| April 2009 |
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday there is a good chance Russia will not have to place Iskander missiles in the Kaliningrad Region in response to the U.S. missile shield in Europe. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that he saw in U.S. President Barack Obama a constructive individual who can honestly answer difficult questions. 
NATO wants to discuss with Russia its plans for military bases in the former Georgian republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, the military alliance's secretary general said on Thursday. 
G20 leaders have reached a consensus at their London summit on joint actions to tackle the global economic crisis, the British prime minister said Thursday.

British police arrested 81 protestors on Thursday during the G20 summit in London, one of whom was seriously injured during one of the riots, a security officer told RIA Novosti. 
Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed on Thursday a law to end the deployment of foreign military contingents at the Manas airbase in the north of the country, the president's press service said. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is in favor of proposals to increase the resources of international financial institutions by $1 trillion to help overcome the global crisis, a Kremlin aide said Thursday.

Russia urges North Korea to show restraint with its upcoming rocket launch and related activities, the Foreign Ministry's spokesman said on Friday. 
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is in favor of proposals to increase the resources of international financial institutions by $1 trillion to help overcome the global crisis, a Kremlin aide said on Thursday. 
Former tycoon and Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky who is standing trial for embezzlement, accused Russia's law-enforcement agencies on Thursday of involvement in oil theft. 
Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is to give up writing, his agent was quoted as saying by the Chilean La Tercera paper on Thursday. 
Dubai police have released everyone detained on suspicion of involvement in the murder of former Chechen military commander Sulim Yamadayev, Russia's consul general to Dubai said on Thursday. 
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has criticized NATO's eastward expansion and the failure by Western powers to keep their promise not to deploy military bases near Russia's borders. 
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) welcomed on Thursday the newly announced U.S. and Russian commitment to reduce their nuclear arsenals. 
Ukraine's Party of Regions hopes to bring up to 50,000 people on to the streets of Kiev on April 3 to demand guarantees from the government amid the ongoing financial crisis, a party member said on Thursday. 



