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Author Tom de Waal guest-blogs about changing Russian-Azeri relations at The Oil and the Glory as Russian President Medvedev heads for Baku.

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A Fistful of Euros writes about Kosovo's need to import coal from elsewhere, despite having “the world’s fifth largest reserve” itself.

On November 29, thousands of people in Moscow went out on the streets to protest against the construction of a new trading center. This center would replace the “Cherkizovski” market [ENG], which was closed down in June because of many illegal activities on its premises. The photos of the protest can be found here [RUS].

The Russian Coordination Center for the new national Cyrillic domain .RF stopped the application process for new domains. Anti-cybersquatting measures turned out to be infective and the center plans to review the rules of submission process, Russian news agency Prime-Tass reported [RUS]. It's not clear what will happen to the registered domains. Some sources claim that all previously approved domains will be deleted.