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2007-11-19 18:00:00

MOSCOW, November 19 (RIA Novosti) Deputy minister's arrest a chip in election game/ Kremlin considers backing more than one presidential candidate in 2008/ Moscow says West finicky over Russian election methods/ Surgutneftegaz to sharply increase i

2007-11-19 17:04:00

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Yelena Shesternina) - Hashim Thaci, the leader of the Democratic Party of Kosovo (DPK), which won the parliamentary elections, has left no doubts about the province's future: "Tonight the clock has turn

2007-11-19 10:43:00

MOSCOW. (Anatoly Gorev for RIA Novosti) - Merrill Lynch, a major U.S. company in the financial services industry, recently announced that it has acquired about 10% of the Trust Banking Group. Analysts have called this deal a landmark for two reasons. F

2007-11-16 19:10:00

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - Bilateral prime-ministerial talks in Seoul have shown that the two Koreas really mean it when they talk about stepping up economic contacts. The situation promises many investment projects

2007-11-16 18:44:00

TBILISI. (Besik Pipiya, head of the RIA Novosti office in Georgia) - Television channels will resume news programs after the state of emergency is lifted at 6 p.m. on Friday. But Imedi will not be among them - for it the state of emergency will last

2007-11-16 18:00:00

MOSCOW, November 16 (RIA Novosti) Georgia could host NATO, analysts say/ Russia too dependent on leader's personality/ Money from offshore zones comes back to Russia/ Enel offers small stakes in Italian power plants to Gazprom/ Gedeon Richter buys

2007-11-16 16:30:00

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - On November 17-18, Saudi Arabia will play host to the third summit in the 47 long-year history of the omnipotent oil cartel - the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). On th

2007-11-16 14:45:28

  ESTONIA The media continue writing about the "imperial" ambitions of Russia, which is trying to restore its influence in neighboring countries. "The conviction that one state may dictate orders to others shows the absolute inabi

2007-11-15 19:17:00

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Oleg Mityayev) - At the 20th World Energy Congress in Rome on November 11-15, Russian representatives confirmed that they have chosen Europe as a priority market of energy supplies for many years ahead. Gazpr

2007-11-15 18:03:00

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Goncharov) - Russia may deliver its Iskander tactical missile systems to Belarus as an asymmetrical response to the deployment of American ABM components in Europe. "Under certain conditions and w