MOSCOW, June 8 (RIA Novosti) – The prime minister of Kosovo's provisional government called Friday on world powers to either adopt a United Nations resolution granting the territory independence from Serbia, or allow it to choose its own fate.
// Jun. 08, 2007 - 15:40 GMT
HEILIGENDAMM, June 8 (RIA Novosti) – Leaders of the Group of Eight most industrialized countries have begun a session with leaders of leading African nations within the framework of the G8 summit in Germany.
// Jun. 08, 2007 - 08:03 GMT
MOSCOW, June 2 (RIA Novosti) – The economics minister of Ingushetia, a Russian republic in the North Caucasus, was killed in a road accident Friday night, a local Interior Ministry spokesperson said.
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MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – The average weighted dollar rate for contracts with "tomorrow" settlements was 25.8492 rubles during Friday morning's unified trading session on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), up 4.18 kopeks from Thursday.
// May. 18, 2007 - 07:51 GMT
MOSCOW, May 4 (RIA Novosti) – The average weighted euro rate for contracts with "today" settlements was 34.9689 rubles during Friday morning's unified trading session on the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX), down 5.92 kopeks from Thursday.
// May. 04, 2007 - 08:18 GMT
MOSCOW, April 9 (RIA Novosti) – The following rates of exchange of foreign currencies to the ruble of the Russian Federation have been fixed for the purposes of accounting and customs duty payments from April 10, 2007:
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UNITED NATIONS, April 6 (RIA Novosti) – Police in Guinea-Bissau failed to seize all of a two-ton cocaine shipment because their cars ran out of gas and they could not give chase, a top UN drug official said Friday.
// Apr. 06, 2007 - 05:40 GMT
CANNES, France, March 13 (RIA Novosti). – The Russian region of Tver has presented 12 projects worth more than $1 billion at the international real estate show MIPIM-2007 in Cannes, France, Dmitry Zelenin, Tver's governor, told reporters.
// Mar. 13, 2007 - 19:00 GMT
* Georgian authorities said the upper part of the Kodori Gorge, the de facto border between Georgia and the breakaway region of Abkhazia, was under rocket and artillery fire for 40 minutes during the night
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* President Vladimir Putin
– called on the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs to help wean the country off its oil dependence by increasing the output of value-added products, the Kremlin press service said
– urged businesses to play an active role in industry modernization, infrastructure projects, and state-backed financial development institutions
* Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa and said:
– He hopes that upcoming talks between rival Palestinian factions in Mecca will help overcome the current standoff
– An international conference must be held to address Middle East issues
– The current crisis in Iraq can only be improved through the combined efforts of the international community
* Belarus has not officially notified Russia of a hike in tariffs for the transit of Russian crude across its territory, Russia's Industry and Energy Minister Viktor Khristenko said
* Russia's transition to an innovation economy may require from seven to 10 years and hundreds of billions of dollars, Alexander Shokhin, the head of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, said
* Vagit Alekperov, the president of Russia's largest oil company, LUKoil, said that all Russian crude oil must be refined inside the country
* Ukraine's parliament approved a law prohibiting the privatization of the country's natural gas transportation system
* Russia and Georgia agreed to set up a group to look into restoring air links suspended last fall amid a bitter diplomatic row, a Russian Transport Ministry official said
* Moldovan wine exports to Russia will be resumed amid serious restrictions, Russia's chief health official said
* Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev signed decrees appointing key ministers to the country's new Cabinet, the presidential press service said
* Estonia's Prime Minister Andrus Ansip said Estonia does not need any border agreements with Russia
* Iran's Foreign Ministry blamed the abduction of a senior Iranian diplomat in Baghdad on the United States, and called it an "act of aggression" against the Islamic Republic
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