News in Brief: Summit in Castle Court Bars Butov No Kurils Deal Seen...
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A fire on Monday destroyed a Russian Orthodox church in northern Tajikistan and killed two elderly nuns who had been living there, the church's senior priest and police said.
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As its merger unfolds with state-owned oil company Rosneft, Gazprom will not acquire Yuganskneftegaz, former key production unit of YUKOS oil company, Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of the Gazprom board, was cited as saying by Mayak radio.
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Japan said it wanted Russia to return all four Kuril islands, snubbing Moscow's renewed talk of returning two of them to end the dispute that has prevented the countries from formally ending World War II.
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Billionaire Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky will not face charges in Britain after allegedly calling for the use of violence to oust President Vladimir Putin, officials said Thursday.
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KIEV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's outgoing leader denied  on Tuesday he had agreed on concessions with his opponents to  end a crisis that has plunged the country into turmoil and  driven a wedge between Russia and the West.
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BRDO, Slovenia  - The European Union and Russia failed on Wednesday to narrow differences over Kosovo's independence drive but Moscow said it did not plan sanctions against the Serbian province or its backers after any secession.
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By Dario Thuburne Helsinki - Russian and EU leaders gathered on Friday for a summit in Helsinki that has been deeply clouded by a Polish veto on EU partnership talks with Moscow and wider discord in EU-Russia ...Comment
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Downing Street has indicated the treaty that emerges from next week's EU summit will not be put to a referendum
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"If Russia prevents the council from dealing with this issue ... the process will not stop there. The process then will move outside the council"  By EDITH M. LEDERER The Associated Press Updated 07/18/07 - 5:36 PM Russia rejected the final version of a U.S.-European Union draft resolution on Kosovo's future status Wednesday, setting the stage for a vote ... via The Herald
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Yesterday the authorities of Russia and Israel rejected rumors about a crisis in bilateral relations.
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Ukraine's chief prosecutor says Russia is not co-operating with his inquiry into Viktor Yushchenko's poisoning.
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Russia's atomic energy agency declined to comment on Monday on Japanese news reports that North Korea had offered Russia exclusive rights to its natural uranium deposits in exchange for support at six-way talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons.
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The Group of Eight failed to break the deadlock between Russia and the West on the vexed issue of the future status of Kosovo on the final day of their three-day summit here on Friday.
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A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the Yukos oil company seeking to overturn a freeze on the accounts of the struggling oil giant&#39;s core subsidiaries.
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Unification with Moldova is out of the question after Chisinau has refused to form a federation with the Dniester region, Dniester regional leader Igor Smirnov said at an international scientific conference in ...
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Judges hearing a High Court challenge to the decision to halt an arms deal inquiry have adjourned.
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President Vladimir Putin said Friday, the government has no plans to seize the embattled oil giant, but if its assets are sold, anyone, including government organizations, will be able to bid.