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Proton-M rocket carrier launched from Baikonur.

MOSCOW, January 28 (Itar-Tass) -- A Proton-M rocket carrier with a
military satellite onboard was launched from the Baikonur space launch
site at 03:18 on Thursday morning, Colonel Alexey Zolotukhin, a
spokesperson for the Russian Space Troops, told Itar-Tass.

.Russia, Belarus guarantee stable oil transit.

GORKI, near Moscow, January 28 (Itar-Tass) - Russian Deputy Prime
Minister Igor Sechin and the First Deputy Prime Minister of Belarus,
Vladimir Semashko, signed a joint statement on Wednesday. It says that
Russia and Belarus guarantee stable conditions of oil transit via the
territories of Russia and Belarus.
"The Russian and Belarusian sides confirm their adherence to the
principles of international energy security and guarantee stable
conditions of oil transit via the territories of Russia and Belarus," the
document goes on to say.
On Wednesday, the sides also signed a protocol on amendments to the
Agreement between the governments of Russia and Belarus on settling trade
and economic issues related to the exports of oil petroleum products of
January 12, 2007.
"The implementation of this protocol ensures stable oil deliveries to
European consumers," the Russian and Belarusian deputy prime ministers
said in their joint statement.
The agreements reached on Wednesday would contribute to further
development of integration relations within the framework of construction
of the Union state and all-round energy cooperation.
Russia will supply 6.3 million tons of oil to Belarus free of charge
in 2010, and the mechanism of calculation of volumes delivered should now
be absolutely transparent.

.Operation to neutralize militants is under way in Ingushetia.

NAZRAN, Ingushetia, January 28 (Itar-Tass) - An operation to detain
members of illegal armed formations that began in the Troitskaya village
in Ingushetia late on Wednesday is over. The twenty-year-old Yusup
Musolgov who was hiding in a private house on Krasin Street refused to
surrender at first and opened fire at the law enforcers who returned fire.
One policeman was wounded in the shootout.
After that the law enforcers continued talking to Musolgov. They
involved Musolgov's mother in the process. The woman asked her son to
surrender. Ingush President Yunus-Bek Yevkurov has reportedly visited the
scene.
Yusup Musolgov surrendered himself to the police after four hours of
negotiations, a source at the Ingush Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass.

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