Putin to discuss Russian navy development.
MOSCOW, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will
travel to St. Petersburg on Friday to chair a meeting devoted to navy
upgrading and development.
Medvedev, Obama to discuss arms deal in Copenhagen.
COPENHAGEN, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- The Presidents of Russia and
the United States, Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama, will meet on the
China`s Lunsin begins mining complex construction in Russia.
GORNO-ALTAISK, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Chinese Lunsin Company, a
member of the Zijing mining group, began the construction of an
NOVATEK buys Yamal oil and gas field.
TYUMEN, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Major Russian independent gas
producer NOVATEK, which is second only to Gazprom, acquired a promising
Russians skeptical about pension reform.
NALCHIK, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Most Russians are skeptical about
the pension reform and refuse to co-fund their pensions jointly with the
Hundreds of motorists trapped by snow in southern Russia.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Estimated hundreds of
motorists were trapped on a snow-covered highway in southern Russia on
Tyagachev re-elected Russian Olympic chief.
MOSCOW, December 18 (Itar-Tass) -- Russian Olympic Committee chief
Leonid Tyagachev was re-elected for a new four-year term of office on
North Korea receives 10,000 tons of flour as food aid from Russia.
MOSCOW, December 17 (Itar-Tass) - Russia has supplied in North Korea
10,000 tons of flour as food aid, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei
Borodavkin said on Thursday.
Russian poaching schooner detained off Sakhalin Island.
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