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RUSSIA

* Russia's Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak and two businessmen have been arrested on suspicion of attempted large-scale fraud, a source in the Prosecutor's Office said

* President Vladimir Putin said he supported the parliament's decision to maintain conscript service in the Russian Armed Forces, while reducing its term to one year

* The Russian air group, part of the UN Mission in Sudan, will carry out a regular rotation from January 28 until February 2, 2008, an aide to the Russian Air Force commander said

* A sea rescue center in Astrakhan, in southern Russia, has launched a search-and-rescue operation to answer a distress call from a Russian vessel that has disappeared in the Caspian Sea, the Transportation Ministry said

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* Serbia's predominantly Albanian province of Kosovo is holding parliamentary elections Saturday, amid the breakaway region's drive for officially recognized statehood

* The Bush administration has supported the decision by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to cancel plans to observe the December 2 parliamentary elections in Russia

* Iranian and EU negotiators will meet in Vienna on November 21 to continue the preparation for the next round of talks on Tehran's controversial nuclear program

* Bahrain has imposed a ban on all live poultry imports from Saudi Arabia following a recent outbreak of bird flu in the country, a local newspaper reported