On Tuesday, March 13, Russian officials completed another round of talks with the European Union on Moscow’s ban on Polish meat and plant products. Russian authorities say that they need more information before they consider lifting the measure.
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March 14, 2007The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office wants to interview more than 100 people in London as part of an investigation into the poisoning of ex-FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, the RIA-Novosti news agency reported on Monday quoting a deputy prosecutor general.
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March 12, 2007A mass brawl in which three allegedly suffered was reported to have taken place in a commuter train outside Moscow, the Interfax news agency reports.
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Russia’s agriculture oversight agency Rosselkhoznadzor said on Friday, March 2, that it will suspend all meat imports from EU nations unless they provide plans for monitoring the safety of their exports by March 31.
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March 4, 2007German Chancellor Angela Merkel flies to a Black Sea resort on Sunday for a one-day meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
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January 19, 2007Mario Scaramella, the Italian contact of murdered former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was questioned for six hours on Wednesday in a Rome jail by prosecutors.
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December 29, 2006Russia on Wednesday denounced as “exceedingly cruel†the death sentences passed by a Libyan court on six foreign medics convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS, the Reuters news agency reported.
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December 20, 2006London’s Harrow Crown Court sentenced a Russian bank chief to six year prison term for coordinating an international identity theft operation, SC Magazine reported Wednesday.
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Dutch health authorities said on Friday they have called in about 20 people for radiation testing after they stayed in a London hotel where poisoned former Russian FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko also spent time, Reuters news agency reports.
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December 17, 2006Five Finnish and four Russian universities will begin a cooperation programme next autumn.
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