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Ousted Honduran president Manuel Zelaya should leave the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa before his term expires on January 27, Brazil"s Globonews TV channel said on Friday.


MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - A consortium...

MOSCOW, March 14 (RIA Novosti) - A consortium of Germany"s RWE and Russia"s Sintez successfully bid $380 million in an auction on Friday to buy a 33.47% stake in the TGK-2 generating company from Russian electricity monopoly UES. The territorial generating company unites assets in five regions of central and northern Russia. The deal brings the UES stake in the company down from 49.36% to 11.38%. RWE is a German electric power and natural gas public utility company. The Russian electricity giant has also sold a 34.06% stake in another territorial generating company, TGK-6, to Integrated Energy Systems (IES holding) for 9.98 billion rubles ($421.3 million). TGK-6 operates in four Russian regions and in Mordovia in the Volga area. Both deals were part of UES reforms in which generating assets are being privatized.


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The Russian government has submitted draft laws intended to create favorable conditions for charitable activities to the lower house of parliament, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Thursday.

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to formulate requirements for developed and developing nations.

"It is important that they [the requirements] do not run counter to the economic potential and, most importantly, development priorities of each nation," the president said.

Medvedev said he would attend the UN conference on climate change underway in Copenhagen "to contribute to the adoption of decisions that would unite the efforts of all countries."

The 15th UN climate change conference, the result of two years of international talks on a binding treaty to cut global carbon emission, began in Copenhagen on December 7. The conference, which brings together about 15,000 participants from 192 countries, will run until December 18. It has so far failed to produce a plan to fight global warming.

MOSCOW, December 14 (RIA Novosti)



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