Three shooting incidents occur in Ingushetia, no one hurt.

NAZRAN, March 1 (Itar-Tass) - No one was hurt in three shooting
incidents that occurred in Ingushetia on Sunday.
A source at the Ingush Interior Ministry told Itar-Tass that an
unknown gunman had opened fired at an empty railway freight car from a
grenade launcher at the Nazran railway station at around 22:15 Moscow
time. At first, law enforcers thought that a bomb had been planted nearby
but the mine clearers who arrived later didn't find anything suspicious.
Approximately at the same time, a private house of a road traffic
police officer came under fire in Nazran. Another private house owned by
the local police inspector came under fire in the Pliyevo village in the
Nazran district of Ingushetia.
An investigation is under way.

.Medvedev, Sarkozy to discuss Iran and European security.

MOSCOW, March 1 (Itar-Tass) -- The situation with Iran will be one of
the thorniest issues in the international agenda of talks to be held
between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his French counterpart
Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris on Monday.
"The subject of Iran will certainly be touched upon," the Russian
president's aide, Sergei Prikhodko, said, adding that President Sarkozy
was also paying great attention to Iran's problem.
At the same time, the high-ranking representative in diplomatic
circles suggested that there wouldn't be any detailed discussion of the
Iranian issues, including sanctions against Tehran.
"The question about the scale of sanctions is premature," he said.
In his special statement in New York last September Dmitry Medvedev
said that Russia was ready for joint work on that matter. He also added
that there are situations when sanctions become inevitable but what's most
important is Russia's readiness to work on this matter.
"I don't think that time will allow the two leaders to go into details
of sanctions," the diplomat went on to say. "They will probably discuss
Russia's interaction with France within the framework of the 'six' and the
United Nations in broad context," he added.
"The leaders will verify their positions in which Russia and France,
by and large, don't have contradictions," the diplomat emphasized.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia was
opposed to sanctions, which could be damaging for Iran, although he didn't
totally rule out that the United Nations Security Council would impose
them if the Iranian leadership refused to establish closer cooperation
with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
"Sanctions, to our deepest conviction, can hardly bring a desired
result in any case. So, if such proposals are submitted to the United
Nations Security Council, we are going to study very attentively what the
talk is about," Lavrov went on to say.
Presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said that a new European security
treaty would be another vital international subject for discussion.
"France's principled stance on this matter is very important to us. On
the whole, the need for such a discussion is not denied," Prikhodko went
on to say.
The new European security treaty drafted in Moscow contains "five
theses". Russian President Dmitry Medvedev voiced the 'five theses' during
a world policy conference in Evian in October 2008. This system, which
should be equal for all countries, is designed to unite an entire
Euro-Atlantic zone on the basis of equal 'rules of the game' and provide
equal security guarantees in a reliable and equally binding form.
"The high level of Russian-French cooperation in the international
arena can be explained by the fact that the positions of our two countries
on a wide range of urgent foreign policy issues are close or identical,"
the Russian president's aide emphasized.
"They are based on a vision of the future world set-up as a
multi-polar system, recognition and desire to strengthen the supremacy of
international law and the central role of the United Nations', its
Security Council and the indivisibility of international security,"
Prikhodko added.


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