| November 2008 |
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Ukraine's TV and radio broadcasting authority has threatened to ban six more Russian TV channels from broadcasting in the country due to legal violations, the UNIAN news agency said on Wednesday. 
The next summit of BRIC countries will be held in Russia next year, President Dmitry Medvedev announced on Wednesday. 
Russia launched on Wednesday a Soyuz-U carrier rocket with a cargo spacecraft, equipped with a new on-board digital control system, from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Mission Control said. 
The Kremlin welcomed on Wednesday Britain's announcement that it will host a summit of the G20 countries on April 2 on the global financial crisis, and said President Dmitry Medvedev would attend. 
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday a two-year plan worth 200 billion euro ($260 billion) to revive the European economy amid the ongoing global financial crisis, its president said. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has signed a law liberalizing tax legislation to help domestic businesses weather the financial crisis, the Kremlin press office said on Wednesday. 
Iran now has over 5,000 working centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant, the country's civilian nuclear chief said on Wednesday. 
Ukraine is planning to deploy more troops on its border with Russia in light of the recent military conflict in the Caucasus, a Ukrainian business daily said on Wednesday.
The former Georgian ambassador to Russia said on Wednesday he would take Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to court for the return of a stake in the Rustavi-2 television channel. 
Condoleezza Rice, the outgoing U.S. secretary of state, is trying to sabotage the work of Barack Obama's yet-to-confirmed administration, Russia's permanent representative to NATO said on Wednesday. 
Russia's national development bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) has so far invested 85 billion rubles ($3.1 billion) in the domestic stock market amid the ongoing global financial crisis, the VEB president said on Wednesday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will arrive in Venezuela on Wednesday for talks with U.S. critic President Hugo Chavez, designed to boost cooperation in the energy and military spheres. 
Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz said on Wednesday it would repay a $380 million debt to Russia for gas supplied in September by the weekend. 
The upper house of the Russian parliament approved on Wednesday amendments to a law abolishing a state monopoly on platinum exports. 
Over 184 kg (406 lbs) of drugs, including 95 kg (209 lbs) of heroin have been seized in Tajikistan during a joint operation by members of a regional security organization, a drug official said on Wednesday. 



