December, 2007

• 31 December

  Iranian President Felicitates Cuba on National Day

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extended his congratulations to the Cuban government and nation on the country’s national day.

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• 31 December

  Iran Hails Iraq View on Validity of Border Treaty

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iran welcomed comments by Iraq that it had not repudiated the 32-year-old border treaty between the two Muslim neighbors.

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• 31 December

  Borzouyeh Petrochemical Facility Fetches Iran $530 mln

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Borzouyeh Petrochemical Facility has exported 670,000 tons of aromatic products since March 21, 2007 fetching Iran $530 million.

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• 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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