MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – An attacker stabbed eight people with a hunting knife in a synagogue in central Moscow Wednesday, Moscow Prosecutor Anatoly Zuyev said.
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MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – The Israeli embassy approached Russia's Foreign Ministry in the wake of the attack on a synagogue in Moscow Wednesday, demanding to ensure security for the local Jewish community, the embassy press secretary said.
// Jan. 11, 2006 - 18:15 GMT
BRUSSELS, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – European and Russian parliamentarians will meet in the Belgian capital January 26 to discuss the Russian-Ukrainian gas issue, an EU official said Wednesday a special session devoted to the gas conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – The 20-year-old attacker who stabbed eight people in a Moscow synagogue Wednesday does not belong to any radical nationalist organization, a senior Moscow police officer said.
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MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – Standard & Poor's ratings agency said Wednesday it affirmed its BB- long-term foreign, BB long-term local, and B short-term sovereign credit ratings on Ukraine.
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TBILISI, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – Court found Vladimir Arutyunyan guilty of attacking Georgian and U.S. presidents, Mikheil Saakashvili and George Bush and sentenced him to life imprisonment Wednesday.
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MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) – The Moscow Basmanny Court Wednesday rejected an appeal from lawyers of former Yukos security chief Alexei Pichugin, ruling that investigators of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office had not violated his rights as claimed, a court spokesman said.
// Jan. 11, 2006 - 17:13 GMT
* Nursultan Nazarbayev was inaugurated as the president of the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan, following his re-election for a third term at the end of last year
// Jan. 11, 2006 - 16:47 GMT