The ruble is trading at 58.91 to the dollar and 62.10 to the euro. Brent crude is selling for $53.20 per barrel. 

The following news items have been taken from Novaya Gazeta, Interfax, Grani, Gazeta and Guardian.

- Russia Missile Violates 'Spirit and Intent' of Arms Treaty, Top US General Says

- State Department Accuses Russia of Violation INF Treaty

- Rogozin Calls for Rejecting Leases of Foreign Airplanes

- Police Shoots His Fellow Officers in Dagestan

- Feminists Detained Briefly for Demonstrating By Kremlin in Moscow and in St. Petersburg; Feminists Occupy Kremlin

- Vyacheslav Varchuk Deputy Commander of Interior Ministry's Internal Troops Arrested on Charges of Bribe-Taking

- Russian Censor Blocks Site Terror99.ru with Book by Felshtinsky and Litvinenko, 'Blowing Up Russia'

- Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry Official Rogachev Claims Militants in Donbas Found Stockpiled Soviet Weapons 'in Mine Shafts'; No Comment on Modern Russian Weaponry Found in Ukraine

- Put Promises Pay Raise for Doctors up to 200% of Average Ways by 2018

- Putin Claims Success in Demographic Programs

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