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RUSSIA

* CSKA Moscow defeated Poland's Lech Poznan 2-1 on Thursday evening in a close-fought match in the Russian capital, guaranteeing qualification for the playoff stages of the UEFA Cup

* The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) said on Thursday it had lodged an appeal seeking harsher doping bans on seven Russian female athletes at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne

* The son and daughter of murdered investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya gave evidence in a Moscow military court on Thursday saying that their mother regularly received threats over the articles she wrote

* The Russian leasing company Ilyushin Finance and Venezuela's export and import company VEXIMCA C.A. signed a memorandum on the delivery of two Russian Il-96-300 passenger airliners on Thursday, Ilyushin said

* A Russian state-run pollster said on Thursday that the ratings of the Russian president and prime minister remain unharmed by the ongoing financial crisis

* Russia and Venezuela have signed a nuclear energy cooperation agreement, the Russian state nuclear corporation said

* An Islamist group has claimed responsibility for the murder of the mayor of Vladikavkaz in south Russia, a website believed to have links to Chechen militants said

* A pair of Russian Tu-95 Bear strategic bombers carried out a routine patrol flight on Thursday over the Arctic Ocean off Alaska, an Air Force spokesman said

* Talks in Caracas between Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez have yielded a host of bilateral agreements

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* The Russian prime minister told his Ukrainian counterpart Yulia Tymoshenko on Thursday that Kiev must pay off its natural gas debt to Russia before a 2009 supply contract can be signed

* The upper house of the Czech parliament voted on Thursday in favor of the deployment of a U.S. missile tracking radar in the country

* The terrorist groups who attacked the Indian city of Mumbai are closely linked to al-Qaeda, a high-ranking Russian secret service source said

* President Lech Kaczynski's personal security chief has been sacked after a shooting near the Polish and Georgian leaders' convoy on Georgia's border with breakaway South Ossetia, Polish media reported

* Interior and justice ministers from the 27 EU member states formally approved at a meeting on Thursday Switzerland's accession to the Schengen passport-free zone from December 12

* Dozens of hostages are still being held at a luxury hotel and a Jewish center in Mumbai, following a series of coordinated terrorist attacks in India's financial capital that left over 100 people dead

* The head of a Ukrainian pro-presidential party said on Thursday he suspected the premier of conspiracy to set up a rival coalition after she called on the country's president to revive the democratic alliance

* China has called off a December 1 summit with the EU to protest against a planned meeting between the French president and Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported

* The UN Security Council has given the green light for the deployment of a 2,000 strong EU police and justice mission (EULEX) in Kosovo under a plan that has received the backing of Serbia

BUSINESS

* Russia's antitrust service approved on November 25 an application by diamond miner Alrosa to buy a 45% stake in KIT Finance Holding Co., the holding said

* UC RusAl has nominated former Kremlin administration chief Alexander Voloshin and Russian Technology Corporation chief Sergei Chemezov as independent directors for the Norilsk Nickel board, RusAl said

* Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz is holding negotiations with Gazprom on higher natural gas transit rates for the Russian energy giant in 2009, the Kommersant-Ukraine paper said

* Russia's largest steelmaker Evraz Group, controlled by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, said on Thursday it had received a $1 billion loan from national development bank VEB to refinance its foreign debts