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22:09 20/06/2008

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Georgia says Russia's actions in Abkhazia no reason for war
22:04 20/06/2008
Georgian Vice-Premier Georgy Baramidze said in an interview with RIA Novosti on Friday that Russia's "bare-faced aggression" in Abkhazia was no reason for Tbilisi to start a war.
NATO SecGen to visit Kosovo June 21
21:41 20/06/2008
NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer will arrive in Kosovo on June 21, a North Atlantic alliance spokesman said on Friday.
Serbia against UN peacekeeping reform - Tadic
21:38 20/06/2008
Russian theater art collection to be shown in St. Petersburg
21:29 20/06/2008
Wrap: Tehran pledges to deal 'powerful blow' against attack
21:14 20/06/2008
Iran's senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami said Friday that Tehran would respond to any attack by Israel or the U.S. with a "powerful blow" after a paper claimed that Israel was preparing to attack Iran.
New Russian frigate may be fitted with BrahMos cruise missiles
19:51 20/06/2008
A Russian frigate being built at a shipyard in St. Petersburg may be equipped with sea-based Russian-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles, a Russian defense industry official said on Friday.
Russia, EU start work on civilian nuclear power deal - Rosatom
19:21 20/06/2008
Russia and the European Union are working on an agreement on the civilian use of atomic energy, a deputy head of Russia's state nuclear corporation Rosatom said on Friday.
European bison to inhabit disaster-hit Chernobyl area
17:56 20/06/2008
Ukraine's emergency situations minister announced plans Friday to introduce bison to Chernobyl to try and establish a nature reserve in the area affected by the world's worst civilian nuclear power disaster.
Ukraine opposition says parliament has new coalition
17:34 20/06/2008
A new coalition has been formed in the Ukrainian parliament, a leader of the oppositional Party of Regions said on Friday after a parliamentary session failed to take place.
Four Russian strategic bombers patrol Arctic, Atlantic oceans
17:13 20/06/2008
Four Russian strategic bombers are carrying out a routine patrol over remote areas of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, a Russian Air Force spokesman said on Friday.
Eurasec says Customs Union to be set up early 2010
16:51 20/06/2008
India, Russia develop airborne supersonic cruise missile
16:49 20/06/2008
The Russian-Indian BrahMos Aerospace joint venture has finished the development of the airborne version of an advanced supersonic missile, the company's managing director has said.
Sberbank issues five-year Eurobonds worth $500 mln
16:16 20/06/2008
Supermodel Naomi Campbell pleads guilty to assault at Heathrow
16:15 20/06/2008
Norway allocates $6.2 mln to dispose of nuclear subs in Russia
15:46 20/06/2008
Norway has allocated 4 million euros ($6.2 million) to dismantle Russia's decommissioned nuclear submarines in the northern Murmansk Region, Russia's Rosatom state nuclear corporation said on Friday.
Russian Web search engine Yandex opens U.S. subsidiary
15:41 20/06/2008
The Russian web search company Yandex is to open a subsidiary -Yandex Laboratories - in the U.S.'s Silicon Valley, the company said in a press release on Friday.
Russian prosecutors say TNK-BP broke minor labor rules
15:10 20/06/2008
Gazprom Neft, Chevron negotiate new joint venture in West Siberia
14:57 20/06/2008
Czech Republic extradites Israeli to Russia - Interpol
14:46 20/06/2008
The Czech Republic is to extradite to Russia an Israeli national tried and sentenced in absentia on fraud and money-laundering charges, a spokesman for Interpol said on Friday.

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