| April 2008 |
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The U.S. president will meet briefly with Russian president-elect Dmitry Medvedev after talks with outgoing leader Vladimir Putin in southern Russia on April 6, a Kremlin official said on Wednesday. 
Russian Ambassador to Britain Yury Fedotov voiced concern on Wednesday over the lack of progress being made to improve relations between London and Moscow. 
Poland will not agree to the permanent presence of Russian military observers at a proposed U.S. missile base on its territory, the foreign minister said on Wednesday. 
Italian power company Enel plans to invest around 9 billion euros ($14 bln) in the Russian economy over the next five years, a Russian presidential aide said on Wednesday. 
The average price of Russia's benchmark Urals crude blend was $93.36 per barrel in the first quarter of 2008, up $39.12 year-on-year, a senior Finance Ministry official said on Wednesday. 
Ukraine is conducting the tenth rotation of its peacekeepers from a joint Polish-Ukrainian battalion serving as part of a UN mission in Kosovo, the defense ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. 
The Olympic torch began its mammoth, five-continent relay on Wednesday in Almaty, Kazakhstan. During the official ceremony to mark the beginning of the flame's worldwide tour, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev received the torch from the Chinese ambassador to Kazakhstan and then ran a short, symbolic distance with it.

Venezuela and Uruguay plan to have their own communications satellite in space by the end of 2008, Mexican media reported. 
Russia's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Kosovo can never be a UN member, and that Moscow will work with like-minded states to ensure the issue of the province's status is reconsidered. 
An IL-76 cargo plane of the Russian Emergencies Ministry carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid to ethnic Serbs in Kosovo landed at a Belgrade airport on Wednesday. 



