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* Gunmen who were killed in a special police operation in the largest city in Russia's North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia had planned terrorist attacks against top Ingush officials, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said

* Inflation in Russia could reach 14% in 2009 due to increased borrowing from its reserve funds to cover the budget deficit, the finance minister said

* The Russian Foreign Ministry criticized an appeal by a group of U.S. lawmakers to ensure the extradition of an alleged Russian arms dealer from Thailand to the U.S. as an attempt to put pressure on a Thai court

* Russia considers Bolivia as a prospective partner in Latin America and Moscow hopes to expand bilateral ties with La Paz in the near future, a Kremlin source said

* Two rescue workers were killed in an explosion at a coal mine in southwest Siberia, an official from the Kemerovo region administration said

* The U.S. space agency NASA has set Feb. 27 as a new target date for the launch of space shuttle Discovery to the International Space Station (ISS) due to technical reasons

* Russia's top seed Vera Zvonareva overcame Israel's Shahar Peer to reach the final of the Pattaya Open tennis tournament in Thailand