President Viktor Yushchenko hailed a major step in Ukraine's drive to shake off its post-communist tag and move closer to the West, as the WTO formally ended 14 years of negotiations and invited Ukraine to join the global trading community.
A US program to keep Russian weapons from providing nuclear expertise to terrorists has been financing Russian research institutes that separately have been helping Iran build its new nuclear power reactor, a congressional committee has learned.
The number of users will overtake the number of non-users this year for the first time, according to the UN telecoms agency.
Ownership rates in developing countries are rising fastest, with Brazil, Russia, India and China alone accounting for 1 billion subscribers last year, the International Telecommunication Union said.
A leading international election monitoring group sent an advance team to Russia on Wednesday, despite complaints that restrictions from Moscow would make it difficult to conduct an observation mission for the country's presidential election next month.
A Russian court suspended the trial of an ailing former executive of the dismantled oil giant Yukos on Wednesday, but refused to release him from jail to be treated for AIDS-related cancer and tuberculosis.
Lawyers for Vasily Aleksanian, a former attorney for jailed oil tycoon Mikhail and a one-time vice president of Yukos, had asked the court to allow him to be treated in a hospital. The Simonovsky District Court ruled that Aleksanian should be treated in a Moscow jail because he could flee or pressure witnesses if released.
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President Viktor Yushchenko hailed a major step in Ukraine's drive to shake off its post-communist tag and move closer to the West, as the WTO formally ended 14 years of negotiations and invited Ukraine to join the global trading community.
A US program to keep Russian weapons from providing nuclear expertise to terrorists has been financing Russian research institutes that separately have been helping Iran build its new nuclear power reactor, a congressional committee has learned. 
The number of users will overtake the number of non-users this year for the first time, according to the UN telecoms agency. 
A leading international election monitoring group sent an advance team to Russia on Wednesday, despite complaints that restrictions from Moscow would make it difficult to conduct an observation mission for the country's presidential election next month. 
A Russian court suspended the trial of an ailing former executive of the dismantled oil giant Yukos on Wednesday, but refused to release him from jail to be treated for AIDS-related cancer and tuberculosis.