MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) - The Central Election Commission will
draw airtime for State Duma candidates on November 1.

ASTANA (Itar-Tass) - Tajikistan supports the application of
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai for the status of observer at the

ST. PETERSBURG (Itar-Tass) - Russia offered Japan to build
an energy bridge, which will connect the power grids of the countries,

ASTANA, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia does not take China's activities
within the scope of the SCO states as a threat to the country's economic

ASTANA, June 15 (Itar-Tass) - The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
should have an international investigation to bring to responsibility

ASTANA, June 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev had a
meeting with Kyrgyzstan's President Roza Otunbayeva on Wednesday.

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ASTANA, June 15 (Itar-Tass) - The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation
Organization met in Astana for a jubilee summit on Wednesday. A decade

KHABAROVSK, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- First dry days after a week of
rains in Russia's Far East are seeing the growth in the number of forest

KRASNOYARSK, June 15 (Itar-Tass) -- About 30 forest fires on an
overall area of 17,213 hectares have been put out in Russia's Siberian