| January 2007 |
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Warsaw is refusing to lift its veto on Russia-EU talks on a new partnership deal, demanding that Moscow first end its embargo on Polish meat imports, Russia's envoy to the European Union said Monday. 
Russia's top prosecutors intend to ask UK authorities to investigate the death one of the founders of oil company Yukos, who died in London last week, a law enforcement source said Monday. 
Severstal [RTS: CHMF] said Monday its steel production grew 2.3% year-on-year in 2006 to 11 million metric tons. 
A Madrid court has remanded in custody a Russian lawyer who was arrested in a November police raid in the Spanish capital, defense lawyer Genrikh Padva said Monday. 
President Vladimir Putin said Russia's energy subsidies for Belarus would reach $5.8 billion in 2007. 
Rising levels of carbon dioxide and other gases emitted through human activities, believed by scientists to trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, are an effect rather than the cause of global warming, a prominent Russian scientist said Monday.
The execution of two former Saddam Hussein aides demonstrates nothing more than a desire to get rid of unwelcome political leaders by any means, a senior Russian parliamentary official said Monday. 
Moscow court formally sanctioned the arrest Monday of banker Alexei Frenkel, a suspected paymaster in the killing of a senior Central Bank executive four months ago. 
North Korea intends to disabuse its citizens of handshakes as a practice alien to Koreans, replacing it with a slight bow instead, a nationwide newspaper reported Monday. 
Iran is continuing to install some 3,000 centrifuges, despite a UN Security Council resolution demanding that the Islamic country stop uranium enrichment work, a spokesman for the government said Monday. 
Kyrgyzstan's President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed amendments to the country's Constitution Monday enhancing his powers, the presidential press office said. 



