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Bloomberg - 1 hour, 16 minutes ago
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia said that a NATO decision to rule out near-term membership for Ukraine and Georgia shows that the U.S.-led military alliance is shying away from interfering with the Russian sphere of influence.
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Market Watch - 38 minutes ago
Russia’s services sector posts the sharpest contraction on record in November, underlining just how hard the global financial crisis has hit the Russian economy.
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AP via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 3, 10:26 am EST
Serbia said Wednesday it is unlikely to sell its oil monopoly to Russia because of Moscow's refusal to guarantee to build a strategic pipeline through the Balkan country.
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Denver Post - Wed Dec 3, 2:58 am EST
Russian warships have ended training exercises with Venezuela's navy in Moscow's first such Caribbean deployment since the Cold War. The Russian ships arrived in Venezuela last week in an operation widely seen as a show of Kremlin anger over the U.S. decision to deliver aid to Georgia aboard warships following that country's conflict with Russia.
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AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 40 minutes ago
Russia's lower house of parliament on Wednesday approved legislation to lower tar and nicotine content in cigarettes and to place large health warnings on the packs.
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New York Times - Tue Dec 2, 4:41 pm EST
The U.S. agreed to support a modest reopening of NATO?s dialogue with Russia, despite Moscow?s continuing occupation of Georgia?s South Ossetia and Abkhazia territories.
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EARTHtimes.org - Wed Dec 3, 10:14 am EST
Brussels - NATO could discuss with Russia a future security structure for Europe, but President Dmitry Medvedev must first clarify his plans - and NATO is in any case not going to dissolve itself, the head of the transatlantic alliance said Wednesday...
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Nasdaq - Wed Dec 3, 1:01 am EST
(RTTNews) - Russia will enter into an agreement with India for setting up four more nuclear reactors in Kudankulam in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's three-day visit to New Delhi beginning Wednesday, media reports, citing a top Russian official, said.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 3, 3:13 am EST
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia’s ruble was little changed against the dollar and the euro after a report showed Russian service industries contracted the most on record in November.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 3, 8:45 am EST
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- MDM Bank and Ursa Bank will merge to form Russia’s second-largest private lender as a fall in retail deposits and soaring bad loans added to evidence that the financial crisis is accelerating in the country.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 2, 3:18 pm EST
NATO agreed on Tuesday to gradually resume contacts with Russia suspended after Moscow's intervention in Georgia, and put off a decision on putting Ukraine and Georgia on formal membership tracks.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 2, 3:01 pm EST
The United States blinked in two symbolic stare-downs with Russia on Tuesday, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Moscow is not back in global good graces four months after it invaded a small, U.S.-backed neighbor.
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International Herald Tribune - Tue Dec 2, 2:43 pm EST
NATO foreign ministers agreed Tuesday to gradually resume talks with Russia that were frozen after Moscow's invasion of Georgia in August in exchange for accelerating work on preparing Ukraine and Georgia for eventual membership.
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INO News - 1 hour, 51 minutes ago
MOSCOW (AFP)--Russia said Wednesday it was preparing fresh measures to boost its economy as President Dmitry Medvedev urged the government to try to take advantage of an anticipated fall in prices.
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Denver Post - Wed Dec 3, 2:53 am EST
The United States has softened tough lines against what it views as Russia's illegitimate drive for influence over former Soviet vassals, although Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is urging European states to show their disapproval of Moscow's invasion of Georgia.
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Nasdaq - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
(RTTNews) - NATO chief expressed the alliance's preparedness to discuss with Moscow a future security structure for Europe if Russian President Dmitry Medvedev clarifies his plans.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 2, 8:41 pm EST
NATO agreed to gradually resume high-level talks with Russia, frozen over the August conflict in the Caucasus, and to deepen ties with former Soviet states Georgia and Ukraine.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 3, 8:29 am EST
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia will refuse to sell surplus carbon-emissions credits to other nations, removing from the market the biggest single pool of licenses to pollute under the Kyoto global-warming treaty, a government official said.
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New York Times - 9 minutes ago
The NATO secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, strongly defended the alliance?s decision to begin ?a conditional and graduated reengagement? with Moscow.
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Bloomberg - Wed Dec 3, 6:29 am EST
Dec. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Russia, holder of the world’s biggest surplus of carbon-dioxide credits under the Kyoto Protocol global-warming treaty, won’t sell them to other nations, an official said at the United Nations climate talks.