December, 2007

• 31 December

  Iran Offers to Cooperate with Egypt on N. Project

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran’s former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani voiced his country’s readiness to cooperate with Egypt on nuclear issues if Cairo asks for help.

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• 31 December

  Iran’s 1st N. Power Plant to Open in 2008

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday that it will begin operation of the country’s first nuclear power plant in the summer of 2008 using half its 1,000 megawatt capacity.

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• 31 December

  Turkmenistan Stops Gas Exports to Iran

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran’s gas imports from Turkmenistan halted since Saturday morning, a senior gas company official said here today calling on people to lower consumption to make up for the current shortage felt in an Iranian northern province.

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• 31 December

  ФСБ готовит покушение на Путина?

  Вильнюсская газета «Vilniaus diena» сообщила, что главари  России сейчас обсуждают, какую провокацию организовать против Литвы, которая, якобы, превратилась в штаб-квартиру «антироссийского экстремизма».

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• 31 December

  Demography may force Moscow to reduce aize of Russian military

  Even though Vladimir Putin’s designated successor says few senior officials even know what demography is, changes in the number of 18-year-olds over the next few years will impose severe constraints on the Russian government and may force it to reduce the size of its armed forces.

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• 31 December

  Putin program falling to stop ‘drifting away’ of Russian Far East

  The Russian Far East is “drifting away” from the rest of the country, according to an investigation carried out by Nezavisimaya gazeta – Regiony, and the Kremlin’s much-ballyhooed program intended to reverse that process may in fact be making it worse.

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• 31 December

  Russia’s Muslims begin talking about a ‘Muslim Russia’

  Russia’s Muslims are beginning to change the way they talk about the relationship between their religious community and their country, a shift that reflects their own growing self-confidence but one that frightens many ethnic Russians who see it as a threat to their own status.

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• 31 December

  Tycoon tells of plot to kill him in London

  A BILLIONAIRE businessman living in Britain fears he has been targeted in an assassination plot being planned in the former Soviet republic of Georgia.

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• 31 December

  The Caucasus Emirate. An official statement of the CE Vekalat

  The editors of Kavkaz-Center have received the text of an official statement of the Vakil of the Vekalat of the Caucasus Emirate (the Head of the Official Representation of CE) in connection to recent events in Caucasus and information that has been published in the media.

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• 31 December

  Patarkatsishvili withdraws from presidential race

  Business tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili said on December 27 that he would pull out from the presidential race. “Today the opposition leaders actually demanded me and

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