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Main news of April 12

19:11 12/04/2008

RUSSIA

* Russia will use the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan until 2050, the head of the Russian space agency said

* Four people were killed and two injured in a traffic accident on a side road in the Moscow Region's southwest, a traffic police spokesman said

* President Vladimir Putin has congratulated space and missile industry workers on their professional holiday - Cosmonautics Day, the presidential press service said

WORLD

* Ukraine's Foreign Ministry demanded that Russian authorities "stop the practice of threats" to Kiev

* German national Werner Franz G., 44, accused by German prosecutors of spying for Russia, has pleaded guilty, a source in a Munich court said

* Participants of a Kyrgyz opposition congress in the Central Asian country's capital Bishkek said they would start protest rallies countrywide if the authorities fail to fulfill their demands

* Moldova's aviation authorities have asked Russian colleagues to help decipher the flight recorders of an An-32 Cline plane that crashed late Friday killing eight crew

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