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16:21 GMT 08.12.2007

RUSSIA

* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said:

- the U.S. position on Kosovo was the main obstacle to a negotiated solution on the province's status;

- Russia and the U.S. still have a chance to reach an understanding on the issue of Washington's plans for a missile defense system in Central Europe

* The Russian Central Election Commission declared the December 2 parliamentary polls valid and confirmed the official results

* Some 20 people have announced their desire to become the next Russian president, Vladimir Churov, the country's top election official, said

* Russia's Strategic Missile Forces have successfully test launched an RS-12M intercontinental ballistic missile, Colonel Alexander Vovk said

WORLD

* The United States blocked the Russia-NATO Council's cooperation program for 2008 at a meeting in Brussels, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said

* Iran has accused the U.S. of espionage in connection with its controversial nuclear program, the official Iranian news agency IRNA reported, citing the Islamic Republic's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki

* Iran has stopped selling its oil for U.S. dollars, the Iranian ISNA news agency said on Saturday, citing the country's Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari

* Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on Saturday the 1979 Soviet invasion of the country the beginning of the "trampling down of human rights" in Afghanistan

BUSINESS

* A contract to give French giant Renault a 25% blocking stake in Russia's largest carmaker AvtoVAZ should be signed by February 25, Sergei Chemezov, head of the Russian Technology state-run corporation, said

* Russia's state-run VTB bank has said it may sell 5% in the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS) to Vnesheconombank