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	29 January 2010
	Current Affairs

	Russia has expressed outrage over the alleged rape of a nine-year-old girl in an Indian seaside resort, the latest in a series of attacks reported against foreigners in the tropical tourist hotspot.

	Moscow is free to sell weaponry to Tehran, the head of Russia's state arms exporter said on Thursday.

	At a meeting, President Dmitri Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin appeared to disagree over whether Russia is democratic enough, with an eye on the freewheeling politics of their neighbor, Ukraine.

	Politics

	Supporters of Viktor Yanukovich, the front-runner in Ukraine’s hotly contested presidential election, on Thursday voted in parliament to oust the country’s top law enforcement officer, in an escalating struggle to control state institutions that could influence the outcome of the poll.

	Business & Economics

	Gazprom Neft's Deputy General Director Boris Zilbermints and representatives of the Iraqi government have signed an agreement on the development of the Badra oil deposit.

	Russia will provide Abkhazia financial assistance worth over 10 billion rubles ($330 million) in the next three years, Russia's ambassador to the former Georgian republic said Thursday.

	Gazprom said on Thursday it will extend a contract on gas supplies to Western Europe via Poland until 2045, while gas supplies to Poland may be increased to 11 billion cu m from this year.

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