| November 2006 |
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Russia's nuclear chief will attend a session of a Russian-Iranian intergovernmental trade and economic commission on December 11 in Tehran, his press service said Friday. 
The Polish prime minister said Friday that Russia must recognize his country as a legitimate member of the European Union.
Russia's state arms exporter denied Friday Russian media reports that Rosoboronexport has begun delivering Tor M1 air defense systems to Iran. 
A large dose of polonium-210, a radioactive isotope, has been discovered in the body of a Russian former spy who died in London, representatives of the British Health Protection Agency said Friday. 
Russia's president said Friday energy giant Gazprom and other state monopolies will not be separated into smaller companies. 
Russia's president said Friday he regrets that people have used an ex-FSB officer's death in London, following an alleged poisoning, for political provocations. 
The chairman of the European Commission said Friday that the EU's executive body considers Moscow's ban on Polish meat imports to be a disproportional measure, and has asked Russia to lift it. 
A delay in the launch of talks on a new Russia-EU cooperation agreement will not affect relations between Moscow and the European Union, President Vladimir Putin said Friday. 
Russia's president said Friday a bill on the ratification of an EU-Russia agreement to relax visa requirements will be submitted to parliament's lower house, the State Duma, next week. 
Russian, EU, Norwegian, and Icelandic leaders have met on the sidelines of the Russia-EU summit in Helsinki to discuss a cross-border and external policy initiative, the Northern Dimension, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Friday. 
Russia and Poland reiterated their readiness to continue dialogue on Moscow's ban on Polish meat products at talks during a Russia-EU summit in Helsinki, a Russian official said Friday. 
Russia has agreed to phase out over the next seven years over-flight charges for Asia-bound European airliners using Russian airspace, the European Union said Friday. 
The European Union has assured the Russian delegation to the Russia-EU ongoing summit in Helsinki that it will back Russia's earliest possible accession to the global trade organization, a delegate said Friday. 
President Vladimir Putin said Friday Russia will not ratify an energy charter with the EU at a summit in Finland, reaffirming Moscow's long-standing position, a source in the Russian delegation said. 
Russia's state pipeline operator Transneft has agreed with Ukrainian state-owned pipeline company Ukrtransnafta to increase the volume of oil transiting through Ukraine in 2007, a spokesman for the Russian company said Friday. 



