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09-05-2005 21:53 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - There is a package of agreements and other essential documents to prepare for President Vladimir Putin's visit to Japan, so its date will depend on the job, Sergei Prikhodko, the Russian President's aide, transparently hinted as he was summing up for newsmen today's conference of Mr. Putin and Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's Prime Minister.

09-05-2005 20:33 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - The State Duma, Russia's lower parliamentary house, is expected to ratify an additional Russian-Chinese frontier agreement within this month, Sergei Prikhodko, aide to President Vladimir Putin, said to the media.

09-05-2005 20:02 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Arab-Israeli is the most entangled and dramatic conflict the world has inherited from the past, said Sergei Lavrov, Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, as he was summing up today's Moscow session of the international Middle East mediation Quartet.

09-05-2005 20:00 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - President Vladimir Putin has confirmed his invitation to President Hu Jintao of China to come to Russia again, in the nearest future.

09-05-2005 18:42 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - Moscow V-E celebrations are going on at a high international level, and President Vladimir Putin is glad to see it. He said so while addressing a gala Kremlin reception on the 60th Victory anniversary today.

09-05-2005 18:36 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - The Quartet of international intermediaries on the settlement of the Middle East crisis calls not to lose the fragile chance provided by the withdrawal of Israel from Gaza, says a communique adopted at the conclusion of the Quartet meeting in Moscow on Monday.

09-05-2005 17:16 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - On May 9, Russian and French Presidents Vladimir Putin and Jacques Chirac opened a memorial dedicated to General de Gaulle.

09-05-2005 16:58 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - A meeting of participants of the Quartet of international intermediaries on the Middle East settlement starts in Moscow.

09-05-2005 16:53 ROME, May 9 (RIA Novosti, Nikita Barashev) - Palestrina is a tiny town forty kilometers off Rome. It has a monument to Russian soldiers who killed in battle in Italy during World War II-a sculptured angel with two books at his feet, one bearing the soldiers' names.

09-05-2005 16:21 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) - Russia mourns WWII soldiers with a minute of silence tonight, 8 p.m. All television channels will livecast an appeal to the world to ever hold sacred the memory of all who laid down their life to fight nazism. A Schumann tune will accompany the address. The song, "Bow to the Glorious Years!" will follow the silence minute.

09-05-2005 15:39 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) Moscow expressed satisfaction with the adoption on May 8 of the Declaration on humanitarian cooperation between CIS countries, announced Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Alexander Yakovenko.

09-05-2005 15:20 WASHINGTON, D.C., May 9 (RIA Novosti's Arkadi Orlov) - Senator Bill Frist, Republican, is opening today a Congress-hosted joint RIA Novosti/Associated Press photograph exposition for the 60th V-E anniversary, under the motto, "Comradeship-in-Arms".

09-05-2005 14:55 NOVO-OGARYOVO, May 9 (RIA Novosti) Russia and the US coordinated positions on assistance to the Palestinian administration with the goal of developing its security and law enforcement structures, announced US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a press conference after the talks between Russian and US Presidents.

09-05-2005 11:33 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) Vladimir Putin believes historical reconciliation between Russia and Germany is one of the most significant achievements in post-war Europe.

09-05-2005 11:08 MOSCOW, May 9 (RIA Novosti) Former Polish President Woyciech Yaruzelski believes the differences in views on history must not overshadow the significance of the Great Victory in World War II.

09-05-2005 10:06 BUENOS AIRES, May 9 (RIA Novosti, Yuri Nikolaev)

Previous days

08-05-2005 23:03 MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti, Olga Lipich) - Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar laid a wreath to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall and read out a special requiem for the warriors fallen in the fight against Nazism.

08-05-2005 22:41 MOSCOW, May 8. (RIA Novosti) - President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski has claimed that the Soviet Union attacked Poland with Nazi Germany in 1939 and has called for "historical facts and historical evil" to be recognized.

08-05-2005 22:29 MOSCOW, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Strategic partnership between Russia and China is in the best interest of both nations, PRC President Hu Jintao said at a ceremony at the Chinese Embassy in Moscow Sunday, with many WWII veterans in attendance.

08-05-2005 22:26 NOVO-OGARYOVO, May 8 (RIA Novosti) - Russian president Vladimir Putin said he hoped cooperation between Russia and the U.S. would help resolve internal problems in both countries. The president said this at his Moscow region retreat at a meeting with his U.S. counterpart George Bush, who said he trusted Putin just as before.