The Tajik leader’s first state visit to Russia on October 22 brought agreements to settle the Central Asian state’s debt for electricity supplies, to step up gas exploration and production projects, and on a military base in Tajikistan run by Russia
Russia plans to start a swine flu vaccination program in December. Ten million people - medical staff, employees at electric power and water treatment plants and other facilities - will be given flu jabs in the first instance. Another 30 million will be vaccinated if the H1N1 virus spreads. Photo: Students of People’s Friendship University of Russia, which was quarantined for a week over a swine flu scare.
The lower house of parliament discussed the draft 2010 budget in the first reading. The government has called it a “postcrisis budget” and a “development budget.”
CSKA Moscow meanwhile lost their second game in the Champions League group stage, to Manchester United. Photo: CSKA’s Alan Dzagoyev and Milos Krasic, and Man Utd defender Nemanja Vidic (from left to right).
The English champions earned a 1-0 win over CSKA at Moscow’s Luzhniki stadium on Wednesday to all but seal qualification for the Champions League knockout stages. Photo: Fabio da Silva (Man Utd) and Tomas Necid (CSKA).
