Thursday to form a radical opposition, and called on its ministers to quit the recently installed coalition government in the former Soviet country. 
Russia's energy giant Gazprom [RTS: GAZP] said Thursday it is conducting no negotiations with Georgia over the gas price for 2007, despite a Georgian energy businessman's statements. 
Russia's environmental watchdog has submitted details to prosecutors on illegal deforestation being carried out through the Sakhalin II oil and gas project in the country's Far East, the Natural Resources Ministry said Thursday. 
Russia's foreign minister said Thursday he expected Georgia to renounce its anti-Russian policy and hoped an early resolution to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear problems could be reached through negotiations. 
Georgia's authorities are pursuing a policy of political terror, including through the murder of opposition representatives, a leading campaigner for the opposition claimed Thursday. 
"We are working directly with the government of North Korea to defuse the situation, to persuade North Korea to refrain from any steps that would escalate the situation," Sergei Lavrov said. 
Russia's Interior Ministry has shut down a third Moscow casino in an apparent crackdown on gambling businesses controlled by the Georgian mafia, a ministry official said Thursday. 
The active phase of Russian-Kyrgyz antiterrorism exercises started Thursday at a practice range in southern Kyrgyzstan. 



