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MOSCOW, August 19 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian-U.S. agreement on military transit to Afghanistan will go into effect on September 6, although the United States has not made any requests yet, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. Moscow and Washington signed the deal on military transit via Russian territory, both overland and by air, on July 6 during President Barack Obama"s visit to Russia. Andrei Nesterenko said the agreement would formally enter into force only after the "legal procedure" was finalized, adding that with regard to Russia that meant its ratification by parliament. Until then, he said, its implementation would only be provisional. He also said the United States had not as yet specified "transit parameters or plans." The official said Moscow operated on the assumption that "Russian-U.S. transit cooperation will become a significant contribution to ensuring security, stabilization and reconstruction of Afghanistan." The Russian foreign minister previously said Moscow would have the right to inspect U.S. military planes overflying its territory. Sergei Lavrov also said the U.S. planned to make 4,500 flights to Afghanistan via Russian airspace. Russia already has bilateral transit deals with Germany, France and Spain, and also signed an agreement with NATO in 2008 on rail transit of non-lethal supplies to Afghanistan. The U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has about 64,500 troops in Afghanistan, including 30,000 from the United States, under a UN mandate to give security support to the Afghan government and stop the flow of drugs from the country. There are a total of 62,000 U.S. troops in the country, with that figure set to rise by 6,000.


Russia will not send conscripts to serve...

Russia will not send conscripts to serve in the volatile region of Chechnya, a Defense Ministry spokesman said on Friday.

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A priest has been stabbed to death in Chuvashia...

A spokesman for the local investigation committee said the body of a hieromonk of St. Michael the Archangel church with multiple knife wounds was discovered at his home in the city of Cheboksary.

The spokesman added that an investigation team was working at the scene of crime, while prosecutors opened a criminal case on murder charges.

On April 24, Father Anatoly, 46, was discovered dead with a gunshot wound at his church in Chuvashia"s village of Yantikovo. Police later detained a 47-year-old man with a history of mental illness in connection with the murder.

In late 2009, two priests were shot dead in Moscow in matter of weeks.

The most notorious murder came in late November of 2009 when Priest Daniil Sysoyev was shot dead by a masked gunman in St. Thomas"s Church in southern Moscow.

Sysoyev was known for his active missionary work in converting Muslims and people seeking to quit religious sects into Christianity. His assistant, Vladimir Strelbitsky,

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