Moscow 'to cut migrant workers'
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Moscow city authorities plan to reduce the number of migrants working in the Russian capital.
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A new registration scheme has cut the number of illegal workers in the UK, David Blunkett is expected to say.
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Russia will attempt to reduce unprocessed timber exports in the near future, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov said at the 2nd Russian-Finnish Timber Summit in Helsinki.
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Russia announced on Monday it will not issue new entry visas to staff working in the British government's cultural offices in two regions, sharpening a row that has soured already-poor relations.
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British detectives probing the murder of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko have wound up their investigation in Moscow and are due to leave for home on Tuesday, a British police source said on Monday.
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Europe's main security and human  rights watchdog said on Thursday it had cancelled plans to  monitor Russia's presidential election next month, citing  unacceptable restrictions imposed by Moscow.
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Russia's human rights ombudsman on Friday criticised a decision by Russian authorities to close two regional branches of the British Council on January 1 in a mounting dispute.
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Moscow wants a Russian shipping tycoon currently living in Britain to be extradited back to Russia, The Guardian reported on Friday.
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Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, who is ending a working visit to the Netherlands Thursday, is expected to have talks with his Dutch counterpart, Acting Prime Minister Gerrit Zalm.
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Russia is seeking to slow the brain-drain of computer specialists and increase software production, a top government official said Friday, in an effort that some hope will help diversify the country's oil-dependent economy.
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The foreign secretary, David Miliband, also said Britain would tighten visa requirements for Russian officials and businesspeople.
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Russia on Tuesday offered to ease  restrictions imposed on Europe's main election watchdog by  giving its monitors a week longer to observe the March 2  presidential poll, Russian news agencies said.
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A British government minister on Sunday condemned "murky murders" clouding President Vladimir Putin's Russia as media reports said police would go to Moscow and Rome to probe the radiation death of an ex-KGB spy.
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Russian space officials say the departure of the replacement crew for the International Space Station has been set for October 14.
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MOSCOW - After sharply cutting the number of of Western observers permitted to view polling places and drawing criticism from the United States, the Kremlin warned foreigners yesterday not to interfere in Russia's parliamentary elections.
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More than 100 people are detained at a Moscow protest rally against migrants from the Caucasus.
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Moscow vows retaliation after four agents thrown out over Litvinenko case.