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The month of November has been a poignant one for Russia and its fight against corruption -- arguably its biggest vice.

The integration of alcohol screening, treatment and referral into primary care and other medical settings is not routinely done.

Turkey revokes a tender won by a Russian-led consortium to build the country's first nuclear power plant following a year of constant pressure to cancel the process, Press TV reported.

Firefighters succeeded early Saturday in containing a fire at a military munitions depot in western Russia, which left at least two soldiers dead and 44 injured.

Yesterday evening, Monday the 16th of November, 26 year old anti-fascist Ivan "Vanya Kostolom" Khutorskoy was shot to death at the entrance to his home at Khabarovsk street in the east side of Moscow; according to some information with two shots to his head.

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Kazakhstan, Astana, Nov. 20 / corr. Trend News K.Konirova

The joint presentation of the "Kazakhstan's presidency at OSCE" report will be held in RIA Novosti office in Moscow on Dec. 9. The report was prepared by Russian experts and considered with representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Lomonosov Moscow State University expert group head Aleksey Vlasov told Trend News

"The opening of the Bushehr Nuclear Station was postponed several times," Iranian Parliamentary Energy Commission Chairman Hamid Reza Katouzian said today.

A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached clear water off Antarctica, AP reported.

A masked gunman entered a church and murdered a Russian Orthodox priest who had received death threats for converting Muslims to Christianity and criticizing Islam, prosecutors and church officials said Friday.

Russia has agreed to ease the terms under which it supplies gas to Ukraine, in a deal which Moscow says should prevent disruption in coming months, BBC reported.

Kazakhstan, Astana, 19 November / Trend News, K.Konirova /

The Georgian-Ossetian conflict will not be amongst the priorities during Kazakhstan's chairmanship to the OSCE in 2010, the head of the expert group of Information and Analytical Center at the Moscow State University named after M.Lomonosov Alexey Vlasov told Trend News.

Azerbaijan, Baku, November 19 / Trend News, G.Bagirov /

The Court of Azerbaijan will reconsider the criminal case on a citizen of Russia who is accused of intended murder.

Georgia, Tbilisi, Nov. 19 / Trend News N.Kirtzkhalia /

Former Georgian Prime Minister and Fair Georgia opposition movement leader Zurab Nogaideli will visit Moscow Nov. 22. This is his second visit to Moscow in the past month.

Today in Russia there exists a tremendous flourishing of the arts, brought upon by a more free society, relative prosperity and a surge in interest in the arts by the huge numbers of young Russians populating the immense country.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has offered Russia her country's participation in the ambitious Glonass global positioning project.

The struggle against corruption in Russia is, more often than not, fictional. There is practically no real progress, which is borne out by the results of the annual report published on November 17 by the international non-governmental organization Transparency International.

EU and Russian leaders meet at a summit in Stockholm on Wednesday set to be dominated by energy issues, as Europe hopes to avoid an interruption of Russian natural gas supplies via Ukraine this winter.

Russia's top health official has proposed that the country's fashion designers create trendy face masks to combat swine flu, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

Azerbaijan, Europe's closest energy ally in the Caspian basin, is threatening to sell its gas to Asian markets, pressuring the European Union to complete pipeline accords to boost its own deliveries from the region.