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\"Many of the ministry's functions are to be invigorated,\" he told the media on Thursday. \"The ministry is still to take its first steps (under the newly-appointed chief). There have been none so far,\" [Dmitry Kozak] said. \"The ministry will address the most crucial and important problem of all, that of formulating an articulate, well-founded and consistent policy for regions and municipalities.\"

The Commission for Economic Cooperation is a forum for economic cooperation between Finland and Russia. The Commission s role is to remove trade and investment barriers and promote links between companies as well as the development of the climate for business. Fourteen sectoral working groups encompassing key areas of cooperation operate under the Commission.

At the same time, [Dmitry Kozak] told ITAR-TASS that other countries had had little influence on Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin and his decision to refuse to sign the memorandum. He recalled that the Moldovan leaders had held several consultations with foreign countries, including the US ambassador to Moldova, and the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana.

Critics have said that some rooms don't have water, and when the faucets do work, yellow-tinted water flows out. Then there's the problem with the bathrooms. Guests are confronted with this advice: \"Please do not flush toilet paper down the toilet! Put it in the bin provided.\" They're also warned not to go fishing in the commodes. Other tweets have shown the infamous double-toilet bathrooms installed in some locations. Beside the chronic infrastructure problems, the $51 billion Games are opening under the cloud of terrorism with Chechen rebels threatening violence as they attempt to establish an Islamic republic 250 miles from Sochi. The Department of Homeland Security Thursday temporarily banned all carry-on liquids, gels, aerosols and powders on flights from the U.S. to Russia, a day after warning carriers about explosives smuggled in toothpaste tubes or cosmetic containers. Still, Secretary of State Kerry tried to reassure people planning on attending the Olympics that security is on high alert. \"We have to be, all of us, vigilant and attentive as a result of that,\" Kerry told NBC News. \"But as I said, if an American wants to go, including my daughter, I'd say go.\" Even the event venues are now coming under fire. Competitors' complaints about the treacherous women's Olympic downhill ski course caused a halt to practice on the slopes while workers shaved down the jumps.

\"Authorities are telling us that this quarry is illegal and that it has been closed, but you can see that it's still here,\" said village chief Alexander Koropov. \"We don't know what to do. We would like to petition God, but we haven't got his address. He's the only person we haven't petitioned yet.\" Dmitry Kozak, the deputy prime minister in charge of the preparations for the games, has persistently dismissed claims that [Sochi] is failing on its green commitments. Speaking to reporters this year, he admitted \"certain violations,\" but denied claims that trash still gets dumped in illegal landfills. The only thing being dumped in Sochi, he said, is soil, a by-product of tunnel works. Kozak said the soil \"only improves the landscape of the Sochi National Park and does not harm it in any way.\" The International Olympic Committee told AP that \"Sochi 2014 has given us every assurance of their commitment to games-time waste management.\" The IOC said it receives \"updates on Sochi's work on its landfill remediation\" during inspections, but that Olympstroi, the state-owned corporation that oversees all Olympic construction in Sochi, should be responsible for handling the waste situation in the pre-games period.

\"On the whole, I would call the situation very worrisome. Five hundred museums with a total of 20 million exhibits -- a quarter of the overall number of Russia's exhibits -- have been checked,\" the official said. \"What is most important is that 160,000 exhibits have been lost in the past 80 years.\" [Dmitry Medvedev] said the bulk of the missing exhibits, including those missing from art sales, dated back to the 1920s-30s. He demanded \"bringing the investigation to its conclusion, even in cases where it is extremely difficult to establish where a work of art disappeared to.\" ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia -- An investigative team has been established in southern Russia to probe a series of abductions in the North Caucasus Republic of North Ossetia, the president's envoy to the southern federal district said Tuesday.

Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Kai Mykkanen and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak spoke on the phone on 19 October 2016. Ministers discussed trade and the business environment between Finland and Russia and the work of the Finnish-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation. The Finnish-Russian Intergovernmental Commission for Economic Cooperation will meet in Moscow in November 2016.

The document, posted on the government's official website, reads: \"Seventeen years of South Ossetia's de facto independence proves the republic's liability, and its sovereignty needs to be legitimized by the UN Charter.\" Jailed ex-Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founder of what was once Russia's largest oil producer, declared a hunger strike on January 30 demanding medical treatment for [Vasily Aleksanyan]. He called off his protest some two weeks later when Aleksanyan was admitted to hospital. Private investors will build 59 Olympic facilities in south Russia's Krasnodar Territory, Regional Development Minister Dmitry Kozak told the lower house of Russia's parliament on Wednesday.

'Ireland's construction sector has a proven track record for excellence and innovation and has much to offer Russia.' And as Tanaiste and Enterprise Minister Mary Coughlan could have told Mr [Dmitry Kozak] at their meeting this week, winter is something that the Irish are very comfortable with..

\"He's considered to be one of the best crisis managers in (Prime Minister Vladimir) Putin's team,\" said Nikolai Petrov, an analyst with the Carnegie Moscow Center. \"Not only are there very serious problems faced by the whole project now, which needs a very effective manager with good connections, but the region where Sochi is located is familiar to [Dmitry Kozak] and he is well respected by the political elite there.\" \"We are entering a new phase. ... We are about to start the biggest construction site in Europe,\" [Chernyshenko] told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. \"And it really deserves to have a dedicated deputy prime minister.\"