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Main news of March 7

21:17 07/03/2009

RUSSIA

* Russia will not give up its priority economic and social-oriented tasks despite the financial crisis, President Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday in a video address posted on the Kremlin website

* Russia's foreign minister said Saturday that an arms race in outer space is inadmissible and called on other world powers to unite efforts in countering missile threats

* Police have detained 25 people who attacked an oil refinery in south Russia's Rostov Region and injured three guards, police said

WORLD

* A new Russian-U.S. arms reduction treaty that will replace the START-1 treaty expiring in December should limit delivery systems as well as nuclear warheads, the Russian foreign minister said

* Russia's foreign minister and the U.S. secretary of state have said they are content with their talks in Geneva and hope for continuation of dialogue on bilateral and global issues

* Chelsea beat Coventry 2-0 to become the first team in the FA Cup semifinal

* An Armenian involved in smuggling Russian military arms to the United States has been given a 22-year sentence, the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said in a press release

* China and Russia should strengthen cooperation to ensure stability and multi-polarity in the world, the Chinese foreign minister said

* Turkey is ready to resume mediation in Israel-Syria peace talks, the foreign minister said

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