Russian, U.S. experts to consider joint use of Gabala radar Tuesday

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Russian and U.S. experts accompanied by Azerbaijani officials will visit Tuesday the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan to consider the use of the radar for monitoring, a senior Russian military official said Saturday.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 07:56 GMT


Ukraine's crises caused by non-transparent policies - Solana

KIEV, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Ukraine should learn to play by the rules, not with the rules, EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told the country's Zerkalo Nedeli weekly on Saturday.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 08:44 GMT


Rescuers find bodies of two missing Russian tourists-1

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Rescuers have discovered the bodies of two Russian tourists in a canyon in northwestern China, a Russian Emergencies Ministry spokesman said Saturday.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 09:32 GMT


Policeman, contract soldier wounded in Ingushetia

NAZRAN, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – An UAZ police vehicle and a police outpost came under fire leaving a policeman and a contract soldier wounded in separate shootouts in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a local police spokesman said.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 10:22 GMT


UES, Germany's E.ON could strike Russia's largest investment deal

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Electricity monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) of Russia could sell a stake in its OGK-4 to Germany's E.ON for $3.9 billion next week in what would be the largest investment in Russia's power sector, the UES head said.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 12:03 GMT


Russian senator urges more funding for Chechnya

GROZNY, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Visiting Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of Russia's parliament, told Chechen parliamentarians that he was in favor of increasing financing for the North Caucasus republic.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 12:52 GMT


Ozone holes: real danger or a pack of lies?

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Tatyana Sinitsyna) – Having signed the Montreal Protocol twenty years ago, on September 16, 1987, the world agreed to renounce the industrial use of substances depleting the ozone layer.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 14:04 GMT


N.Korea points to mistakes in denuclearization report - Kyodo

TOKYO, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – Pyongyang pointed Saturday to mistakes in a report by U.S., Russian and Chinese nuclear experts who inspected the country's key nuclear facilities and drafted recommendations for disabling them, Japan's Kyodo news agency said.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 14:12 GMT


Yabloko holds pre-election congress outside Moscow

MOSCOW, September 15 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian liberal Yabloko party is holding the 15th party congress as part of its election campaign outside Moscow, a RIA Novosti correspondent said Saturday.

// Sep. 15, 2007 - 14:55 GMT


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// Sep. 15, 2007 - 15:00 GMT