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Main news of March 6

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23:59 06/03/2010

RUSSIA

* Said Buryatsky, a notorious gang leader in Russia's North Caucasus, killed in a special operation on Tuesday, was involved in the derailment of the Nevsky Express high-speed train in November 2009, Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the Federal Security Service said

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree awarding state decorations to Russian athletes for their achievements at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver

* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree abolishing the federal agencies for science and education and giving their functions to the Ministry of Education and Science

* Human rights activists held a sanctioned rally calling for police reform on downtown Moscow's Triumfalnaya Square

WORLD

* Iraq has been taking additional security measures before Sunday parliamentary elections seen as a crucial precursor to a complete US military withdrawal from the country

* Turkey signaled that it may use countermeasures against the U.S. if a controversial bill condemning as genocide the World War I killings of Armenians by Turks was passed

* Russian commercial pilots flying for Iranian airlines have to leave the country within two months, the Fars news agency quoted Iranian Transport Minister Hamid Behbahani as saying

* Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak underwent a successfull gall bladder operation at a hospital in Germany's Heidelberg

* Yulia Tymoshenko whose government was dismissed by Ukraine's parliament on Wednesday criticized President Viktor Yanukovych's plans to create a gas transportation consortium

* The Latvian capital's legislature, the Riga Duma, banned a demonstration by Waffen SS veterans and their supporters

* The second plane of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry carrying humanitarian aid to Chile which has been devastated by a series of earthquakes landed in Santiago

BUSINESS

* Ukraine will join the Unified Economic Space of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan only on the conditions of the World Trade Organization, President Viktor Yanukovych said

* The United States and Russia agreed that American pork supplies to the Russian market will be resumed, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported

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