| September 2008 |
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Moscow police have dispersed a public rally in support of the TV channel that airs the U.S. South Park cartoons in Russia, and detained its organizer, a police source said on Monday. 
Russia's president appointed Anatoly Chubais, former head of the now nonexistent electricity monopoly, as head of the State Nanotechnology Corporation, the Kremlin said Monday. 
Kazakhstan will increase oil production by 12 million metric tons in 2009 and is interested in pumping it via Russia, the Kazakh president said Monday. 
Moscow hopes that the United States and Canada will take part in the preparation of a new European security treaty, the Russian foreign minister said on Monday. 
Disregarding Serbian objections to the new head of the OSCE mission in Kosovo erodes the legitimacy of the mission, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Monday. 
Russia's envoy to NATO dismissed on Monday the military alliance's plans to create a rapid-response force to be deployed in member states that feel threatened by Moscow. 
Abductors of 11 foreigners in the southern Egyptian desert, near the border with Sudan, have demanded a ransom for the tourists' release, the Egyptian tourism minister said Monday. 
Russia's top negotiator for the country's accession to the World Trade Organization said Monday that Russia should press ahead with negotiations and not postpone its entry into the world trade club. 
The UN nuclear watchdog said on Monday it had not been able to make much progress on the issue of a possible military aspect to Iran's nuclear program. 
A London-based diamond mining company, Gem Diamonds, announced Monday it had discovered a rough diamond weighing 478 carats at its mine in Lesotho. 
North Korea has removed seals from its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, closed down last year under denuclearization agreements, South Korean media reported Monday. 
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plans to hold some 50 bilateral meetings during the annual UN General Assembly session, currently underway in New York, a deputy foreign minister said on Monday. 



