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Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said* Plans to buy an expensive helicopter carrier from France could hinder the development of Russia"s defense industry, a Russian lawmaker said
* Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has taken charge of a government technology and innovation commission designed to boost the country"s modernization, according to a resolution posted on the government"s web site
* Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered the interior minister to probe last week"s car crash in Moscow involving a LUKoil vice-president that killed two doctors, his spokeswoman said
* Russia"s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, passed in the third and final reading a government bill extending a ban on human cloning
* Ten militants captured in Russia"s North Caucasus last week have been formally arrested in connection with the derailment of a Moscow-St. Petersburg train in November, a respected daily said