* Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov said the commission inquiring into the fire that killed 13 children in an orphanage in Dushanbe early Sunday had 10 days to determine what caused the blaze
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 05:09 GMT
MOSCOW, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – Energy will dominate between the leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan after Vladimir Putin flies into the Central Asian republic Tuesday for the president's inauguration, a Kremlin source said.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 06:11 GMT
* Founded: December 16, 1991 when it gained independence from the Soviet Union.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 06:14 GMT
On the gas dispute with Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldavia, I can understand the Russian viewpoint on the matter. I am a fullblooded Ukrainian, who is a proud Ukrainian/American, but I do not agree with the European Nations and the CIS that Russia should continue selling cheap gas to these countries, who openly hate Russia. But then I do not hate Russia or Russian.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 06:31 GMT
VLADIVOSTOK, January 10 (RIA Novosti, combined report) – A senior aide to Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that one of the biggest cities in Russia's Far East needed to identify new supplies of water in the wake of an industrial accident in neighboring China last year.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 07:02 GMT
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// Jan. 10, 2006 - 07:17 GMT
Russia is considering closing its border with Turkey if the bird flu outbreak there continues to spread, a senior official has said.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 07:24 GMT
Bird flu has been confirmed at poultry farms in the village of Primorsky on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 07:24 GMT
ANKARA, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – Local experts have said avian flu is to blame for mass bird deaths near a popular resort on Turkey's Aegean Sea coast, Turkish television said Tuesday. Wild and domestic fowl have been reported dead in Kusadasi, which literally translates as "bird island," and is located 580 kilometers (about 363 miles) from Istanbul.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 07:32 GMT
ASTANA, January 10 (RIA Novosti) – Kazakhstan and China intend to increase bilateral trade by $4 billion in 2006, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Tuesday.
// Jan. 10, 2006 - 07:40 GMT