In March he launched a twice-weekly national newspaper, Rossiya, which is due to go daily.

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In an untucked shirt and slipping bifocals, he gave an interview to the Russian TV channel Rossiya 1.

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The new charges against Mr Browder were read live on Russian state television's rolling news channel, Rossiya 24.

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Filin's lawyer, however, told the Rossiya television channel that Vorontsova is unlikely to be the only cause of the conflict.

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In Russia, Rossiya 1 TV said the Venezuelan authorities have denied that President Chavez was in a coma, as claimed by the Spanish media.

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Find a foreign investor, he said, who would pay to demolish the Rossiya and build something else on the site more in keeping with the surroundings.

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Only the official channel Rossiya provided an analysis of the new US presidency in its main evening bulletin, saying that it was unlikely to live up to expectations.

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"We believe that investigators still have a lot of work to do to establish all of the facts, " Filin's lawyer Tatyana Stukalova said in an interview on Rossiya state television.

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"Contrary to two rulings by a Thai criminal court which concluded that Viktor Bout's guilt was not proven, he has still - by a decision of the Thai government - been extradited to the United States, " Mr Lavrov told Rossiya TV on Tuesday.

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