February 17, 2007 -- Tests have confirmed the presence of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain in poultry found dead in two suburban Moscow districts.
February 17, 2007 -- Russia's Interstate Aviation Committee has blamed pilot error for August's crash of a Pulkovo Airlines jet near the Ukrainian city of Donetsk.
February 17, 2007 -- Prosecutors in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have opened a criminal investigation after one Uzbek national died and another was critically injured in an overnight street fight in the suburb of Pushkin, RFE/RL's Russian Service reported.
February 17, 2007 -- Russian health authorities have confirmed an outbreak of bird flu in the Moscow region.
February 16, 2007 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow has not decided whether to withdraw from a Cold War-era treaty eliminating intermediate- and short-range missiles in Europe.
(RFE/RL) February 16, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- President Vladimir Putin on February 15 announced a cabinet reshuffle that featured the promotion of Sergei Ivanov to the post of first deputy prime minister.
February 16, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- An exiled Chechen separatist leader has called Ramzan Kadyrov's appointment as acting Chechen president a positive development.
Kremlin watchers say placing Sergei Ivanov and Dmitry Medvedev in the same position means President Putin hasn't thrown his weight behind either.
February 16, 2007 -- Russia has banned nine airlines from flying charters to the European Union.
February 16, 2007 -- General John Craddock, the NATO supreme allied commander, has said Russia has nothing to fear from a planned U.S. missile defense system in central Europe.
February 16, 2007 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Alu Alkhanov's resignation from the post of Chechen administration head to which he was elected in August 2004.
February 15, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov acting president of Chechnya.
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