December, 2007

• 21 December

  Big Iran PV Investment

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran has signaled a strong interest in solar power, and plan to build the Middle East’s biggest photovoltaic plant in the tourist city of Yazd.

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• 21 December

  Pilgrims Stone Satan in Saudi Hajj Ritual

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Around two million Muslims massed in the holy Saudi city of Mina on Wednesday for the symbolic stoning of the devil, one of the high points of the annual hajj.

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• 21 December

  LNG 3100 Refinery to Be Built in Western Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) – National Iranian Central Oil Company (NICOC) Managing Director Alireza Zeighami Tuesday said the Gas and LNG 3100 Refinery would be set up in western province of Ilam.

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• 21 December

  Iran Protests Canada Resolution

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Islamic Republic’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations has protested the approval of a Canada-introduced resolution against Tehran.

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• 21 December

  Iran, Italy to Sign Gas Export Agreement

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Italy would ink an initial agreement on gas export in the near future, the National Iranian Gas Export Co. (NIGEC) managing director said here Wednesday.

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• 17 December

  Russian dissenter put in psych hospital

  A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday – the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.

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• 17 December

  Putin, Go Home!

  Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Belarus’ leader late Thursday, starting a visit that was closely watched for signs the two ex-Soviet neighbors were advancing toward a merger.

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• 17 December

  Attacks reported in Ingushetia, Stavropol and North Ossetia

  A police commando was shot to death on the Kavkaz Federal highway in Ingushetia in the village of Barsuki, Itar-Tass reported on December 11. RIA Novosti quoted a source in Ingushetia’s law-enforcement bodies as saying that the commando, Magomed Tutaev, was fired on at point blank range by unidentified gunmen …

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• 17 December

  Dagestan shaken by high-profile murders

  A Dagestani Supreme Court Judge, Kurban Pashaev, was fatally shot by an unidentified attacker on December 11. The Associated Press quoted Makhachkala police spokesman Malvudin Galimov as saying that Pashaev was shot more than ten times in the entranceway of his apartment building in Makhachkala. Citing Russian media,

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• 17 December

  Will Kremlin policy towards the North Caucasus change after March 2008?

  Russia has at last learned the name of Vladimir Putin’s successor. On December 10, four pro-Kremlin’s parties, including the United Russia party-the winner of the recent parliament elections-put forward First Deputy Prime Minster Dmitry Medvedev as their candidate in the March 2008 presidential election. On the same day, Medvedev was …

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