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Date : Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:01:35 +0400 ARMENIA-TURKEY RAPPROCHEMENT: RUSSIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY RESPONDS TO "NOISE" OF ARMENIAN MEDIA Tert Nov 20 2009 Armenia Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Andrei Nesterenko, in a recently issued statement, responded to concerns in Armenian mass media on the subject of the Nagorno-Karabakh ...

Mine clearance began on Sunday in the Gulf of Finland, 30 kilometers south of Helsinki, where the Nord Stream pipeline will be laid.

The first blast will be set off after 3 p.m., local time (4 p.m., Moscow time), Nord Stream's senior project engineer and pipe laying specialist Simon Bonnell told the media. Navigation has been suspended within a radius of two kilometers from the area, he said.

Massive explosions have rocked a Russian ammunition depot, killing at least two people and prompting the evacuation of thousands of nearby residents.

Russian armed forces will form its first brigade fully equipped with short-range Iskander missile systems, said Russian Missile Forces and Artillery Commander Sergei Bogatinov Saturday.

The Russia-EU summit to be held in Stockholm on November 18 plans to discuss pressing issues of world politics and Russia-EU cooperation in line with the all-round dialogue in the political, trade, economic and humanitarian spheres, Itar-Tass learnt from a Kremlin source on Tuesday.

The month of November has been a poignant one for Russia and its fight against corruption -- arguably its biggest vice.

The integration of alcohol screening, treatment and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done.

Turkey revokes a tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant following a year of constant pressure to cancel the process, Press TV reported.

Firefighters succeeded early Saturday in containing a fire at a military munitions depot in western Russia, which left at least two soldiers dead and 44 injured.

Yesterday evening, Monday the 16th of November, 26 year old anti-fascist Ivan "Vanya Kostolom" Khutorskoy was shot to death at the entrance to his home at Khabarovsk street in the east side of Moscow; according to some information with two shots to his head.

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Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 20 / corr. Trend News K.Konirova

The joint presentation of the "Kazakhstan's presidency at OSCE" report will be held in RIA Novosti office in Moscow on Dec. 9. The report was prepared by Russian experts and considered with representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Lomonosov Moscow State University expert group head Aleksey Vlasov told Trend News

"The opening of the Bushehr Nuclear Station was postponed several times," Iranian Parliamentary Energy Commission Chairman Hamid Reza Katouzian said today.

A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached clear water off Antarctica, AP reported.

A masked gunman entered a church and murdered a Russian Orthodox priest who had received death threats for converting Muslims to Christianity and criticizing Islam, prosecutors and church officials said Friday.

Russia has agreed to ease the terms under which it supplies gas to Ukraine, in a deal which Moscow says should prevent disruption in coming months, BBC reported.

Kazakhstan, Astana, 19 November / Trend News, K.Konirova /

The Georgian-Ossetian conflict will not be amongst the priorities during Kazakhstan's chairmanship to the OSCE in 2010, the head of the expert group of Information and Analytical Center at the Moscow State University named after M.Lomonosov Alexey Vlasov told Trend News.

Azerbaijan, Baku, November 19 / Trend News, G.Bagirov /

The Court of Azerbaijan will reconsider the criminal case on a citizen of Russia who is accused of intended murder.

Georgia, Tbilisi, Nov. 19 / Trend News N.Kirtzkhalia /

Former Georgian Prime Minister and Fair Georgia opposition movement leader Zurab Nogaideli will visit Moscow Nov. 22. This is his second visit to Moscow in the past month.

Today in Russia there exists a tremendous flourishing of the arts, brought upon by a more free society, relative prosperity and a surge in interest in the arts by the huge numbers of young Russians populating the immense country.