Morning re-cap of main news, December 6
* Investigation of Russian security service defector Alexander Litvinenko's death in London:
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 05:35 GMT
Azerbaijan to Stop Oil Exports Through Russia on Jan 1
On Wednesday, Dec. 6, Azeri Prime Minister Artur Rasulzade announced that Azerbaijan will stop the exports of Azeri oil through the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline starting on Jan. 1, 2007.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 06:24 GMT
Russian Investigators Start Questioning in Litvinenko's Case
Russian investigators said they have begun questioning in the radiation poisoning death of former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, a case that has left radiation traces from a London soccer stadium to the British Embassy in Moscow.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 06:33 GMT
Russian Combat Engineers Return From Lebanon
A Russian engineering battalion is returning home after a two-month friendly mission to Beirut. An Il-760 plane will airlift the first group of Russian engineers from the Rafik Hariri international airport to the Chkalov airfield near Moscow.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 06:41 GMT
Russian Authorities Search IBM's Moscow Offices
Russian law enforcement officers searched the offices of several computer companies Wednesday, including the Moscow headquarters of IBM Corp., apparently in connection with a graft investigation at the Russian Pension Fund.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 06:48 GMT
Ex-PM says Kremlin enemies may be behind his mystery illness
MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) – A former acting prime minister said Thursday that enemies of Russia might have been involved in the sudden illness that struck him last month.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 06:52 GMT
Russian oil producers to get equal access to export pipelines
SHANGHAI, December 7 (RIA Novosti) – Russian oil companies, large or small, will be given equal access to export pipelines, a senior energy official said Thursday.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 07:20 GMT
Raids in IT cos. in Moscow over Pension Fund probe - cos.
MOSCOW, December 7 (RIA Novosti) – Raids at IBM and two other IT companies' Moscow offices are linked to a probe against the Russian Pension Fund, which has also experienced searches, the computer technology companies said Thursday.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 07:36 GMT
Shtyrov confirmed as president of East Siberia's Yakutia
YAKUTSK, December 7 (RIA Novosti) – The parliament of the Yakutia Republic in East Siberia has approved Vyacheslav Shtyrov as president, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported Thursday.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 07:42 GMT
Russian Retailers Join Forces Against Panasonic over Middlemen Conflict
Six Russian consumer-electronics chains said on Wednesday, Dec. 6, that they plan to stop selling products made by Panasonic, a unit of Japan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., because they don't want to have to buy its goods through middlemen.
// Dec. 07, 2006 - 07:51 GMT