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Friday 3rd September, 2010

    • Russia to resume tests of submarine-launched missile

    St Petersburg News.Net

    Test launches of Russia's Bulava ballistic missile will resume between Sep 9 and 12, a defence industry source said Friday.

    • Eight die as wildfires consume Russian villages

    West Australian

    MOSCOW (Reuters) - Wildfires swept through dozens of villages in southern Russia, killing at least eight people and reducing more than 400 homes to smoldering ruins, officials said Friday.The blazes i...

    • Romanian President Unyielding in Conflict with Russia over Moldova

    Novinite

    Tension between Romania and Russia over Moldova has yet to ease. Pictured, Romanian President Traian Basescu (R) and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (L). Photo by EPA/BGNES

  • McAleese aims to build Russia links

    General Sources

    President Mary McAleese will make a four-day visit to Russia next week to try to build business links with Ireland.During her trip to Moscow and St Petersburg the President and junior minister Billy K...

  • Fires spread in southern Russia

    Euro News

    In southern Russia, the forest fires which have claimed the lives of at least eight people have begun to spread. The blazes in the provinces on the Volga river southeast of Moscow follow fires in cen...

  • President McAleese to visit Russia

    Breaking News.ie

    President Mary McAleese will make a four-day visit to Russia next week in a bid to build business links between the countries, it was disclosed today.During her trip to Moscow and St Petersburg the Pr...

  • Workload forces Russian governor to send son to British school

    RIA Novosti

    Kirov Region Governor Nikita Belykh said he had to send his son to a boarding school in Britain because of the demands of his official position. "When I go out to work, he is still asleep, and when I...

  • Azerbaijan eager to continue increasing gas supplies to Russia

    RIA Novosti

    "Medvedev and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilkham Aliev concluded a new gas deal, stipulating a strong increase in the volumes of Azerbaijani gas supplies for Russia in 2011-2012".

  • Forest Fire Kills Five in Russia

    Bahrain News Agency

    Moscow Sep 03 (BNA) Russia's Emergency Situations Ministry has said that five people died and hundreds lost their homes as a wave of forest fires spread through central Russia amid an ongoing heat wav...

  • Eight dead as fires flare up again in southern Russia

    Breitbart

    Eight people have died as forest and brush fires flared up again in Russia's southern farmlands, burning down 532 homes and buildings, officials said on Friday. "At the moment we have information o...

  • Azerbaijan, Russia seal major gas deal, more to come

    Breitbart

    Azerbaijan will double gas exports to Russia in 2011 and increase them further from 2012, the countries said on Friday in a move that could undercut Europe's drive to secure Central Asian supplies. ...

  • Fresh Outbreak Of Wildfires Kills 6 In Russia

    Quote.com

    (RTTNews) - A fresh outbreak of wildfires in Russia has killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes and other buildings in the country's south.The spreading fire, fanned by strong winds, swept ...

  • Russian Grain Export Ban Extended To Next Year

    Quote.com

    (RTTNews) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has said that an year-long ban on the export of grain and other agriculture products made from grain will remain in force at least until the harvest ...

  • Russia urges quick Azeri-Armenian land dispute settlement

    People's Daily

    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called for speedy settlement of an Azeri-Armenian land dispute around the Armenian-populated Nagorno-Karabakh region during a visit to Azerbaijan Friday."We are ...

  • Russia, EU to establish defense coordination group

    People's Daily

    Russian and the European Union (EU) are going to set up a joint defense and security coordination working group, the chief of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, Gen. Nikolai Makarov, said Friday....

  • Russian military faces more cuts, mergers

    People's Daily

    The Defence Ministry's shake-up of Russia's armed forces will continue with further changes expected in the near future, according to the Interfax news agency on Friday.Among the planned changes, the ...

  • Five Dead As New Fires Hit Russia

    Spero News

    Fresh fires are being reported in Russia. Local media says two people have been killed and at least 10 injured in the blazes near Volgograd and Saratov in southern Russia.

  • Trade on agenda for President's Russia trip

    RTE

    President Mary McAleese is to make a four-day official visit to Russia next week. One of the aims of the trip is to encourage trade and business links between the two countries. Trade between the tw...

  • Wheat rises as Russia extends export ban

    Turkish Daily News

    Wheat climbed after Russia, the third-largest grower last year, extended a ban on exports into next year after a drought destroyed crops, tightening global supplies. The United Nations’ Food and...

  • Russia’s Gazprom in talks with Turkish groups

    Turkish Daily News

    Russia’s gas export monopoly Gazprom is looking for another entry into the Turkish market with an eye to eventually bidding for Istanbul’s gas distribution network, according to sources. ...

  • Russian Oil Premium Vanishing on Refinery Cuts: Energy Markets

    Business Week

    Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russian crude’s unprecedented premium to North Sea Brent is vanishing as European refiners switch to higher-value blends and scale back purchases to protect their profits.

  • Wheat Rises on Russian Export Ban; Mozambique Riots Over Food

    Business Week

    Sept. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat rose in Chicago after Russia, the world’s third-largest grower, extended a ban on grain exports into next year, raising the prospect of higher food prices that alrea...

  • U.S. may ratify arms reduction treaty by yearend - Russian lawmaker

    RIA Novosti

    The United States is likely to ratify a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia by the end of this year, a senior Russian lawmaker said on Friday. The new START treaty was signed on April 8 i...

  • Russia irate over Lukashenko's 'Moscow thugs' comments

    RIA Novosti

    President Alexander Lukashenko's remarks suggesting Russia could have been behind an attack on its own embassy in Minsk are "obscene", Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday. A day aft...

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