Russian oil major Lukoil's board of directors has approved the acquisition of an 82.3% controlling interest in electricity generator, TGK-8, by a Lukoil Group company. The transaction will be paid for in Lukoil treasury shares and cash.

First Deputy Prime Minister and presidential candidate Dmitriy Medvedev has praised the work of the Russian Zvezda TV channel at a meeting with World War II veterans in Volgograd, Zvezda TV reported on 2 February.

MOSCOW. Jan 7 (Interfax) - An Armenian citizen has died aboard a Moscow-Yerevan passenger flight after suffering a bout of a chronic disease, a source at Moscow Sheremetyevo airport told Interfax on Monday. The incident occurred in the early hours of Monday.

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Excerpt from report by Russian news agency Interfa