| February 2009 |
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Kyrgyzstan will demand the closure of a U.S. military base on its territory, used to support antiterrorism operations in neighboring Afghanistan, the Central Asian state's president said on Tuesday. 
President Dmitry Medvedev spoke at a congress of ethnic Georgians living in Russia on Tuesday, telling delegates that Moscow sought friendly ties with the Caucasus state. 
Arsenal announced on Tuesday that Andrei Arshavin had signed with the English Premier League club, ending a torturous transfer saga that started last summer. 
Moscow and Minsk signed on Tuesday an agreement on the joint protection of the Russia-Belarus Union State's airspace and the creation of an integrated regional air defense network. 
Marking 10 years as Venezuela's president, Hugo Chavez said the country has entered a third phase of his "Bolivarian Revolution," local media reported on Tuesday. 
Russia and Belarus will step up efforts to create a customs union and a common economic space, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday. 
The Iranian foreign minister reiterated on Tuesday that the country's space program was intended solely for peaceful purposes, following the launch of Iran's first domestically-build satellite into orbit. 
The European parliament wants Russia to join the Nabucco pipeline project, planned to pump gas from Central Asia to Europe, a European diplomatic source said on Tuesday. 
A Grad rocket, launched by Palestinian militants, landed on Tuesday in the densely populated city of Ashkelon in southern Israel, a spokesman for the Israeli Army said. 
The Czech ambassador to Russia said on Tuesday that he believed Moscow would eventually cooperate with Washington and its European allies on a missile shield in Europe. 
Pyongyang is preparing to test fire a long-range missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead as far afield as the U.S., South Korean media reported on Tuesday. 



